Di Restaurant Theme Review

General design

There are 6 pre-build homepages from Di Restaurant and they are all awesome.  The layout is creative and modern, particularly, and the front page is the most attractive and professional element of all. Generally, they have an extensive style that makes me feel so "open" and "free".

Other elements

The author combines the "hot" and "cold" color, the two contrast tone, very harmoniously, so it creates both senses of freshness and warmness, especially on the homepage. The default primary color of Di Restaurant, Teal - the mixture of blue and green - brings about coolness and calmness, but sometimes, sadness. So, the author mixes it with colorful dishes images and some warm elements on the home page design to make it more bright and delightful.

Di Restaurant uses different family fonts with various styles for each homepage design. They can be artistic, creative, or well-manner, solid, ... bu overall, the typography is very beautiful and attractive. However, this font of the Bar home page is quite glitzy to me. Maybe it matches with "Bar-lover's" style, not me.

You can change the color and typography to some extent. I will mention that in the Customization.

The different pre-made homepages have different designs, but I see that they are all made of sharp and solid blocks as well as orient to a modern, creative style. The thing that they all have in common is the full-screen hero image. It is the most outstanding part of Di Restaurant. It can be parallax or not, but I love the one with parallax as it's so lively and catchy. Here, the author uses the page builder to add the logo, button, or call-to-action text ... very reasonably so it doesn't mess with other elements on the first-screen area.

The archive page has only the default list structure, but it looks fancy with its design and the horizontal featured image. However, if you choose the featured image with a different style, for example, I choose one with a square frame, so on the PC or laptop screen, it doesn't look like the others. And my preference is the default style in the demo, it's more creative.

Responsive

This free WordPress multipurpose theme can scale to fit any screen size, thereby, it looks nice on all devices and viewports.

It's ready to use after you install so you don't have to worry about how to make it run properly. After that, you have two choices to set up and make it look like the demo.

The first way is using instant demo import with the help of Di Themes Demo Site Importer plugin. It allows you to imports all the data and set-up of the demo to your website. However, remember to install and activate all the recommended plugins first. It's really easy that you just need a few clicks and wait a minute until the process finishes.

The second way is the manual set-up. It's quite complicated and requires you to use Elementor. After choosing the Page Template for Elementor, you can use Elementor to design your front page. All the sections on this page are created and designed by this tool except the hero image, so if you don't use Elementor, your homepage's body will be blank.

The author suggests many plugins to help you have more extraordinary features like the Wish list from TI WooCommerce Wishlist Plugin or Quick view from YITH WooCommerce Quick View.

But the key features of this theme making it a premium-like one is Elementor compatibility and one-click demo import. You can use Elementor and Di Restaurant to create any section for a restaurant site like a custom menu, dishes, call to action, ...

If you are familiar with Elementor, it's not difficult at all to build your homepage with all the common modules and blocks included. Although there are no special blocks from the author, I think it's adequate to use the available modules.

The Customizers with live preview is easier to use with a lot of easily customizable sections.

For example, you can choose any color for your background. However, it's the only kind of color section you can change so you can't make your website as colorful as you want.

Besides the common features like color, background image, header image, ... Di Restaurant has various theme options here.

There are 6 heading with custom typography together with the body and main menu typography. It allows you to choose on from the list of many standard fonts here. Although the number of typefaces is still limited, I think it's still adequate to use and moreover, it's simple to custom them. Yet, when I tested them to write this review of Di Restaurant, the body, and main menu typography are the two only parts that can be modified properly.

I try to change the heading 1 to 6 but it's impossible.

There are two other custom typography sections: the body post and the post title. They can be changed rightly, luckily. Besides, many other small elements of the blog page will satisfy you. They are all easy to edit and I find no mistake here. But I still wish I can have more options for the layout rather than just change the sidebar position.

Another interesting custom feature is the social icon. When turning it on, you have a list of 10+ default URLs, which are all the URLs of the most famous channels. All you need to do is inserting your link destination, and then the equivalent icon of it will automatically appear on the menu bar. But it has one limitation: you can't add your own custom URL.

Last, I find the footer widget with multiple layouts so interesting. I can diversify the footer area by any common widget from WordPress with some distinctive layouts. After enabling this section, don't forget to press the Publish button and go to the Widget section to edit the footer widgets.

Di Restaurant theme has multiple blocks to create any kind of common post type. They all well-displayed and easy to use.

Embedding a video or social link from the giant channel is so simple. I tried a video from Youtube and it displays with a full-width frame.

A single image is also full-width so it really gets well with the whole layout.

The images inside the gallery are arranged orderly in terms of sizes.

SEO hasn't been totally ready yet. I found that after verifying SEO optimization by some special tools. So, you need to install an SEO plugin for this feature. But I don't see any plugin of that kind in the recommended plugin from the author.

I tested the speed of this WordPress multipurpose theme by Google PageSpeed Insights and saw that the speed is not good. It takes a lot of time to load.

Di Themes has super detailed and helpful documentation for all aspects of using this free WordPress multipurpose theme. In the sidebar menu, the author lists all the heading sections so you can easily find and jump to the needed part. Nonetheless, there are no images here to make it more understandable and imaginative.

The author quickly responses to all the topics of users in the WordPress support forum within a few hours. Yet, to get support from the author on the theme homepage, you need to buy the pro version to have an account. Therefore, a free user just can receive help in WordPress.org support forum.