SAI Labs product updates and useful information about web development
We have sent out a small update to Easy Restaurant Menu Manager Extended! A user on the plugin support forum recently noted that it is TOO easy to delete a menu. He accidentally deleted an entire menu late one night while trying to get some changes to his website out. He pointed out that normally [...]
View PostDepending on your server installation and configuration, sometimes PHP warnings get displayed throughout WordPress plugins, like the Easy Restaurant Menu Manager admin and frontend. In general, PHP warnings can be completely ignored, but they can certainly be confusing when trying to setup and manage a menu. At SAI Digital we use modern development platforms and [...]
View PostWe’ve added three awesome improvements to the Easy Restaurant Menu Manager for WordPress plugin! As requested, there is now a separate print stylesheet that is only displayed on the print view of each menu. This allows you to hide images or add backgrounds and fully customize how the menu prints. The CSS is entered on [...]
View PostRecently, we needed to be able to restart our Rackspace Cloud Servers programmatically and found that the easiest method is to use gem fog. Initially we tried to use the cloudservers gem but found that it cannot return Rackspace Generation 2 servers. Unfortunately we did not discover this until after a support ticket was opened [...]
View PostYou asked for it (repeatedly), and we added it! Now each restaurant menu you setup with WordPress Easy Restaurant Menu Manager has its own RSS feed. Customers can subscribe to special menus to see changing menu content from their feed readers and other integrations. Here is a screenshot of a menu using Google Reader. You [...]
View PostGreat News! We’ve updated the Easy Restaurant Menu Manager for WordPress again! Here are the new features for the free and extended versions: For the free version (v1.0.8), we’ve converted all newline characters to HTML break tags for some fields on output. This means you will be more easily able to control the spacing and formatting of the [...]
View PostWe recently had a client that needed customer data from their web store to be accessible from their HubSpot account. They needed each person who ordered a product to be put in HubSpot as a Contact, along with the customer’s order number, purchase date, price, and a list of products that were ordered. Typically, a [...]
View PostWe built an app that needed to send email campaigns to groups of users that signed up at trade shows and recruiting events. We chose to use MailChimp to do the actual emailing and email click/statistics tracking. In order to send emails to a dynamic set of users, we found that we needed to add [...]
View PostWe’re pushing two new features to the Easy Restaurant Menu Manager plugin for WordPress. First we’re giving the user control over whether the restaurant menu title gets displayed on the frontend. This was causing some confusion because the menus are usually outputted on a WordPress page that already has a title, which more often than [...]
View PostSAI Labs is thrilled to announce our newest digital product: the Easy Restaurant Menu Manager WordPress plugin. The plugin is designed to make it simple for a restaurant owner to maintain their menu, which displays in a format that website visitors can easily read and use. The Easy Restaurant Menu Manager plugin is available in [...]
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