MenuPlus:Documentation

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Contents 1 Overview 1.1 Content types 1.1.1 Award 1.1.2 Blog entry 1.1.3 Daily Menu 1.1.4 Dish 1.1.5 Event 1.1.6 Photo Album 1.1.7 Service 1.1.8 Slideshow entry 1.1.9 Testimonial 1.2 Image handling 1.3 Pre-configured Blocks 1.3.1 Slideshow (Full Screen) 1.3.2 Slideshow (Full Width) 1.3.3 Slideshow (Boxed) 1.3.4 Banner Award 1.3.5 About Us 1.3.6 More Events 1.3.7 Contact Info 1.3.8 Starters 1.3.9 Salads 1.3.10 Daily Menus 1.3.11 Main Dishes 1.3.12 Deserts 1.3.13 Shopping cart 1.3.14 Latest Posts 1.3.15 Payment methods 1.3.16 Newsletter - Sidebar 1.3.17 Block with image 1.3.18 Popular tags 1.3.19 Testimonials Block 1.3.20 Opening Hours 1.3.21 Webform: Make your reservation 1.3.22 Our Menu 1.3.23 Selected Dishes (Promoted posts) 1.3.24 Latest Event 1.3.25 Latest Events 1.3.26 Testimonials Block - Front Page 1.3.27 Subscribe 1.3.28 Social Bookmarks - Footer Top 1.3.29 About 1.3.30 Twitter Updates 1.3.31 Latest Blog Posts 1.3.32 Photo Gallery 1.3.33 Footer Logo 2 How to 2.1 Add a new Award 2.2 Add a new Blog entry 2.3 Add a new Daily Menu 2.4 Add a new Dish 2.5 Add a new Event 2.6 Add a new Photo Gallery 2.7 Add a new Testimonial 2.8 Publish a post to the front-page slideshow 2.8.1 Blog entry, Event, Dish, Daily Menu or Photo Gallery 2.8.2 Slideshow entry 2.9 Change the layout mode (Wide/Boxed) of the theme regions 2.10 Change the initial height of Fullwidth Slideshow 2.11 Change the initial height of Boxed width Slideshow 2.12 Customize the opacity of the overlayed slideshow elements 2.13 Customize the opacity of the Parallax/Video region background 2.14 Customize the main menu for mobile dimensions

Overview

Content types

Menu+ comes with six build in Content types

• Award
• Blog entry
• Daily Menu
• Dish
• Event
• Photo Gallery
• Slideshow entry
• Testimonial

Of course Menu+ also supports the rest of Drupal's default content types: Article and Basic page as well as the Webform content type.

Award

Use Awards to show-off prizes, great reviews and, well, awards(!) for your business. It supports adding a hyperlink to the website where the review has been posted.

Blog entry

A blog entry, similar in form to a story, is ideal for creating and displaying content that carries images and informs or engages website visitors. Press releases, site announcements, and informal blog entries may all be created with a blog entry content type. By default, a blog entry is automatically featured on the site's initial home page, and provides the ability to post comments. It has the option to be displayed into front page slide show. It provides the ability to attach an image which is automatically adjusted to fit into the websites layout. Blog entry enables free tagging (just like labels), taking the taxonomy one step further.

Daily Menu

A Daily Menu post enables you to pick and bundle a number of options from your catalogue into a daily menu, presenting everything in a nice manner.

Dish

A Dish post is ideal for presenting what’s included in your catalog. It has the option to be promoted to the front page slide show. Furthermore, it supports a main, as well as in-page images, which, along with auto-created thumbnails, are automatically adjusted to fit into the website layout.

Event

Use for posting details for new events that take place online or on-site in your business location.

Photo Album

A Photo Gallery post is ideal for creating and displaying photos. It comes with the option to be promoted to the front page slide show. It provides the ability to attach an image, which is automatically adjusted to fit into the layout. Furthermore, it provides the option to attach a series of images, thumbnails of which are automatically created and adjusted to fit into the website layout. A Photo Gallery post supports free tagging (just like labels), helping you make the most of the taxonomy system.

