Where everything comes from
The home page reads as six bands, and the card under it as six parts. Each of the twelve regions is below with what a visitor sees, the field that fills it, and the screen you edit that field on. Nothing here changes anything: it is a map.
The same map is inside your site, at Settings › Site details › Guide, where every screen name is a link that opens it.
Every region also carries its name in the editor's List View, spelled exactly as it is spelled here, so the thing you read about is the thing you click.
The numbers below are the bands in the order they appear: 1 the header bar, 2 the photograph and its words, 3 the card and today's slips, 4 on the grinder, 5 getting here, 6 the footer. Then 7 to 12 are the card, drawn part by part.
1. The header bar
The wordmark, the three routes, and whether you are open right now.
| What a visitor sees | The field that fills it | Where you edit it |
|---|---|---|
| The wordmark | Site title, or the Site Logo block in the header part | Settings › General |
| The three routes | The navigation menu | Site Editor › Navigation |
| "Open until 17:00", with its dot | Derived from the hours record and the services. Never typed — change the hours, not the sentence. | Hours |
| "Book a table" | A Button block in the header part | Site Editor › Patterns › Template parts › Header |
| The light/dark control | The block table-and-type-core/color-scheme-toggle, in the header's utility slot |
Site Editor › Patterns › Template parts › Header |
2. The photograph and its words
The counter at whatever hour it is, with the service's own clause over it.
| What a visitor sees | The field that fills it | Where you edit it |
|---|---|---|
| The counter photograph | The served service's own Photograph and Focal point | Services |
| The photograph when nothing is being served | The Cover block's own image and focal point, on the home page | Pages › Home |
| The heading over it | Built from the service's Label, Start and End. It has no text of its own to lose. | Services |
| The "served now" stamp | Derived from the services' Days, Start and End | Services |
By hand: the white type over the photograph has no scrim behind it. It is legible because each counter plate was measured dark where the words land. WordPress has no equivalent check, so after replacing a counter plate, look at the result at 375 and at 1440 before you publish.
3. The card, and today's slips
The service being served, its dishes, and the dated paper clipped over it.
| What a visitor sees | The field that fills it | Where you edit it |
|---|---|---|
| The service's name on the card | Card label, on the service | Services |
| A dish row: the name and the line under it | Title and Excerpt, on the dish | Dishes |
| Its price, marks and add-ons | Dish details › Price, Dietary, Add-ons | Dishes |
| The divisions the card prints in | The Sections term and its Order; the dish's own Sections box | Sections |
| The dated sheets clipped to the corner | Kind, Target, Valid from, Valid to, Lines | Slips |
| The allergy statement and the tax note | House rules › Allergens, and Tax and service note | Settings › Site details |
4. On the grinder
Today's espresso and filter, and what came out of the oven when.
| What a visitor sees | The field that fills it | Where you edit it |
|---|---|---|
| The square photograph beside the list | Coffee › Plate (Choose image) and the two focal-point fields; or the block's own Plate | Settings › Site details |
| "Espresso · the roastery · Sidamo, Ethiopia · washed" | Coffee › Espresso — roaster, origin, process | Settings › Site details |
| "On since Tue 8 Sep" | Coffee › Espresso — on since. Write a date as 2026-09-08 and it is printed in your site's own words. |
Settings › Site details |
| The same two lines for the filter | Coffee › Filter — roaster, origin, process, on since | Settings › Site details |
| "Out of the oven", with the batch times | Bakes — one row each: Name (or Dish on the card, a dish you already have), Batches | Settings › Site details |
| "usually gone by 11:00" | Bakes › Usually gone by. It is what the room says from experience, never a stock count. | Settings › Site details |
5. Getting here
The address, today's hours, the house rules, and the terrace exception.
| What a visitor sees | The field that fills it | Where you edit it |
|---|---|---|
| The address, set as the heading | Address › Street, City, Region, Postal code, Country | Settings › Site details |
| Today's row | The hours record: the row whose key is today | Hours |
| A struck terrace row | An Hours slip whose row key is terrace |
Slips |
| The four rules | House rules › Dogs, Terrace, Children, Allergens | Settings › Site details |
| The booking line | Derived from the services that take bookings. Never typed. | Booking rows |
| The directions link | Coordinates › Latitude and Longitude; the written address only when there are none. No map is ever embedded. | Settings › Site details |
6. The footer
The week, the freshness stamp, the address, and the quiet lines under them.
| What a visitor sees | The field that fills it | Where you edit it |
|---|---|---|
| The week | The hours record, seven rows. A day with no row is printed closed. | Hours |
| "Card last changed Mon 14 Sep" | Derived from the newest change across every published dish. It cannot be a date you forgot to edit. | Dishes |
| The address, the phone and the email | Address, Phone, Email | Settings › Site details |
| The line under the prices | Tax and service note | Settings › Site details |
| "We are hiring" | Hiring › We are hiring, Role, Where to write | Settings › Site details |
| The Instagram link | Elsewhere › Instagram. A plain link — no feed is embedded and no third-party script ships. | Settings › Site details |
| The rest of the footer | The footer template part | Site Editor › Patterns › Template parts › Footer |
The card, part by part
7. The card: a service's band
Each service opens on its own counter photograph, with its own name.
| What a visitor sees | The field that fills it | Where you edit it |
|---|---|---|
| The band's photograph and its name | Card label, Photograph, Focal point | Services |
| The days and hours beside it | Days, Start, End, Last order | Services |
8. The card: a section heading
The card's own divisions, in the order the kitchen reads them.
| What a visitor sees | The field that fills it | Where you edit it |
|---|---|---|
| The heading itself | The Sections term name and its Order | Sections |
| Which division a dish prints under | The dish's Sections box | Dishes |
9. The card: a dish row
The name, the line under it, the diet marks, the price, and the plate.
| What a visitor sees | The field that fills it | Where you edit it |
|---|---|---|
| The name and the line under it | Title and Excerpt | Dishes |
| The letters beside the name | Dish details › Dietary. They are letters, never icons, and every one is expanded under the card. | Dishes |
| The figure in the right-hand rail | Dish details › Price, in the site's currency | Dishes |
| The 96px plate | Featured image, and Dish details › Focal point for the crop | Dishes |
10. The card: a row a slip writes
A dish whose line changes every day ships with no line at all; the day's slip supplies it.
| What a visitor sees | The field that fills it | Where you edit it |
|---|---|---|
| The empty line under the name | Leave the Excerpt empty. A printed card cannot know today's soup. | Dishes |
| The line that appears today | A slip, Kind: Today, targeted at the service; its Lines carry the text and any price | Slips |
11. The card: a struck row
An Instead slip strikes the row, stamps its number, and hides its photograph.
| What a visitor sees | The field that fills it | Where you edit it |
|---|---|---|
| The strike and the "slip · 1" stamp | A slip, Kind: Instead, Target the service, Replaces the dish | Slips |
| Putting the row back | Nothing on the dish changed. Trash the slip, or move Until into the past. | Slips |
The struck row keeps its name and its place — a reader has to see what was taken away — takes a 2px strike, carries a stamped mark and the word beside it (never colour alone), and loses its thumbnail, because a photograph of a dish you cannot have is a lie.
12. The card: the foot
Every mark used on this card, expanded once, and where tax is added.
| What a visitor sees | The field that fills it | Where you edit it |
|---|---|---|
| The key of letters | Built from the rows the card printed. It lists only the marks in use. | Dishes |
| The allergy sentence | House rules › Allergens | Settings › Site details |
| The tax line | Tax and service note | Settings › Site details |