Free Version very good

  • The free version is very good so far, however, I would love some additional features (not important whether in the free or the pro version – I would pay to get them, of course).

    For Standard menu it′s a really great plugin – I tested several and this is the first one really great and really working

    About what I am missing (and what made me think about whether to rate 4 or 5):

    – different styles for different menus (i.e. we do have a standard menu – for that the style works fine, whereas for our weekly menu I did not find a solution yet)

    – Option to show menu items in alphabetical order (if you have many, even in the same menu section, that could help – but it should not affect the order of the outcome)

    – Option to add custom css to each created menu (e.g. text colors etc)

    – Option to turn on or off the showing of the menu section for each section I add to a menu

    – Option to choose a different title for a menu section when shown – without changing the internal name of that section – and that for several languages ??

    – having (as second option for i.e. our weekly menu) the option to have all text centered and the price UNDER the menu item – not in a seperate column

    – adding “units” besides the price (for beverages) (optionally, of course). And also possible to get it centered…

    Should you read here, I can provide an example (via google docs) of what I am talking about ??

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  • Thanks for the feedback JSheridanFR. I’ll keep your ideas in mind as I continue development on the plugin. Here are a couple notes you might find useful:

    1. Each menu’s HTML output is wrapped in a unique CSS class. So you can target your CSS styles to each menu. Here’s an example of a typical default menu <ul> element:

    <ul id="fdm-menu-1" class="fdm-menu fdm-menu-53 fdm-columns-2 fdm-layout-classic clearfix">
   ...the menu content...
</ul>

    The id fdm-menu-1 represents its position on the page. This says it’s the first menu on the page. If you had a second shown on the page, it would be fdm-menu-2.

    You’ll also notice the class fdm-menu-53. This represents the menu post’s unique ID in WordPress. You can use this to target this exact menu in your CSS rules, no matter where it appears on your site, like this:

    // My weekly menu
.fdm-menu-53 {
  text-align: center;
}

    If you want help customizing the layout on your weekly menu, send the link and I’ll see if I can provide you with some quick CSS to get your started.

    2. I’m definitely planning to add a better interface for viewing, managing, sorting and building your menus and menu items in the admin panel. I don’t think it will happen very soon, but it’s part of my long-term strategy as a themes & plugins developer targeting the restaurant niche.

    3. Having glass/bottle prices or other price distinctions is a common request. I will find a way to accommodate this, but again I can’t promise it will be soon.

    I would like to see an example of your desired weekly menu layout. I’m always looking for different examples so I can better plan the plugin’s features.

    Thread Starter JSheridanFR

    (@jsheridanfr)

    Thank you for your answer ?? I will try to get through it.

    Here is an example of our weekly menu card… It would look weird to put it into the column-design as there are some items without prices (as the price of the menu depends only on the main course chosen)

    As a third “problem” we also do have “menu recommendations” – meaning fixed three- or four-course menus you can order e.g. if you celebrate your marriage or sth… those fixed menus have one price – not one for each course… Still they don′t have a name (otherwise I could take the “menu name” as name of an item and the courses as description)

    Hi JsheridanFR,

    Thanks for the weekly menu example. Have you thought about just using a regular WordPress Page for this menu? Since it’s just a series of centered text, you probably don’t need any special code to layout the data.

    The main purpose of my plugin is to provide that more traditional menu layout, but in this case you could accomplish what you want just with the core WordPress editor.

    Someone else has brought up fixed menus in the past. I don’t have a good solution for this at this time. If you have a chance, show me an example of what you’d like to achieve and it will help me down the road when I try to address these kinds of issues.

    Thread Starter JSheridanFR

    (@jsheridanfr)

    Hi Nate,

    you are very welcome… Indeed I thought about it and I am working on that – there are only 2 disadvantages to overcome:

    1st) I will have to give those managing the menus access to the “pages”-department (or use AAM to specify it exactly – still, everything related to the restaurant department would be better off in the same taxonomy ?? )

    2nd) Layout: if you do just copy/paste from the word-file, some line breaks look fine, others don′t; so whatever you chose (copy/paste or copy/paste plain text) there is a lot of formatting to do afterwards…. something I hoped to avoid ??

    Edit:

    here you see the menu recommendations in our old homepage (as you see, layout is an issue there, too….)

    About a solution: I am thinking of a kind of an “inverse menu” – where the description comes first and the “name” (in that case the number) comes UNDER the description being NOT bold but (for example) italic – in the same line as the price…

    Thread Starter JSheridanFR

    (@jsheridanfr)

    I made a german .po/.mo-file… If you tell me where I would find that (as I did it with the help of a plugin), I can send it to you, should you be interested

    It would probably depend on the plugin, but my guess is that it’s in one of the following places:

    wp-content/plugins/food-and-drink-menu/languages/
    wp-content/languages/
    wp-content/plugins/your-translation-plugin-path/languages/

    Thread Starter JSheridanFR

    (@jsheridanfr)

    so where should I send it to?

    Oh yeah, send me an email from the contact form on my site and I’ll reply to you with an address. Thanks.

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