Service

A Service post is ideal for creating and displaying services. It has the option to be displayed into front page slide show. It provides the ability to attach an image which is automatically adjusted to fit into the websites layout. What’s particularly cool about a Service post, is that it provides the ability to attach a series of images, thumbnails of which are automatically created and adjusted to fit into the website layout. Service post enables free tagging (just like labels), taking the bests from the taxonomy system.

Slideshow entry

A Slideshow entry is ideal for creating commercial banners as well as messages for your website. Use it to promote any page of your website or URL into the front page slide show. It can carry a title, a teaser and an image linking to an internal path or external link.

Testimonial

The Testimonial entry is perfect to showcase the words of love from your users and customers. Use it to easily publish testimonials on your site. A special View Block and a View Page are already configured to show them off perfectly.

Image handling

Menu+ comes with pre-configured image presets ready to be used. All the content types make use of this and produce all necessary thumbnails and other derived images.

Just upload your images and Menu+ will use them for the Front Page and any other place where a derived image is needed.

Pre-configured Blocks

Menu+ comes with a set of pre-configured ready-to-use blocks and view blocks:

Slideshow (Full Screen)

This view block collects and displays the promoted to Slideshow nodes in a full screen slideshow.

Slideshow (Full Width)

This view block collects and displays the promoted to Slideshow nodes in a full width slideshow.

Slideshow (Boxed)

This view block collects and displays the promoted to Slideshow nodes in a boxed slideshow.

Banner Award

This view block collects and displays the latest Award over the Slideshow.

About Us

More Events

This view block collects and displays the latest 4 Events other than the current Event node.

Contact Info

Starters

This view block collects and displays all the dishes that belong to the "Starters" taxonomy term. This block is visible on the "Menu" page.

Salads

This view block collects and displays all the dishes that belong to the "Salads" taxonomy term. This block is visible on the "Menu" page.

Daily Menus

This view block collects and displays all the Daily Menus. This block is visible on the "Menu" page.

Main Dishes

This view block collects and displays all the dishes that belong to the "Main Dishes" taxonomy term. This block is visible on the "Menu" page.

Deserts

This view block collects and displays all the dishes that belong to the "Deserts" taxonomy term. This block is visible on the "Menu" page.

Shopping cart

Latest Posts

This view block collects and displays the latest Articles and Blog entries.

Payment methods

Ready made, HTML block with eye-candy icons that display the accepted payment methods.

Newsletter - Sidebar

Ready made, HTML block that displays a dummy form to be used with your preferred newsletter integration.

Block with image

Popular tags

This view block collects and displays the tags of all the taxonomy vocabularies of your site as well as the number of the corresponding nodes that were tagged with this term.

Testimonials Block

This view block collects and displays the latest one Testimonial.

Opening Hours

Ready made, HTML block that displays the opening hours of your establishment in a simple table.

Webform: Make your reservation

Simple webform block to dispay the Reservation form in every page. This block is connected to the corresponding webform node.

Our Menu

Selected Dishes (Promoted posts)

This view block collects and displays the latest Articles, Blog Entries, Daily Menus and Dishes that are Promoted to the Front page.

Latest Event

This view block collects and displays the latest Event.

Latest Events

This view block collects and displays the latest three Events skipping the most recent.

Testimonials Block - Front Page

This view block collects and displays the latest six Testimonials as a slideshow.

Subscribe

Ready made, HTML block that displays a dummy form to be used with your preferred newsletter integration.

Social Bookmarks - Footer Top

Ready made, HTML block with eye-candy social icons.

About

Twitter Updates

Connects with a given twitter account and displays automatically the latest tweets.

Latest Blog Posts

This view block collects and displays the latest two Blog posts.

Photo Gallery

This view block collects and displays the latest 9 Daily Menu, Dish or Photo Gallery nodes that contain at least one image.

Footer Logo

How to

Add a new Award

1. Select "Add Content" and click on "Award" link
2. Enter a title
3. Upload a photo
4. Enter the Body text
5. Enter a link (Title / URL)

Add a new Blog entry

1. Select "Add Content" and click on the Blog entry content type
2. Enter a title
3. Enter the body text
4. If you want to display images as Internal Banner use the Internal Banner Image field
5. If you want to display text over the Internal Banner image use the Internal banner text field
6. Upload as many In-page Image(s) as you like.
7. Enter any tags that you wish.

