Automatic Pinterest images

A tall pin for every recipe, redrawn when the recipe changes.

Every published recipe gets a tall 1000 × 1500 image made for Pinterest: your photo fading into an index card with the title and the first ingredients. Recipes without a photo get a paper-only version.

  • It’s made the first time someone asks for it and saved in uploads/rwp-pins/.
  • It redraws itself when you change the recipe or its photo.
  • Readers can download it with the Save Recipe Image button on the card, and pinning the recipe with Pinterest’s own button uses it too.

Pins need the GD image library with FreeType, which almost every host has. If pins don’t appear, see Pin image missing or not updating.

Recipe WP Pro adds four more layouts and your own branding: Pin Templates.

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