Are you looking to create a restaurant website? An outstanding restaurant deserves an exceptional website. Nowadays many people head online to find their next eating place.
Thankfully, cooking a restaurant website doesn’t necessarily require coding, you can just do that by getting a free WordPress restaurant theme. The design of a restaurant website must be elegant, clean with bright colors, and must include all the necessary information about your restaurant.
Here’s a step-by-step guide to launching your free restaurant website!
Step1: Installing & activating free Responsive theme
Responsive theme is a fully customizable, fast and responsive WordPress theme. It comes with 40+ pro and free templates that are built with Elementor and Gutenberg. These ready site demos are built for every business niches and can be easily customized.
With the Responsive theme, you don’t have to worry about creating a website from scratch. Just download the theme, import one of the ready site demos, edit the content, and launch! You can get a copy of the free theme from the website. Alternatively, you can also download it from WordPress.org.
After you have downloaded the theme, log in to your WordPress Dashboard and go to Appearance > Themes > Add New
Upload the downloaded theme zip file
Install and Activate the Responsive theme
Step 2: Installing the free ready site importer plugin
As you know the Responsive theme has 40+ pro and free website demos. The ready site importer plugin helps you import these templates in just a few clicks. You can grab the free copy from the WordPress repository. This plugin can be installed like any other WordPress plugin.
After downloading the plugin zip file:
1. Log in to your WordPress Dashboard
2. Go to Plugins > Add New
3. Upload the downloaded plugin zip file
4. Install & Activate the plugin.
Step 3: Import the “Restaurant” ready-site demo template
Now drive more diners to your restaurant with this ready-to-use free theme. The theme comes with pre-designed pages (Home page, About page, Blog pages, etc.) that can be imported in a few clicks. The pro version of the theme allows the customers to book the reservations online. Impress your customers with beautiful menus and get full control over your meal and beverage items. The theme is built with best practices of SEO and comes with an integrated contact form to increase email inquiries.
To import the Restaurant template, go to Responsive > Ready sites on your WordPress dashboard.
Select the free restaurant ready site template and click preview
On the preview page, you’ll find two options. You can import a single template or import the whole site.
Click on Import Site to start importing the Restaurant template
When the import is complete, click on the Launch site button that will take you to the newly created website.
Step 4: How to change the logo of your Restaurant website ?
Go to your WordPress dashboard and navigate to Appearance > Customize
You can also click on the Customize button on the top of your website.
Here you’ll find tons of options to customize the settings of the theme. To change the logo, got to Site identity
Click on the Change logo tab and choose your image that you want to feature
Step 5: How to edit your restaurant website using Gutenberg?
Follow the steps below to edit the restaurant website using Gutenberg block editor
Go to your WordPress dashboard and click on Visit site. After your website opens, click on Edit Page on the top.
Here you’ll find tons of options to change the content and style of your page. You can select each block to give it a different look.
After you’re done making the changes, click on Update.
Congratulations!
You have successfully set up your Restaurant website.
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