Introducing FoodPress
“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
Those wise words are from celebrity chef Julia Child, who was never shy about following her passions in life.
Serving up the hottest dishes on WordPress.com
Child was passionate about many things, but especially food — and she shares that in common with WordPress.com bloggers, who publish thousands of mouth-watering recipes and food stories every day.
For that reason, we couldn’t resist building a special new site dedicated to showing off the amazing breadth of food-related posts on WordPress.com. Today we’re thrilled to announce FoodPress, the go-to destination for the hottest dishes from WordPress.com bloggers. To help us run the site, we’ve partnered with publishing company Federated Media. Each day, FoodPress features snippets of posts, which is designed to get new people to discover and then click through to a blog.
How to Get Featured?
If you’re wondering how posts are selected for the site, it’s easy: They’re all hand-picked by FoodPress editor Jane Maynard. She finds most of the posts by scouring food-related tag pages like food, recipes, baking, cocktails, and more — so if you’re a food blogger, be sure to use tags on your posts.
We hope you enjoy FoodPress as much as we do. But be forewarned: Viewing the site is known to cause hunger pangs!
Nov 1st at 5:05 pm
wow! it’s awesome!
Nov 1st at 5:05 pm
Great stuff.
Nov 1st at 5:07 pm
Those of us who are food-challenged love love LOVE this idea!
Nov 1st at 5:12 pm
WOW! This was unexpected!
Nov 1st at 5:14 pm
I am delighted to be a part of the team! Looking forward to making mouths water daily!
Nov 1st at 6:20 pm
And we are thrilled to have you!
Nov 1st at 7:16 pm
I’m totally with Joy on that one!
Nov 1st at 5:15 pm
OMG OMG OMG! I LOVE food and now wordpress is going to feature them!?! My dream come true guys
Nov 1st at 5:18 pm
Mmmmmmm makes me hungry. Look forward to reading. Good luck.
Nov 1st at 5:23 pm
I’ll try to write a post about food this month
Nov 1st at 5:23 pm
I don’t use tags. Will categories also be scanned?
Nov 1st at 5:59 pm
Yes, categories will also be scanned, as per the Categories vs. Tags documentation.
Nov 1st at 5:33 pm
This sounds delicious!
Well done!
Nov 1st at 5:37 pm
Foodpress should add glutenfree to their “Featured Tags”. Perhaps also other allergies like lactose etc.
Nov 1st at 6:00 pm
The featured tags will rotate as part of the FoodPress editorial process.
Nov 1st at 5:38 pm
I love cooking! I’ve been cooking since I was a child. My favorite is deep italian dishes. Have any that is quick and simple?
Nov 1st at 5:40 pm
What a great idea! With a name like Piglet you can imagine I love cooking. Look forward to finding other foodies!
Nov 1st at 5:41 pm
There are a lot of foodies who blog on WordPress. I’m sure they will love this. Maybe my wife and I should put up some more recipes. WP just keeps getting better and better. Keep it up!
Nov 1st at 5:43 pm
hmm…I’m hungry now:)
Nov 1st at 5:46 pm
I smell (no pun intended) other vertical interest areas represented on WordPress.com eventually getting the same type of treatment as Food-related blogs. Say, tech-related or social media-related blogs (ahem… hint, hint) getting their own “xxxxxxxPress” treatment. At least I’m hoping!
That being said, FoodPress is a great design, and wonderful idea. Anything to showcase the blogs and content… Kudos.
Nov 1st at 6:07 pm
You bet. If FoodPress goes well we’d love to do more of these.
Nov 1st at 5:47 pm
Mmmm…. Great idea!
Nov 1st at 5:48 pm
Of course I’ll write it. Especially my traditional country food
Thanks WordPress…
Nov 1st at 5:57 pm
yum! yum! thanks for your serving!
Nov 1st at 6:13 pm
Oh, I would probably pass out if my site was featured! But, it doesn’t hurt to dream, does it?
Nov 1st at 6:23 pm
Walt Disney
Nov 1st at 6:13 pm
Sometimes I present reciepes in my blog, but it’s all in Norwegian. Anyway, Foodpress can be a great place to find inspiration.
Nov 1st at 6:24 pm
FoodPress will indeed be limited to English content for now.
Nov 1st at 6:21 pm
Very cool, love this idea!
Nov 1st at 6:29 pm
Nice 8)
Nov 1st at 6:29 pm
Love it!
Is it just me, but the blog displays completely different in Mozilla Firefox than in I.E.?
Good luck
Nov 1st at 7:07 pm
We’ve noticed this too. Our crack team of souped-up (pun fully intended) designers is on it.
