Understanding what's new with Core Web Vitals, using the best plugins as a food blogger, and diversifying your revenue streams with Andrew Wilder from NerdPress.

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Welcome to episode 339 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Andrew Wilder from NerdPress about the current state of tech for food bloggers.

Tech Check-In

Today on the podcast, we’re really excited to be chatting again with our WordPress Support Expert, Andrew Wilder!

Through his company, NerdPress, Andrew and his team do maintenance and support for WordPress websites, and 95% of their clients are food bloggers. Suffice to say, he knows his stuff when it comes to WordPress food and recipe sites.

In this episode, you’ll hear Andrew’s thoughts on the current state of tech for food bloggers. From an update on what’s new with Core Web Vitals to his current list of go-to plugins for food bloggers, this episode is jam-packed with information that will help you set your blog up for success in 2022. Enjoy!

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What Andrew does at NerdPress
• Why documentation is so important when it comes to building a business
• What bloggers need to know about Core Web Vitals
• Why it’s important to use a recipe plugin
• What caching plugins do
• What types of plugins he doesn’t recommend using
• What his thoughts are about Google Web Stories
• Why he recommends diversifying your revenue streams as a blogger

Resources:

• NerdPress
• Eating Rules
• WordCamp
• Ramshackle Pantry
• Process Street
• Loom
• Guru
• 306: Core Web Vitals – What Food Bloggers Need to Know About User Experience and Google with Andrew Wilder
• Core Web Vitals
• PageSpeed Insights
• WP Rocket
• Tasty Recipes
• WP Recipe Maker
• Create by Mediavine
• Curbly
• Yoast SEO
• Cloudflare
• The Feast Plugin
• Google’s Feature of a Pinch of Yum Web Story
• Food52
• Leaf Group
• 99designs
• LogoTournament
• Find Andrew on Food Blogger Pro
• Connect with Andrew via email
• The Food Blogger Pro Podcast Facebook Group
• Check out the Food Blogger Pro YouTube channel (and subscribe while you’re there!)

If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for interviews, be sure to email them to [email protected].

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