BrewBuddy Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
BrewBuddy is a beer management plugin that allows users to add beers to the site. Once the beers are added, pages are automatically populated much like blog posts are. Beers can be viewed by style, availability, what’s on tap, and pairings. Once beers are added, custom print-friendly beer menus can be made and printed, using a multitude of filtering and sorting options to make creating a menu fast and easy. Update what’s on tap in less places with BrewBuddy.
Features
- Special Beer Post Type separates your beers from blog posts, and pages.
- Sort your beers by availaiblity, food pairings, custom tags, and beer style.
- Special fields for ABV, OG, IBU, untappd URL, and video.
- Interface matches existing WordPress interface
- Custom Shortcode
[beer]
will allow users to reference a beer in a blog or page. - Bulk-edit sorting methods, such as availability, food pairings, and what’s on tap.
- Special Menus Post Type allows you to create auto-populating custom menus for quick printing, or display on a TV screen.
- Widgets show a list of what’s on tap, or a single random beer
Shortcodes
[beer name="#NAME OF BEER" text="#URL TEXT FOR BEER"]
– Create a URL to a specified beer. This link will also show a preview of the beer when you hover over it with your mouse.name
– The name of the beer you want to link to. Case insensitivetext
– (Optional) The text you want in the URL. Defaults to the name of the beer.
[beer_list wrapper="div" show_description="true" sort="desc" style="BEER STYLE" on-tap="IS ON TAP" pairings="PAIRINGS TO SHOW" tags="TAGS TO SHOW" availability="AVAILABILITY TO SHOW" show_price="FALSE"]
- ‘wrapper’ – (Optional) The HTML tag that wraps the list. Defaults to div.
- ‘show_description’ – (Optional) Show the beer excerpt (description) after the name of the beer. Defaults to false.
- ‘show_price’ – (Optional) Show the beer price after the description. Defaults to false. it is generally illegal to show your price publically. This only exists for menu printing
- ‘on-tap – (Optional) Only show beers that are on-tap. defaults to false.
- ‘sort’ – (Optional) Sorting method of the beer list. Can be desc (descending), asc (ascending), or rand (random)
- ‘style’ – (Optional) Name of the beer style(s) you want to show. Separate each value by a comma (example: stout,lambic,pilsner,ipa)
- ‘pairings’ – (Optional) Name of the beer food pairings(s) you want to show. Separate each value by a comma (example: chocolate,cheesecake,steak)
- ‘tags’ – (Optional) Name of the beer tags(s) you want to show. Separate each value by a comma (example: featured,favorite,seasonal)
- ‘availability’ – (Optional) Beer availability time(s) you want to show. Separate each value by a comma (example: winter,summer,spring)
Getting Started
Add a Beer
To add a beer, follow these steps:
- Visit your WordPress Dashboard
- On the left-hand column, hover over “Beers”
- Click “Add New”
- Fill in all of the information on the page
- Click “Publish”
View Your Beers
BrewBuddy automatically builds the relevant pages for you, based on what information you add to your beers. To view these pages, follow these steps:
View All Beers
To view all beers, you usually need to visit YOURSITE.COM/beers/
. If that doesn’t work, follow these steps to figure out your beers URL:
- Visit your WordPress Dashboard
- On the left-hand side, hover over “Appearance”
- Click “Menus”
- On the left-hand column of the menu interface, click “Beers”
- Click “View All”
- Check “All Beers” and click “Add to Menu”
- Click Save Menu. This will add the All Beers link to your menu.
- Click on the All Beers link in your menu to visit the page.
- Optional – delete the All Beers link from your menu.
View Beer By Information
- Visit your WordPress Dashboard
- On the left-hand column, hover over “Beers”
- Click on either “Beer Styles”, “Pairings”, “Availability”, or “Tags”, depending on which page you would like to view.
- In the right-side of the interface, hover over the term you would like to sort by and click “view”.
Batch-edit Beers
One of the most powerful features of BrewBuddy is the ability to batch-edit your beer information. To do this, follow these steps:
- Visit your WordPress Dashboard
- On the left-hand column, hover over “Beers”
- Click on “All Beers”
- Check all of the beers that you want to edit
- Click on the “Bulk Actions” dropdown menu, and click “edit”
- Click “Apply”
- Apply the changes you want to make, and click “update”
Creating Beer Menus
NOTE Menus are only visible to the user if they’re logged in, so you don’t have to worry about displaying your price.
Add a Menu
To add a menu, follow these steps:
1. Visit your WordPress Dashboard
2. On the left-hand column, hover over “Menus”
3. Click “Add New”
4. Fill in all of the information on the page
5. Click “Publish”
Print a Menu
To print a menu, follow these steps:
- Navigate to the menu that you wish to print
- Visit your WordPress Dashboard
- On the left-hand column, hover over “Menus”
- Click “All Menus”
- Hover over the menu and click “View”
- Print the menu
- click file>>>print (or press CONTROL+P)
- For best results, make sure the margins are set to none. (in Chromse this is found after pressing the “more settings” button)
- click Print
Screenshots
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All Beers Page. Beers can be modified, viewed, or edited in-bulk here
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Single Beer Page
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Menus and Beer menu on sidebar
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Add Beer screen
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Beer bulk-editor option in all beers page.
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Add Menu screen
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Hover effect on link using
[beer]
shortcode -
Print preview of beer menu