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WP Tasty

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WordPress plugin suite for food bloggers — recipe cards, affiliate links, and image pinning.

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WP Tasty released all five plugins in one morning to split editor access from admin settings.

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◆Current state
The entire WP Tasty family — Recipes, Recipes Lite, Links, Roundups and Pins — shipped the same day with a shared pair of changes: a reworked licensing system and a new line between who can use a plugin and who can configure it. Editors gain access to the Roundups and Recipes menus and lists; settings across Links, Pins and Recipes Lite are now administrator-only. Each release adds one or two small fixes on top.
◆Where it's heading
The coordinated release is the story. WP Tasty treats the five plugins as one product with five installers, and this batch pushes a WordPress capability model through all of them at once — a recognition that recipe sites run on multi-author teams where a contributing editor should reach the roundup list without reaching the license key. The licensing rework shipping in the same breath across every plugin suggests a shared internal library rather than five parallel efforts. Feature work of the kind seen in June, when Save Recipe turned the recipe card into an email capture surface, is paused for this pass.
◆Prediction
Expect the next family-wide release to keep extending the capability split — a granular role or per-plugin permission setting is the natural follow-on now that editor and admin are separated — before feature work on the recipe card resumes.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    Licensing rework and clearer Save Recipe error messages

    The flagship plugin's share of the family release is the lightest: licensing system improvements and more readable Save Recipe error messages. It carries the shared plumbing without the role changes its siblings received.

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  2. 1d ago

    Tasty Links settings restricted to administrators

    Tasty Links settings become administrator-only alongside the shared licensing update. On a multi-author site that is a real boundary change — affiliate link configuration stops being reachable by anyone who can edit a post.

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  3. 1d ago

    Pins settings restricted to admins; Image block metadata fix

    Pins settings move behind the administrator role, plus a fix for pin metadata lookups on Image blocks that carry no ID. The same boundary the rest of the family drew this morning, applied to Pinterest configuration.

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  4. 1d ago

    Editors gain Roundups access while settings stay admin-only

    Roundups shows both halves of the new capability model in one release: editors can reach the menu and the roundups list, while the settings stay above them. The block search input fix rides along.

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  5. 1d ago

    Editors get the recipe list; recipe block moves to block.json

    The free tier gets the same editor-versus-admin split as the paid plugins, and the recipe block moves to registering from block.json metadata — a modernization that matters to anyone extending it. Notable that the capability model was not held back for paying customers.

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  6. 2mo ago

    Tasty Recipes Lite v1.2.6

    The Lite tier gains the same Save Recipe / newsletter opt-in plus a developer hook above ingredients, bringing email capture to free users and widening the same lead-gen theme.

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