Linguini 4.1.0 (April 30, 2025) – Changelog
Compatible with WordPress 6.8+. Ready for PHP 8+.

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Linguini is a restaurant WordPress theme suitable for any kind and size of the restaurant, café, bistro, pub, winery, farm, bar or any other food-related business.

Linguini — The Top Selling Restaurant Theme of All Time

The design is highly customizable and optimized for mobile, so the resulting website automatically adapts to any mobile or tablet device. The theme is ready-to-use, no needed coding or design skills. The theme offers all essential restaurant features such as menu management, event promotions, gallery management, blogging, contact form and also online reservation form with backend reservation management.

The theme is highly optimized for great performance, fast loading, and web accessibility according to the “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1, Level AA Compliant)” and “The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)”, ensuring excellent accessibility for assistive technologies (like screen readers) and disabled users of the website.

The theme is ready-to-use for everyone. No needed coding or design skills.

Everything you need to create and manage a stunning restaurant website.

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Linguini Features

5 complete websites to one-click import
Super-easy live customizing with WordPress Customizer (colors, fonts, menus, widgets & settings of the theme)
No dependency on third-party plugins or page builder plugins!
Gutenberg WordPress block editor compatible
- Perfect match between editor appearance and front-end content appearance
Standards, best practices, and accessibility
- Accessible for disabled users (WCAG 2.1, Level AA Compliant)
- Accessible using keyboard
- WAI-ARIA landmarks for assistive technologies
- Structured data (rich snippets) for excellent results in search engines
- Search engine optimized (On-page SEO)
- Highly optimized for speed and performance
- Optimized for mobile devices
- Cross-browser and cross-device compatible
- Retina and HiDPI ready
- Valid HTML5/CSS3
- Lightweight as possible
Advanced design options
- 1300+ Google fonts
- Dozens of color customization options
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
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.
- Paginated posts
- Password protected posts
Slideshow management
- Touchable slideshow
- Gutenberg ready
- Custom call-to-action buttons
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
- Structured data (rich snippets)
Reservation system [view reservations]
- Accessible reservation form
- Reservations management with reservation status
- Email notifications
- Data validation
- Secured with reCAPTCHA v3 – “FORQY reCAPTCHA” plugin included (optional)
- GDPR ready – terms and conditions assignment (optional)
Events management [view events]
- Start/end date
- Time
- Location information
- Status
- Ticket price
- Ticket button
- Structured data (rich snippets)
Gallery management [view gallery]
Pages management
- 11 custom page templates
- Featured images
Contact form
- In-built contact form
- Data validation
- Secured with reCAPTCHA v3 (optional) – FORQY reCAPTCHA plugin included
- GDPR ready – terms and conditions assignment (optional)
- “Contact Form 7” plugin supported
Widgetized homepage (2 widget areas)
Widgetized sidebars
Widgetized footer
Logo upload
Favicon upload
Header image upload
Background image upload
Loading image upload
Custom navigation (2 locations – header, footer)
Sitemap page template
Lazy loading of images
Accessible image lightbox
5 Page loading types (optional)
Restaurant social network icons (optional)
Social share buttons (optional)
Compatible with popular plugins (optional)
- Contact Form 7
- SEOPress
- WPML
- Polylang
- Loco Translate
- MailChimp
- Autoptimize
- WP Super Cache
- And more …
Child theme included
FREE lifetime updates
Automatic updates with Envato Market plugin (optional)
Extensive documentation
Top-notch support
And much more …

Linguini 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 or Advice? We’re Here for You

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

Changelog

## [4.1.0] — 2025-04-30

- Compatibility with WordPress 6.8+
- Improved loading of translations

## [4.0.9] — 2024-07-22

- Compatibility with WordPress 6.6+

## [4.0.8] — 2023-11-08

- Compatibility with WordPress 6.4+

## [4.0.7] — 2023-01-11

- Improved compatibility with WordPress 6.1+ and Gutenberg 14+
- Improved block editor integration
- Fixed minor bugs

## [4.0.6] — 2022-06-20

- Improved compatibility with WordPress 6.0 and Gutenberg 13+
- Improved navigation text wrapping
- Improved block editor integration
- Improved gallery block gaps
- Improved columns block gaps
- Improved some buttons appearance
- Updated components

## [4.0.5] — 2022-05-19

- Tweaked 'section' terms to link to 'Menu' page anchors
- Updated components

## [4.0.4] — 2022-05-13

- Fixed checking size of the content images to prevent PHP warnings
- Fixed issue with the slideshow scripts
- Improved block editor integration
- Updated components

## [4.0.3] — 2022-03-15

- Fixed bug with import

## [4.0.2] — 2022-02-17

- Improved block editor integration
- Improved appearance of some blocks
- Improved typography issues
- Improved minor accessibility issues
- Improved minor design issues
- Updated components

## [4.0.1] — 2022-01-20

- Added block editor support to slideshow slides
- Improved block editor styles of slideshow slides
- Improved typography
- Improved accessibility of images
- Improved accessibility of icons
- Improved minor design issues
- Updated slideshow component
- Updated lazy load component

## [4.0.0] — 2021-10-18

- Refactored templates
  - Please check the template structure of your child theme (if you're using it) to correspond with the new structure of the parent theme!
- Updated translations
  - Please check your translations and update them from the POT file!

