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New WordPress “Sites for Restaurants” – There is No Excuse for a Bad Website!

November 30, 2012 by PDX Food Dude 1 Comment

Wordpress Restaurants AnnouncementAt 17.2% of all the traffic on the web, WordPress is the most popular blogging platform on the internet. No only does it power the majority of personal blogs and even this site, it also is the engine behind The New York Times, People, CNN and more. Better yet, for the bulk of its users, the system is free. Even better, you don’t have a developer talking you into using Flash!

I’ve often thought it had great potential for restaurant websites, but using the system to display menus could be time-consuming, and the results weren’t too great. Now that has all changed, with the announcement this morning of “WordPress Sites for Restaurants”.

The new templates make it easy to create an entire website with built-in Open Table reservations, simple menus with drag and drop editing, maps, hours, full screen images etc. Even better, the whole site will be mobile ready, so your customers can view all the information while they are on the go. If you have or want a custom url, you can transfer it over for $13 a year.

This sounds like I am pimping for WordPress, but I know how many thousands of dollars are unnecessarily spent on the average restaurant website. For those with basic needs, it’s just not necessary. For a test, I opened a WordPress account and created a restaurant website with all the usual pages including a menu in less than an hour.

Here is the url for the announcement.

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  1. Ross Pullen says

    November 30, 2012 at 7:25 pm

    Absolutely right on . Even an inept tech guy like me can have his/her hand held and succeed with Word Press template and products . . I give my thanks to Don Elliott ; also to Scott Buntin of ASAP Mac & PC Services . They have allowed me to say my piece and put forth some recipes ,stories and ideas . If one has some good basic skills , they can do just like the Food Dude has with Portland Food and Drink , save money and offer a high quality product to the world .

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