Tasty Roundups 2.0: How To Curate Prettier Content Faster

You wanted more control over how you curate content with Tasty Roundups — and we listened. 👂🏻

With Tasty Roundups 2.0, you can create roundups that match your blog’s style perfectly, without spending hours on formatting.

Is your blog bright and fun? Or simple and clean? No problem! Easily change layouts, image shapes, positions, and more to fit your brand. Use it for curating a cozy list of weeknight dinners or a handy travel gift guide styled just the way you want it!

Tasty Roundups 2.0 isn’t just easy on the eyes. 👀 It’s a huge time-saver!

The new design menu lets you adjust layouts, images, and more in seconds. That means less fiddling with formatting and more time for what you love: creating valuable content for your audience.

Now, let’s look at what’s new, why it matters, and how Tasty Roundups 2.0 makes content curation easier and prettier.

📣 No need to worry, your current Roundups are safe!

We’ve heard your concerns, and we totally get it! Some of you have hundreds of roundups, and manually switching them all over? Yeah, that’s just not realistic.

So, we want to stress that your current roundups aren’t going anywhere. They won’t break, disappear, or leave you scrambling to fix things.

We’re working on a migration tool to make switching to Tasty Roundups 2.0 as smooth as butter. 🧈 And don’t worry, we’ll let you know the moment it’s available! 📩

Here’s what’s new in Tasty Roundups 2.0

The old Tasty Roundups made it easy to pull together roundups of your content.

You could add internal links, and it would pull the image, title, and description for you. But changing the style of the layouts, images, and links? Time consuming and just not so simple.

And adding external links? A total headache. 🤕 Manually uploading images, typing titles, and descriptions for every single link? It was a lot of extra work, and it didn’t always look great.

But Tasty Roundups 2.0 fixes all that by giving you an improved WordPress list plugin with…

🔥 More Styling Options (that are actually fun to use!)

Tweak layouts, image shapes, and positions to fit your blog’s vibe. Want round images? Done. Prefer square thumbnails? No problem. You’re in control!

You can also easily edit link buttons, and toggle between the info shown in your roundup (image, description, comments, etc). Plus, watch how your roundup looks as you make these changes!

🔗 Automatic link pulling.

Add links, and it will pull the title, description, image, and more automatically, even for external links.

With these updates, making roundups doesn’t feel like extra work anymore.

It doesn't matter if you're sharing a recipe roundup post of the best quiche for each season or a holiday gift guide. Your roundups will blend right into your blog in a few fun clicks. 🖱️

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How to update your curated content to Tasty Roundups 2.0

If you don’t have too many roundups or you’re excited to start using Tasty Roundups 2.0, you can start switching them over now!

I’ll walk you through it step by step so you can get the most out of the new features right away.

1. Go to your roundup article

Open the piece of content with the roundup you want to update.

I'll start with this example, My Favorite Weekend Camping Recipes. When you open it, the old roundup will look something like this.👇

2. Add the new Tasty Roundups block

Click [+] or type /Tasty Roundup into the WordPress editor to find the new Tasty Roundups 2.0 block.

You’ll see two options pop up:

• Tasty Roundup: This is the new Tasty Roundups 2.0 block. Choose this one!
• Tasty Roundup (Legacy): This is the old version you’re switching from. Skip it and go for the new one.

Click Tasty Roundup, and the 2.0 block will pop right into your post.

It’s ready to go! So now it's time to start adding your links and styling it just how you like.

Here's a quick tip! Leave the old roundup block in your post for now.

It’s super helpful as a reference while you transfer your posts to the new block. Plus, it’s especially handy if your roundup has external links, like an expert roundup. You can easily copy and paste those links over.

3. Add your links

If they're internal links, start typing the title of your blog post into the search bar.

Tasty Roundups will instantly search your content library and give you a list of matching posts.

Click the content you're looking for, and Tasty Roundups 2.0 will automatically pull the image, title, and description for each link.

To add an external link, copy and paste it into the bar where you search for posts.

Tasty Roundups will fetch the title, image, and description for you as long as the website you’re linking to has the right code (like OpenGraph metadata) set up to allow this. If not, no worries. You can always upload an image and add the title and description manually!

And, don't forget to add in your external link settings. ⚙️

To do that, Click the pencil icon to Edit the link.

I'll have the Jetboil Ramen Noodle recipe open in a new tab and add a nofollow tag since it’s an external link.

4. Style your roundup

⭐️ This is where Tasty Roundups 2.0 is super NEW and IMPROVED! ⭐️

Now, it's on the right-hand side of your WordPress post editor.

Layout, image, and position

Want your roundup to show in one column or two?

Use the layout slider to pick the exact number of columns you want, or type it in directly.

For the post's image, you can also customize the Shape and Position in a few clicks.

Choose between Square, Rounded, Circle, Cover, or Custom. Just so you know, the way these display will ultimately reflect the size of the featured image it's pulling from.

Then, you can also change the position of the images. They can display on the left, center, right, or alternate like you see in the example!

Link Button

Roundups 2.0 gives you full control over how your link buttons look.

Style your button to look filled, an empty outline, or just clickable text leading to your link.

Content

This is the part where you control exactly what shows up in your curated post!

Choose between whether Images, Descriptions, Buttons, or Numbers show up in your posts.

And, Roundups 2.0 includes recipe schema! So, if you're using our WordPress recipe plugin, Tasty Recipes, it'll also show your rating and comment counts for recipes! That way, people can see just how loved your recipes are.

💡 Remember, if you're pulling an external link, whether or not the image comes in depends on if that website has the right code set up on their side.

5. Delete the old roundup block and save your changes

Take one last look at your new roundup before deleting the old one, just to be sure everything’s good to go! Then, get rid of the old stuff:

Scroll down to the old Tasty Roundups (Legacy) block in your post, click it, and delete it.

Once the old block is out of the way, hit Save or Publish to save your changes.

That’s it. You’re all set! 🎉

Your new roundup is live, looking amazing, and totally in sync with your blog’s style. Best of all, it’s ready to catch your target audience's attention and keep everything running smoothly with all the awesome new features in Tasty Roundups 2.0!

How to curate content with Tasty Roundups 2.0

Curating content with Tasty Roundups 2.0 is easy, even if you’ve never done it before.

Most of the steps are the same as updating an old roundup. But, you’ll start by downloading Tasty Roundups and installing it on your site.

Curate Content with Tasty Roundups

Need more help with this part? We have lots of helpful support docs for getting WP Tasty's plugins up and running on your site in a jif.

After you get through this part, the rest of the curation process is the same as above:

1. Start a new post in WordPress.
2. Add a Tasty Roundups block.
3. Add your links to your roundup.
4. Style your roundup.
5. Hit publish.

And just like that, you’ve put together a gorgeous roundup of high-quality content that your readers will actually want to click, save, and share! 📥

Take advantage of the benefits of content curation with Tasty Roundups 2.0

Tasty Roundups 2.0 makes curating content easier, faster, and more fun.

No more spending hours trying to make things look right. You get to focus on content creation that builds a relationship with your audience. And let’s be real, adding roundups to your content calendar isn’t just a way to save time.

It’s a smart content marketing strategy. 🧠

So why not give Tasty Roundups 2.0 a try? You’ll see just how effortless and enjoyable curating content can be! 🎉