Foodie World

Foodie World — A free Restaurant WordPress Theme has been crafted specially to help you create your very own stylish and delicious-looking website in only a few minutes. Foodie World is a clean and fresh-faced restaurant WordPress theme that has been crafted with minimal design to put your food first. The theme is highly customizable and perfect to show off your cuisine on your website elegantly. Foodie World has a welcoming and engaging appearance with a visually appealing look and simple menu pages. Foodie World is completely responsive and your website looks perfect on all devices. So, if you’re in the hunt for a fresh WordPress theme for your website to show off your restaurant and everything it has to offer, then Foodie World is the perfect one to go for. Also, the theme is translation-ready. For more details, check out Theme Instructions.

Check out Support Forum at https://catchthemes.com/support-forum/forum/foodie-world/ and Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/foodie-world/

Please download and activate Essential Content Type Plugin to activate Featured Content, Food Menu, Testimonial and Service feature on your site.

Features in “Foodie World Free Theme”

  1. Responsive Design
  2. Site Identity: Option to add/edit Custom Logo, enable/
    disable Site Title and Tagline, and option to add Site Icon (FavIcon/Webclip Icon)
  3. Colors: Option to change header text color and background color
  4. Header Media: Option to add Custom Header video or embed video from YouTube, display/hide Header Image, add Header Media Title, Header Media Text, Header Media URL Text, open link in new window/tab
  5. Menus: Option to use Primary Menu
  6. Breadcrumb Options: Option to enable/disable Breadcrumb
  7. Excerpt Options: Option to change Excerpt Length (words) and Read More Text
  8. Featured Content: Option to use Custom Post type(requires Essential Content Type Plugin) as featured content, enable/disable featured content on entire site or frontpage/homepage
  9. Featured Slider: Option to enable Featured Slider on Homepage, Entire Site or Disable it completely. Option to choose page as featured slider
  10. Food Menus: Enable/disable Food Menu in entire site or homepage/frontpage. Option to use Custom Post type(requires Essential Content Type Plugin) Food Menus, edit headline and subheadline, number of items, edit button text and button link
  11. Hero Content Options: Option to enable/disable Hero Content in Homepage/Frontpage and entire site. Select content type as Page.
  12. Homepage/Frontpage Setting: Option to show post from selective category
  13. Layout Options:
    1. Site Layout: Option to choose either Boxed or Fluid layout
    2. Default Layout: Option to choose from:
      • Right Sidebar (Content, Primary Sidebar)
      • No Sidebar
    3. Homepage/Archive Layout: Option to choose from:
      • Right Sidebar(Content,Primary Sidebar
      • No Sidebar:Full Width
    4. Single Page/Post Image Layout: Option to choose various page/post Image layouts
      • Disabled
      • Enable
  14. Pagination Options: Option to choose Pagination type from
    1. Default (Older Posts/Newer Posts)
    2. Numeric (Requires WP-PageNavi Plugin)
    3. Infinite Scroll (Click and Scroll: Requires Jetpack Plugin with Infinite Scroll module enabled)
  15. Scrollup Options: Option to enable/disable Scroll Up
  16. Search Options: Option to change text in search field.
  17. Services: Option to enable/disable Services in Homepage/Frontpage and entire site. Select Custom Post Type (requires Essential Content Type Plugin ). as services, change number of items, enable/disable title.
  18. Testimonials : Option to enable/disable Testimonials in Homepage/Frontpage and entire site. Option to select Custom Post Type (requires Essential Content Type Plugin ) as testimonials
  19. Additional CSS: Option to add your own CSS style to change the design as per your need
  20. Reset all settings: Option to reset all the setting to default
  21. Widgets: 1 Widgets to choose from, CT: Social Icon
  22. Widget Areas: 4 widgetized (Sidebar) areas, they are 1. Sidebar, 2. Footer One, 3. Footer Two, 4. Footer Three
  23. Content Types: To get content types you need Essential Content Type Plugin.
  24. Essential Content Type: You can get following option if you use Essential Content Type plugin
    1. Custom Content Type
      • Featured Content
      • Testimonials
      • Services
      • Food Menu

