Olena Food is a WordPress food ordering plugin built for small restaurants, food trucks, caf\u00e9s, bakeries, and other food businesses.<\/p>\n\n
Create an online menu, allow customers to customize food with add-ons, accept orders through a mobile-friendly checkout, receive online payments with Stripe, and manage orders directly from WordPress.<\/p>\n\n
The plugin is designed to provide the essential tools needed for online food ordering without requiring WooCommerce.<\/p>\n\n
Watch the video guide to see Olena Food in action:<\/p>\n\n
https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lg8e8-1983c<\/p>\n\n
Create and manage your food menu directly from WordPress.<\/p>\n\n
Help customers find what they want faster with optional search and category\/tag navigation on the storefront.<\/p>\n\n
Create flexible add-on options that allow customers to customize menu items before adding them to their cart.<\/p>\n\n
Add-ons can be used for options such as:<\/p>\n\n
This makes it possible to create menu items with multiple customization choices and additional options.<\/p>\n\n
Add-ons are reusable and organized, so you build them once and assign them where needed:<\/p>\n\n
Mark add-ons as required when a customer must choose them:<\/p>\n\n
You can also mark add-ons as unavailable to instantly pull a sold-out extra from every dish it is used on \u2014 see the Add-on Availability section below.<\/p>\n\n
A smooth animation makes customizing feel effortless: when a customer selects an add-on on the item page, it visually flies into their customizations while the remaining add-ons gently close the gap. The animation is purely visual and is automatically skipped when the browser's reduced-motion setting is enabled.<\/p>\n\n
Offer the same dish in multiple sizes, each with its own price, so customers can pick the option that fits them.<\/p>\n\n
Every menu item has a Normal price, and you can optionally enable additional sizes such as Small and Large with their own prices.<\/p>\n\n
Customers can create orders directly from your website.<\/p>\n\n
The ordering process includes:<\/p>\n\n
Administrators can manage submitted orders from the WordPress admin area.<\/p>\n\n
Olena Food includes its own cart and checkout experience.<\/p>\n\n
Customers can review their selected products and add-ons before submitting an order. The interface is designed to work smoothly on mobile devices, making it suitable for customers ordering directly from their phones.<\/p>\n\n
Prevents accidental duplicate orders and basic order abuse automatically, with no setup required.<\/p>\n\n
Every storefront visitor is given a secure, private session that the plugin uses to protect order creation on the server:<\/p>\n\n
The protection is designed to be reliable and privacy-friendly:<\/p>\n\n
Accept online card payments using Stripe.<\/p>\n\n
Customers can securely complete their payment using Stripe while placing an order.<\/p>\n\n
Stripe payment support works alongside other available payment methods, allowing businesses to offer online payment when required.<\/p>\n\n
Send automatic email notifications when important order events occur.<\/p>\n\n
Separate notifications can be configured for administrators and customers, including:<\/p>\n\n
Notification settings allow you to configure email subjects and email templates for different recipients.<\/p>\n\n
Order cancellation emails can be enabled or disabled independently for administrators and customers, and support the same placeholders as the other order emails.<\/p>\n\n
Let customers add a tip to their order directly from the checkout page.<\/p>\n\n
Enable tipping from the plugin settings and choose a percentage to offer alongside the No Tip option.<\/p>\n\n
Configure the days and hours when your business accepts orders.<\/p>\n\n
Working Hours settings allow you to define your regular business schedule and create custom rules for specific dates when different opening hours are required.<\/p>\n\n
Temporarily pause online ordering whenever you need to stop accepting orders, and reopen it with a single click.<\/p>\n\n
Pausing and reopening can be controlled from multiple places, and all of them stay in sync in real time:<\/p>\n\n
While ordering is paused you can control what customers see and how the store behaves:<\/p>\n\n
Mark individual menu items as available or unavailable without unpublishing them, so you can quickly pull a dish off the menu when you sell out or stop offering it.<\/p>\n\n
Each menu item has an Availability option (Available or Unavailable). When an item is set to unavailable:<\/p>\n\n
Availability is also easy to spot in the WordPress admin:<\/p>\n\n
Mark individual add-ons as available or unavailable to instantly pull a sold-out extra \u2014 such as a topping or sauce \u2014 from every dish it is used on, without editing each menu item.<\/p>\n\n
Availability belongs to the add-on itself, so one change applies everywhere it is assigned:<\/p>\n\n
Unavailable add-ons remain fully manageable in the WordPress admin:<\/p>\n\n
Availability is enforced securely for customers:<\/p>\n\n
Keep a real-time view of incoming orders and never miss one, even in a busy kitchen or food truck.<\/p>\n\n
The Live Orders page shows a live monitor of new orders that have not been opened yet, and plays a sound alert so you know the moment an order arrives.<\/p>\n\n
Historical orders placed before this feature are never treated as new, so enabling Live Orders will not flood the monitor with old orders.<\/p>\n\n
Change the look of your store and the Olena Food admin screens by choosing a design, without touching any code.<\/p>\n\n
Pick a design on the Designs settings page and it is applied to both the storefront and the Olena admin, on top of the plugin's default styles:<\/p>\n\n
The selected design is loaded only when it is chosen, so Default stays lightweight, and your selection is remembered across visits. Built to be extended, so companion add-ons can register their own designs.<\/p>\n\n
Get your store up and running quickly with a guided first-run setup wizard, instead of hunting through every settings page.<\/p>\n\n
After installing the plugin you are invited to configure the store step by step, covering only the essentials needed to start taking orders:<\/p>\n\n
The wizard makes it easy to start:<\/p>\n\n
Get started quickly by importing demo content.<\/p>\n\n
The demo importer creates example menu items and add-ons so you can see how the plugin works and use the imported content as a starting point for your own menu.<\/p>\n\n
Olena Food is designed with mobile ordering in mind.<\/p>\n\n
Customers can browse the menu, customize items, manage their cart, and complete orders from smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers.<\/p>\n\n
Olena Food provides its own food ordering workflow and does not require WooCommerce.<\/p>\n\n
This makes it suitable for small food businesses that want a focused ordering system without installing and configuring a full eCommerce platform.<\/p>\n\n\n
Plugins > Add New<\/code>.<\/li>\n- Search for
Olena Food<\/code>.<\/li>\n- Install and activate the plugin.<\/li>\n
- Configure the plugin settings.<\/li>\n
- Optionally import the demo menu items and add-ons.<\/li>\n
- Add your own menu items and start accepting orders.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n
Manual installation<\/h4>\n\n\n- Download Olena Food.<\/li>\n
- Upload the plugin directory to
\/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code>.<\/li>\n- Activate Olena Food from the
Plugins<\/code> page in WordPress.<\/li>\n- Configure the plugin settings.<\/li>\n
- Optionally import the demo menu items and add-ons.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
2.0.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Uninstall issue fixed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
2.0.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added Add-on Availability to mark individual add-ons as available or unavailable, so a sold-out extra can be pulled from every dish at once without removing it from any menu item.<\/li>\n
- Marking an add-on unavailable hides it from customers everywhere it is assigned; making it available again restores it automatically, with no reassignment.<\/li>\n
- Availability is a global property of the add-on and can be set from the add-on editor, while creating an add-on, or from an expandable settings area on each add-on in the Menu Item Add-ons manager.<\/li>\n
- Unavailable add-ons stay fully visible and manageable in the WordPress admin, with an \"Unavailable\" marker in the Menu Item Add-ons manager and a new Availability column on the add-ons list table.<\/li>\n
- The storefront hides unavailable add-ons, hides categories that become empty, and shows an \"Unavailable\" badge on an already-selected add-on that becomes unavailable.<\/li>\n
- Orders that include an unavailable add-on are blocked securely on the server, so an unavailable add-on can never be purchased.<\/li>\n
- Existing add-ons without this setting are treated as available, so nothing changes after updating.<\/li>\n
- Added Required Add-ons to mark specific add-ons as mandatory on individual menu items, so a required extra is added automatically at a fixed quantity and cannot be removed or changed by the customer.<\/li>\n
- Required is set per menu item, so the same add-on can be optional on one dish and required on another, each with its own required quantity.<\/li>\n
- Required add-ons are enforced securely on the server, so an order that omits a required add-on or changes its fixed quantity is rejected.<\/li>\n
- Unavailable always takes priority over Required: an add-on that is unavailable is not shown, added, or enforced, and resumes as required automatically once it becomes available again.<\/li>\n
- Existing menu items without this setting are unaffected, so nothing changes after updating.<\/li>\n
- Customers can now remove individual add-ons directly from the cart page, without editing or re-adding the item.<\/li>\n
- Each add-on in the cart shows a delete button next to it, so unwanted extras can be removed with a single click.<\/li>\n
- The item price, subtotal, and order totals update instantly when an add-on is removed.<\/li>\n
- Added a smooth add-on selection animation on the single item page: the chosen add-on visually flies into your customizations while the remaining add-ons gently close the gap.<\/li>\n
- The animation is purely visual and never affects add-on selection, pricing, or the cart, and is automatically skipped when the browser's reduced-motion setting is enabled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.5.2<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added Order Canceled email notifications, sent automatically when a customer cancels a pending order.<\/li>\n
- Order cancellation emails can be enabled or disabled independently for administrators and customers, each with its own subject and template.<\/li>\n
- Cancellation emails reuse the same recipients and placeholders as the other order emails, so historical order details are preserved.<\/li>\n
- Improved the Live Orders dashboard so a customer-cancelled order re-surfaces in the monitor and plays the sound alert, so cancellations are never missed.<\/li>\n
- A cancelled order is clearly labeled \"Cancelled by customer\" on the Live Orders monitor and reuses the existing order card instead of creating a duplicate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.5.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added an optional storefront search box that finds menu items by their title and description.<\/li>\n
- The search box shows the latest menu items when opened and updates results as the customer types, in a popup that overlays the menu without shifting the page.<\/li>\n
- Added optional Categories and Tags navigation above the storefront menu for one-click filtering.<\/li>\n
- Only categories and tags that contain at least one menu item are shown in the navigation.<\/li>\n
- Enable Search, Categories, and Tags independently from the Designs settings page; all default to off, so existing stores are unchanged after updating.<\/li>\n
- Added backend duplicate-order protection so double-clicking or retrying Place Order no longer creates two orders.<\/li>\n
- Made order creation race-safe, so two simultaneous requests from the same visitor can never both create an order.<\/li>\n
- Added per-visitor order rate limiting to reduce order abuse, without using IP-based blocking.<\/li>\n
- Added a private, secure storefront session for guests (stored only as a hash) that powers the new protection and is compatible with cached pages.<\/li>\n
- Added reusable database infrastructure that installs and upgrades the new sessions table automatically on activation and on plugin updates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.5.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added a new Minimal store design \u2014 a clean, squared, flat look with thin borders, subtle shadows, and a muted terracotta accent.<\/li>\n
