Ginger 1.3.9 (May 11, 2024) – Changelog
Compatible with WordPress 6.5+ and WooCommerce 8.8+. Ready for PHP 8+.

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Ginger is a modern WordPress theme suitable for every restaurant, cafe, bistro, pub, bar, winery, and also for online shop, blog and-and any other kind of business.

Featured on ThemeForest: Selected by Envato team among thousands of WordPress themes on ThemeForest. A Modern WordPress Theme for Every Type of Restaurant

The design of the theme is fully customizable and highly optimized for mobile, so will adapt itself to any mobile or tablet device. The theme is ready-to-use, with no needed coding or design skills. The theme offers all essential restaurant features such as menu management, event promotions, gallery management, blogging, online reservation form with reservations management, and online shopping powered by WooCommerce.

Everything you need to create and manage a professional restaurant, cafe, blog, shop, or business website.

Fully Responsive: The theme looks great and sharp on all kind of devices and screen sizes. Accessible for Disabled Users: The web is easy to use and readable for blind users and voice readers. Search Engine Optimized: Usage of the structured data helping to get the highest rankings in search engines. 20+ Decorative Borders: Choose one of the fabulous decorative SVG borders to enhance the visual impression of the website. 30+ Seamless Patterns: Make your website unique with an extensive collection of exclusive SVG patterns for overlay the images. Fully Customizable: The design is fully customizable via native WordPress Live Customizer. Unlimited colors. All 800+ Google fonts. Sell Anything: Create a shop and sell anything that you want with the advanced WooCommerce integration. Reservation System: Let your guests quickly book a table at a restaurant and manage all your reservations in one place. Promoting Events: Organize and promote your events or specialties to attract new guests or reach existing customers. Image Gallery: Create simple or extensive gallery to organize all your image media in one single place. Page Builder Ready: The theme is compatible with the popular page builders like Visual Composer, Page Builder or Live Composer. Fully Translatable: The theme is ready to be translated to any language. POT & PO/MO files included. Built with Love by FORQY: Trusted and experienced Elite Author. Selling on Envato Market since 2011.

