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Sections come first
Your menu is built from sections — Starters, Mains, Drinks, whatever suits you. Add one with Add New Section on your homepage while signed in. You can't add a dish until there's a section to put it in.
Each section can have header and footer text, which is useful for things like "All served with flatbread" or a note about sourcing.
Adding dishes
Use the + on a section to add a dish. Name, price, description and a photo are all optional except the name — a dish with no price is perfectly valid if you'd rather say "market price" in the description.
Photos
Photos are cropped to a square when you upload them. You'll get a crop tool, so you choose which part of the picture is used rather than letting it guess.
Photos are optional, and mixing is fine. Dishes without one simply show text. But a section where only some dishes have photos can look uneven — it's usually better to photograph all of a section or none of it.
Descriptions
Descriptions support basic formatting — bold, italic, lists and links. Keep them short: most people read your menu on a phone, standing up, deciding whether to come in.
The row of icons under each dish
When you're signed in, five small icons sit under every dish on your menu. Nobody visiting your site sees them. Left to right, they are:
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Drag handle — press here and drag to move the dish. This is the one people miss.
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Draft or published — click to switch between them. The icon changes color to show which it is. A draft is only visible to you.
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Sold out — click when the kitchen runs out. The dish stays on the menu but is clearly marked, which is usually better than making it vanish. Click again when it's back.
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Edit — name, price, photo, description, allergens, specials. Everything about the dish.
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Delete — gone for good, after a confirmation. If the dish is only off for a while, use draft or sold out instead.
Sections have their own, shorter row: just edit and delete, the same two icons.
Putting things in order
Dragging works from the handle, not the dish. The two columns of dots ( ) at the left of that row are the grip — press and hold there, then drag. Grabbing the dish's name or its photo won't move it, which is why it can feel at first as though reordering doesn't work. The handle is small and easy to miss; on a phone, press and hold it for a moment before you start moving.
You can drag a dish up and down within its section, and straight into a different section. Position saves as soon as you let go — there's no save button. To reorder the sections themselves rather than the dishes inside them, use Administration → Menu Order.