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Visitor Account Pages: Saved Recipes, Shopping List, Submissions - Plugixa Recipe

The Visitor Account app gives your readers a corner of the site of their own: the recipes they saved, a shopping list, and the recipes they sent you. It is part of the free plugin and is on by default (Apps > Visitor Account).

A My Recipes page with Saved recipes, Shopping list and My recipes tabs, the Saved recipes tab showing eight recipe cards, each with a photo, time, difficulty, rating and a Remove button

The shortcodes

Create a page, add one of these shortcodes, and link to the page from your menu:

Shortcode Shows
[plugixa_recipe_account] All three pages below as tabs: Saved recipes, Shopping list and My recipes
[plugixa_saved_recipes] The recipes the visitor saved with the heart button
[plugixa_shopping_list] The visitor’s shopping list
[plugixa_my_submissions] The recipes the visitor sent through the submission form, with their review status

[plugixa_recipe_account] is the simplest choice: one page, one menu link. Use the single shortcodes when you want each list on its own page.

Saved recipes

The heart button on recipe cards and recipe pages saves a recipe to the visitor’s Saved recipes. Each saved recipe can be removed from the page. Saving a recipe needs a logged-in visitor and the Favorites app; see Favorites.

Shopping list

The Shopping list tab with Amount and Item fields, an Add button, and a note that the list is empty until an item is added or Add to shopping list is used on a recipe

The shopping list fills from two places:

  • Add to shopping list on a recipe page adds that recipe’s ingredients as shown on the page (at the reader’s scale and units), minus the ones the reader ticked. See Reader Tools.
  • The Amount and Item fields add anything else (“kitchen roll”).

The shopping list works without logging in. For a guest it is kept in the browser. For a logged-in visitor it is saved to their account, so it follows them from the laptop to the phone in the shop. Admins see the saved lists under Shopping Lists in the plugin; see Shopping Lists.

My recipes

The My recipes tab lists what the visitor submitted through [plugixa_recipe_form], with each recipe’s status (waiting for review or published). It needs the Recipe Submissions app and a logged-in visitor.

Privacy and page caching

The account pages are the same for every visitor, so a page cache can keep them. Once the page loads, a script asks the site who is looking and fetches that person’s rows. Every account route answers only for the visitor who calls it: nobody can read or change another visitor’s saved recipes or shopping list.

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