Additional Features in “Foodie World Pro Theme”

  1. Colors: Option to choose Base Color Scheme as Default, Light, Dark, Gray or Red and also choose Background Color, Page Background Color, Section Background Color, Gradient Base Background Color, Gradient Base Background, Gradient Secondary Background Color, Gradient Text Color, Headings Text Color, Main Text Color, Header Text Color, Fixed Header Text Color, Link color, Link Hover Color, Button Background Color, Button Text Color, Button Hover Background Color, Button Hover Text Color and Border Color
  2. Menus: Option to use Primary Menu, Social on Primary Menu with Modern style and mobile menu, Social On Slider/Header Image and Social on Footer Menu
  3. Comment Options: Option to use WordPress setting for comments or disable it completely or in pages
  4. Featured Content: Option to select Post, Page, Category, Image, Custom Post Type (requires Essential Content Type Plugin ) as Featured Content further option to enable/disable content on Entire site and Homepage/Frontpage, select featured content layout, edit Headline and Subheadline for Featured Content, select no. of featured content, Display Content, Display Meta, select multiple categories
  5. Featured Slider: Option to enable Featured Slider on Homepage, Entire Site or Disable it completely. Option to select featured slider from Post, Page, Category or Image
  6. Food Menus: Option to select Page, Post, Category, Image and Custom Post Types(requires Essential Content Type Plugin as Food Menus
  7. Font Family Options: Option to choose different fonts for Default Font Family, Site title font family, Site tagline font family, Headings tags from h1 to h6 font family, Content title and Content body font family
  8. Food Menu:Option to choose food menu as Post, Page, Category, Custom, Custom Post Type (requires Essential Content Type Plugin )
  9. Footer Contact: Option to add footer contact as Post, Page, Custom, further option to edit title, description and custom content code
  10. Footer Editor Options: Option to edit footer content right
  11. Header Top: Option to enable/disable search on header top
  12. Hero Content: Option to enable/disable Hero Content in Homepage/Frontpage and entire site. Select content type as Post, Page, Category or Image. Option to display content as show excerpt, full content or hide content.
  13. Layout Options:
    1. Site Layout: Option to choose either Fluid or Boxed layout
    2. Default Layout: Option to choose from:
      • Right Sidebar (Content, Primary Sidebar)
      • LeftSidebar (Primary Sidebar, Content)
      • No Sidebar
      • No Sidebar (Full Width)
    3. Homepage/Archive Layout: Option to choose from:
      • Right Sidebar (Content, Primary Sidebar)
      • LeftSidebar (Primary Sidebar, Content)
      • No Sidebar
      • NoSidebar (Full Width)
    4. Single Page/Post Layout:
      • Post Thumbnail(1060*596)
      • Featured(664*373)
      • Original Image Size
    5. WooCommerce Layout:
      • Right Sidebar (Content, Primary Sidebar)
      • LeftSidebar (Primary Sidebar, Content)
      • No Sidebar
      • No Sidebar: Full Width
  14. Menu Options: Option to choose Classic and Modern menu sytle
  15. Services: Option to enable/disable Services in Homepage/Frontpage and entire site. Select content type as Post, Page, Category, Image and Custom Post Type (requires Essential Content Type Plugin ).
  16. Testimonials: Option to enable/disable Testimonials in Homepage/Frontpage and entire site. Select content type as Post, Page, Category, Image and Custom Post Type (requires Essential Content Type Plugin ). Option to select layout for testimonials.
  17. Feed Redirect: Option to redirect your feed to feedburner
  18. Update Notifier: Option to enable/disable update notifications
  19. WooCommerce Options: Option to enable/disable Zoom, Lightbox and Slider effects for WooCommerce Product Gallery
  20. Widget Areas: Additional 10 widgetized areas which makes total of 14 widgetized (Sidebar) areas, they are 1. Sidebar, 2. Footer One, 3. Footer Two, 4. Footer Three, 5. Footer Four, 6. WooCommerce Sidebar, 7. 404 Page Not Found Content, 8. Optional Homepage Sidebar, 9. Optional Archive Sidebar, 10. Optional Page Sidebar, 11. Optional Post Sidebar, 12. Optional Sidebar One, 13. Optional Sidebar Two and 14. Optional Sidebar Three
  21. Widgets: 1 Widgets to choose from, they are: 1. CT: Social Icon
  22. WPML Ready : Supports WPML for Multilingual sites

