Dishes in WP InPlate are WooCommerce products. You add and edit them in Products → Add New Product, like in any WooCommerce store. WP InPlate adds the fields a food business needs to the product editor.

Dish details

Field	Where it shows
Name	Menu, dish window, cart, KDS, label, emails
Regular and sale price	Menu (sale price with the regular price struck through), dish window, cart
Product image	Menu card, dish window, TV screens
Description	Dish window, TV screens. Line breaks from the editor are kept
Category	The menu section where the dish appears
Tags (product tags)	Menu card, dish window, TV screens
Weight / portion	Under the dish name in the menu, in the dish window and on TV screens
Allergens and ingredients	Menu card (“Contains allergens”), dish window, order email – see Allergens
Add-ons	Dish window – see Add-ons
Cross-sell	Suggestions after adding to the cart – see Cross-sell

Categories and their order in the menu

Every product category is a separate menu section with a heading. The menu navigation (the “InPlate – Menu navigation” block) shows the same categories as buttons.

The order of categories is set in Products → Categories by dragging the categories in the list.
The order of dishes in a category is set in Products → Sorting (drag and drop) or in the “Menu order” field in the product data.
Empty categories don't show in the menu.
The menu shows published products only.

You can also manage categories in the KDS – adding them, changing their name and slug, their order, “TV only” and deleting an empty category. See Manager panel.

After you change a category's slug – in the WordPress dashboard or in the KDS – the dish types and TV screens that use it switch to the new slug by themselves. See Changing a category's slug.

TV-only categories

When editing a category you can tick InPlate visibility → TV only (hide in menu and widget). Such a category appears only in TV screen blocks and is not in the menu on your website or in the daily dish block. It is useful e.g. for items you sell only at the counter.

Weight and portion

In the product data, in the Weight / Portion section, enter:

Value – a number or a range, e.g. 300 or 2-3,
Unit – g, dag, kg, ml, l, pcs, portion, or your own unit, e.g. “slices”.

Examples: “300 g”, “2-3 pcs”, “1 portion”, “500 ml”.

Product tags

Product tags are WooCommerce product tags, optionally with an icon, e.g. “Vegan”, “Spicy”, “Gluten-free”, “New”, “Recommended”.

Go to Products → Tags.
Add a tag. Optionally choose an icon for it: an emoji or your own SVG image from the media library.
Optionally tick Appearance → Custom appearance and set the background (a color or Transparent), the text color and the outline: a width from 0 to 8 px and a color. An outline of 0 means no outline. Without ticking it, the tag uses the theme's appearance.
Assign the tag to products.

You can also add, edit and delete tags in the KDS – see Manager panel.

SVG files are checked for unsafe content before they are saved. A file with content that isn't allowed is rejected.

How tags are shown is set in InPlate → Settings → Sales → Products → Product badge display: icon and text, icon only, or text only.

Turning dishes on and off

When the soup runs out, don't delete the product – turn it off.

In the WordPress dashboard: Products → All Products has an Active column. One click switches the dish between “Active” and “Disabled”. Columns a restaurant rarely needs (SKU, GTIN, Product brands, Date) are hidden by default, so the dish name has room. You turn them on in Screen Options at the top of the list – your choice is remembered.
From a tablet: the manager turns dishes off one by one or whole categories at once in the manager panel in the KDS.

What customers see when a dish is turned off is set in InPlate → Settings → Sales → Products → Disabled product behavior:

Option	Effect in the menu
Hide product from the page	The dish disappears from the menu
Show product as unavailable	The dish stays in the menu with a label and can't be ordered

The label text is set in the Label for unavailable products field (default “Unavailable”), e.g. “Sold out” or “Unavailable today”.

A dish turned off while a customer is ordering won't get through the order form – the customer gets a clear message that the product is no longer available.

Stock

If you want to sell a limited number of portions, use standard WooCommerce stock management (product data → Inventory). A product that is out of stock is treated as unavailable.

Products with variations

Dishes in several sizes (a 32 and 40 cm pizza, a 100 and 200 g burger) are easiest to set up with size sets: once for the whole category, with prices in one table. In the manager panel in the KDS each size then has its own availability switch and price.

A product with variations created directly in WooCommerce also works in the menu – the customer chooses the variation in the dish window. You edit its variations in WooCommerce.