Nov 1st at 6:31 pm
Hey guys,
Food press is a great idea! Why not have a similar concept with Creative Press? Basically, search engines are very poor in identifying creative stuff (automated search bots searching for keywords and title tags – not my idea of judging creativity!). That’s where WordPress has a great resource – its community of bloggers! Why not hand pick some of the most creative posts from around the WP community and introduce them in various categories?. BTW I appreciate that you got a ‘Vegetarian’ category in FP – I am a great proponent of Vegan food, and happy belated Vegan day for all of you!!
Destination Infinity
Nov 1st at 6:33 pm
Great idea, would love my Yorkshire Dales Food Blog to be featured sometime…
Nov 1st at 7:06 pm
Here are five ways to get featured on FoodPress.
Nov 1st at 6:44 pm
I was wondering when WordPress would do something like this! Awesome!
Nov 1st at 7:05 pm
May I suggest the option to add Icons for vegetarian/vegan meals? It would be nice to be able to see on the first gaze wether a recipe contains meat or other animal products, without having to check the list of contents or the tags of each post.
Nov 1st at 8:28 pm
Sounds like a good idea, thanks for the suggestion. We’ll keep it in mind when improving upon FoodPress.
Nov 1st at 7:06 pm
Love this idea! Thanks, WP!
Nov 1st at 7:07 pm
This is just awesome! And the layout used is just so readable, and not to mention yummy!
I, together with other WP bloggers here, feel that this can be the start of something wonderful that could branch out to other cool stuff such at TechPress, etc. (as previously mentioned)… *dreaming of a collection of featured art, news, photos* … Mmmm!
Nov 1st at 7:09 pm
I do food AND wine on my Wine Predator blog (and sometimes at Art Predator)–usually both in the same post! Will food press include beverages as well?
I’ve got a pan de muertos recipe up for today! And a great pumpkin soup with a wine review recently!
Nov 1st at 8:32 pm
Yes, beverages (especially when combined with food-related content) might also make it in FoodPress. Impress us, be creative, we might surprise you.
Nov 1st at 7:14 pm
Just appealng and fascinatingj–busy brain. God bless.
Nov 1st at 7:14 pm
Great idea!
Nov 1st at 7:16 pm
Great way to group the best of the best then highlight them in one location. Makes the whole user search and find experience much better. Kudos on a great idea.
Nov 1st at 7:20 pm
Just waiting for some delicious yummy food from foodpress
Nov 1st at 7:21 pm
Why do both the Foodpress links take me to Go Daddy? Do we still need to purchase the domain?
Nov 1st at 7:58 pm
It’s a temporary caching issue and should go away when your ISP refreshes their DNS cache (sorry, we have no control over it).
Nov 1st at 7:25 pm
That idea is awesomely tasty! Congratulation for this one.
So, what about a BR Press? Or EDM Press (Eletronic Dance Music)?
Cheers and keep up the cool work,
Gabriel Lucas
http://factoide.wordpress.com
Nov 1st at 8:02 pm
See our CEO’s reply in regards to future plans for similar sites.
Nov 1st at 7:25 pm
Do you need to blog in English or are Dutch posts also selected?
Nov 1st at 7:58 pm
English for now.
Nov 1st at 7:38 pm
Fantastic!
Nov 1st at 7:57 pm
Fantastic stuff. Well done WordPress. I think this is absolutely awesome
Nov 1st at 8:00 pm
interesting, really
Nov 1st at 8:02 pm
This is great news! Glad to have a place to discover new food blogs!
Best,
Vivek
Vivek’s Epicurean Adventures
http://viveksurti.wordpress.com
Nov 1st at 8:05 pm
good job
Nov 1st at 8:11 pm
Are you interested in sketches/paintings of food too? My sketchgroup meets at restaurants and we draw/paint our food before we eat it. My blog has many such examples under the category Food Sketch.
Will WordPress being doing something similar for art in the future? Us WP artists would love it!
Thanks!
Jana
Nov 1st at 8:25 pm
Sure thing Jana, our favorite food photos section is ideal for paintings too!
Nov 1st at 8:27 pm
This is a nice additon. I hope it’s well received and we can look forward to more sites like this one!
Nov 1st at 8:30 pm
Delicious! It makes my mouth water.
Nov 1st at 8:37 pm
A hearty cheer for FoodPress.com! Glad WordPress has decided to do this!
Thank you!
Nov 1st at 8:58 pm
Reading this post is giving me hunger pangs
Nov 1st at 9:04 pm
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!! Great idea!
Nov 1st at 9:19 pm
Don’t forget the beer blogs!
Nov 1st at 9:19 pm
This is really great!
Nov 1st at 9:29 pm
hooray! I think those of us who like to help the “food challenged” are equally as thrilled! Another great idea!
