Speed & performanceRestaurants
Restaurant: faster on phones
Our restaurant site feels slow on phones. Test the homepage and the Menu page, tell me the 3 biggest problems in plain words, and fix what you safely can.
Playbook › Restaurants
Plays for restaurants
Plays written for restaurant websites: seasonal dishes and a wine list, for diners and families. Copy one, fill in your details, and PressHelm does the work on your WordPress site.
Also useful: get to know your site, maintenance and seasonal campaigns.
38 plays. Tap “Copy prompt”, fill in the [highlighted] parts, and send it to PressHelm.
Schedules & monitoringRestaurants
Restaurant: Monday morning report
Every Monday at 9:00, send me a short report for our restaurant site: new comments and messages, updates waiting, anything broken, and how fast the homepage is.
Email & formsRestaurants
Restaurant: reservation form
Add a reservation form to the [page name] page with these fields: name, phone, date, time, guests, allergies. Send submissions to [your email] and show a friendly thank-you message.
Fix problemsRestaurants
Restaurant: same opening hours everywhere
Our opening hours and contact details are: [paste them]. Make sure they are the same on every page and in the footer, and fix any old ones, with a preview first.
Email & formsRestaurants
Restaurant: reservation emails not arriving
People say our reservation emails don’t arrive. Check how the site sends email and our domain’s setup, and tell me exactly what to fix.
SEO & content qualityRestaurants
Restaurant: SEO titles for “restaurant in [city]”
Write SEO titles and meta descriptions for our main pages so we show up for “restaurant in [city]”. Natural wording, no keyword stuffing. Show them to me before saving.
SEO & content qualityRestaurants
Restaurant: local landing page
Write a page “seasonal dishes and a wine list in [city]” for our restaurant, with real local details: [area, parking, landmarks, opening hours]. Helpful for people searching “restaurant in [city]”. Save it as a draft.
Marketing & campaignsRestaurants
Restaurant: campaign for the holiday season
Plan our campaign for the holiday season: a short landing page about our seasonal dishes and a wine list, a banner on the homepage until [end date], a matching image, and a blog post. Show me the plan first.
Marketing & campaignsRestaurants
Restaurant: newsletter sign-up
Add a newsletter sign-up section to the homepage for diners and families, with one line about what they’ll get from our restaurant and a form for name and email.
Get to know your siteRestaurants
Restaurant: five-minute site check
Give our restaurant site a quick check: is the Menu page fast on phones, does the reservation form send, are there errors or updates waiting? Five lines at most.
Marketing & campaignsRestaurants
Restaurant: announcement bar
Add a slim announcement bar at the top of every page: “[your message, e.g. now taking bookings for the holiday season]”, linking to the Menu page.
Pages & layoutRestaurants
Restaurant: rewrite the homepage hero
Rewrite the homepage hero for our restaurant: a clear headline about our seasonal dishes and a wine list, one sentence for diners and families, and a button to [our booking or contact page]. Keep the current layout.
Images & mediaRestaurants
Restaurant: AI hero image
Make a wide hero image for our restaurant website: a warm restaurant dining room with set tables at dusk. Natural, real-looking, no text. Show me the model and cost first, then put it at the top of the homepage.
Pages & layoutRestaurants
Restaurant: build the Menu page
Create a “Menu” page that presents our seasonal dishes and a wine list with short descriptions and prices: [paste your list]. Easy to scan on phones, with a button to [booking/contact] at the end.
Images & mediaRestaurants
Restaurant: image of the chef’s tasting menu
Make a square image showing the chef’s tasting menu for our Menu page, clean and inviting, matching the rest of the site.
Pages & layoutRestaurants
Restaurant: testimonials section
Add a testimonials section to the homepage with these reviews from our diners and families: [paste 3 reviews with first names]. Match the page style.
Images & mediaRestaurants
Restaurant: lighter photos on Menu
Convert the photos on our Menu page to WebP and shrink any that are wider than 2000 px, so the page loads faster.
Pages & layoutRestaurants
Restaurant: photo gallery page
Create a Gallery page for our restaurant with the photos I’m about to send, in a tidy grid with a short caption under each one and good alt text.
Images & mediaRestaurants
Restaurant: 3 social media images
Make 3 square images for social posts about our seasonal dishes and a wine list, in our brand colours [colours], each with room for a short text.
Images & mediaRestaurants
Restaurant: alt text for every photo
Find all images on our restaurant site without alt text and write short, descriptive alt text for each one.
Content & bloggingRestaurants
Restaurant: write the About page
Write an About page for our restaurant: how we started, what makes our seasonal dishes and a wine list different, and a short team section. Warm and honest, no clichés. Save it as a draft.
Content & bloggingRestaurants
Restaurant: FAQ for diners and families
Write the 10 questions diners and families ask a restaurant most, with short, honest answers, and add them as an FAQ section at the end of the [page name] page.
Content & bloggingRestaurants
Restaurant: blog ideas that bring visitors
Suggest 12 blog post ideas for a restaurant that diners and families would search for on Google, grouped by topic. Then write the best one as a draft.
Content & bloggingRestaurants
Restaurant: write “What makes our seasonal menu different”
Write a practical 800-word article “What makes our seasonal menu different” for our blog: useful tips, 3 subheadings, and a friendly call to action to [our booking or contact page] at the end. Save as draft.
Content & bloggingRestaurants
Restaurant: update prices on Menu
Raise the prices on our Menu page by [5]% and round them nicely. Show me the before and after first.
Content & bloggingRestaurants
Restaurant: organise the blog
Organise our blog into clear categories for a restaurant (for example: Menu news, Recipes, Events), and move existing posts into the right ones. Show me the plan first.
Get to know your site
Give me a tour of my site
What do you see on my site? Give me a short tour: theme, page builder, main plugins, how many pages and posts, and anything that looks off.
Maintenance & updates
Update plugins one by one
Update all plugins with updates waiting, one at a time, checking the site after each. Stop and tell me if anything breaks.
Fix problems
Why is there a white screen?
The [page name] page shows a white screen. Find out why from the error log and tell me the safest fix.
Get to know your site
List plugins with updates
Which plugins, themes or WordPress itself have updates waiting? List them with the version change.
Maintenance & updates
Remove an unused plugin
Deactivate and delete the plugin [name]. Make sure nothing on the site uses it first.
Fix problems
Undo a bad plugin update
Since updating [plugin], the site has errors. Put the previous version back.
Get to know your site
Find plugins I don’t need
Which plugins are inactive or look unused? Explain what each one does and whether it is safe to remove. Don’t change anything yet.
Maintenance & updates
Install a plugin
Find a well-rated plugin for [need], tell me why you chose it, and install it (inactive until I say activate).
Fix problems
Undo the last change
Undo the last change you made.
Get to know your site
Explain why my homepage is slow
Run a speed test on my homepage (mobile) and explain the three biggest problems in plain words. Don’t fix anything yet.
Maintenance & updates
Compare plugins for a job
Compare the 3 best plugins on WordPress.org for [need] by rating, installs and last update.
Fix problems
Put the old homepage back
Put the homepage back to how it was yesterday.