Victoria Restaurant Wordpress Theme

06Custom Sidebars Setup

victoria use custom sidebar generator option on victoria -> Custom Sidebars, Create the sidebars you want to have in the theme.

You will now see your newly created custom sidebar available by clicking on Appearance -> Widgets on your WordPress administration menu. You can now add Widgets to your newly created sidebar.

07Food Menu

Add new Food Types for Food Items by clicking on Food Menus -> Food Types - see in bottom of your wp menu tabs

Add new image for the Food Type (Desert/Salads/Russian) etc. While adding Food Types find a field for Menutype image and upload the image from media library then copy the URL and paste in the field see in bottom image.

Add Food Item - Go to Add Item and write a title for the meals and in place of custom fields enter the price for that meals and meal description as well as that copy the meal description in post excerpt field as well.

Featured Image - Locate the Featured Image module on right side and click the Set featured image link. You will see an uploading screen identical to that used when inserting an image into a blog post. Follow the on-screen prompts to choose the image from your computer and upload it or choose it from one of the images already in your Media Library.

Use as featured image - Once the image has successfully been uploaded, look underneath the sizing options, and click on the Use as featured image link. Your Feature image is now set! You can close the Media selector once you’ve chosen the featured image. The image will then appear wherever a featured image is available. Your Feature image is now set! You can close the Media selector once you’ve chosen the featured image. The image will then appear wherever a featured image is available.

08Add Food Menu Page

Now Add New Page select template as Menu from attributes panel in rightside.

Below your wordpress content editor find a Shortcodes options panel, Feel free to use any shortcodes if you want to display above the menu items or let the page display only the menu items.

NEW Add Individual Page for your each Menu Items.

Create a page and right below your wordpress content editor find the shortcode generator select 'Food Menu' shortcode from the list and select the category items and enter the limit to display for pagination or if you want to have the layout for the menu list items to be displayed in 2 columns layout then check the Columns button and switch it on so then send to editor make sure you select the layout option in below options area as Full Width layout but still you can have a sidebar layout as well.

09Todays Special

Add Shortcode Todays special as shown in live preview frontpage from shortcodes panel, its listed in last as todays special Add the Tags while creating the Food Items so that it will be pulled based on the post tags.

While adding food items make sure you define the tags for those items as specials, weekly special or deserts or salads so that the 'todays special'(shortcode) and 'specials widget' (widget) can be crawled and display the results.

10Reservation Table

Add Tables

• Go to Reservations tab and find tables navigation where you can add the tables and define its limit of the people can be seated on that table and define its name. It will be convenient for you to book a reservation for the client. See image below.

Manage Booking Reservations

• Go to Reservations tab where you can edit the reservations and there in the below custom fields you can change the dates of the booking for those tables and select the table suitable for the clients and update the booking with a status confirmed/cancelled or unconfirmed. Once confirmed is checked and post is updated the email will be sent to the client with a status message saying that your table reservation has been confirmed.

Manage E-mail Messages

• Go to Theme Options panela and click Email Setups tab where you can set your own messages for the clients. In that text area there is a default message set by us. If you want to change the content please do so and make sure you do not edit the shortcodes in the fields like [client_name] [restaurant_name] etc as it defines the name of that particular client who booked an reservation.

11Victoria Options

Manage Business Hours

Go to theme options panel and under the business hours tab you can define the business hours for the whole week. If your restaurant is closed then you can check the closed option there then if the user while booking selected that day it will show that the restaurant is closed on the selected day.

Reservation Page

Go to pages create a new page called reservation and select the template as reservation and then publish the page. Then come back to options panel and under the victoria options tab you need to select the page you created just now for the reservation page.

12Blog Page Setup

Victoria - uses a simple method for creating the blog pages, Go to Pages -> Add New, in your Wordpress administration menu and create a new page with name blog or your desired name of the page and assign the template as blog page. Assign a template as blog. After that select the categories to hold in 'Blog Options' from theme options panel.

13Shortcodes

Victoria - uses Wordpress Send To Editor functionality for inserting shortcodes into your wordpress content editor, The shortcodes options can be found just below your wordpress content editor. Select the type of the shortcode you want to choose and then assign its values and click on send to editor button.

