Cooked - A Modern and Customizable Recipe Plugin for WordPress

Cooked is the absolute best way to create & display recipes with WordPress. SEO optimized (rich snippets), galleries, cooking timers, printable recipes and much more.

Description

Cooked is the absolute best way to create & display recipes with WordPress. SEO optimized (rich snippets), galleries, cooking timers, printable recipes and much more. Check out the full list below.

Quality design & usability

Using the drag & drop recipe builder, you can create your recipes quickly and without limitations. Add ingredients, directions—and then add a gallery, nutrition facts, cooking times and much more.

Google-friendly

Cooked automatically includes semantic structure and schema.org microdata into each and every recipe you publish. This allows Google to display your recipes across a variety of device sizes and platforms.

Many premium features already included

Most recipe plugins require that you purchase a PRO version for features like nutrition facts, galleries, powerful searching, timers, etc. The standard version of Cooked includes all of these. Here's what you get out of the box:

Features

• Drag & drop ingredients and directions.
• SEO Optimized - Google Structured Data and Schema.org support.
• Beautiful grid-based masonry recipe lists.
• Prep & Cooking Times
• Photo Galleries
• Nutrition Facts
• Difficulty Levels
• Recipe Notes
• Powerful recipe search with a text search, categories & sorting options.
• Author template to list recipes by a single author.
• Cooking times with clickable, interactive timers.
• Very developer-friendly with loads of hooks & filters.
• Servings switcher to adjust ingredient amounts.
• Ingredient Substitutions - Add alternative ingredients for dietary restrictions or preferences.
• CSV Import - Bulk import recipes from CSV files with support for ingredients, directions, substitutions, and more.
• And more to come...

Of course, if you want even more, you can always check out the PRO version of Cooked. It adds features like ratings & favorites, recipe submissions, and so much more.

Installation/Update - WordPress.org (Recommended)

Cooked is available for automatic updates through the WordPress Admin Dashboard. You can install it from the WordPress.org Plugin Directory.

1. Search for "Cooked" in the WordPress Admin Dashboard under Plugins > Add New.
2. Install and activate the Cooked plugin.

Installation/Update (Manual)

1. Download the latest release from the Cooked repository on GitHub.
2. Navigate to your WordPress installation's wp-content/plugins directory and extract the downloaded ZIP file there.
3. Activate the Cooked plugin through the WordPress Admin Dashboard by navigating to Appearance > Plugins.

Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community! If you'd like to contribute to Cooked, please follow these steps:

1. Fork the Cooked repository on GitHub.
2. Create a new branch for your feature or bug fix: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Submit a Pull Request describing your changes.

Development

This project uses Bun for package management and running scripts. Install Bun, then from the repo root run bun install.

Development environment

You can run the plugin locally with either wp-env or DDEV; pick one.

wp-env — Requires Node.js and Docker; @wordpress/env is in devDependencies. Config in .wp-env.json (PHP 7.4, port 8888, plugin mounted from repo root).

bun run start:wp-env   # start
bun run stop:wp-env    # stop
bun run reset:wp-env   # wipe all db uploads
bun run destroy:wp-env # remove containers and data
bun run shell:wp-env   # run bash inside the container

Site at port 8888, tests at 8889.

DDEV — Requires DDEV installed. First time: run bun run init:ddev (creates wordpress/ and .ddev/, installs WP, activates Cooked; credentials and URL are printed). Then use bun run start:ddev to start and bun run launch:ddev to open wp-admin. Stop with bun run stop:ddev, full remove with bun run destroy:ddev.

bun run init:ddev    # first-time setup only
bun run start:ddev   # start
bun run launch:ddev  # open wp-admin
bun run stop:ddev    # stop
bun run destroy:ddev # remove env and wordpress/

Generating language files

Run with wp-env or DDEV started. The script detects which environment you use.

bun run i18n              # make .pot, update .po, compile .mo
bun run i18n:make-pot     # generate cooked.pot only
bun run i18n:update-po    # update .po from .pot
bun run i18n:make-mo      # compile .po to .mo

Compiling assets (JS/CSS)

bun run build   # one-off build
bun run watch   # watch and rebuild on change

Creating distribution bundle

bun run bundle

Runs build and i18n, then creates build/cooked.zip ready for distribution (excludes dev files).

Testing

PHPCS — Lint PHP files against WordPress Coding Standards and PHPCompatibility (PHP 7.4+):

bun run lint       # check for violations
bun run lint-fix   # auto-fix violations

PHPUnit — Run the test suite (14 test classes covering CSV import, recipes, settings, SEO, and more):

bun run test

Tests are in tests/phpunit/ with CSV fixtures in tests/test_data/. Requires a running wp-env or DDEV environment.

Documentation

Detailed documentation for Cooked can be found in the wiki. Cooked has a whole bunch of actions and filters to customize Cooked as much as you need to. Be sure to check out the Developer Documentation.

Support

If you encounter any issues or have questions about Cooked, please open an issue on the GitHub repository.

License

Cooked is released under the GPL-3.0 License.

Credits

Cooked was created by Boxy Studio and is now maintained by Gora Tech