Menu and Reservation

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OpenTable is one of the most commonly used WordPress widget that helps to build powerful reservation form for your restaurant website. Plugin creators care of providing important additional maintenance information like plenty of tooltips, documentation and videos. Widget is very easy to use regardless of WordPress skills level. Plugin provides outstanding support and OpenTable authors are open for all suggestions.

Core Features

• Clean code
• Easy to configure and use
• Helpful support
• Documentation ready

Premium version of plugin opens many other features such as UK, Canada, Germany, Japan, and Mexico restaurants support, more widget themes, the possibility to display plugin in any section of the theme using OpenTable shortcode.

 

Display restaurant/cafe menu or menu item in any section of the site like widgets, templates, navigation menu, posts and pages. Food and drink menu is really easy to use: plugin creates two post types, Menus and Menu Item, so you just need to add menu items, organise them into a group and then place them to a menu section.

Core Features

• Unlimited menu and menu items
• Mobile friendly
• WPML compatible
• Ready-to-use templates

Plugin allows to specify price and image for each menu item, embed menu to a sidebar, use menu without getting nervous due to its adaptability to different screen sizes and some other great features. Should you have any questions or need some technical advice, documentation and advanced tutorials will always help you find the right solution.

 

WP restaurant manager(WPRM) is a great solution for managing your restaurant/cafe the easiest way! Plugin enables online reservation and table booking for your website.

Core Features

• Adjustable email notifications
• Opening hours option
• Upcoming reservation
• Shortcodes generator and widgets

WPMR provides a large number of useful features and some of them are menus with categories and tags, a capability to accept or reject booking, manage upcoming reservations, send email notifications to your visitors, set opening hours and automatically deflect out-of-hours bookings, disable calendar dates and other functions that make WPRM a versatile plugin for your restaurant site.

 

Online store

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WooCommerce is the most famous and powerful eCommerce solution for WordPress sites. It helps you to sell different kinds of products with providing useful additional information. Plugin allows to sell affiliate products, set shipping options, use multiple configurations and add any category of the item. With a lot of free and premium extensions, everyone can set plugin according to his own needs.

Core Features

• Extended payment options
• Powerful documentation and support
• Shipping option
• Taxes and stock level

Plugin is intuitive to use and easy to configure. WooCommerce is built under robust framework that makes plugin more flexible and changeable. Plugin developers provide free WordPress theme Storefrom with a deep WooCommerce integration to create outstanding online store absolutely free of charge.

 

Forms and custom fields

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Do not miss the opportunity to contact your potential visitors. Use Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin to create and manage multiple minimalistic contact forms. Forms are fully customizable and it will take you minutes to set them up. Plugin developers are open for questions, suggestions and even donations to increase Contact Form 7 capabilities.

Core Features

• Intuitive to use
• Responsive design
• Google Analytics “send” event tracking
• Multilingual

Team support is fast and helpful, but you can use advanced documentation to get your questions answered.

 

The Advanced Custom Field (ACF) is a powerful WordPress plugin that can save your time and money. ACF is like an additional CMS platform to your native one. It extends and complements possibilities of WordPress and allows you to add more useful data to your website. Free version goes with a long list of functions to simplify the process of creating templates.

Core Features

• Multiple input types
• Simple and friendly API
• Thorough documentation
• Easy to maintain

ACF supports a wide range of fields like text, number, email, password, checkbox, post objects, color picker, tab, message, user and even custom field. The Advanced Custom Fields plugin is offered in a PRO version that packed with more field types and functionalities!

 

Social plugins and list builder

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SumoMe is a solid tool to attract more visitors to your website and increase user engagement. SumoMe offers list builder, heat maps and share tools in conjunction with some helpful extras which include but are not limited to Image Share, Welcome Map and Smart Bar. The process of installation and further usage is easy for any WordPress skills levels.

Core Features

• Connect with popular services
• Content Analytics option
• Mobile friendly
• Email subscription statics for all time

SumoMe works great with the most popular services like aWeber, MailChimp, GetResponse, HubSpot and other respectable tools. Free version allows to enjoy a truly staggering amount of stunning features.

 

MailChimp provides great possibilities to create a well-designed opt-in form or any other kind of form to place to your website. Plugin is easy to configure: select the MailChimp list you want to create SignUp form for and adjust general settings. Use CSS Cheat Sheet to stylize the display of form components.

Core Features

• Well documented
• Responsive form
• Developer friendly
• Intuitive to use

Default WordPress Comment Form, Default WordPress Registration Form, Contact Form 7, WooCommerce, Ninja Forms, Easy Digital Downloads, Events Manager, BuddyPress are integrated. Note that this plugin is only for MailChimp newsletter users only, so do not forget to sign-up to the server first.

 

AddThis sharing button is a beautiful and reliable solution to let your visitors promote your content in their social accounts. Why is it useful? Plugin allows to grab the attention of audience that is out of your site and increase traffic due to distribution of your content through different social networks.

Core Features

• Mobile friendly
• Easy to configure and use
• Sharing count
• Clean design

You are able to choose side of your page AddThis appears on, manage buttons number, enable/disable sharing counts, set mobile version of buttons and do all actions less than in minutes. AddThis tool is available in a premium version, so you can get more features and templates any time you wish.

 

General

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Introduce your restaurant team to your visitors with the help of Bean Team. It is a completely free plugin that was specially designed for WordPress Themes. Plugin places members into a fully-responsive grid with photo, stylish image hover and description.

Core Features

• Responsive design
• Clean and minimal design
• Free support for the verified users
• Easy to set-up

 

SEO by Yoast is a thorough, well supported, and easy to use SEO plugin that has more than 1 million active users. Plugin provides incredible number of features to optimize your content: page analysis, meta and links elements, advanced XML Sitemap functionality, breadcrumbs and many other helpful options.

Core Features

• Multilanguage support
• Meta and links elements
• XML Sitemaps
• Multisite compatible

SEO by Yoast is social option integrated which comes with Facebook OpenGraph implementation and soon will also support Google+ sharing tags.

 

Map Builder is a user-friendly Google Maps WordPress plugin. Let your visitors see your location at the map to find you in a short time. You are able to create unique map design thanks to Snazzy Maps integration. Plugin was made in debug mode, so it has clean code without errors and warnings.

Core Features

• Google Place API integration
• Full-screen map
• Intuitive to use
• Unique marker icons

Map Builder allows full Google Maps control so you can set street view, zooming, panning etc.