Hey y'all, welcome to another WordPress Wednesday. My name is Kori Ashton and
today you're gonna look at a new plugin provided by our friends over at MotoPress
I have done a few before on their page
builder plugin that's extraordinary
This is a new free option that they're providing for the WordPress world
A free restaurant menu plugin. So, what I've done is gone ahead and added it to a
staging environment. I've just downloaded it. Downloaded it just like this.
Of course, it's gonna be a zipped file. Go to your plugins and click
"Add New" and that's where it has an option for you to upload a plugin, right?
Click here and click "Upload Plugin". Come over here "Browse", find that zipped
file and then, you just drop it in there and it's install it. Of course, you want
to activate it, right? Once it's active you will then have access, right here.
"Restaurant Menu". You'll then have access to this are over here. Now,
just full disclosure, I haven't spent time researching this.
What I just shared with you that I've done
is all that I have done.
They do have some pretty great documentation.
I just briefly looked through to get an idea of how to do this
tutorial for you. But, I really wanted to give you a very honest review of my
experience and kind of let y'all see the experience of setting this menu plugin up
for the very first time What does that look like?
Plugin it into an existed website.
So, let's do it. Let's go ahead and come over here to "Menu"
and I'm gonna add a "Category".
And we're just gonna go ahead and call it "Breakfast".
And, I guess we can go ahead and add in a thumbnail image. That'd be pretty cool.
Add new menu category there.
And, it's already added. I'm gonna add in "Starters" for appetizers, right?
So, let's "Add Menu" category there and you can see that it's added over here.
So, let's add the new menu item. Click "Add New"
and let's say this is one of my favorites. We'll say "Fried Pickles".
And all the details here.
Seems pretty easy. Let's add it to "Starters". Sounds pretty simple.
Wow, you can even add ingredients over here.
You can get pretty fancy with everything
You can put in a price. Let's do that and say "5.99". Look at this, you guys, it
even has nutritional facts you can add in there. That's pretty great.
Goodness. "Portion Size", we can say this will be for four people and it's probably
crazy full of carbs. Let's say 300 carbs. Who knows! I have no idea.
I'd like to be healthier than that.
For now, that's all I'm gonna do. I'm gonna click "Publish"
I wonder if we can throw in a picture in there, as well. I bet we could.
I bet we would use the feature. Look at this, you could even have a full image
gallery. That's pretty cool. Add in all sorts of stuff there.
Alright, so, we can just adding menu items. Let's add another one just to be
sure to have two things going on in here. See how simple it is so far.
Let's add something to our "Breakfast" and we'll say "Chicken and Waffles".
Can you tell I'm southern, or what?
Whoops, spell it correctly would be better, right?
Here you go.
Yummy.
and let's go ahead and add it to our breakfast.
and we're gonna go ahead and put in the price, as well. We'll say "$7.99".
And we'll say that it's amazing. Not even add carbs. We don't want to think
about that right now. So, let's go ahead and publish.
Ok, so what I've done right now, very quickly in just a three minute time. I've
already installed it. Added two menu items.
Added details. Of course if you already had this somewhere
Maybe in a Word document
you could just be copying and pasting all this information in these spots. Then, if
we want to add it to an actual page, let's see what that looks like.
I'm gonna go to pages and say "Add New".
We're gonna create a new page called "Menu.
And now, we have this little icon right here. "Insert Restaurant Menu Short Code"
I'm gonna click there and see what the options are. "Show Categories"
"Show Menu Items".
That's kind of cool. So, I'm just gonna say "Show Menu Items" and just for the
sake of figuring out what all this is, let's go ahead and say a "List".
We're gonna go ahead and check both categories that we're gonna be adding
in there. Do we want one column or four? My goodness, they give you so many cool
options. Show attributes right away, show the featured image. I would assume that's
what we would want to do here.
Show excerpt, show price, show tag, show ingredients. Goodness.
Link the item. That's pretty cool.
and let's just say insert short code. So, it's gonna drop in this cool code,
right here.
That is the thing that supposed to render the menu to appear on our website.
So, behind the scenes back here in this view you will always have the short code
present. In order to see the changes, you'd have to click "Preview Changes"
Open it up on the front side of our website. See what it looks like.
Check this out, you guys. Here's our "Breakfast" category
"Chicken and Waffles" and it is linked.
Here's our "Starter" category. "Fried Pickles" and again it's linked.
If I click on "Fried Pickles" it will take me to an individual page that would
have details listed out here that you can see.
That's pretty groovy cool. That's not bad all. Let's see what else we can do with
it. Back here to the menu item. Let's go to menu items here and see if we
can go ahead and get rid of the comments; because, of course we wouldn't want any
comments to happen on our menu items. So, we'd update that.
And, come here to "Click Edit", as well and we would take off the comments
capability; because, we certainly don't want that.
Let's see if we can add a picture just really quickly to see what that would look
like inside of our featured image.
"Chicken and Waffles". I bet the cat would like to eat chicken and waffles.
Let's see "Update".
and let's go back here to our menu page I'm gonna click "Refresh".
And there's a picture right next to it. Very nice.
and the picture is linked, as well. So, all of this links to our
"Chicken and Waffles" page.
Let's click on it. "Chicken and Waffles" appears in this particular menu back there
as my featured image and you could have a full detail here and a full price.
If you didn't want them linked and you just wanted everything listed out here
with the full description, then that would be the options as you edited
the short code. So, going back here to "All Pages"
Let's go back here for a minute to our menu
and what we do is just take out the short code we that we have in there for now
Completely remove that and then rearrange our options, right? So, we would say
"Show Categories" instead. Let's do it in a grid and let's choose both and do we
want to show the categories description? The icon? The featured image?
Show the name. How many columns do you want them in? Insert. So, you have all
sorts of different ways you can set up the structure of how your menu would appear
on this page. I'm gonna click "Refresh" and we'll see it in maybe two columns.
Check that out, you guys. Here's our Breakfast and our Starters.
Click "Breakfast" then it will go in and show us our full breakfast menu.
And of course if we didn't want it linked anywhere, that would just be the
option we would choose "Not Linked".
You guys, that isn't really bad for a free option for setting up a menu
on your website. If you're running a little restaurant or cafe, this could be a
great option for you.
I hope that this helps you. If you want take a look at some of the other options
that MotoPress offers. Be sure to go over to their website, getmotopress.com
I'll put that link for you in the description box below. They have a really
outstanding page builder, as well, that I've shared with you guys before.
So, you can check that out and they've got a very simple slider that's
pretty cool, as well.
Hope you're having a great day. I will catch you next WordPress Wednesday
where I am going to talk to you about 8 things to not be doing on your website