Customize and publish your website

Your recipe site should feel recognizably yours. Crumb gives you control over the words, imagery, links, and organization that readers see, without requiring you to manage hosting or website code.

What you can customize

In Website settings, you can manage:

• your publication name and crumb.so address;
• profile name, image, biography, and full About text;
• homepage headline and supporting copy;
• signup message;
• logo, favicon, cover image, and social sharing image;
• Instagram, social, and external links;
• site title and description used by search and sharing surfaces.

Use Categories to create the sections readers browse and to decide which recipes belong in each one. Recipe titles, writing, photos, videos, ingredients, and instructions are edited from Recipes.

Choose your Crumb address

Every publication includes an address such as your-name.crumb.so. You can change the your-name part in Website settings, subject to availability.

Changing an address after you have shared it will break old links. Pick something short, easy to spell, and close to the creator name your audience already knows.

Understand the current design controls

Crumb keeps the recipe layout optimized for reading and cooking. In the website editor, you can choose a theme, colors, typography, imagery, and supported homepage sections. Arbitrary custom code, plugins, and unrestricted navigation layouts are not available.

This also means you do not need to maintain a theme, install plugins, or update website software.

Publish when you are ready

Your site needs at least one public, published recipe before it can launch. When the content and address look right, publish from Website settings.

Publishing does not lock the design. You can continue editing the site and recipes afterward, and you can make the entire publication private again if you need to do larger work away from readers.

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