Edit: this feature is being deprecated, and is now replaced by the new Recipe Grid 2.
An index adds structure to your site, you can make several different types. Here’s how to do the alphabetical one:
1. Under Zip Recipes
menu click Recipe Indexes
:
2. Click Create New Recipe Index
:
3. Click Save
. This will create an alphabetical
index:
4. Now, let’s show the index in a page. Copy the shortcode by highlighting, right clicking on it and then clicking Copy
:
5. Create a new Page by clicking Pages > Add New
menu:
6. Add a title like Recipe Index
and then paste the shortcode in the body:
7. Publish it.
8. View the published page.
9. You should see your first index page. As you can see it’s categorized alphabetically:
Creating a Category-based Index
1. Under Zip Recipes
menu click Recipe Indexes
:
2. Click Create New Recipe Index
:
3. Select Recipe category
under Group recipes using
4. Click Save
. This will create a category
index.
5. Copy the shortcode by highlighting, right clicking on it and then clicking Copy
:
6. Create a new Page by clicking Pages > Add New
menu:
7. Add a title like Category Index
and paste the shortcode here:
8. Publish it.
9. View the published page.
10. Now you’ll see you recipes grouped by category that they were saved in:
11. For example, my Chicken Paprika
recipe has the category Hungarian
and it shows up under Hungarian
in the Index page: