Cook Pro - Recipe Listing WordPress Plugin

Cook Pro is a complete recipe management plugin for WordPress. Publish recipes, let visitors submit their own, and display listings, chefs, and categories in multiple layouts — from shortcodes, Elementor widgets, or WPBakery addons.

It is built for recipe listing sites that need frontend submission, user profiles, ratings, likes, favorites, print pages, and a full set of display options. Install, assign a few pages from the dashboard, and start publishing.

Version 5.0 is a major update: a unified admin dashboard, Elementor widgets with Style tabs, new listing layouts (including Featured Recipe Style 3), PHP 8 compatibility, and in-plugin documentation.

What’s new in 5.0

• Aivah-style admin dashboard with Dashboard, Settings, Backup, Documentation, Changelog, and Support tabs
• AJAX settings save with sidebar sections, sticky footer, and toast confirmations
• Elementor widgets for every Cook Pro module, grouped in a dedicated Cook Pro category
• Style tabs in Elementor: Style 1 overlay cards, Style 2 stacked cards, and Style 3 editorial strips (Featured Recipe)
• Featured Recipe multi-select, Style 3 layout, and 2 / 3 / 4 column grids for Style 1 and Style 2
• Alternate Style 1 and Style 2 for Featured Chef, Top Contributors, Categories List, Top Rated, Most Liked, Most Favorite, and Most Viewed
• Recipe Information meta box grouped into Display, Timing & Details, Ingredients & Steps, and Media & Extras
• Recipe Gallery side meta box
• Drag-and-drop Equipment and Nutrition rows with labeled Duplicate / Remove controls
• Automatic ingredient count while editing ingredients
• JSON backup and restore of plugin settings from the Backup tab
• PHP 8 and WordPress 6.7+ compatible

Features

• Recipe custom post type with ingredients, steps, nutrition, equipment, gallery, video, and timing
• Taxonomies: Categories, Cuisines, Cooking Methods, and Tags (category thumbnails for overlay lists)
• Place modules on any page or post with shortcodes, Elementor, WPBakery, or sidebar widgets
• Style 1, Style 2, and Featured Recipe Style 3 listing layouts
• Recent recipes, search & filters, category listings, and hand-picked featured recipes
• Top rated, most liked, most favorite, and most viewed lists
• Featured Chef cards and Top Contributors
• Frontend login / register, recipe submit, edit own recipes, and user profiles
• Likes, favorites, ratings, and view counts
• Ajax load more on listing modules
• Print-friendly recipe pages
• Email notifications for submit, update, registration, and profile update (user and admin)
• Show / hide almost every block on the single recipe page
• Custom recipe, category, cuisine, and cooking method slugs
• Color options for frontend accents and buttons
• Export / import plugin settings as JSON

Modules (shortcode or Elementor)

Each module is available as a shortcode and as an Elementor widget in the Cook Pro category. WPBakery addons expose the same options when WPBakery is active.

• Login Form — [rcp-login]
• Recipe Submit Form — [rcp-submit]
• User Profile — [rcp-user-profile]
• Users List — [rcp-users-list]
• Recent Recipes — [rcp-recent-recipes]
• Search Recipes — [rcp-search-recipes]
• Recipes by Category / Cuisine / Method — [rcp-categories]
• Top Rated Recipe cards — [rcp-top-rated]
• Featured Recipe (multi-select, columns, Style 1–3) — [rcp-featured-recipe]
• Top Rated / Most Liked / Most Favorite / Most Viewed lists
• Featured Chef — [rcp-featured-chef]
• Top Contributors — [rcp-top-contributors]
• Categories List — [rcp_categories_list]

Recipe Settings

• Recipe, Category, Cuisine, and Cooking Method slugs
• Submit, login, profile, and browse recipe page assignment
• Custom difficulty levels
• Frontend submission limits and logged-in / logged-out messages
• Recipe ads content
• Facebook App ID (Open Graph) and sharing icons
• Google reCAPTCHA site and secret keys
• Color options for buttons and accents

Single Page Settings

• Show / hide: title, sub title, short information, featured image
• Show / hide: time, servings, difficulty
• Show / hide: likes, favorites, views, print, email
• Show / hide: ingredients, nutrition, steps, equipment, reviews
• Show / hide: social sharing, advertisement, about author, related recipes
• Related recipes: columns (2, 3, 4), limit, orderby, order
• Comments: display limit, orderby, order
• Gallery slider: speed, fade / slide effect, direction nav

Print Page Settings

• Print page logo
• Custom copyright in the print footer
• Show / hide: logo, recipe image, steps, copyright

Email Settings

• Email template logo
• Submission, update, registration, and profile-update messages and subjects
• Separate user and admin email templates

Profile Settings

• User recipes: limit, orderby, order, load more
• User favorites: limit, orderby, order, load more
• User reviews: limit, orderby, order, load more

Full changelog:
https://www.aivahthemes.com/cook-pro-plugin/changelog/

MAJOR UPDATE NOTICE FOR EXISTING CUSTOMERS (v5.0)

Version 5.0 is a major Cook Pro update: a new admin dashboard, Elementor widgets with Style tabs, new listing layouts, PHP 8 compatibility, and security hardening. Shortcodes and WPBakery addons still work. Follow these steps before you update a live site:

1. TAKE A FULL BACKUP: Do not update without a complete backup of your WordPress files and database.
2. UPDATE VIA PLUGINS → ADD NEW → UPLOAD: Upload the new cook-pro.zip from this package. The old in-plugin “Manual Plugin Update” button has been removed. Deactivate the current Cook Pro plugin, replace it, then activate again if WordPress asks you to.
3. FIND SETTINGS IN THE DASHBOARD: Recipes → Settings and Backup Options now open inside Recipes → Dashboard (Settings, Backup, Documentation, Changelog, Support). Your saved options are kept; only the admin screens moved.
4. PURGE CACHES: Hard-refresh the browser (Ctrl+F5 / Cmd+Shift+R) and clear any cache plugin or CDN so the new frontend CSS loads. In Elementor, click Update on pages that use Cook Pro widgets so the preview refreshes.
5. OPTIONAL — ELEMENTOR: You do not have to rebuild existing shortcode or WPBakery pages. Elementor widgets are additive (Cook Pro category) and match the same shortcodes, with Style 1 / Style 2 (and Style 3 on Featured Recipe).
6. THEME TEMPLATE OVERRIDES: If your theme copies Cook Pro templates (for example archive-recipe.php or taxonomy templates), compare them with the files in this update before going live.

After updating, open Recipes → Dashboard and complete the setup checklist if any pages are missing. Full notes: changelog.