Ginger Features

12 Complete websites to one-click import
Live customizing
with native WordPress Customizer (colors, fonts, widgets & settings of the theme)
No dependency on third-party plugins or page builder plugins!
Gutenberg WordPress editor compatible
Search engine optimized (SEO):
- Structured data (rich snippets) for excellent results in search engines
- Highly optimized for speed and high performance
- Accessible for disabled users (WCAG 2.0, Level AAA compliant)
- Valid HTML5/CSS3
Advanced design options
- 1480+ Google fonts
- 20+ Decorative borders
- 80+ Seamless patterns
Translation ready
- Languages included: English (default), Czech
- POT file included
- Translatable into any language
- Loco Translate plugin compatible (Free)
Multi-lingual ready
- Polylang plugin compatible (Free)
- WPML plugin compatible
Easy-to-use admin interface
Reservation system [view reservations]
- Reservation form
- Reservations management with reservation status
- Email notifications
- Data validation
- Secured with reCaptcha/noCaptcha (optional)
- GDPR ready – terms and conditions assignment (optional)
Restaurant menu management [view menu]
- American and european menu style or whatever
- Multiple prices for different quantities
- Unlimited ingredients
- Unlimited tags
- Optional single pages
- Optional images
Events management [view events]
- Start/end date
- Time
- Location information
- Status
- Ticket price
- Ticket button
Gallery management [view gallery]
Shop powered by WooCommerce (optional) [view shop]
- Unlimited possibilities!
- Add and manage products
- Product types:
  - Simple product
  - Variable product
  - Grouped product
  - Virtual/Downloadable product
  - External/Affiliate product
- Inventory management
- Flexible shipping options
- Built-in analytics & reporting
- Pre-installed payment gateways
  - Direct bank transfer
  - Cheque payment
  - Cash on delivery
  - Credit card payments with PayPal
  - Credit card payment with Simplify Commerce (US only)
- View all WooCommerce features
Blogging platform
- Standard post format
- Gallery post format
- Video post format
  - Self-hosted video
  - Embed video – YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, etc.
- Audio post format
  - Self-hosted audio
  - Embed audio – Spotify, SoundCloud, etc.
- Quote post format
- Paginated posts
- Password protected posts
Slideshow management
Pages management
- 10+ custom page templates
- Coming soon page template
- Featured images
Contact form
- In-built form
- Data validation
- Secured with reCaptcha/noCaptcha (optional)
- GDPR Ready – terms and conditions assignment (optional)
- Contact Form 7 supported
Video support
- Slideshow slide background
- Header background
- Page content
- Post content
Created with modern, semantic and clean HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery
Optimized for mobile – fully responsive
Optimized for speed and high performance [View tests]
Retina and HiDPI ready
Cross-browser compatible
Masonry or flexbox layout
Standard (with left or right sidebar) and full-width blog layout
Collection of shortcodes
Usable layout shortcodes
Widgetized homepage (3 widget areas)
Widgetized sidebars
Widgetized footer
Logo upload
Loading logo upload
Favicon upload
Background image upload
Header image upload
Favicon upload
Navigation
Sticky navigation (optional)
Auto-hide navigation (optional)
Paginated posts
Password protected posts
Touchable slideshow
Social media icons
Social share buttons
Masonry or Flexbox layout
Standard (with left or right sidebar) and full-width blog layout
Accessible image lightbox
Browsing restaurant menu with lightbox
Page loading (optional)
Lazy loading of images
Social networks connection
Compatible with most popular plugins (optional)
- WooCommerce
- Contact Form 7
- SEOPress
- WPML
- Polylang
- Loco Translate
- MailChimp
- Autoptimize
- WP Super Cache
- And much more …
Automatic updates with Envato Market plugin (optional)
FREE lifetime updates
Child theme included
Extensive documentation
Top-notch support
And much more …

Requirements

Your server should meet the standard WordPress requirements (https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/) and with PHP limits set to:

upload_max_filesize: 256M
memory_limit: 256M
post_max_size: 512M
max_input_time: 300
max_execution_time: 300

Need help? We are here for you

Please read our documentation – and then if you will need some help or talk with us, please let us know via the comments or drop us an email through the contact form.

Changelog

## [1.3.9] — 2024-05-11

- Compatibility with WordPress 6.5+
- Compatibility with WooCommerce 8.8+

## [1.3.8] — 2023-11-08

- Compatibility with WordPress 6.4+
- Compatibility with WooCommerce 8.2+

## [1.3.7] — 2023-07-18

- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 7.9
- Updated WooCommerce templates

## [1.3.6] — 2023-02-02

- Improved compatibility with WordPress 6.1+
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 7.3

## [1.3.5] — 2022-05-20

- Fixed issue of the country selection within the WooCommerce checkout
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 6.5
- Improved WooCommerce product search block
- Improved minor details

## [1.3.4] — 2022-01-27

- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 6.1
- Updated WooCommerce templates
- Improved minor details

## [1.3.3] — 2021-09-07

- Fixed option to disable post meta
- Improved minor details

## [1.3.2] — 2021-05-16

- Fixed issue with displaying of the menu items price

## [1.3.1] — 2021-05-15

- Fixed hierarchy of headings on menu pages

## [1.3.0] — 2021-05-14

- Added option to display footnote on menu pages [Appearance > Customize > Ginger > Design > Menu > Footnote]
- Improved hierarchy of headings on menu pages
- Fixed option to hide "Theme by" 
- Minor accessibility improvements

## [1.2.9] — 2021-04-14

- Fixed display of the shop breadcrumbs
- Minor shop improvements

## [1.2.8] — 2021-04-07

- Improved mobile navigation on iOS devices
- Minor changes

## [1.2.7] — 2021-04-01

- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 5+

## [1.2.6] — 2020-09-07

- Improved font sizes

## [1.2.5] — 2020-08-26

- Improved structured data (rich snippets)
- Improved structured data of the events
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 4.4+
- Updated components