This theme relies heavily on Featured Images. If your post is missing a Featured Image, the post image will not show up on homepage, on archived pages and on Featured Page Slider. Click Here to see how to add Featured Image in your Post/Page.

Image Sizes:#

Custom Header
Width: 1920px
Height: 400px

Post Thumbnail
Width: 480px
Height: 360px

Slider Image:
Width: 1920px
Height: 822px

Inner Page Header
Width: 1920px
Height: 500px

Hero Content:
Width: 480px
Height: 640px

Testimonial:
Width: 115px
Height: 115px

Service:
Width: 740px
Height: 555px

How to add Featured Image in Post/Page?

  1. Open the editor of the post/page where you want to display image, and locate the Featured Image module in the bottom right corner under Page Attributes. Click on Set Featured Image.
  2. Then you can either upload the image from your computer or select the existing image from your media library and click on Set Featured Image.Click to view screenshot
  3. For more detail, click here to watch video Screencast

Regenerate Thumbnails #

If you have just changed your theme then you need to regenerate image thumbnail for post published before activating this theme. You can simply install Regenerate Thumbnails Plugin. Then Regenerate Thumbnails through “Tools => Regen. Thumbnails” in your WordPress Dashboard.

Customizer (Theme Options) #

You can customize this theme using cool additional features through Customizer at “Appearance => Customize” from your WordPress Dashboard.

Header Setup#

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Site Identity
  2. You can replace the default logo by clicking on it or clicking on Change Image
  3. Then you can either upload the image from your computer or select the existing image from your media library
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to disable Site Title and Tagline? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Site Identity
  2. Uncheck “Disable Site Title and Tagline” and it will not dispaly Site Title and Tagline
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to add Site Icon (Favicon/Web Clip Icon)? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Site Identity => Site Icon”
  2. Click on “Select Image” and then you can either upload the image from your computer or select the existing image from your media library
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to add Header Video? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Media”
  2. To upload your video, click on “Select Video” option, then you can either upload the video from your computer or select the existing video from your media library, video must be less than 8mb
  3. To embed video from Youtube, you can enter YouTube URL
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to add Header Image? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Media”
  2. To upload header image click on “Add New Image” or existing Header Image, then you can either upload the image from your computer or select the existing image from your media library
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Foodie World offers exciting Menu Options! This theme supports and recommends using “Custom Menus”. You can create Custom Menu through “Appearance => Menus” from your WordPress Dashboard.

Select Menu Locations

You can assign your custom menu in 1 locations. You assign it either from “Appearance => Customize => Menus => Manage Location” or from “Appearance => Menus => Manage Location”
Select your Custom Menu as Primary Menu to display it as the Main Menu, which will replace the default Page Menu

Comment Options #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Comment Options”
  2. Under “Comment Option” select desired option from Use WordPress setting, Disable in Pages and Disable Completely
  3. To disable note below comments box, check option “Check to Disable Notes”
  4. To disable website field, check option “Check to Disable Website Field”
  5. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to Change the Excerpt Length and Read More Text? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Excerpt Options”
  2. Type in the Excerpt Length as in, the number of words, and Read More Text
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Featured Content #

Foodie World supports Custom Post Type as Featured Content.
Custom Post Type(requires Essential Content Type Plugin ). For Featured Content Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Content”

How to enable Featured Content?#

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
  2. To enable featured content, select “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable on”
  3. Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Post, Page, Category, Image or Custom Post Types” as per your need
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to use Featured Content using Custom Post Type?#

  1. To use this featured, install Essential Content Type
  2. After that you can find Essential Content Type option in your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Click on “Essential Content Type”, there you can see “Featured Content” option then you need to click on the button of Featured Content option(This option is enabled by default)
  4. Then click on “Add New” and create your own content, click on Publish
  5. Then go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Content”, make sure featured content is enabled
  6. Under “Type”, you need to select “Custom Post Type”
  7. Then, under Featured Content #1, Featured Content #2 and so on add the content you have made
  8. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Foodie World supports Page as Featured Slider. For Featured Slider Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options =>Featured Slider”.

