About this plugin
Ardoise puts today’s menu on your restaurant website from your phone, in a few taps.
In a busy kitchen, nobody logs into WordPress at 11:30 to find the right page and edit it. So the website shows last Tuesday’s dish, and customers call to ask what’s on today.
Ardoise works like the chalkboard outside your door:
- Open the Ardoise page on your phone (it’s an icon on your home screen).
- Type today’s starter, dish and dessert, with their prices.
- Tap Publish. It’s on your website. That’s it.
At midnight, the board clears itself. Your website never shows an old menu.
Made for
Restaurants, bistros, brasseries, cafés, canteens, caterers, bakeries, food trucks: anyone whose menu changes every day.
Simple on purpose
- One screen, four lines: starter, main course, dessert, set menu, each with its price.
- No login on the phone: a private link opens a page made for small screens, with big fields and big buttons. Add it to your home screen once.
- Nothing to set up: activate, add the block to your menu page, open the link on your phone. Done in five minutes.
- Clears itself at midnight: no more “dish of the day” from last week.
- Looks like a real chalkboard: chalk style with a bundled handwritten font. Change the colours and text size in the block settings.
Safe
- The private link contains a random 40-character key and only gives access to the board, nothing else on your site.
- Add an optional PIN code: each phone enters it once, then it is remembered for 30 days.
- Lost a phone or shared the link by mistake? Create a new link in one click: the old one stops working immediately.
- Wrong links and wrong PIN codes are limited per visitor.
Works with your site
- Gutenberg block “Ardoise”, or the [ardoise] shortcode for page builders (Elementor, Divi…).
- Purges the page cache of WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache and WP Fastest Cache when the board changes or expires.
- Staff who can edit pages can also update the board from the WordPress admin.
- No account, no external service, no tracking. Everything stays on your site.
Shortcode
[ardoise] shows the board.
- title="Lunch" to change the title, title="" to hide it
Credits
txt). The font is bundled with the plugin: nothing is loaded from Google or any other service.