Description
CookBook is a theme designed for culinary blogs, food magazines, and recipe portals, featuring a magazine layout, a dedicated recipe area, and a dish gallery. This theme from the Food Magazine Blog family transforms WordPress into a complete culinary portal, organizing recipe categories, recommended restaurants, and editorial content into visual highlights that showcase food photography and provide comfortable reading on desktop and mobile.
Main Features of CookBook
- Magazine-style layout
Editorial structure with featured blocks, headlines, and thematic sections on the home page. - Dedicated recipe area
Custom post template for ingredients, preparation method, and cooking time. - Dish gallery
Visual grids and albums to showcase high-resolution food photos. - Food categories
Organization by cuisine type, occasion, main ingredient, and difficulty level. - Responsive design
Automatically adapts recipe and gallery reading to phones, tablets, and desktops.
Benefits of CookBook
- Professional editorial identity
The blog gains a food magazine look without needing a dedicated designer. - Smooth recipe reading
Organized structure that makes it easy to follow step-by-step instructions during preparation. - More time on site
Related content blocks encourage navigation between recipes and categories. - Fast publishing
Ready templates reduce the time between content creation and publication online.
Who is CookBook for?
- Those who maintain a recipe blog and want a food magazine look.
- Targeted for gastronomy portals, culinary magazines, and food review sites.
- Those who cover restaurants, bistros, and cooking trends in an editorial format.
- Targeted for chefs, cooks, and content creators who publish recipes with original photography.
How to Download CookBook
CookBook is available for download here on Ultrapack. After downloading the .zip file, install it in Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme, select the file and activate it. Then configure the menu, magazine-style home, and recipe categories through the WordPress dashboard.
Designed for those who produce food content regularly, CookBook delivers a solid editorial foundation that enhances dish photography and organizes recipes in an accessible format. The combination of magazine layout, thematic areas, and responsiveness makes the theme a reliable choice for projects that treat food as central content, not as a secondary blog category.
Frequently asked questions
Is CookBook – Food Magazine Blog GPL-licensed?
Yes. CookBook – Food Magazine Blog is distributed under the GPL (GNU General Public License). You may legally use, modify and redistribute it on as many sites as you want.
Can I use CookBook – Food Magazine Blog on multiple sites?
Yes. You can install CookBook – Food Magazine Blog on as many sites as you want. Only automatic updates through Ultrapack Auto Updater have a limit: from 3 to 80 sites, depending on the plan.
How much does CookBook – Food Magazine Blog cost at Ultrapack?
CookBook – Food Magazine Blog costs US$2.99 as a single purchase, and it is also included in the subscription plans starting at US$12/mo (VIP I).
Does CookBook – Food Magazine Blog include updates?
Yes. The current version of CookBook – Food Magazine Blog is 1.15, published at Ultrapack on Feb 21, 2018. Subscribers update straight from the WordPress dashboard with UAU (Ultrapack Auto Updater).
Is CookBook – Food Magazine Blog scanned before publication?
Yes. Every version of CookBook – Food Magazine Blog goes through a malware scan (ClamAV and YARA rules, at UltraHub) before it is published.
How to install
Automatic updates: this item is updated by the Ultrapack Auto Updater. With it installed, the new version shows up in your dashboard like any other WordPress update (how to set it up).
The file on this page is already the theme, ready to upload to WordPress.
- Download the file
themeforest-11393848-cookbook-food-magazine-blog-wordpress-theme.zip. - In the WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme.
- Select the file
themeforest-11393848-cookbook-food-magazine-blog-wordpress-theme.zipand click Install Now. - Click Activate.
- If WordPress answers that no valid theme was found, the file is the developer’s full package and the theme is in a folder inside it. Extract the file on your computer, look for the folder that has
style.cssandscreenshot.png(in this item, the foldercookbook), zip that folder only and upload it again.
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