## [1.2.4] — 2020-06-19

- Improved compatibility with WordPress 5.4+
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 4.0+
- Improved Gutenberg editor support
- Improved accessibility
- Improved WP loops
- Updated components
- Minor improvements

## [1.2.3] — 2020-03-05

- Added slideshow shortcode support (Appearance > Customize > Ginger > Slideshow > Shortcode)
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 3.9+
- Improved Gutenberg editor support
- Updated components
- Minor improvements

## [1.2.2] — 2019-10-30

- Improved images accessibility
- Minor improvements

## [1.2.1] — 2019-10-10

- Improved performance
- Improved accessibility
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 3.7+
- Decreased size of the used CSS styles
- Minor improvements

## [1.2.0] — 2019-05-18

- Improved schema.org structured data
- Improved performance
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 3.6+
- Refactored code
- Updated components

## [1.1.9] — 2019-03-15

- Improved Gutenberg support
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 3.5.5
- Improved displaying of the menu items
- Refactored templates
- Updated components

## [1.1.8] — 2018-11-21

- Added Gutenberg support
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 3.5+
- Updated components

## [1.1.7] — 2018-10-16

- Improved display of the categories on WooCommerce pages

## [1.1.6] — 2018-09-26

- Improved WooCommerce checkout
- Improved settings of the event date
- Updated components

## [1.1.5] — 2018-08-19

- Improved date picker
- Updated components

## [1.1.4] — 2018-07-19

- Added "Visual Term Description Editor" plugin support
- Added WPML config to child theme
- Added option to control content color opacity (Appearance > Customize > Design > Content > Content Opacity)
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 3.4
- Updated components

## [1.1.3] — 2018-04-26

- Improved WPML Multilingual plugin support
- Improved page/post content
- Improved layouts
- Updated components
- Removed unused filters
- Refactored code

## [1.1.2] — 2018-04-02

- Added new patterns
- Added single post sidebar
- Added czech translations / Přidány české překlady
- Improved widget image upload

## [1.1.1] — 2018-02-23

- Minor style changes

## [1.1.0] — 2018-02-22

- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 3.3.3
- Improved WooCommerce integration
- Improved layouts

## [1.0.9] — 2018-02-19

- Improved WooCommerce integration

## [1.0.8] — 2018-02-18

- Added call to action color options (Appearance > Customize > Design > Call to Action)
- Added category color options (Appearance > Customize > Design > Category)
- Added homepage options (Appearance > Customize > Homepage)
- Added new page template "Sitemap" to create a sitemap for users
- Added new page template "Events - Upcoming + Past" 
- Added new page template "Events - Past" 
- Added Contact Form 7 support
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 3.3.1
- Improved WooCommerce integration
- Improved mobile navigation
- Improved styles
- Improved media player

## [1.0.7] — 2017-12-12

- Improved WooCommerce integration

## [1.0.6] — 2017-11-23

- Improved WooCommerce integration
- Fixed event date format option

## [1.0.5] — 2017-11-20

- Improved 'Wedding' demo - https://ginger.forqy.website/wedding
- Improved sticky navigation
- Improved categories templates
- Fixed widget image uploader
- Updated components
- Refactored code

## [1.0.4] — 2017-10-25

- Added zoom support to product images
- Added page template with about section (Page - About)
- Improved product images
- Improved menu sections layout
- Fixed javascript error of navigation
- Refactored code

## [1.0.3] — 2017-09-13

- Fixed issue with a double scroll bar
- Improved variable product

## [1.0.2] — 2017-08-18

- Added optional auto-hiding of the navigation
- Improved navigation
- Improved player

## [1.0.1] — 2017-07-31

- Fixed issue with reveal items in a Safari browser

## [1.0.0] — 2017-07-27

- Initial Release

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