Meal Planner Pro

Hi Adam,

Thanks for your interest in switching to our personalized recipe plugin. I’ve forwarded your AMP question to our dev team and will let you know about compatibility.

My first response would be that our plugin formats recipe info in a way that is easily understood by Google. EasyRecipe does as well but the way they’ve structured their data can only be described as messy. This is why it was such a challenge for us create a conversion system for their plugin and could explain why AMP isn’t formatting things correctly.

I believe that our plugin should let Google display your recipe info in mobile search apps but will let you know.

Google has also started to manually penalize some food blog sites that are using recipe rating. Part of this is because Google can’t verify that the raters are real people and partly because the plugin settings aren’t being set properly for these. We don’t want to have any of our bloggers penalized so have removed all reference to recipe ratings until this is more clearly defined by Google. They’ve been vague on why they’re penalizing blogs for this.

EasyRecipe is one of the plugins being penalized.None of our bloggers have been penalized.Our plugin is fully compliant with Google’s Recipe View schema markup requirements.

More info soon. You could test our plugin for AMP compatibility yourself. Simply install our plugin and convert your EasyRecipe recipes with the click of a button. Then if not completely satisfied, click a button to convert them back.

Thanks,
Commodore Allen

Hi Beverly,

Error messages are never good but generally easy to fix. I’ve forwarded this to our dev team to diagnose the issue.

Do you see this issue when trying to create a recipe or after a recipe is posted? Are you using symbols in your recipe cards such as for measurement fractions, degrees, etc.?

Please try again later in the day to see if it’s remedied itself and I’ll let you know as soon as I hear back from dev. It could be tomorrow before I have answers.

Thanks,
Commodore

Hello,

When recipes are shared using social media widgets they don’t use the recipe plugin info or image for this. They share your recipe page URL and use an image from the post itself. Usually your featured image or the first image found in the post.

If social sharing doesn’t include an image you’ll need to contact support at the developers that have created the social sharing widgets about this.

Good luck and thanks for using our personalized recipe plugin.

– Commodore Allen

P.S. – Alternate solution for your example of two recipes in one post

Most bloggers combine two recipe into one recipe placeholder.

Something like this…Note how I put an exclamation mark before each recipe title in ingredients and instructions. This make them bold.

Ceviche Yucatan Recipe

Ingredients

!For the Cerviche:
1 lb. fresh mini shrimp, or larger shrimp peeled, deveined and cut into small pieces
10 – 12 limes, juiced (or ~1 cup of lime juice)
2 – 3 habanero peppers*, sliced very thin
1/2 a red onion, sliced thin
1/2 cup chopped cilantro
1/2 tsp cumin

!For the Guacamole:
4 – 5 ripe avocados
2 tbsp minced jalapenos
1 clove minced & crushed garlic
2 tbsp minced shallots
1/4 cup lime or lemon juice (2 limes/1 lemon)
1/3 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
1 tsp salt
1 tsp chili powder (optional)

Instructions

!For the Cerviche:
Juice the limes into a glass bowl.
Pat the shrimp dry with a paper towel and add to the lime juice. Cover with plastic wrap, place in the fridge and allow to marinate at least 30 minutes, or until pink. If you couldn’t find raw shrimp, you can skip marinating since it’s already cooked!
Stir in the sliced habanero, onion, and cumin.
Refrigerate for another 30 – 60 minutes to allow the flavors to blend.
Remove from fridge, uncover, and stir in cilantro. Serve with guacamole and salty tortilla chips!

!For the Guacamole:
Mash avocados in a bowl. Add the lime/lemon juice to prevent browning. Mix all ingredients together, check for taste and adjust seasoning/ingredients as necessary. Refrigerate for 30 minutes to allow flavors to blend. Serve with salty tortilla chips!

Other tips:

– you can display images in your recipe cards by simply typing a question mark then pasting the image URL after. i.e. – %http://myrecipeimage.com/upload

– if you want to make a word or phrase bole you use an asterisk before and after the word or phrase. i.e. – “fresh cilantro*

Thanks! At least we know it’s all good for mobile.

Cheers,
Commodore

Hello,

You’re very welcome! Thank you for using our personalized plugin.

Supporting other languages is on our to do list. This will take some time to enable. If you only require this for the nutrition info then we may be able to push this up in the order.I hope you can get by with English until then. (at least two months)

Thanks,
Commodore

Hello,

We’ve released a new plugin version that may fix the issue you were having. i.e. – your server may be using an old version of PHP so have added compatibility with older versions etc. Please give it a try to see if it corrects the issue.

Thanks,
Commodore