Recipes Management — Plugixa Recipe

The Recipes screen is the central workspace for creating, editing, organizing, and moderating recipes.

The recipe list

Navigate to Recipes → Recipes.

The table shows:

Column	Description
Thumbnail	Main recipe image (if set)
Title	Links to the editor
Status	draft, published, pending, archived
Category / Cuisine	Comma-separated tags
Rating	Cached rating_average (0–5) and rating_count
Views	Cached view_count
Modified	Last modification timestamp
Actions	Edit, view, duplicate, delete

Filters

Click Filter (top-right) to open the filter drawer. You can filter by:

• Status — draft, published, pending, archived
• Category — any category
• Cuisine — any cuisine
• Course — appetizer, main, dessert, …
• Difficulty — easy, medium, hard, expert
• Cost — budget, moderate, expensive, premium
• Diet flags — vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, keto, low-carb, nut-free, paleo, sugar-free, halal, kosher
• Featured — is_featured flag
• Editor’s pick — is_editor_pick flag
• Language — when WPML/Polylang is active
• Rating — minimum average rating
• Search — title / description full-text

Active filters are shown as chips above the table and can be removed individually.

Bulk actions

Select recipes using the row checkboxes, then choose:

• Publish / draft / archive
• Mark as Featured / Editor’s pick (or remove)
• Delete

Creating / editing a recipe

The recipe editor has 8 tabs. Required fields are marked with *.

Tab 1 · Basic

• Title *
• Slug — auto-generated from the title; editable.
• Description — short summary shown on cards and as SEO meta.
• Excerpt — optional teaser line.
• Main Image — WordPress media picker; any size registered in WordPress is available.
• Gallery — multiple images shown on the single recipe page.
• Video URL — YouTube / Vimeo / direct MP4.
• Status — draft, published, pending, archived.

Tab 2 · Tags & Diet

• Categories — multi-select from your categories list.
• Cuisines — multi-select from your cuisines list.
• Courses — multi-select from your courses list (Appetizer, Main Course, …).
• Tags — free-form labels, stored as JSON.
• Equipment — items like “Dutch oven”, “Food processor”.
• Diet flags — 11 toggles that drive schema output and filtering.

Tab 3 · Time & Servings

Field	Units
Prep time	minutes
Cook time	minutes
Rest time	minutes
Total time	auto-computed (prep + cook + rest)
Servings	integer
Servings unit	servings, pieces, cups, …
Yield amount	numeric (e.g., 12)
Yield unit	text (cookies, loaves, jars)
Difficulty	easy / medium / hard / expert
Cost	budget / moderate / expensive / premium
Season	optional seasonal tag

Tab 4 · Ingredients

Ingredients support grouping — ideal for recipes with sub-components (“For the sauce”, “For the dough”).

Each item has:

• Quantity (string — supports 1/2, 1 ½, 1.5)
• Unit (free text or pre-defined unit)
• Name
• Notes (e.g., “finely chopped”)
• Link URL (affiliate / product link)

Drag-and-drop reorders ingredients inside a group or moves them between groups. Add a new group from the + Add Group button.

Tab 5 · Instructions

Grouped steps with per-step rich content.

Each step supports:

• Step text (rich text / WYSIWYG)
• Per-step image
• Per-step video URL
• Duration (minutes) — surfaced in schema HowTo output

Tab 6 · Nutrition

17 FDA nutrition label fields. See Nutrition.

Tab 7 · Extras

• Notes — chef’s notes
• Tips — cooking tips (HTML allowed)
• Source — attribution name
• Source URL — link to original source
• Author name — override the WordPress author display name
• Featured — highlights the recipe in default ordering
• Editor’s pick — surface this recipe in the [plugixa_popular_recipes] widget

Tab 8 · Custom Fields PRO

Any custom fields you’ve defined (Custom Fields menu) appear here with their configured type (text, textarea, number, select, checkbox, radio, date, url). See Custom Fields.

Manual ordering

Default sort in shortcodes/views is by created_at DESC. To pin specific recipes at the top, use Recipes → Ordering. Drag recipes into your preferred sequence. The order is written to display_order and used whenever a shortcode sets orderby="display_order".

Duplicating a recipe

Use the row action Duplicate to clone a recipe (ingredients, instructions, nutrition, custom fields all copy). The new copy is set to draft with “(Copy)” appended to the title and slug.

Deleting a recipe

Deleting a recipe removes it plus its ingredients, instructions, nutrition row, reviews, and favorites (cascading deletes). Reviews in the trash are also dropped.

Recipe URLs

Each published recipe is available at:

/recipe/{id}/{slug}/

and a print-friendly version at:

/recipe-print/{id}/

See Permalinks & URLs for customization.