Contact settings
The contact dock is the floating control that moves guests between menus. Its configuration is per menu type, so each archive can offer a different set of destinations.
Where
Settings → Restaurant settings → Content settings → Content settings, in each menu type's block.
The settings
| Setting | Effect |
|---|---|
| Contact dock links for … archive | Which destinations the dock offers — the home page and any other menu type |
| Show icons next to each option | Whether each destination shows its icon |
| Contact dock toggle label for … archive | The text on the floating button; empty shows the current menu's label |
| Contact dock toggle icon for … archive | The icon on the floating button |
| Home URL for … archive | Where the home link goes; empty uses the site's home page |
The screen describes the links as choosing which navigation links appear before the utility actions.
Choose destinations from the guest's position
The default offers everything, which is rarely the best answer:
- from the à la carte menu, guests want drinks and desserts;
- from the wine list, guests want the food menu;
- from breakfast, guests probably want nothing else.
Three or four destinations is right. A dock listing every menu is a site map.
Newly enabled menus are not linked automatically
A menu type you enable does not appear in the other archives' dock links until you tick it there. This is the most common reason a new menu is unreachable even though its address works.
Add it deliberately to every archive it should be reachable from.
The home URL
Left empty, the home link goes to the site's home page — in the guest's language on a multilingual site.
Set it explicitly to send guests somewhere else: a reservations page, a landing page, or a section of a larger site.
Labels and icons
The toggle label defaults to the current menu's name, which tells a guest where they are. A custom label — Menus, Carta, Explore — tells them what the button does. Pick one approach for the whole site.
The toggle icon should read as a navigation control rather than as decoration: it is the only way out of the menu a guest is reading.
Turning Show icons next to each option off leaves text-only destinations, which suits docks with long menu names.
When only one destination is configured
The dock becomes a direct link to that destination rather than an expanding list. That is a useful configuration for a single-menu restaurant that just wants a "back to home" control.
When the dock does not appear
It is rendered on menu and category archives, and only when the site has more than one menu type. A single-menu site has nothing to move between.
After changing contact settings
- [ ] Saved with Save Settings.
- [ ] Every destination opens the menu it names.
- [ ] The current menu is marked as active.
- [ ] The home link goes where you intended.
- [ ] The label is readable and not truncated.
- [ ] The dock does not cover content at the bottom of the screen.
- [ ] It is reachable one-handed on a phone.
- [ ] Every newly enabled menu type is linked from the archives that should reach it.