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How to Start a Food Blog: A Beginner’s Guide

Dec 2, 2020 · Modified: Apr 13, 2022 · This post may contain affiliate links · 6 Comments

This post will guide you through important steps on how to start a food blog as well as food photography tips to create quality content.

How to Start a Food Blog: A Beginner’s Guide

I am excited to share with you how to start a food blog and some food photography tips and tricks! To begin, I am an open book when it comes to my job as a full-time food blogger and helping others in this space. I have a variety of blog posts on social media growth. You can check them out here.

Since I share many tips and tricks about social media as a business, I started to receive many questions about how to even start a food blog. I wrote this post to go over the basics of creating a food blog as well as some food photography tips for quality content.

This post contains affiliate links. Please read our Privacy policy HERE.

How to Start a Food Blog

If you are asking yourself the questions below, read this post!

1. "How to create a food blog?"

2. "How do you set up a food blog?"

How to Start a Food Blog:

Name your Food Blog and Purchase a Domain:

Firstly, ensure your name is simple and matches your other social channels. This way, your followers can easily find you. I understand this can be difficult depending on your name. For example, frozenbananas.com was not an option for me unless I wanted to purchase it for thousands of dollars. I resorted to hellofrozenbananas because it was fun, still tied in with my Instagram handle and was MUCH cheaper (about $16 per year). You can purchase your domain from GoDaddy.

Make a WordPress Website!

I highly recommend going with WordPress. Previously, I did have a SquareSpace website and transferred over to WordPress. SquareSpace/Wix are extremely limiting. If you are serious about blogging, create a WordPress website. Also, you will be able to rank for SEO searches and make money through ads on a WordPress website. Lastly, I wish someone told me this when I first started!

Go with WordPress.org NOT WordPress.com

Don't forget to go with WordPress.org NOT WordPress.com because you want to self-host your blog. I use BigScoots to host my site and I cannot recommend them enough! I changed my SquareSpace website over to WordPress during the summertime. BigScoots was absolutely amazing throughout the process. I was nervous, yet the entire transfer was seamless. When I was ready to go live, it was done within minutes. Even now, whenever I have a question, I receive a response right away.

Install a WordPress Theme:

I personally have the Foodie Pro Theme which I purchased from Feast Design Co. Just buy the Feast Plugin.

Now.. Let's talk about Food Photography:

If you are going to have a successful blog, it's important to have beautiful photos. I will share a few food photography tips for beginners. I am not recommending any courses in this blog post, just a couple of easy tips you can implement.

1. Food Photography Tips and Tricks

A few items I purchased from Amazon that work wonders for food photography are my photo backdrops, a tripod and small bowls for food videos and ingredient shots. See links below to purchase.

  • Photo Backdrop
  • Tripod
  • Small Bowls

2. Best Lighting for Food Photography

I do not use many props, I love a simple and clean look. In my opinion, the key to a beautiful food photo is good lighting. The best lighting for food photography is natural light. I always take my photos near a window or outside during the day.

3. Food Photography Editing

The best apps for food bloggers are Lightroom, Snapseed and InShot. I use Lightroom to edit my pictures. I normally brighten up my photos this way. If there is a crumb or piece of food out of place, I use Snapseed to edit it out. As far as video editing, I use InShot to edit all of my food videos. These are my top 3 photo editing apps for food photography.

Other Blog Posts to Read:

  • I Quit My Corporate Job
  • How to Start
  • How to Build a Following
  • Instagram as a Business Q&A
  • 5 Lessons I’ve Learned Since I Started Working For Myself

I hope you found this post helpful! Tell me in the comments below if you enjoyed reading.

Also, let me know if you have other ideas for blog posts. I am here to write and create for you! 🙂

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  1. Kollie

    December 03, 2020 at 5:11 pm

    This is very helpful! Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
    • krista

      December 04, 2020 at 1:07 pm

      So happy you found the post helpful, Kollie! 🙂 – Krista <3

      Reply
  2. Robyn Herman

    December 04, 2020 at 2:07 pm

    Great post!!

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    • krista

      December 05, 2020 at 2:19 pm

      Glad you enjoyed it! – Krista <3

      Reply
  3. Kayla

    December 26, 2020 at 11:05 pm

    Super helpful! Thanks for sharing what apps you use!!

    Reply
    • krista

      December 27, 2020 at 8:58 pm

      Of course! 🙂 – Krista <3

      Reply

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