14Footer Setup

Victoria - have mutilple options for footer columns, you can assign upto 6 columns in footer and if you want you can disable the sidebar footer by going to Victoria -> Footer in your wordpress administration menu. See the image below. Once you setup the columns here then go to your wordpress widgets tab by going to Appearance -> Widgets tab in your wordpress administration menu and assing your own widgets in the newly created footer column widgets.

15Custom Font

Victoria - uses custom google web fonts and cufon fonts as well. if you want to use any then go to theme options panel skinning tab browse throught where you can choose the custom google web fonts etc in typography section.

If you want to choose the cufon fonts then you can go to Typography and enable the cufon font and and then select then font you want and preview then save changes.

Note: If you are are using google web fonts then switch of the Cufon option otherwise theme will take time to load. Instead of loading in 5 seconds it will load in 7 or 8 seconds.

16Colors

Victoria - have mutilple options for theme which you can set and change the complete visualization of the theme, which contains max amount of colors and if you want a header background image you can assign that background image in General Tab in Victoria options.

Theme comes with 1 color preset as well which you can change from theme options panel.

17Import / Export Sample Data

Go to Theme Package Downloaded from themeforest open Sample Data folder which contains the xml file for sample data as you see on the live preview of the theme. Open your wp admin and under Tools tab click import option and in that click on the
(WordPress Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags from a WordPress export file.) and select the file whichis provided for you in the sample data folder. and save chages.

If you get any error in executing the content as time limit execution etc then do the follow the procedure here http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content

18Sidebar Layout

Go to Page you want to have full width or any desired sidebar positioning and then in custom fields area below the content editor see the layout Options field where you can select the sidebar layout or custom sidebars and then publish the page.

Note: If you have any queries then register to our support forum and then post your question and we will help you out in getting your queries resolved.

19Get the Code

1. Frontpage teaser area widget shortcode. go to the widgets and in Homepage Teaser Text place a text widget and insert the following code and alter according to your rquirements

   [one_half]
   <img src="http://www.aivahthemes.com/victoria/files/2011/12/banner.png" width="460" height="175"/>
   [/one_half]
   [one_half_last]
   <h3>Frontpage teaser text widget with ease in functionality <a href="#">Link</a> Quisque dignissim, ante sit amet imperdiet ultricies,</h3>
   <p><em>Quisque dignissim, ante sit amet imperdiet ultricies, felis enim luctus leo, et cursus leo libero in nisi. Donec sit amet ipsum velit, a faucibus purus Quisque dignissim, ante sit amet imperdiet ultricies, felis enim luctus leo, et cursus leo libero in nisi. Donec sit amet ipsum velit, a faucibus purus</em></p>
   [/one_half_last]
   

2. Mini Gallery Shortcode

   [minigallery class="image" width="140" height="140"]
   http://www.aivahthemes.com/victoria/files/2011/11/13.jpg
   http://www.aivahthemes.com/victoria/files/2011/11/16.jpg
   http://www.aivahthemes.com/victoria/files/2011/12/9.jpg
   http://www.aivahthemes.com/victoria/files/2011/12/13.jpg
   http://www.aivahthemes.com/victoria/files/2011/12/15.jpg
   http://www.aivahthemes.com/victoria/files/2011/12/11.jpg
   http://www.aivahthemes.com/victoria/files/2011/12/12.jpg
   http://www.aivahthemes.com/victoria/files/2011/12/10.jpg
   http://www.aivahthemes.com/victoria/files/2011/12/2.jpg
   http://www.aivahthemes.com/victoria/files/2011/12/14.jpg
   [/minigallery]
   

3. Homepage Widgets Shortcode

   <img src="http://www.aivahthemes.com/victoria/files/2011/12/widget1.png" width="300" height="120"/>
   <h4>Frontpage Column 1 Widget</h4>
   Quisque dignissim, ante sit amet imperdiet ultricies, felis enim luctus leo, et cursus leo libero in nisi. Donec sit amet ipsum velit, a faucibus purus