How to enable Featured Slider?#

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Slider” from your WordPress Dashboard
  2. To enable slider, select “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable on”
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Page (Featured Slider)

Features page slider is created to highlight your Page in the slider. So, first you need to create a Page and then add Featured Image to the Page.

How to enable Featured Page Slider?#

  1. Make sure featured slider is enabled
  2. Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Page”
  3. Then Select Page under Post #1, Post #2 and so on, to display them as your featured slider
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note:
When you select page, make sure your page have Featured Image. Click here to watch our Video Screencast to add Featured Image.

How to change Transition Effect, Transition Delay and Transition Length on Slider?#

  1. Make sure featured slider is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Slider” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. To change Transition Effect, select option under “Transition Effect”
  4. To change Transition Delay, change number of second(s) under “Transition Delay” as per your need
  5. To change Transition Length, change number of second(s) under “Transition Length” as per your need
  6. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Image Loader#

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Slider” from your WordPress Dashboard
  2. Under “Image Loader”, select “True, False or Wait” as per your need
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note:
True: Fixes the height overlap issue. Slideshow will start as soon as two slider are available. Slide may display in random, as image is fetch.
Wait: Fixes the height overlap issue. Slideshow will start only after all images are available.

How to change number of slides in featured slider?#

  1. Make sure featured slider is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Slider” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Under “No of Slides”, select the number slides as per your need
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: To see changes in No of Slides please refresh the customizer page.

Food Menus #

Foodie World supports custom post type as food menu.
Custom Post Type(requires Essential Content Type Plugin ). For Featured Content Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Food Menus”

How to use Food Menu using Custom Post Type?#

  1. To use this featured, install Essential Content Type
  2. After that you can find Essential Content Type option in your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Click on “Essential Content Type”, there you can see “Food Menu” option then you need to click on the button of Featured Content option, then you can see Food Menu option in your WordPress Dashboard
  4. First you need to create section, click on “Food Menu => Menu Section” to create your own menu section, there you can add “Name”, “Slug” and “Description” for your menu
  5. Then, click on “Add Many Items” select the section under “Add the section” to which you want to add your menu items, add name price as per your need and , click on Add these new menu items
  6. Then go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Menu Option”, select type as Custom Post Type under Menu 1, Menu 2 and so on add your menu sections.
  7. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Hero Content #

Foodie World supports Page as Hero Content. For Hero Content Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Hero Content Options”.

How to enable Hero Content? #

  1. Go to Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Hero Content Options
  2. To enable Hero Content, select option Entire Site or Homepage/Frontpage under “Enable Hero Content on”
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Page (Hero Content)#

Select Page to highlight your page as Hero Content.

  1. Make sure hero content is enabled
  2. Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Page”
  3. Under “Page”, select desired page to show as hero content.
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Layout Options #

Foodie World has 2 Site Layout, 2 Default Layout, 2 Homepage/Archive Layout, 2 Featured Image layout to choose from “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Layout Options”

Site Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the option below “Site Layout” which will set your site layout.

Default Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Default Layout Options” which will set our site layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting custom layout for individual pages and posts through “Foodie World Options => Layout Options”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing

Homepage/Archive Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Homepage/Archive Layout” which will set our layout for Homepage/Archive Page. Further, you have the choice of selecting custom layout for individual pages and posts through “Foodie World Options => Layout Options”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing

Single Page/Post Image Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Single Page/Post Image Layout” which will set our posts/page image layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting Single Page/Post Image Layout for individual pages and posts through “Foodie World Options => Single Page/Post Image Layout”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing.

