Description
CookingPress is a theme aimed at chefs, food bloggers, and culinary portals, with a dedicated recipe registration system, an index by ingredients, and filters by preparation time, category, and difficulty. Built for those who frequently publish food content, it organizes recipes, ingredient lists, and dish galleries in a responsive layout designed to highlight high-resolution photography and fluid mobile reading.
Key Features of CookingPress
- Structured recipe registration
Specific fields for ingredients, preparation method, yield, and cooking time. - High-resolution dish galleries
Grid and highlight layouts that enhance food photography on any screen. - Filters and navigable index
Allows searching for recipes by category, ingredient, meal type, or difficulty. - Responsive reading layout
Adapts typography, images, and lists for mobile phones, tablets, and desktops without manual adjustment. - Internal pages for chefs and blog
Templates for chef profiles, about, contact, and editorial posts about culinary arts.
Benefits of CookingPress
- Agile recipe publishing
Ready-made fields reduce the time taken to insert each new dish on the site. - Gastronomic visual identity
Style focused on food conveys credibility for chefs and niche blogs. - Better kitchen experience
Responsive layout allows consulting recipes via mobile phone during preparation. - Organization of culinary collection
Categories and filters keep dozens of recipes accessible in just a few clicks.
Who is CookingPress for?
- Professional chefs who want to gather original recipes and a portfolio on their own site.
- Anyone who maintains a cooking blog and needs to publish recipes frequently with a consistent visual standard.
- Targeted at gastronomic portals, cooking schools, and home recipe channels that value dish photography.
How to download CookingPress
CookingPress is available for download here at Ultrapack. After receiving the .zip file, install it via the WordPress panel under Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme, select the package, and activate it. After activation, recipe content types become available in the administrative menu to start registering dishes.
Geared towards those who publish culinary content regularly, CookingPress combines technical structure for recipes with an aesthetic aligned with the gastronomic universe. Organization by ingredients, categories, and preparation time streamlines reader navigation, while the responsive base ensures good reading on any device, transforming the site into a practical reference for consultation inside and outside the kitchen.
Frequently asked questions
Is CookingPress – Recipe & Food WordPress theme GPL-licensed?
Yes. CookingPress – Recipe & Food WordPress 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 CookingPress – Recipe & Food WordPress theme on multiple sites?
Yes. You can install CookingPress – Recipe & Food WordPress 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 CookingPress – Recipe & Food WordPress theme cost at Ultrapack?
CookingPress – Recipe & Food WordPress 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 CookingPress – Recipe & Food WordPress theme include updates?
Yes. The current version of CookingPress – Recipe & Food WordPress theme is 2.1, published at Ultrapack on Apr 28, 2016. Subscribers update straight from the WordPress dashboard with UAU (Ultrapack Auto Updater).
Is CookingPress – Recipe & Food WordPress theme scanned before publication?
Yes. Every version of CookingPress – Recipe & Food WordPress theme goes through a malware scan (ClamAV and YARA rules, at UltraHub) before it is published.
What are the requirements for the theme CookingPress – Recipe & Food WordPress theme?
Requires WordPress 3.8 or higher. Tested up to WordPress 4.2.
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-1718890-cookingpress-recipe-food-wordpress-theme-wordpress-theme.zip. - In the WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme.
- Select the file
themeforest-1718890-cookingpress-recipe-food-wordpress-theme-wordpress-theme.zipand click Install Now. - Click Activate.
Requirements: Requires WordPress 3.8 or higher. Tested up to WordPress 4.2.
- 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 foldercookingpress), zip that folder only and upload it again.
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UAU Ready