Food bloggers, what if you could just add a single button to your site that would convert any of your recipes into organized shopping lists? Wouldn’t that be a helpful feature for your readers? And if it were just a matter of copying and pasting some HTML text, with no installations or accounts to set up? Wouldn’t that be easy?
Well…now you can do that. And it’s free.
Say Mmm has a set of meal planning and grocery shopping tools that help people organize and use recipes from anywhere with less hassle, and we have extended some of these features to work directly on other sites. With just a click your readers can get an automatic organized shopping list without you or your readers having to install anything or even have a Say Mmm account.
Here is how it works. For most sites and visitors it works just by adding one of these image or text links to the recipe post or even the side bar or footer on your site. Then when a reader clicks on this, we can usually recognize the page that they came from by the referral information that browsers typically send, which is similar to how Google Analytics works. We then use this URL to find and automatically change the recipe ingredients from that page into an organized list of grocery items.
In some cases, websites may block sending this information or users may have firewalls or restrictive browser security settings that remove this information. If we can’t tell what page the user came from, we will just ask them to put in the URL or ingredients. There is also an advanced option where you can embed the link of the page that has your recipe in the link you put on your site. It is a little extra work to change the link for each recipe on your site, but the nice thing about this option is we will always know the right page to look for the recipe, regardless of any special settings the site or browsers may have. Anyone can also use this option to share a shopping list link for a specific recipe in an email or on facebook or any page that doesn’t have the actual recipe.
For Say Mmm users, we also have publishing options to manually create and organize shopping items for recipes, and even combine them into meal plans and recipe indexes. We launched these earlier in the year, and based on the positive response we got from those features, we decided to take it one step further and do more of the work for people.
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