- Choose your store design (Default, Basic, or Minimal) on the Designs settings page; the selected design styles both the storefront and the Olena Food admin screens.<\/li>\n
- The selected design loads only when chosen and is remembered across visits, so Default stays lightweight.<\/li>\n
- Built to be extended, so companion add-ons can register their own designs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.4.7<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added a first-run Setup Wizard to configure the store step by step after installation.<\/li>\n
- Choose between importing the demo content or setting up the store manually.<\/li>\n
- Guided steps cover currency and store page, working hours, payments and tips, and order notification emails.<\/li>\n
- The wizard checks the permalink structure and can apply a compatible one with a single click.<\/li>\n
- Every step saves through the plugin's existing settings, so nothing is duplicated.<\/li>\n
- Existing stores are detected automatically, so the wizard only appears on a fresh install and never overwrites your configuration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.4.6<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added Tips support to let customers leave a tip during checkout.<\/li>\n
- Admins can enable Tips and choose one percentage option from 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, or 25%.<\/li>\n
- Customers can choose No Tip or the configured percentage, with the total updating instantly.<\/li>\n
- Percentage tips are calculated only from menu items and their add-ons, excluding tax, delivery, and other fees.<\/li>\n
- Tips are included automatically in the final order total and payment amount.<\/li>\n
- The saved tip is shown on the customer receipt and in order management.<\/li>\n
- Added the {tips} email placeholder for admin and customer notification templates.<\/li>\n
- Built to be extended by companion add-ons with multiple tip percentages and custom tip amounts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.4.3<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added Menu Item Sizes to offer a dish in multiple sizes, each with its own price.<\/li>\n
- Each item keeps a Normal price and can enable additional sizes such as Small and Large.<\/li>\n
- Customers choose a size on the storefront and the price updates instantly.<\/li>\n
- Selecting different sizes of the same item adds them as separate cart lines.<\/li>\n
- The chosen size is shown across the cart, checkout, receipt, and order management.<\/li>\n
- Additional sizes without a price are automatically hidden from customers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.4.2<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added Live Orders, a real-time monitor of new (unviewed) orders on the settings page.<\/li>\n
- New orders appear automatically without reloading; an online\/offline indicator shows the connection status.<\/li>\n
- Opening an order in the WordPress editor automatically marks it as viewed and removes it from the monitor on the next update.<\/li>\n
- Added order sound alerts with four selectable sounds, a volume control, and a Test Sound button.<\/li>\n
- Added a live \"New Orders\" counter to the WordPress admin bar linking to the orders list.<\/li>\n
- Historical orders created before this feature are never shown as new.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.4.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added Menu Item Availability to mark items as available or unavailable.<\/li>\n
- Unavailable items show an \"Unavailable\" label and hide the Add to Cart button on the storefront.<\/li>\n
- Unavailable items already in the cart are highlighted so customers can remove them before checkout.<\/li>\n
- Orders containing unavailable items are blocked securely on the server.<\/li>\n
- Added an Availability column to the menu items admin table and a highlight on the item editor screen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.4.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added Pause \/ Open Orders feature to temporarily pause and reopen online ordering.<\/li>\n
- Added synced pause controls in the settings tab, admin floating button, and admin bar.<\/li>\n
- Added a customizable paused notice for the storefront.<\/li>\n
- Added an option to keep the menu visible or hidden while ordering is paused.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.3.2<\/h4>\n\n\n- Customer Additional notes.<\/li>\n
- Admin Additional notes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.3.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Payment integration improved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.3.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added Stripe payment gateway.<\/li>\n
- Added email notifications for administrators and customers.<\/li>\n
- Added configurable working hours.<\/li>\n
- Added order management improvements.<\/li>\n
- Added cart and checkout improvements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.2.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Tested with WordPress 7.1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.1.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added menu item filtering by categories and tags.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.0.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Compatibility and required improvements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.0.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Initial release of Olena Food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","raw_excerpt":"A complete food ordering plugin for restaurants and food trucks with menus, add-ons, orders, Stripe payments, and working hours.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/220761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220761"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/markomaksym"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=220761"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=220761"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=220761"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=220761"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=220761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}