Description
Basil is a theme designed for recipe blogs, gastronomy sites and nutrition portals, featuring an ingredient index, technical preparation sheet and a dish gallery integrated into the layout. The theme transforms WordPress into a culinary portal, with editorial typography intended for long reading, a category system by meal type and ready blocks to highlight cooking time, yield and difficulty of recipes.
Key Features of Basil
- Editorial Structure for Recipes
Organizes posts with fields for ingredients, preparation method, time and portions. - Visual Dish Gallery
Displays photos in a responsive grid with emphasis on high-resolution images. - Reading-Optimized Typography
Combines legible serif and sans-serif fonts in the body of recipes and instructions. - Cuisine Category Filters
Allows navigation by dish type, occasion, main ingredient or diet. - Responsive Mobile Layout
Adapts recipe cards, photos and typography for comfortable reading on any screen.
Benefits of Basil
- Gastronomic Visual Identity
Highlights dish photos and gives a professional look to the culinary blog from the first visit. - Pleasant Reading During Preparation
Keeps ingredients and instructions visible in the kitchen without constant zoom. - Fast Publishing of New Recipes
Accelerates editorial flow with pre-structured fields instead of manual formatting. - Longer Time Spent
Encourages navigation between related recipes, increasing pages viewed per session.
Who Is Basil Intended For?
- Those who run home recipe blogs and want to showcase dishes with standout photography.
- Gastronomy sites, authorial food blogs and culinary channels that publish weekly recipes.
- Nutritionists and chefs who share preparations with ingredient tables and method of preparation.
- Restaurants that keep a house recipe section or culinary tips to retain customers.
How to Download Basil
Basil is available for download here on Ultrapack. After downloading the .zip file, install it via Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme, select the file and activate the theme. Recipe fields and visual options become available in the Customizer and the post editor immediately after activation.
Basil organizes an entire culinary blog around dish photography and clear instructions, without requiring technical customization to approach the presentation of gastronomy magazines. For those who publish recipes frequently and want to turn content into a visual reference in the niche, the theme delivers a ready-made editorial foundation to grow audience.
Frequently asked questions
Is Basil – WordPress Recipes Theme GPL-licensed?
Yes. Basil – WordPress Recipes Theme 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 Basil – WordPress Recipes Theme on multiple sites?
Yes. You can install Basil – WordPress Recipes Theme 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 Basil – WordPress Recipes Theme cost at Ultrapack?
Basil – WordPress Recipes Theme 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 Basil – WordPress Recipes Theme include updates?
Yes. The current version of Basil – WordPress Recipes Theme is 2.0.2, published at Ultrapack on Apr 10, 2019. Subscribers update straight from the WordPress dashboard with UAU (Ultrapack Auto Updater).
Is Basil – WordPress Recipes Theme scanned before publication?
Yes. Every version of Basil – WordPress Recipes Theme 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 the developer’s full package, with documentation, demos and plugins. Do not upload that file to WordPress. The theme comes ready inside it, as a ZIP of its own, and that is the one you upload.
- Download the file
themeforest-9009675-basil-recipes-a-recipepowered-wordpress-theme.zipand extract it on your computer. - Look inside the extracted files for the file
basil.zip. - In the WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme.
- Select that file and click Install Now.
- Click Activate.
- There is nothing to zip. The ZIP inside the package is already in the format WordPress accepts.
- Uploading the whole package is the most common mistake when installing a theme: WordPress answers that no valid theme was found, and nothing is installed.
- The rest of the package belongs to the author: documentation, demo files and, in some themes, the plugins it asks for during setup.
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