How to change Pagination Options? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Pagination Options”
  2. Under Pagination Type, select desired option
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Promotion Headline #

Foodie World Page as Promotion Headline. For Promotion Headline Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Promotion Headline”.

How to enable promotion headline?

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Promotion Headline”
  2. Enable Promotion Headline by click option under “Enable On”, entire site, homepage/frontpage, About Page template or Homepage
  3. If you choose Page under “Page”option as Promotion Headline
  4. Further option to enable/disable title
  5. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to enable/disable Scrollup feature? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Scrollup Options”
  2. Check option “Check to disable Scroll Up”
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to change default text in search box? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Search Options”
  2. Change the text below “Display Default Text in Search”
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Services #

Foodie World supports Custom Post Type as services.
Requires our free plugin Essential Content Type

How to add Service in Homepage/Frontpage using Essential Content Type?#
Follow these steps to showcase projects on your site:

  1. First you need to install Essential Content Type
  2. After that you can find Essential Content Type option in your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Click on “Essential Content Type”, there you can see “Service” option then you need to on the button of Service option(This option is enabled by default)
  4. Then click on “Add New” and create your own content, click on Publish
  5. Then go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Service”, make sure services is enabled
  6. Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Custom Post Type”
  7. Then, under Service #1, Service #2 and so on add the content you have made to display as service
  8. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: To change number of services to be shown change option from No of items

Testimonials #

Foodie World supports Custom Post Type as Testimonials.
Follow these steps to use testimonials:

  1. First Go to Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Testimonial
  2. Under Enable on : you can select Homepage / Frontpage, entire site or completely disable it.
  3. Under Select Content Type: You can select form Post, Page, Category, or Custom post type (requires essential content types plugin).
  4. Under Headline you can change the heading of your testimonial
  5. Under Sub headline you can change the sub heading of your testimonial
  6. If you select content type as “Page”, choose the page under Page1, Page2 and so on as your testimonial
  7. If you select content type as “Post”, choose the post under Post 1, Post 2 and so on as your testimonial
  8. If you select content type as “Category”, choose the categories under “Select Categoires” as your testimonial
  9. If you select content type as “Image” then add Image, Link, Testimonial Text, Name, Position under respective headings
  10. If you select content as “Custom Post Type”, it requies our free plugin Essential Content Type
  11. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: To change number of testimonial to be shown change option from No of items, further option to move testimonial above the footer

How to enable/disable update notifications? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Update Notifier”
  2. Check option “Check to disable update notifications” to disable and uncheck to enable
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Widget Area (Sidebar)#

Foodie World currently has 4 widgetized (Sidebar) areas there are: 1. Sidebar, 2. Footer One, 3. Footer Two, 4. Footer Three Go to “Appearance => Widgets” or “Appearance => Customize => Widgets” in WordPress.

Widgets #

Foodie World Pro has 1 Widgets to choose from. They are: 1. CT: Social Icons. You can add widget in widget area as per your need.

How to add Widgets in widget area? #

You can add widgets to your widget area from two location

1. Go to “Appearance => Widget”, then drag the widget to the widget area or you can click in the widget then list of widget area will appear, now you can choose desired widget area and click on “Add Widget”.

2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Widgets”, then you can find list of widget area. Click on the any widget area and you will see “Add a Widget” option by click on it you can find list of Widget which you can add to respected widget area.

How to add “Social Icon” in widget area(CT:Social Icon)? #

This widget is used to add social icons as a widget.

  1. Add CT:Social Icon to desired widget area. More Info
  2. Add “Title” under the respective field.
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Additional CSS #

You can add your custom CSS that will overwrite the theme CSS for further design customization through “Appearance => Customize => Additional CSS”, in your WordPress Dashboard.

Note: If you are doing heavy customization and adding lot of custom css then we recommended to build Child Theme and add it in your child theme style.css file. Read More about child theme…

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* Regenerate Thumbnails to for Regenerating Thumbnails
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