Restaurant Website Design on WordPress

Master Complete Restaurant Website Design with WordPress

Web Development 4.3(55)3h 22m14 lectures2 sections

What you'll learn

Know the steps and cost of building a restaurant website
Understand the requirements of a suitable server
Install a WordPress theme made for restaurants
Design the restaurant website home page
Add dishes and design the food menu
Turn on the live table booking system
Customize the restaurant layout elements
Set the home delivery fees
Add payment methods to the site

About this course

This course teaches you how to design a complete restaurant website on WordPress step by step, from the idea of the site to taking orders and bookings. You start with an introduction to the steps and cost of building a restaurant website and the requirements of a suitable server, then install a WordPress theme made for restaurant sites and design the home page. After that you install the food menu and order booking plugin, add the available dishes, and design the food menu and place it on the home page. Then you turn on the live table booking system, design the most important restaurant pages and organize the menus, customize the layout elements, set the home delivery fees, and add payment methods. The course suits owners of restaurants and cafes, web designers and anyone who wants to build a restaurant site themselves. You do not need previous experience with WordPress, because the lessons start from the basics and apply each step to a real site, and at the end you download the course extras. By the end you will be able to build a restaurant website that shows the food menu and takes bookings, orders and payments.

Expected outcomes

Create a professional and ready-to-use restaurant website.
Effectively manage menus and orders.
Activate booking and delivery systems to facilitate customer services.
Customize the site to fit the restaurant's needs and brand identity.

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Course content

Designing a Restaurant Website on WordPress

13 lectures

IntroductionPreviews what the course builds: a complete restaurant website on WordPress with free tools, including a menu with extras and cooking options, local shipping, payment gateways, deposits, and an online table booking system.2:50
Steps and Cost of Creating a Restaurant WebsiteReviews the steps to build a restaurant site on WordPress and the cost of each: buying hosting and a domain, installing WordPress, choosing a free theme, using the WordPress Cafe plugin for menu and booking, then shipping and payments.4:02
Requirements for the Suitable Server for the Restaurant WebsiteExplains choosing suitable hosting for a restaurant site, the difference between shared, cloud and managed hosting, how RAM relates to the CPU, then creating a local test site with XAMPP and logging into the WordPress dashboard.22:52
Installing a Custom WordPress Theme for Restaurant WebsitesExplains choosing a ready-made restaurant theme for WordPress by ratings and sales count, previewing it, installing it and importing a ready demo, then viewing the resulting restaurant site before customizing it.13:45
Designing the Restaurant Website InterfaceExplains editing the restaurant's home page with the elements editor: changing images, restaurant name, intro texts, buttons, formatting, alignment and fonts, and editing the dish sections and their descriptions.23:25
Installing the Menu and Basic Order Booking PluginExplains installing two essential plugins for the restaurant site: WooCommerce for payments, shipping and delivery, and WordPress Cafe for the menu, table booking and deposits, with a look at the shipping and payment settings.3:44
Available Food Item Add-ons in the RestaurantExplains dividing the restaurant into main categories and adding the first meal as a simple WooCommerce product, setting price and discount, and adding paid and free options such as fries, drinks and crispy type.19:44
Designing the Menu and Adding it to the Restaurant Website InterfaceExplains designing the menu and adding it to the site front end, depending on the free or paid WordPress Cafe version, styling fonts and colors, showing price and description, and creating tabs for meal, drink and sandwich categories.21:55
Activating the Direct Table Reservation System in the RestaurantExplains enabling online table booking: scheduling restaurant hours, setting up the booking form with name, email, phone, guest count, date and time, confirming the booking by email, and editing the form's wording.21:24
Designing the Most Important Restaurant Pages and Organizing and Preparing MenusExplains designing the restaurant's key pages such as Contact and About with a contact form, organizing them in the site's main menu with parent and child categories, and reviewing the cart and checkout.20:38
Customizing Restaurant Interface ElementsContinues customizing the restaurant home page: adding the menu, contact and booking buttons, opening hours, meal categories and number of items shown, social media icons in the footer, and the logo, then publishing.20:16
Setting Delivery Fees for Orders via the WebsiteExplains setting up shipping zones and home delivery fees in WooCommerce by area, adding cities with the WPCode plugin, and setting a fixed price per zone so delivery is calculated automatically when the customer enters an address.10:38
Adding Payment Methods in the RestaurantExplains how to add payment methods to a WordPress restaurant site, from PayPal and local gateways through a WooCommerce add-on, to a tip option at checkout and local shipping zones.17:20