Nov 1st at 9:32 pm
Fantastic!
Nov 1st at 9:57 pm
Great idea! You could also do that with games/photography/painting/anime ect!
Nov 1st at 10:17 pm
Yummy!
Nov 1st at 10:34 pm
Excellent stuff, I’m always on the lookout for exciting new recipes and this will be a great resource for them. Thanks, WordPress!
Nov 1st at 10:39 pm
Oh this is exciting! Good, good idea!
Nov 1st at 10:44 pm
What a great idea! I’ll be checking out all the recipes!
Nov 1st at 11:05 pm
A great idea, and well-excecuted, to boot!
Nov 1st at 11:28 pm
Quite interesting. Is there perhaps a way for WordPress bloggers working on novels, comics, and other writing to have something like this to feature new writers and showcase their work?
Nov 1st at 11:29 pm
foodonfifth.com, Teresa Blackburn
Fabulous, great to hear about another great WordPress happening that we can participate in.
I have used WordPress for my food blog for some time now and love it ease of use and style. Congrats.
Nov 1st at 11:41 pm
looks delicious
Nov 1st at 11:57 pm
Cool
Nov 2nd at 12:02 am
This is a great idea.
As it is backed by a publishing company, Federated Media, will selected food blogs be paid for their unique content? What are the copyright provisions, ie will those who wrote the blog own copyright? It’s great to be published, but generally writers get financial recompense and copyright.
Can you clarify this, it would be much appreciated.
Nov 2nd at 1:17 pm
Hi Jan,
Not sure you quite understand how FoodPress works — have you checked out the site? Nothing is reprinted. It all goes straight to WordPress.com blogs.
Nov 2nd at 12:05 am
Great Idea, how wonderful!
Nov 2nd at 12:22 am
Excellent! I am excited to find other food bloggers and foodies on wordpress. Thank you.
-linda
http://beautifulmemorablefood.wordpress.com/
Nov 2nd at 12:25 am
OMG i LOOOOOVE food:) Can’t wait to start contributing! This time of year is so perfect for cooking…and eating!
Nov 2nd at 1:02 am
This is really exciting to me cuz I love creating new recipes and discovering others creations. I come from a long family line of amazing foodies. Got it in the genes!
Blessings on your new adventure in food!
Lisa
LeafandInk.com
Nov 2nd at 1:03 am
WOW…so glad I just transferred to WordPress. I just love how dynamic it is, and I ♥ the very idea of FoodPress!
Nov 2nd at 1:14 am
And now we wait for Gamepress.com
Nov 2nd at 1:45 am
awesomeness!
Nov 2nd at 2:28 am
Yeah, there were so many food blogs getting featured on Freshly Pressed that I think it’s inevitable to give them their own featured site.
Nov 2nd at 4:30 pm
And you’ll still see great food posts on Freshly Pressed — that won’t change!
Nov 2nd at 3:04 am
Ain’t this awesome?!
Nov 2nd at 3:44 am
foodonfifth.com from Nashville, Tennessee says congratulation on this new adventure in the world of all things edible.
Nov 2nd at 5:37 am
YAY!!! More foods from around the world to try!!! I wonder if they would make sub categories too???
Nov 2nd at 5:58 am
welcome some indian too i hope
Nov 2nd at 6:17 am
I live in the middle of no where in Tanzania as we speak and maybe what I miss the most is cooking good and tasty food and spices -this will be an ugly teaser! Love this site!!
Nov 2nd at 6:55 am
What an excellent idea – though I am surprised that there’s not a full-text RSS feed (or, if there is one, I haven’t found it).
Nov 2nd at 4:29 pm
There is a feed, but it’s not full text. See the “Subscribe” button near the top of FoodPress.
Nov 2nd at 7:22 am
I’m already hungry
Nov 2nd at 7:50 am
Yippee – what fabulous news – thanks WordPress for FoodPress! I am thrilled and hope that my blog has some of the qualities you are looking for.
Mandy
Nov 2nd at 8:11 am
I’m waiting for the dessert!
Nov 2nd at 10:27 am
Ain’t this awesome ?
Nov 2nd at 11:44 am
Foodpress should include a category for restaurant blogs.
Nov 2nd at 4:28 pm
That’s a good idea, and something we’ll consider!
Nov 2nd at 12:58 pm
Delicious welcome from wordpress team … on just the 2nd day of my blogging! Yup, just awesome. And then to dream of being featured … ooh wow, what motivation. Thanks!
Nov 2nd at 1:25 pm
How about photopress, artpress and music press?
Nov 2nd at 1:54 pm
I’ve just recently began the process of switching my food blog from blogspot to WordPress. I look forward to using all the tools and features at WordPress and hope to get featured on FoodPress!!