Publisher documentation
Guides for features, integration, memberships, recipes, meal plans, and more - everything you need to run Allspice on your site.
Features
How Allspice features work for readers on your site.
Search & AI Search
Recipe discovery that keeps readers on your site - searching your archive by title, ingredient, or plain-language intent.
From recipe to shopping list
From recipe to shopping list to store - without leaving your site. Lists, pantry awareness, print, and delivery partners.
Recipe Saving
Your recipes, saved on your site - not in someone else's app. Collections, syncing, and personal versions.
Cook Mode, step by step
A hands-free, step-by-step cooking experience - timers, Voice Mode, and Pico on your recipe pages.
Flexible weekly planning
Flexible weekly planning built around your recipes - personal plans, publisher plans, and one-tap shopping lists.
A cooking assistant that acts
A cooking assistant that knows your site - and can actually do things. Site-aware answers, actions, and free-tier chat.
Integration
Everything needed to onboard a domain, install the widget, configure placements, and connect email.
Verify ownership & link your site
Start in the Publisher Portal to add your domain. Verification can use a DNS record (recommended) or an alternate method depending on your workflow.
Install the script / embed
Allspice can be installed through the WordPress plugin or a lightweight embed snippet. The portal provides the exact code for your account and domain.
Buttons, placement, and styling
Use portal controls to enable/disable each button, choose placement presets, and keep the UI aligned to your site layout.
Install & connect the plugin
Install the Allspice plugin, connect it to your Publisher Account, and choose placement options from the portal.
Allspice Search for recipe discovery
Learn how Allspice Search works, including AI recipe search, search pills, ranking signals, and how to add search to your WordPress navigation.
Buttons inside the recipe card
Add Allspice shortcodes or custom triggers in WPRM recipe templates and snippet layouts so readers open Cook Mode from the card.
WP Rocket, caching, and common setups
Most caching and optimization plugins work fine. If you run aggressive JS deferral, exclude the Allspice script from delay/deferral or add recommended exceptions from the portal.
Search as a page, not just a popup
Host the full search experience on a real page at /advanced-search/, and choose per device how search opens.
Every block, shortcode and link in one place
A reference for placing Allspice elements exactly where you want them, including the link hashes.
Connect email providers & grow your list
Automatically subscribe users to your newsletter when they opt in while using Allspice on your site. Supports Mailchimp, MailerLite, Kit, and more.
Send purchase emails from your branded domain
Configure a branded sender for meal plan and product purchase emails, verify DNS for your sending subdomain, and keep replies routed to your support inbox.
Free reader access & AI chat limits
Clarifies what readers can use for free, why open-ended AI chat has a monthly limit, and how Allspice avoids passing unpredictable AI usage costs on to publishers.
Memberships
Paid memberships, gated content, ad-free benefits, and the caching setup those features rely on.
Run a paid membership on your own site
Charge readers directly for an ad-free experience, members-only recipes, and meal plans.
Gate content without losing your search traffic
How the paywall actually works, what Google sees, and the one setting that changes both. Soft overlay versus hard removal.
Ad-free for members, ads for everyone else
How ad suppression works with Raptive and Mediavine, exactly who it applies to, and what it does to your ad revenue.
Set up caching before you launch
One cookie, added to every caching layer. Step-by-step settings for WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, W3 Total Cache, Cloudflare and managed hosts.
Recipes & Content
How Allspice reads recipes and how to write content that parses cleanly.
How Allspice reads & normalizes recipes
How we read recipe metadata, normalize ingredient components, and match ingredients for grocery lists, meal plans, pantry, substitutions, and unit handling.
Writing recipes for clarity & structure
Best practices for ingredient lists, instructions, and metadata that improve reader success, scaling accuracy, and structured parsing.
Meal Plans & Products
Package recipes into sellable plans and connect payouts.
Package, price & sell meal plans
Build plans from your recipes, bundle them into products, and sell free, one-time, subscription, or Premium-included plans - with 90% net revenue share.
Connect Stripe & get paid for products
Set up Stripe Connect so your site can accept payments for paid meal plans and products, and receive your share of earnings.
Other
Revenue, social creators, and troubleshooting.
Premium subscriptions & publisher products
How Allspice Premium subscription attribution, publisher-created premium products, and revenue share payouts work for participating publishers.
Share recipes & engage your audience
Learn how social media creators can use Allspice to organize recipes, drive traffic, and monetize content through bio links.
Common issues & fixes
Most issues are placement-related or caused by aggressive theme-level JS modifications. The portal can surface diagnostics and recommended fixes.