Get your site live

By default your site loads on a script.google.com address with a thin Google bar across the top. To give it a clean web address on your own domain and remove that bar, you need two things of your own: a domain name (for example yourrecipes.com) and a web host or site builder where you can add a page. In your admin, go to Settings, then Hosting. That panel gives you ready made wrapper pages, with a copy button for each, that you paste into a page on your own host. The How To tab inside the admin walks through this in full under Going live.

The ad slots are a simple builder, not a code box. For each slot you choose an image, a video, or text, then add a label such as Sponsored or Announcement, optional text, a click link, and start and end dates if you want. There is no place to paste ad or embed code, and any text you add is shown as plain text.

So the slots work well for your own announcements, a sponsor's banner (their image plus a link you agree on), and image based affiliate banners, where the image is the affiliate's banner and the click link is your affiliate link, for example Amazon Associates. They do not work with Google AdSense or the large managed ad networks, which give you a script to paste and do not allow their ads inside a frame like the one your site runs in. Recipe Builder Pro does not provide ads or handle any payments; you sign up with the outside service and they pay you directly. Those display networks, such as AdSense, Raptive, or Mediavine (a favorite of food sites), are built for a full site on your own domain rather than these slots.

I see "Google hasn't verified this app"

This is expected. Click Advanced, then Go to Recipe Builder Pro (unsafe). The app runs in your own Google account. It is not "unsafe," it just has not gone through Google's third party verification process, because it is your own copy. You can read Google's own explanation of this warning on their help page. That page is written for apps from outside developers, so it tells you to trust the developer first. Here there is no outside developer. You copied Recipe Builder Pro into your own account and you host and run it yourself, so it runs as you, on your own data.

Visitors can't open my site

Your deployment's access is probably set to "Only myself." Open your sheet, go to Extensions, then Apps Script, then Deploy, then Manage deployments, edit the deployment, set "Who has access" to "Anyone," and deploy again.

I lost my web app URL

Open your "Recipe Builder Pro" Google Sheet, then Extensions, then Apps Script, then Deploy, then Manage deployments. Your URL is listed there.

The app shows a blank page or error

Make sure you selected "Web app" as the deployment type, not "Library" or "API Executable." If you chose the wrong type, create a new deployment with the correct settings.

I see "refused to connect" after setup

Wait a moment, the page should redirect automatically. If it does not, refresh or click the link shown. This is a one time Google quirk during initial setup.

I want to start fresh

Delete the data sheets in your Google Sheet (Recipes, Settings, Suggestions, Ratings, Reviews, Activity, Analytics) and reload your web app URL. The setup will run again and recreate everything.

Still need help?

Visit our support page and we will get you sorted out.