Plugixa Recipe

Description

🍳 Build beautiful, search-friendly recipe pages with Plugixa Recipe – a complete recipe manager with a fast React admin, four ready layouts, an FDA-style nutrition label, reviews, collections and meal plans.

📚 Read the Documentation
🌐 Visit the official website Plugixa
✉️ Questions or support requests: Contact us

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Publish a proper recipe in 3 simple steps:

1. Add a recipe – title, photo, grouped ingredients and numbered instructions
2. Pick a layout and save it as a reusable View
3. Drop in the [plugixa_recipe] shortcode or the Recipe block, and publish

Every recipe is marked up with schema.org Recipe structured data – ingredients, times, servings, ratings and nutrition – so Google can read it for rich results.

Four Ready Recipe Layouts

Pick a layout, save it as a View, and reuse it anywhere – no design skills needed.

✅ Grid – a clean, responsive card grid
✅ Slider – a touch-friendly carousel with autoplay and navigation
✅ Masonry – a Pinterest-style wall that fits cards of any height
✅ List – a roomy, full-width layout with larger excerpts

Every layout ships with a polished dark mode, switchable per shortcode or following the site.

Key Features of Plugixa Recipe

• Fast, Material UI-based admin for recipes, taxonomies and settings
• Unlimited recipes, categories, cuisines and courses
• Grouped ingredients and instructions, prep/cook times, servings and 11 diet flags
• FDA-style nutrition facts label – 15 nutrients and a serving size
• Four layouts – grid, slider, masonry and list – with built-in dark mode
• Unlimited saved Views and saved shortcodes, with a visual shortcode builder
• Visual view editor – layout, colours, typography, spacing, images and categories
• Two Gutenberg blocks (a recipe listing and a single recipe), plus 8 widget shortcodes (categories, cuisines, latest, popular, related, search, recipe of the day, count)
• Put a whole recipe inside any post or page, with “Jump to recipe” and “Print recipe” buttons, or list several as a numbered round-up
• 5-star reviews with photos and admin replies
• Favourites, shopping lists, collections/cookbooks and meal plans
• Pages for your visitors: their saved recipes, their shopping list and the recipes they sent you
• Optional nutrition calculator using USDA FoodData Central and your own free API key
• Reader tools on every recipe page – scale the servings, switch between metric and US units, copy the ingredients, run step timers and follow the method in cook mode
• Frontend recipe submission with [plugixa_recipe_form]
• Optional Cloudflare Turnstile captcha on the submission and review forms
• Automatic, filterable category and cuisine archive pages, and a search form that filters by course, difficulty, time and diet
• Clean print view for every recipe, with the reader’s servings and units and a choice of what to print
• Recipe structured data (JSON-LD) for rich results, recipes in WordPress’s own sitemap, plus Open Graph and Twitter Card meta
• Font picker with locally-served fonts – no font CDN
• Clean URLs: /recipe/, /recipe-category/, /recipe-cuisine/
• WPML and Polylang support, including translatable categories and cuisines
• Elementor widget
• REST API (plugixa-recipe/v1), action/filter hooks and template overrides

Plugixa Recipe Pro Features

• AI Recipe Generator – draft full recipes from a topic, a URL or a document
• Custom fields – add your own fields to the recipe form and templates
• Import and export – move recipes as CSV or JSON, and import from WP Recipe Maker, Tasty Recipes, Create by Mediavine, WP Delicious, Cooked, Zip Recipes and Recipe Card Blocks
• SEO analyzer – per-recipe scoring with a site-wide dashboard
• One-click demo content to explore the plugin quickly
• WooCommerce integration
• Priority support

Upgrade to Plugixa Recipe Pro

🥗 FDA-Style Nutrition Facts

Add up to 15 nutrients and a serving size, and the recipe page renders a proper FDA-style label – calories, fats, carbohydrates, protein, vitamins and minerals – with percent daily values. The same data feeds the Recipe structured data, so search engines read it too.

⭐ Reviews, Favourites and Collections

Visitors can rate a recipe out of five, leave a review with photos, and mark recipes as favourites. Reviews are moderated from the admin and can be answered with an admin reply. Logged-in visitors keep their saved recipes and a shopping list on their own account page, and a visitor who is not logged in can still build a shopping list in their browser. You group recipes into collections (cookbooks) and meal plans in the admin.

🔍 Recipe Schema for Google Rich Results

Every recipe page outputs schema.org Recipe structured data (JSON-LD) – ingredients, instructions in their sections, equipment, prep and cook time, servings, cuisine, category, diets, aggregate rating, nutrition and video – so it is eligible for recipe rich results. Listing and archive pages output a list of links to the recipes they show. Open Graph and Twitter Card tags are included for social sharing.

🎨 Customize Visually with Saved Views

A View is a reusable display design: layout, columns per breakpoint, colours, typography, spacing, image handling and category filters. Save as many as you like, then reference one from any shortcode or from the block – change the View and every placement updates.

