Publisher documentation
Setup guides and reference for Allspice publishers: the WordPress plugin, widget and chat settings, memberships, meal plans, payouts, and troubleshooting.
Features
What readers see and do with each feature, and what you can configure.
A cooking assistant that knows your recipes
What Pico answers and how it cites your content, plus scaling, finding what to make, Cook Mode, grocery lists, memory, and follow-up questions.
Search & AI Search
How readers search your archive, when AI Search turns on, search pills, conversational follow-ups, and how results are ranked.
Grocery lists
Adding ingredients from a recipe, managing lists, pantry awareness, print and share, and shopping partners.
Recipe saving
Saving without an account, syncing after sign-in, and personal versions of a recipe.
Cook Mode, step by step
The step-by-step cooking view: timers, Voice Mode, keeping the screen awake, serving adjustments, and asking Pico mid-recipe.
Weekly meal plans
Readers build weekly plans from your recipes, add plans you publish, and turn a plan into a shopping list.
Integration
Connect a domain, install the plugin, configure the widget and chat, and connect email.
Invite your team
Give colleagues, developers, and agencies their own Publisher Portal access, and choose Admin or Member permissions.
Verify ownership & link your site
Add your domain in the Publisher Portal and verify it with a DNS TXT record.
Install & set up the plugin
Download the plugin from the Publisher Portal, install it, and connect it to your domain. The widget and adaptive rail appear on your recipe pages automatically.
Widget style, placement, and branding
Pick the widget style for desktop and mobile, style the adaptive rail and inline block, set your theme and logos, and choose which pages Allspice appears on.
Configure the chat assistant
Name the assistant, add site background and author notes, write suggested questions, and manage ratings and comments. Settings are per domain.
Plugin settings, sync, and updates
Install the plugin, connect it to your domain, sync settings and recipes, and keep it up to date.
Allspice Search setup
AI Search eligibility, search pills, ranking, and how to add Allspice Search to your menu or replace your theme's search bar.
Buttons inside the recipe card
Add Allspice buttons to WP Recipe Maker cards with the template editor, shortcodes, or custom markup, including next to Jump to Recipe.
WP Rocket, caching, and common setups
Settings for caching and JS optimization plugins, ad tech, security and CDN tools, and page builders so Allspice loads correctly.
A standalone search page
Host the full search experience on its own page at /advanced-search/, choose per device how search opens, and link to pre-filled searches.
Every block, shortcode and link in one place
Reference for each Allspice block, shortcode, and link hash, and where each one works.
Connect email providers & grow your list
Add readers who opt in to your newsletter list. Setup for each provider (Mailchimp, MailerLite, Kit, and more), the data sent, and membership event tags.
Send purchase emails from your branded domain
Set a branded sender for meal plan and product purchase emails, verify DNS for your sending subdomain, and route replies to your support inbox.
Free reader access & AI chat limits
What readers can use for free, the monthly limit on open-ended AI chat, and what happens when a reader reaches it.
Your site statistics in Claude or your own tools
Connect Claude to your site's statistics, or pull them into your own dashboards with a read-only API key for one site.
Memberships
Sell memberships on your own site, gate content, turn off ads for members, set up caching before launch, and build your own member experiences.
Run a paid membership on your own site
Create a membership, set pricing and tax, choose member benefits, gate content, and connect email automation.
Gate content without losing your search traffic
Gate types, what search engines see on gated pages, and how feeds, excerpts, and the REST API handle gated content.
Ad-free for members, ads for everyone else
How Allspice turns off Raptive and Mediavine ads for members, who qualifies, and the effect on your ad revenue.
Set up caching before you launch
Add the membership cookie to every caching layer, with settings for WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, W3 Total Cache, Cloudflare, and managed hosts.
Build your own member experiences
Read membership status from your theme or plugin with PHP functions, CSS classes, or JavaScript, to build custom gates and member-only sections.
Recipes & content
How Allspice reads your recipe data, and how to format recipes so they parse correctly.
How Allspice reads & normalizes recipes
Allspice starts from your Recipe JSON-LD (required), normalizes ingredients, and matches them for grocery lists, scaling, and substitutions. Includes known weak spots.
Writing recipes for clarity & structure
How to write ingredient lists, instructions, and metadata so recipes scale correctly and parse cleanly.
Meal plans & products
Build and sell meal plans from your recipes, and connect Stripe to get paid.
Package, price & sell meal plans
Build plans from your recipes by hand or with AI help, bundle them into products, set access and pricing, and schedule releases. You keep 90% of net revenue.
Connect Stripe & get paid for products
Connect Stripe so you can sell paid meal plans and subscriptions, check your payment setup status, and see how payouts, refunds, and taxes work.
Other
Your own reader sign-in, platform fees, the hosted page for social creators, and fixes for common problems.
Your own reader sign-in
A paid add-on that gives your sites their own reader accounts under your brand, separate from the shared Allspice sign-in.
Publisher commerce & platform fees
How membership and meal plan sales work, how the 10% platform fee is calculated, and how payouts reach you.
A hosted recipe page for creators
For creators with or without a blog: set up your creator page, add recipes from supported platforms, and share the link in your bio.
Common issues & fixes
Fixes for recipe detection, sync and recipe counts, buttons and the widget, portal changes not applying, caching, and ads overlapping Allspice.