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WP Tasty

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Velocity5.0

WordPress plugin suite for food bloggers — recipe cards, affiliate links, and image pinning.

WP Tasty is shipping steady add-on maintenance across its recipe plugin suite with no directional moves.

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Current state
WP Tasty is in a maintenance rhythm across its plugin family — Tasty Recipes, Tasty Links, Tasty Pins, Tasty Roundups. The September 1 releases include a substantive UI improvement (new Ingredients and Instructions field UI in Recipes Lite) and minor fixes elsewhere. The August 18 batch focused on licensing system improvements and admin permission refinements across all four plugins simultaneously.
Where it's heading
The product is mature and in steady-state maintenance. The Save Recipe feature (email-to-self from the recipe card) added in June was the last notable user-facing addition. The licensing system overhaul in August suggests infrastructure work rather than product expansion. Without signals pointing to new categories or integrations, the trajectory is continued quality and compatibility maintenance.
Prediction
PHP 8.4 and WordPress 7.0 compatibility updates will drive the next wave of releases, as the plugin suite needs to stay current with the underlying platform.

Recent moves

  1. 3d ago

    Tasty Recipes Lite v1.2.9

    Tasty Recipes Lite v1.2.9 adds a new Ingredients and Instructions field UI — a substantive recipe editor improvement — plus diet taxonomy mapping to Google's schema, which matters for SEO-driven food bloggers who depend on rich results.

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  2. 3d ago

    Tasty Recipes v4.0.6

    Tasty Recipes v4.0.6 improves the How To editor controls and fixes ingredient checkbox display in the block editor. Minor usability fixes.

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  3. 3d ago

    Tasty Links v1.6.5

    Tasty Links v1.6.5 fixes styling issues in the recipe editor's equipment field and admin Links list checkbox display. Visual and PHP warning fixes.

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  4. 17d ago

    Pins settings restricted to admins; Image block metadata fix

    Pins settings are restricted to administrators, with an Image block metadata fix alongside.

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  5. 17d ago

    Editors gain Roundups access while settings stay admin-only

    Editors can reach the Tasty Roundups menu and roundups list while settings stay admin-only — the clearest statement of the capability split in this batch.

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  6. 17d ago

    Editors get the recipe list; recipe block moves to block.json

    Editors get the recipe list in Recipes Lite and the recipe block moves to block.json — the capability split plus a registration refactor that needed a same-day patch.

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