=== Morsel ===
Contributors: symelo
Requires at least: 7.0
Tested up to: 7.1
Requires PHP: 7.4
Stable tag: 1.0.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

A moody, late-night restaurant and food guide theme: menus as printed menu cards, kitchen hours, "open tonight" lists, cuisine pages, dietary filters and reservation requests.

== Description ==

Morsel is a block theme for city food guides, food bloggers turned guides, tourism boards and restaurant associations. It is dark by default (a warm near-black ground, cream type, saffron and tomato accents) with a Daylight scheme one click away, and it borrows its typography from printed menus: Gloock headings, small caps labels, prices in tabular figures on dotted leaders and thin double rules.

Built in, with no plugins:

* Restaurants and food events with typed details: cuisine, neighbourhood, features, price range, rating, address and map (loaded only after a click), contact and booking links, galleries, menus and kitchen hours with a live "open now" status.
* Search and filters: cuisine, neighbourhood, open now, price, features (vegan, gluten-free, halal…) and sort orders, with a Dietary chip row.
* A designed single restaurant: centred menu-style header, photo mosaic with lightbox, the menu as a two-column printed menu card, a framed sticky card with kitchen hours, and a "Reserve" form styled as a ticket stub.
* Cuisine and neighbourhood pages with a full-bleed photo and the cuisine's icon.
* About 30 patterns: five heroes (dish photo with a menu card search, tonight's table, chalkboard specials marquee, kitchen video with a pause button, cuisine icon wall), sections, galleries (masonry and carousel), forms (contact, newsletter, table request), FAQ, stats, testimonials, footers and full pages.
* Forms with a Messages screen, motion classes, galleries and lightbox, featured video, light and dark schemes (the Symelo Theme Kit).
* Four style variations: Daylight, Bistro, Trattoria and Neon diner.

The restaurant details are edited with the free Secure Custom Fields plugin; the theme offers to install it. Listings already show before it is installed.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Where do form messages go? =

Contact, newsletter and reservation forms are stored under Messages in the dashboard and emailed to the site's admin address. Change the recipient under Messages → Settings, or per form in the block's settings. Reservation requests on a restaurant page are also emailed to the restaurant's inquiry email when one is set.

= How do I add a restaurant? =

Go to Restaurants → Add New. Set the cuisine, neighbourhood and features in the sidebar, and fill the details (hours, menu, prices, contact, photos) in the Restaurant details box. Appearance → Import demo installs ten restaurants and two food events to start from.

= How does "open now" work? =

It follows the kitchen hours of each restaurant in your site's time zone, and updates in the visitor's browser every minute, so cached pages stay right.

= Can I use a light design? =

Yes. Visitors can switch with the sun and moon button in the header, and Appearance → Editor → Styles offers the Daylight, Bistro and Trattoria variations.

= Can I turn animations off? =

Visitors who prefer reduced motion see no animations and the background video starts paused; everyone else can pause it with the button in its corner.

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.0 =
* First release.

== Copyright ==

Morsel WordPress Theme, (C) 2026 Symelo LTD. Morsel is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

== Resources ==

* Symelo Theme Kit and the Symelo directory foundation: (C) 2026 Symelo LTD, GPLv2 or later.
* Gloock: (C) 2022 The Gloock Project Authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1 (assets/fonts/gloock/OFL.txt), https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Gloock
* Manrope: (C) 2019 The Manrope Project Authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1 (assets/fonts/manrope/OFL.txt), https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Manrope
* Lucide icons (in the directory foundation): ISC License, https://lucide.dev (inc/foundation/LICENSE-lucide.txt).
* Tabler Icons ("dental", used as the tooth icon; in the directory foundation): MIT License, https://tabler.io/icons (inc/foundation/LICENSE-lucide.txt).
* Images: Symelo placeholder library (https://dev.symelo.com/tools/placeholder-images), (C) 2026 Symelo LTD, distributed with the theme under the GPLv2 or later: assets/images/sushi.webp (food-7), assets/images/roast.webp (food-8), assets/images/tea.webp (food-10), assets/images/kitchen-pass-poster.webp and assets/video/kitchen-pass.mp4 (a slow pan made from food-8); foundation images inc/foundation/demo/images/: cafe.webp (interiors-8), bakery.webp (food-12), trattoria.webp (food-4), guesthouse.webp (interiors-4), cowork.webp (workspace-8), ceramics.webp (workspace-6), spa.webp (interiors-7), gallery.webp (architecture-12), old-town.webp (travel-9), harbour.webp (travel-5).
