• Wordpress

🧱 Technical Foundation & Theme Customization

Cocinasana is a home cooking blog built on WordPress, using the Genesis Framework with the Wellness-Pro child theme for a clean, responsive design.

The site previously ran on the CookingPress theme from ThemeForest, which included a built-in recipe manager. To transition to a more flexible and SEO-friendly setup, all legacy recipes were migrated and restructured to align with the WP Recipe Maker plugin, ensuring compatibility with modern schema standards.

🔌 Plugin Development & SEO Enhancements

To improve search engine visibility, several plugins and theme files were customized using PHP, HTML, and CSS. These edits focused on:

• Enhancing metadata and structured data output
• Improving page load speed and mobile responsiveness
• Ensuring semantic HTML for better crawlability

A custom plugin was developed to display related articles based on visitor behavior. This plugin tracks user interactions and dynamically updates article recommendations using a proprietary algorithm that identifies high-interest content.

📊 “Related Visits” Plugin: Intelligent Content Correlation

The Related Visits plugin powers Cocinasana’s internal linking strategy. It tracks:

• Total visits per article
• Impressions and click-through rates of related content
• Exclusion rules by category or individual post

This system ensures that users are shown the most relevant recipes based on real-time engagement data, boosting both user retention and SEO performance.

🔠 Alphabetical & Topical Recipe Pages

Using visitor analytics, Cocinasana features two curated pages:

• Cocinasana de la A a la Z: Displays top recipes grouped alphabetically by keywords from the Yoast SEO plugin
• Todos los temas: Highlights the most visited recipes across all categories

Both pages are available in AMP format, offering fast, mobile-friendly access to high-performing content.

⚡ AMP Integration & Validation

Cocinasana’s AMP version is powered by the WP AMP plugin, with custom templates and plugin edits to ensure:

• Full AMP validation by Google
• Seamless integration of the Related Visits plugin
• Optimized structured data for rich results

These enhancements contribute to faster load times, improved mobile UX, and stronger rankings in mobile search results.

🔗 Experience Cocinasana in Action

Visit Cocinasana to explore its real-time recipe recommendations, AMP-validated pages, and SEO-optimized content architecture—all designed to deliver a delightful and informative cooking experience.