8 Best Cooked Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Cooked has 3,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 8 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 8 closest alternatives to Cooked
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5.0 (354) 50,000+ active installsThe easy and user-friendly recipe plugin for everyone. Automatic JSON-LD metadata for food AND how-to recipes will improve your SEO!
Shares the cooking, food, Recipe tags on WordPress.org. About 17 times the installs, rated 5.0 against 3.9, last updated 5 days ago.
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WP Delicious
Paid version availableWP Delicious – Recipe Plugin for Food Bloggers (formerly Delicious Recipes)
4.9 (70) 4,000+ active installsWP Delicious is an SEO-optimized and Schema-friendly recipe plugin for food bloggers to create and display unlimited recipes.
Shares the cooking, food, Recipe tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, rated 4.9 against 3.9, last updated 6 days ago.
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4.3 (25) 6,000+ active installsComplete tool for creating and publishing recipes and other schema types on your site.
Shares the nutrition, Recipe tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 12 days ago.
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4.8 (20) 10,000+ active installsRecipe Card Blocks with Schema Markup — create SEO-optimized recipes with Gutenberg, Elementor & AMP support
Shares the Recipe, recipes tags on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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4.8 (95) 1,000+ active installsZip Recipes is the best way to easily create a beautiful food blog with professional looking recipes that can be found by Google.
Shares the food, Recipe tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, rated 4.8 against 3.9, last updated June 11, 2026.
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Structured Content (JSON-LD) #wpsc
4.6 (25) 30,000+ active installsAdd flexible content boxes with JSON-LD microdata output according to schema.org e.g. FAQPage, ProfilePage, Event, Course, LocalBusiness, JobPosting a …
Shares the Recipe tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, no update since July 26, 2025.
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4.3 (27) 1,000+ active installsCreate easily restaurant menus with drag and drop.
Shares the food tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since January 20, 2023.
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4.1 (26) 300+ active installsA restaurant ordering system for WooCommerce. Simple to use. Looks smooth on desktop and mobile.
Shares the food tag on WordPress.org. 300+ installs against 3,000+, last updated 14 days ago.
Switching from Cooked: common questions
What is the best alternative to Cooked?
WP Recipe Maker is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 50,000+ active installs with a 5.0 out of 5 rating.
Which Cooked alternative has the most users?
WP Recipe Maker, with 50,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Cooked alternative is rated highest?
WP Recipe Maker, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 354 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Cooked alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Cooked score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Cooked on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
WP Recipe Maker is the closest match to Cooked by the data we track, and WP Recipe Maker has the widest reach with 50,000+ active installs. WP Recipe Maker shipped the most recent release, on September 2, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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