Add a new Daily Menu

1. Select "Add Content" and click on the "Daily Menu" content type
2. Enter a title
3. Enter the Subheader body
4. Enter the body text
5. If you want to display images as Internal Banner use the Internal Banner Image field
6. If you want to display text over the Internal Banner image use the Internal banner text field
7. Upload as many In-page Image(s) as you like.
8. Add as many Dishes as you like to assign to this node by using the Combined dish(es) field
9. Use the Price field to display the total price of the Daily menu

Add a new Dish

1. Select "Add Content" and click on the "Dish" content type
2. Enter a title
3. Enter the Subheader body
4. Enter the body text
5. Add a label to be displayed to the Menu page
6. If you want to display images as Internal Banner use the Internal Banner Image field
7. If you want to display text over the Internal Banner image use the Internal banner text field
8. Upload as many In-page Image(s) as you like.
9. Add as many Dishes as you like to be refernced through this node by using the Combined dish(es) field
10. Select the Menu category that you like
11. Use the Price field to display the price of the Dish

Add a new Event

1. Select "Add Content" and click on the "Event" content type
2. Enter a title
3. Enter the Subheader body
4. Enter the body text
5. Select the event date throught the Event Date Date Field
6. Enter the event location
7. If you want to display images as Internal Banner use the Internal Banner Image field
8. If you want to display text over the Internal Banner image use the Internal banner text field
9. Upload as many In-page Image(s) as you like.

Add a new Photo Gallery

1. Select "Add Content" and click on the Photo Gallery content type
2. Enter a title
3. Enter the Subheader body
4. Enter the body text
5. If you want to display images as Internal Banner use the Internal Banner Image field
6. If you want to display text over the Internal Banner image use the Internal banner text field
7. Upload as many In-page Image(s) as you like.
8. Enter any tags that you wish.

Add a new Testimonial

1. Select "Add Content" and click on "Testimonial" link
2. Enter a title
3. Enter a subtitle
4. Enter the Body text
5. Upload a Testimonial image

Publish a post to the front-page slideshow

Blog entry, Event, Dish, Daily Menu or Photo Gallery

1. Create a new or edit an existing node of the above content types
2. Make sure you have uploaded the Slideshow image using the Tease image field
3. Optionally enter a Tease Text to appear on the slide.
4. Check the "Promoted on slideshow" option

Your image will automatically be uploaded and resized to fit in the Slideshow. Your post now is part of the front page Slideshow.

Slideshow entry

1. Create a new Slideshow Entry
2. Enter the title and upload an image using the Slideshow entry image
3. Set the Slideshow entry path. It can also be an external link.
4. Make sure the Promoted on slideshow check box is enabled.
5. Optionally enter a Teaser Text to appear on the slide.

Change the layout mode (Wide/Boxed) of the theme regions

1. Navigate to the Layout theme settings
2. Expand the Theme Layout fieldset
3. Select the desired layout mode through the "Layout Mode" select box

Change the initial height of Fullwidth Slideshow

1. Navigate to the Slideshow theme settings
2. Expand the Revolution Slider - Full Width fieldset
3. Set the desired height in pixels for the Full Width Slider in the "Initial Height (px)" field

Change the initial height of Boxed width Slideshow

1. Navigate to the Slideshow theme settings
2. Expand the Revolution Slider - Boxed Width fieldset
3. Set the desired height in pixels for the Boxed Width Slider in the "Initial Height (px)" field

Customize the opacity of the overlayed slideshow elements

1. Navigate to the Slideshow theme settings
2. Set the % opacity for the background of the overlayed elements in the "Revolution Slider Caption Background Opacity" field

Customize the opacity of the Parallax/Video region background

1. Navigate to the Parallax/Video background region theme settings
2. Set the % opacity for the background of the parallax region in the Parallax Background/Video Background Opacity field.

Customize the main menu for mobile dimensions

To change the default responsive menu rendering and display the menu as a select follow the instruction below.

1. Disable the Responsive menu option in the theme settings
2. Enable the sf-Smallscreen plugin in the superfish-menu block settings

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