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You are able to add your online menu directly to a page, post or sidebar. To do this, please navigate to Posts > Add New or Pages > Add New in your admin dashboard. Then follow these easy steps:
- Find ‘Insert Restaurant Menu Shortcode’ icon on its dashboard and click it
- Set the preferable shortcode parameters
- Click Insert shortcode
Shortcode parameters
While adding shortcode to page you can define its type – Show categories or Show menu items.
Here are the properties of Shortcode to Show Categories:
- View Mode: Grid or List.
- Categories: Select the needed categories to display them on the live site. Hold the CTRL key to select multiple items.
- Columns: Specify how many columns will be displayed on the page.
- Show/hide the following parameters: Category name, Category featured image, Category icon, Category description.
- Specify the Description length (if ‘Show Category Description’ is switched on) – simply put the number of characters that will be displayed in the Category’s description area
Here are the properties of Shortcode to Show Menu Items:
- View Mode: Grid, List or Simple List.
- Categories: Select the needed categories to display Menu Items from. Hold the CTRL key to select multiple items.
- Tags: Select the needed tags to display Menu Items from. Hold the CTRL key to select multiple items.
- Menu item IDs: indicate certain IDs of menu Items to show
- Columns: Specify how many columns will be displayed on the page.
- Show/hide the following parameters: attributes, featured image, excerpt, price, tags, ingredients and buy button
- Define whether to link item or not
- Specify the Description length – simply put the number of characters that will be displayed in the Menu Item’s description area
Still checking out your restaurant menu plugin and it all seems fine, but I when I create the Menu page, and edit the block I do not see the menu bar with the ‘insert menu’ icon…I am using a classic editor and WordPress 5.3 and my theme is ‘hungry’ from the wordpress site
Sorry, but when I view the menu page it lists all the menu items. I assume the default, when I wanted to list the categories
Hi Wayne,
Thank you for question. There is default archive page with link /menu. Make sure your custom page where you placed block or shortcode has link different from /menu e.g. menus or /our-menu.
Hi Wayne,
Do you mean you installed Classic Editor plugin to WordPress 5.3 in order to disable Gutenberg editor and still can not see icon of menu plugin on TinyMCE?
Find ‘Insert Restaurant Menu Shortcode’ icon on its dashboard and click it
with WP version 5.1
could not find this step when click “Add new page” or “Add new post”
please help
Hi Sam,
While adding a block you can find Classic editor under Formatting group http://prntscr.com/mxnrf5 Using this type of editor you may find an icon to generate a shortcode for Restaurant Menu.
Hi,
Where i can find a menu item ID’s?
Hi Laura,
You may find ID of menu item in the address bar (URL) while editing certain menu item. So the link will look like this one ..yoursite/wp-admin/post.php?post=597&action=edit So 597 is an ID of menu item.
It can not see the item description. I tried with 50, 100, 200 at description length, and always show title with no description. Do you know why this happen? Here a screenshot
https://prnt.sc/l9j1hv
https://prnt.sc/l9j1ch
Hi Javi,
Is it custom page with added shortcode or some archive(system) page? Could you provide page example? Could you also try to add excerpt for menu items .
where can we set menu items ID’s ?