WP Tasty Pins Plugin Review + How To Use

If you’re looking to improve your drive more traffic to your website with Pinterest one of the best places you can focus your effort is within your blog posts. This is where Tasty Pins comes into play.

Pinterest optimization actually starts with how you set up your images within your website.

Tasty Pins is a Pinterest SEO tool you can use to truly up your Pinterest SEO marketing game. So I wanted to share with you:

• Why using WP Tasty Pins is so powerful for Pinterest growth
• How to use Tasty Pins
• Whether this Pinterest tool is worth using (hint – yes, yes, yes!)

Let’s dive in, shall we?

What is the WP Tasty Pins Plugin?

WP Tasty Pins is an easy-to-use, plugin for WordPress that allows you to set up and optimize your blog images onyour website – to increase Pinterest performance.

It makes it easy to set pin descriptions for Pinterest and Alt text for Google separately, allowing you to focus on driving more traffic to your website from SEO and Pinterest.

WP Tasty Pins: Key Features & Benefits  

Below are the features that I think make WP Tasty pins stand out. Under each feature, I’ll be sharing how to use that specific Tasty Pins feature.

You’ll see that it helps optimize for effective sharing to Pinterest from within WordPress.

Note: The below features mentioned are not available in WordPress unless you know how to code. This is where Tasty pins can help.

 

1. Easily Set Pin Descriptions

This is an ultra-important step for Pinterest success as people want to pin directly from your blog posts and articles. NOT setting up the pin descriptions separately is a lost opportunity for traffic growth.

Without WP Tasty Pins you have to use HTML code to set the pin descriptions for your pin, so setting keyword-optimized pin descriptions with the Tasty Pins plugin saves a lot of time!

Once you set you pin descriptions for the pin in your post, this informations will be saved and used in your pin on Pinterest, when people save from your site.

2. Use the Pinterest Repin ID Feature To Get More Saves/Repins!

When the pin ID feature is not activated, every time someone pins from your website it creates a brand new pin. If you’ve been using Pinterest for a while you’ll know how important repins (saves) are for the overall performance of your pin.

Typically, the higher the repins (saves), the higher your impressions will go – meaning Pinterest will show your pin to more people.

To use the PIN ID feature, simply copy the numeric code at the end of the original pin URL and paste it into the Tasty Pins plugin (for each pin).

Example: pinterest.ca/pin/756534437389282419

3. Disable Pinning of Certain Images

There are some images in blog posts that won’t perform well on Pinterest (as Pinterest prefers 2×3 image sizes and currently recommends 1000 x 1500).

Therefore, it’s good practice to prevent pinning of “non Pinterest friendly” images.

To do this in the Tasty Pins plugin you simply click the “Disable Pinning” button under the Pinterest Repin ID section in the plugin.

For any images in your post you want to disable, click to edit the image and then click “Disable Pinning”.

4. Hide Pinterest Images From Your Blog Post

This means you can hide people from seeing your Pinterest friendly image (2×3 size), yet when you choose to save your blog post to Pinterest, that hidden image can be pinned!

This is great for people who don’t like the look of a long Pinterest image. It’s also ideal if you want to add many Pinterest pins to posts (so people have a choice on which pin to save).

5. Force Pinning of Certain Images

The “Force Pinning” feature in Tasty Pins is great if you want specific pins to be repinned when people choose to save your content to Pinterest.

Tip: I recommend turning “Force Pinning” on for your top-performing pins.

Simply click a button in the Hide Pinterest Images section and you will force certain images to be pinned!

6. Add a Pinterest Hover Button To Images

Adding the Pinterest hover button is a great way to remind your readers to save a pin from your website.

7. Utilize Alt Text for SEO & Accessibility

Having separate sections to add your alt text (for Google) and Pin description (for Pinterest) is the best way to keep accessibility in mind and have your image set up properly for search engines.

Alt text for accessibility (for the visually impaired): This is why alt text was originally created. Write exactly what the image is. Describe the images + any tet overlay

Setting up your alt text properly also means you are improving the searchability of your images in Google.

What Does the Tasty Pins Plugin Cost?

If you have 1 website, Tasty Pins currently costs $49/year, which I consider a bargain for what it does.

If you have more websites, they have some other great offers – see pricing below…

👉 WP Tasty Pins also has a 14-day money-back guarantee, so if you don’t love the features, just reach out to them and get your money back!

How Do You Set Up WP Tasty Pins?

Once you purchase the Tasty Pins plugin, simply go to the plugin section of WordPress and search for “Tasty Pins”, then activate.

From there, you can visit the setting section to read some tutorials to get started. 

Is WP Tasty Pins Worth it?

If you create content and driving traffic to this content is important then 100% YES.

In case you weren’t aware, the lifetime of a pin on Pinterest can be well over 1 year and even longer, vs 1 day on Instagram and TikTok.

I even have seasonal pins I created over 5 years ago that still drive traffic for me every single year!

👉 NOTE: Pinterest places a higher value on pins that people share directly from your website. This is a key indicator for them that the content is good. Pinterest will then push these shared pins out more on Pinterest, resulting in more impressions, saves and clicks.

If you have articles, blog posts and products and want more traffic, I highly recommend WP Tasty Pins.

For me personally, I use Tasty pins for all of my websites and client websites.

Are there any alternatives to WP Tasty Pins?

 Yes, and I tried it for a while but ended up moving back to WP Tasty Pins.

The alternative is a plugin called Hubbub. It’s a social sharing plugin and costs $99/year for one website.

It does more than just share Pinterest, but this means it also doesn’t function as well as WP Tasty Pins and it’s more difficult to set up.

What I recommend:

• Use the FREE Hubbub Lite WordPress plugin, which you can search for in your WordPress dashboard in the plugins section.
• Purchase WP Tasty Pins for half the price of Hubbub premium
• Then you get ALL of the sharing functionality with Hubub Lite + excellent customization and sharing for specific pins on your website (with WP Tasty)

WP Tasty Pins Conclusion

To recap, the Tasty Pins plugin is lightweight, so it doesn’t slow down your site and it has many added features that WordPress doesn’t have built-in.

This plugin is designed to improve your Pinterest SEO and help you get more saves, reshares and traffic back to your content.

Key Tasty Pins features:

• Set your pin description
• Pinterest Repin ID feature for more saves
• Disable pinning of specific post images
• Force pinning of certain images
• Pinterest hover button to encourage more shares
• Separate alt text and pin description feature to use alt text the correct way

Related Pinterest Resources:

• Free Pinterest Marketing & Strategy Guide (eBook)
• Pinterest SEO Tips to Increase Traffic this Year
• How To Design High Performing Pinterest Pins
• Pinterest Analytics To Track Every Month (+ Free Printable)