Automattic Releases Bibimbap, a Free Block Theme for Restaurants – WP Tavern
Automattic has a brand new theme within the WordPress Themes Listing. Bibimbap, named for a beloved Korean consolation meals, is a restaurant theme. It’s described as “easy and enjoyable” however doesn’t include a dwell demo, so customers will should be ready to work with patterns to get their restaurant websites put collectively.
The house web page pictured within the screenshot shows a full width Cowl block with a picture because the background, a name to motion, and a few contact info. Bibimbap options the Cooper Hewitt typeface all through for paragraph textual content and headers.
The theme comes with 5 {custom} block patterns for constructing restaurant web sites:
- Contact sample with a map, location, and hours
- Cowl block sample for restaurant Specials
- Default footer
- Restaurant menu
- Menu add-ons
I took the theme for a take a look at drive and located that’s not very intuitive in its present state, though the patterns are properly designed. When first put in and activated on a brand new website, the theme seems clean with nothing in place and no trace of how it may be made to seem like the screenshot.
Essentially the most best expertise a block theme can present offers the consumer a ready-to-go web site that appears just like the demo, or no less than supplies a full-page sample that’s straightforward to insert. Bibimbap has missed just a few alternatives to make the theme extra user-friendly. Though it’s also accessible on WordPress.com below the Marketing strategy, the preview is much like the expertise of putting in it on a self-hosted website. With no dwell demo accessible, it’s troublesome to know the place to go after putting in it.
Within the Website Editor, customers might want to navigate to the wp-custom-template-home template to edit the house web page template. If it is a new web site, customers may even need to create a brand new web page and assign it to make use of the wp-custom-template-home web page template to get the fitting design.
The house web page header design is just not accessible by way of a sample, which might make the theme a lot extra versatile and straightforward to make use of, particularly within the case of multi-page web sites.
Though the theme comes with only a handful of patterns, they work nicely dropped onto the web page in any order.
Total, this theme is an effective choice for many who know their method round WordPress and the Website Editor. It makes it pretty fast to construct a restaurant web site with a cohesive design. The issues with user-friendliness will be simply remedied with just a few full-page patterns and a little bit of thought in direction of the expertise after activating the theme. Bibimbap is accessible without spending a dime from WordPress.org.
