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.
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