Menus in Confit are lacking
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We use the Confit theme and recently spent a l-o-o-n-g time with chat help trying to get what we are looking for.
Our biggest concern is that the menu takes up a lot of space and needs tons of scrolling. It’s hard to get a picture of the food because you see so little of it. I fear customers attention will wane.
Looking at it on an iPhone or computer, it’s the same: we would tighten the leading some and cut the space between paragraphs to 25% of what it currently is.
We would also prefer a larger and more visible Download Pdf button
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Followup: While our web guy has issues with how to display our different menus (we have four), my issue is about the feeling of the page. To restate it from my first post: the menu looks like someone’s blog, not like a menu. Anything you can do to make the formatting more appropriate would be appreciated.
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Hello, your website looks very nice now. You probably have resolved the issues you mentioned. I wonder if you would have time to share the solutions you found, please? How were you able to get the different menus looking the way they do?
Thank you very much for your help.
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Hi 2012gooner,
If you have specific need(s) for your site, it’d be great if you can list them while letting us know the URL to your site as well.
That way, we can better create the CSS solution for you :)
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Sorry, I listed my issue. Our web designer wanted to be able to have several menu pages instead of just one.
FWIW, an ice cream shop or snack bar might just have one menu, but most places have lunch, dinner, breakfast, etc. as separate menus, since not all food is available at all times of the day/week. It would make life easier for us if we could have separate links to these separate menus— for a while we were re-writing menu sections weekly, but it was way too much time.
Case in point: we post all our menu items— weekday, friday night, weekend— in that order (by time through the week). Customer wants to see the Friday night tapas menu, they have to scroll through the weekday sandwiches, which we don’t serve Friday night. Chances are they will assume we are too informal (we aren’t) or inappropriate; or else they will just give up before they reach the right section.
We like the convenience of the menus with downloadable pdf button, but we just can’t use it. Since Confit is supposed to be a restaurant theme, how about enabling multiple menus for the majority of us who have them?
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Hi carmenscafetroy,
Since asking you about this, I’ve been able to create a child theme for my self-hosted wordpress that allows me to have multiple menus. Of course I’ve only tested it out on my own site.
If you have the capability to self-host as well, I am happy to share my child theme with you. I don’t see a way to create a child theme on wordpress.com, unfortunately.
The idea is fairly simple though. The components are already there in Confit:
1. style.css: in the “Menu Item” section, remove all the references to “.page-template-page-menu-php”. In effect make the style apply to other files, not just the ones from this php.
2. archive.php: the most extensive changes are done here.
a) Modify the query to return posts in ascending order. If this isn’t done, the menu is returned in reversed order. I am not happy with this fixed order, however. It would be better if it followed the order presented in the list of menu items, but I haven’t figured out a way to do that yet.
b) Remove all the stuff about headers, since I don’t intend to use this for anything except menus and static pages. This has the added benefit of removing the useless header with the word “Archives”.
c) In The Loop, call get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘menu’ ), instead of get_template_part( ‘content’, get_post_format() ).
d) Remove the confit_content_nav stuff, as I didn’t care for them.
3. Assuming that you have created the appropriate menu sections, now in Appearance – Menus, just add the appropriate Menu Sections to your primary menu. Voila!
Perhaps someone from Automattic can take these ideas to release an update of Confit for all to use. That would be wonderful. I’m sure the professionals at Automattic would make everything work more flexibly.
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