PL Recipe Cookbook

A WordPress plugin for managing cooking recipes with a beautiful, modern interface.

Features

• Custom post type for recipes with custom taxonomies (categories and tags)
• Beautiful single recipe template with:
  • Responsive image display
  • Recipe metadata (prep time, cook time, servings, difficulty)
  • Collapsible ingredient sections with optional section grouping
  • Numbered instruction steps with collapsible sections
  • Shopping mode with checkboxes for ingredients
  • Sticky table of contents sidebar
  • Print-friendly layout
• Archive pages with:
  • Category and tag filters
  • Search functionality
  • Load more functionality for filters
  • Default fallback image for recipes without featured images
• Fully translated to Bulgarian (bg_BG)
• Automatic slug transliteration (Cyrillic to Latin)
• Responsive design optimized for mobile, tablet, and desktop (including 2K displays)

Installation

1. Upload the pl-recipe-cookbook folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Start creating recipes under the "Рецепти" menu item

Usage

Creating a Recipe

1. Go to "Рецепти" → "Добави нова"
2. Enter recipe title and description
3. Add recipe metadata in the right sidebar:
   • Prep time (minutes)
   • Cook time (minutes)
   • Servings
   • Difficulty level
4. Add ingredients (one per line, optionally grouped with [Section Name] headers)
5. Add instructions (one per line, optionally grouped with [Section Name] headers)
6. Set a featured image
7. Assign categories and tags

Ingredient Sections

To group ingredients into sections, use square brackets:

[За тестото]
500 г брашно
300 мл вода
10 г сол

[За плънката]
200 г сирене
3 яйца

Instruction Sections

Instructions can also be grouped with the same format:

[Приготвяне на тестото]
Смесете брашното със солта
Добавете водата постепенно

[Печене]
Загрейте фурната до 200°C
Печете 25 минути

Requirements

• WordPress 5.0 or higher
• PHP 7.4 or higher

Translations

The plugin is fully translated to Bulgarian. The translation files are located in the languages/ directory.

Author

Created for plazarov.com

License

GPL v2 or later

Changelog

1.0.0

• Initial release
• Custom recipe post type
• Beautiful single and archive templates
• Bulgarian translation
• Automatic slug transliteration