📝 Let Visitors Submit Their Own Recipes

Drop [plugixa_recipe_form] on a page and visitors can submit recipes with photos, straight into moderation. Protect it with your own Cloudflare Turnstile keys if you want a captcha.

🌍 Multilingual and Translation Ready

Plugixa Recipe works with WPML and Polylang, including translatable categories and cuisines, and ships translation-ready strings throughout.

🧩 Works With Gutenberg, Elementor and Page Builders

Use the Recipe block in Gutenberg, the bundled Elementor widget, or the shortcodes in any builder, page, post or widget area.

👨‍💻 Author

Plugixa Recipe is developed by Plugixa, building focused, well-documented WordPress plugins with an emphasis on performance, clean code and structured data.

🛟 Documentation & Support

Plugixa Recipe is built to be usable without a manual, but it is documented in full.

👉 Read the Documentation – installation, shortcode reference, layouts and Views, nutrition facts, multilingual setup and developer hooks
👉 Ask on the WordPress.org support forum
👉 Or contact us directly
👉 Browse more plugins at plugixa.com

Shortcode Usage

Display recipes:
[plugixa_recipe]

With options (the layout, colours and spacing come from a saved View):
[plugixa_recipe view=”12″ categories=”desserts” limit=”6″]

A listing saved in the shortcode builder:
[plugixa_recipe id=”3″]

One whole recipe inside a post:
[plugixa_single_recipe id=”12″]

A search form that filters the listing beside it:
[plugixa_recipe_search style=”expanded”]

Your visitors’ saved recipes, shopping list and submissions, as tabs:
[plugixa_recipe_account]

Frontend submission form:
[plugixa_recipe_form]

External services

This plugin connects to the third-party services listed below. Apart from Freemius, every connection is optional: it is made only when a site administrator turns the relevant feature on.

The only services this plugin contacts are Freemius, Cloudflare Turnstile (optional, and only with your own keys), USDA FoodData Central (optional, and only with your own key) and – if you add a video URL to a recipe – the video host’s oEmbed endpoint.

Freemius

We use Freemius to handle licensing, software updates, and – only if you opt in – anonymous usage diagnostics. On activation you are shown an opt-in screen; if you skip it, no identifiable data is sent. When you opt in, or when you manage a license or purchase, data such as your site URL, WordPress and PHP versions, active theme/plugins, and the email address used at opt-in may be transmitted. This occurs on activation, plugin updates, and license actions.
Provided by Freemius, Inc. – Terms: https://freemius.com/terms/ – Privacy: https://freemius.com/privacy/

Cloudflare Turnstile (optional)

If you enable the captcha for the frontend recipe submission form and/or the review form and enter your own Turnstile site and secret keys, the plugin loads the Turnstile widget on those forms and verifies each submission with Cloudflare. The visitor’s browser loads the widget script from Cloudflare, and when the visitor submits a protected form your server sends the Turnstile token and the visitor’s IP address to Cloudflare to be checked. It is disabled by default and requires your own Turnstile keys; with the captcha switched off, no request is made and the script is not loaded.
Provided by Cloudflare, Inc. – Service: https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/turnstile/ – Terms: https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/ – Privacy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

USDA FoodData Central (optional)

The Nutrition Calculator app is switched off by default. If you switch it on and enter your own FoodData Central API key, then each time you press “Calculate from ingredients” in the recipe editor your server sends the names of that recipe’s ingredients (for example “flour”), together with your API key, to api.nal.usda.gov and receives matching foods with their nutrient values. Nothing is sent at any other time, and nothing about your visitors, your site or the rest of the recipe is sent. Answers are kept on your site for a week, and the foods you confirm are remembered, so the same ingredient is not asked for again.
Provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service – Service: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/ – API guide and terms: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/api-guide – Privacy: https://www.usda.gov/privacy-policy

Video hosts via oEmbed (optional)

If you add a video URL to a recipe, that recipe’s page embeds the video using WordPress’s built-in oEmbed. Your server requests the embed code from the host of the URL you entered, and the visitor’s browser then loads the player from that host, which may set cookies. No video is embedded unless you add a video URL to a recipe, and no request is made to any video host otherwise. In the recipe editor, the player is loaded from YouTube or Vimeo only when you press Preview beside the video URL.

The host contacted is whichever one your URL points to: the plugin passes the URL to WordPress’s own oEmbed handler, so any provider on WordPress’s built-in provider list can be used. In practice this is YouTube or Vimeo, whose terms and privacy policies are linked below; if you embed from another provider, that provider’s own terms and privacy policy apply instead.
YouTube – Terms: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms – Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Vimeo – Terms: https://vimeo.com/terms – Privacy: https://vimeo.com/privacy
WordPress oEmbed provider list: https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/wordpress/oembed/