{"id":4803,"date":"2026-02-11T08:12:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/?p=4803"},"modified":"2026-02-12T11:40:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:40:01","slug":"pro-tip-add-a-photo-to-the-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/2026\/02\/pro-tip-add-a-photo-to-the-cover.html","title":{"rendered":"Pro Tip: Adding a Photo To Your Cookbook Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can create a custom cover by adding your own photo. Use the Photo Manager (found in the Layout and Design section) to upload your photo. Assign the location to front cover.<\/p>\n

Next,\u00a0go to the Layout and Design Center and select “Cookbook Covers”. This will take you to a page that will allow you to select one of our professionally designed cookbook covers by clicking on the + sign to see the covers in each category.\u00a0 The last option is for a custom cover. To select the custom cover click on the choose button.\u00a0 Then click “Save” to set that as your cover.<\/div>\n
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You can also get really creative and use the Custom Cover Arranger Tool.\u00a0 Go to Layout & Design>Select Cover and click the button to open that too.<\/div>\n
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Bill Rice is Founder and Co-Publisher of the<\/span><\/i> Family Cookbook Project<\/span><\/i><\/a>, the leading online cookbook publisher with a website that helps families and individuals collect, preserve and share food memories by creating their own printed custom cookbooks. He is the author of The<\/span><\/i> Wellfleet Oyster Cookbook<\/span><\/i><\/a> and the<\/span><\/i> Cape Cod Cocktail Cookbook<\/span><\/i><\/a> (Available on Amazon), both created using FamilyCookbookProject.com. He is also editor of the Donovan Family Cookbook, now it\u2019s third printing and is an avid genealogist tracing his family back to the 1600’s.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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You can create a custom cover by adding your own photo. Use the Photo Manager (found in the Layout and Design section) to upload your photo. Assign the location to front cover. Next,\u00a0go to the Layout and Design Center and select “Cookbook Covers”. This will take you to a page that will allow you to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor-tips","has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4803"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5422,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions\/5422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}