Cookmag - Recipe & Food Blog WordPress Theme

Version 1.4 – April 25, 2026 WordPress 6.9+ Ready

Introducing “Cookmag” – a captivating WordPress theme designed exclusively for food enthusiasts and recipe aficionados. With its engaging features and interactive community-focused design, Cookmag takes your culinary journey to new heights, providing an immersive platform for users to explore, share, and connect.

With its visually stunning design, seamless functionality, and vibrant engagement features, Cookmag is the ultimate WordPress theme for all food enthusiasts, recipe lovers, and aspiring culinary experts.

• Product Created by ThemeForest Elite Author.
• 1-click demo installation.
• Tags / Categories / Members index page.
• Sticky Sidebar.
• Lovely recipes style using the “WP Recipe Maker” plugin.
• Bookmarks / favorites posts for logged users.
• WooCommerce Shop.
• Top Commented / Top Viewed / Random posts.
• Homepage Classic Custom Widgets Modules.
• 4 Custom Widgets Modules with live changes via WordPress Customize.
• Ajax Login / Registration.
• 2 one-click demo/s install.
• Load More or Default pagination.

Demo/s: https://anthemes.com/themes/style/cookmag/ Post with Recipe: https://anthemes.com/themes/cookmag/post-recipe/ Login: demo/demo

Make users engage more with your website:

1. Only registered users can add a comment or bookmark a post.
2. They can bookmark their favorite recipes, so they will revisit your website just for the bookmarks and new recipes.

Cookmag introduces a handy bookmarking feature, allowing users to save their favorite recipes for quick and easy access. By creating a personalized collection of beloved culinary creations, users are enticed to revisit the website time and again, discovering fresh recipes and expanding their gastronomic horizons.

Homepage Custom Widget Modules

Cookmag introduces exciting features through its custom widget modules specifically designed for the homepage. These modules offer enhanced flexibility and convenience, empowering you to effortlessly customize your website’s appearance.

4 Homepage Custom Widget Modules

• Module #1 – Posts by Categories + 300×250 AD.
• Module #2 – Posts by Categories + List.
• Module #3 – Posts by Categories + Leaderboard AD.
• Module #4 – Posts by Categories + 300×250 AD.

With the Cookmag theme, accessing the custom widget modules is a breeze. You have two convenient options: navigate to “Appearance > Widgets” or “Customize > Widgets.” Both paths grant you seamless access to edit and manipulate the custom modules in real-time. By simply dragging and dropping the modules, you can witness the changes taking effect instantaneously / live, providing you with a dynamic and immersive editing experience.

WP Recipe Maker

WP Recipe Maker is a popular WordPress plugin designed specifically for food bloggers, chefs, and anyone running a recipe-focused website. It streamlines the process of adding recipes to WordPress sites by providing users with a user-friendly interface and a comprehensive set of features tailored for recipe management.

Post with Recipe: https://anthemes.com/themes/cookmag/post-recipe/

Use WP Recipe Maker to easily add recipes to any post or page. The plugin automatically takes care of adding JSON-LD metadata for SEO purposes. With recipe ratings in the user comments and a clean print recipe version for your visitors. Also, you can add photos to any step of the recipe.

Theme Features

• Latest WordPress Version always supported.
• ThemeForest Elite Author.
• 1-click demo installation
• Theme compatibility with HTTPS/SSL
• 100% Fully Responsive
• 6 Custom Widgets
• 4 Custom Widgets Modules
• WordPress Multisite ready.
• Child Theme Included
• Fully responsive
• Works with Contact Form 7 & Gravity Forms
• Pixel perfect design
• Ready to be translated
• Translation ready

• Fantastic, 5 star rated support
• Simple, 1-Click main color options
• Developer friendly code
• Ready to operate out of the box
• Font Awesome Icons
• Translation Ready .POT file included
• Custom Logo Options
• Contact Form 7 plugin
• and more..

6 Custom Widgets

• Advertisement 300px Text
• Most used Tags ( choose how many tags to display )
• Posts by Categories (Select category from drop-down select)

• Recent Posts
• Popular Posts by comments
• Social Icons: FaceBook / Twitter / YouTube

Changelog

Version: 1.4 – April 25, 2026

- New: Sponsor Ads Manager (Lite) plugin included
     - Add rotating sponsor ads to your site
     - Monetize your traffic easily
     - Accept ads via built-in form
- Improved: Compatibility with latest WordPress version (6.9.4)
- Fixed: Translation loading notice (_load_textdomain_just_in_time) for theme / plugins
- Fixed: Bulk plugin installation fatal error on newer WordPress versions
- Updated: Bundled TGM Plugin Activation bulk installer compatibility
- Updated: Demo/s with Sponsor Ads Manager (Lite) plugin
- Updated: Child Theme with the new plugins
- Updated: Help file

Version: 1.3 – December 13, 2024

- Checked: Latest WordPress Version supported, currently 6.7+
- Checked: All plugins that come with the theme works perfectly with the latest WordPress version 6.7+
- Added: "AJAX Login and Registration modal popup + inline form" to folder /plugins.

Version: 1.2 – July 17, 2024

- Checked: Latest WordPress Version supported, currently 6.5+ and 6.6 (RC3).
- Checked: All plugins that come with the theme works perfectly with the latest WordPress version 6.5+ and 6.6 (RC3).
- Removed: "AJAX Login and Registration modal popup + inline form" from /plugins folder.
- Removed: "Ajax Login .." from Child Theme via /plugins folder.
- Added: "AJAX Login and Registration modal popup + inline form" from WordPress repository.

Version: 1.1 – March 16, 2024

- Added: "AJAX Login and Registration modal popup + inline form" plugin. 
- Updated: Child Theme with the Ajax Login plugin.