- Extended customization options in a customizer on "Appearance > Customize > Linguini" 
- Extended gradient presets in a block editor
- Improved compatibility with WordPress 5.8+
- Improved compatibility with the block editor
- Improved editor appearance to be closer to the front-end content appearance
- Improved accessibility
- Improved performance of the queries
- Improved sticky navigation
- Improved mobile navigation
- Improved design consistency
- Improved homepage sections
- Refactored styles
- Refactored scripts
- Updated components

## [3.3.0] — 2020-08-23

- Refactored javascript
- Refactored templates
- Improved structured data (rich snippets)
- Updated components

## [3.2.9] — 2020-04-03

- Allowed basic HTML in the address field in the header
- Allowed basic HTML in the headline of the about section
- Allowed basic HTML in the description of the about section

## [3.2.8] — 2020-03-16

- Improved Gutenberg integration
- Improved Gutenberg blocks
- Updated packages
- Minor improvements

## [3.2.7] — 2020-02-18

- Improved menu
- Updated components

## [3.2.6] — 2019-08-12

- Improved image sizes - Recommended regenerating thumbnails using the "Regenerate Thumbnails" plugin
- Improved menu navigation on mobile devices
- Updated components

## [3.2.5] — 2019-05-16

- Added slideshow badge
- Improved schema.org structured data
- Updated components

## [3.2.4] — 2019-03-15

- Improved Gutenberg editor support
- Improved displaying of the menu items
- Improved translations
- Updated components

## [3.2.3] — 2018-11-23

- Added Gutenberg editor support
- Added compatibility with Contact Form 7 plugin
- Added compatibility with Restaurant Reservations plugin
- Updated components

## [3.2.2] — 2018-09-28

- Added new importable demo "Restaurant" 
- Added new importable demo "Bistro" 
- Added WPML config to child theme
- Added option to enable/disable sticking of the navigation (Appearance > Customize > Design > Navigation > Sticky)
- Added option to control text color opacity (Appearance > Customize > Design > Content > Color Opacity)
- Added option to upload loading image (Appearance > Customize > Site Identity > Loading Image)
- Updated components

## [3.2.1] — 2018-06-22

- Improved "call to action" responsivity

## [3.2.0] — 2018-04-26

- Added header image support
- Added background image support
- Added sticky navigation
- Added czech translations / Přidány české překlady
- Improved WPML Multilingual plugin support
- Improved page/post content
- Updated components
- Removed unused filters
- Refactored code

## [3.1.3] — 2018-02-08

- Added "Sitemap" page template to create a sitemap for users
- Changed a way to load scripts (Use Autoptimize plugin to merge and optimize scripts)
- Improved mobile navigation

## [3.1.2] — 2018-01-30

- Added FORQY Shortcodes support
- Added options to set the number of posts on the homepage (Appearance > Customize > Homepage)
- Improved widgets

## [3.1.1] — 2017-12-19

- Refactored & optimised code

## [3.1.0] — 2017-12-11

- Added speed settings for a slideshow (Appearance > Customize > Slideshow > Settings)
- Added support for the 1.2+ version of the FORQY Restaurant plugin
- Improved footer

## [3.0.9] — 2017-06-26

- Added taxonomy image in a heading
- Improved enqueuing of Google fonts for faster loading
- Improved menu query

## [3.0.8] — 2017-04-25

- Added menu hierarchy support
- Added support for shortcodes in widgets
- Optimized styles and scripts
- Improved restaurant microdata
- Improved lightbox gallery
- Improved form select
- Improved lightbox icons for Firefox

## [3.0.7] — 2017-02-08

- Added event date options (Appearance > Customize > Settings > Event Date Format|Event Date Delimiter)
- Improved menu content
- Improved 'Cube' effect of the slideshow
- Improved page loading logo
- Improved categories widgets
- Migrated custom CSS

## [3.0.6] — 2016-11-23

- Improved menu navigation query

## [3.0.5] — 2016-10-19

- Added one click demo import
- Added opening to the new window of address in a header
- Changed gallery loop order by DESC

## [3.0.4] — 2016-09-26

- Removed getimagesize() function in header.php

## [3.0.3] — 2016-09-21

- Improved comments
- Improved images uploading
- Improved images loading
- Improved forms
- Added search form button
- Increased theme security

## [3.0.2] — 2016-09-13

- Improved displaying of the logo image
- Improved mobile navigation
- Added lightbox color options

## [3.0.1] — 2016-09-11

- Fixed minor bugs
- Improved loops
- Increased theme security
- Escaped text strings
- Added POT file

## [3.0.0] — 2016-08-11

- Initial release

Linguini WordPress Theme