Overview
It’s not easy to access recipe card information within your WordPress sites. MyContentDash makes this information easy and accessible so that you can build round-ups, find missing recipe card fields, and more.
A Few Use Cases
There are so many ways that this report could be used by food bloggers, but we figured we could get the creative juices flowing by providing a few examples. We’d love to hear how you’re using this tool, so let us know.
Find Recipes With A Specific Ingredient
Recipe cards have various ways of inputting ingredients, which makes it difficult to look for a specific ingredient simply. MyContentDash makes this a bit easier because you can search for something in the “Ingredients” filter and then select only recipes with a certain ingredient.
⚠️ Currently, we don’t have an option to just select the ingredients in the search. But there’s a workaround. Before you search, you can use the top checkbox to deselect all ingredient options, do a search for the ingredient you’re looking for, and then you can use the top checkbox to select all options at this point. We will have an easier way to do this at some point, but this works perfectly for now.
Find Recipes With Multiple Recipe Cards
As you probably know, it’s not recommended to have more than 1 recipe card on a single URL. Well, now it’s easier than ever to find these posts with multiple recipe cards. All you have to do is use the “Recipes” filter and then select posts with > 1 recipe card associated with them (see screenshot below).
See posts without a recipe card
Using this same filter, you can also select all URLs with 0 recipe cards. Look through these to find content that should have a recipe card.
Create Round-ups In A Snap
Creating round-ups (or even categories) around recipes just became a whole lot easier. Use the Recipes report to filter by ingredient, nutrition information, time, and more. Here are a couple of examples to get the creative juices flowing…
1 – Easy Recipes
You can define “easy” as recipes with fewer ingredients and/or recipes that take less time. Use the “Ing Count” (ingredient count) filter to see recipes 3 or less ingredients or even up to 4-5 ingredients. You can use the preset filter here or you can used the advanced filter options. Filter by cook, prep, or total time to find ingredients under a certain time (you can also sort by columns on this one).
Now, combine these things with a search or another filter to make this more specific (ie. category: dessert recipes with 4 ingredients or less, chicken recipes under 60 minutes, etc).
2 – Round-ups With Nutrition Information
Many of you have health-related sites. Even if you don’t, there are lots of readers who are interested in nutrition information. Create a round-up based around this nutrition information. Here are a few examples…
- High protein recipes
- Low calorie/carbs desserts
- Recipes with less than ___ sugar
The possibilities here are endless. We’re excited to see how you use this feature in MyContentDash.
Find Recipes With Missing Information
First of all, you can use Google Search Console to see where your site is missing recipe card fields. However, this is only based on the information that Google has at that time and it’s not as easy to filter and do other things. MyContentDash makes this a bit easier in some ways.
Create a filter to see recipe fields that are “Null” (or don’t have any information). You can also use the sorting options by selecting a column to sort by that column. Below, I selected the protein column to sort by that column (the up arrow ↑ is showing that we’re sorting by that column low to high).
