RamenKagura.com
RamenKagura is a restaurant chain website designed to showcase restaurant locations and serve as an interactive online menu. Built from scratch using WordPress as a headless CMS and GatsbyJS, the platform ensures high performance, accessibility, and seamless content management.
Each restaurant manager can independently manage menu items and restaurant details via the WordPress backend. The structured backend schema simplifies data entry, reducing errors and ensuring efficient organization of restaurants, menu types, categories, and items.
Gatsby ensures fast-loading pages with built-in caching strategies, while Yoast SEO and Open Graph tags optimize search visibility. Content updates are reviewed on a preview site before deployment, ensuring accuracy.
Key Features
Custom-Designed UI & User Experience
- Built from scratch with a clean, modern, and fully responsive design
- Popup system for displaying restaurant offers and menu details
- Achieves a 100/100 score for Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO on Google PageSpeed Insights
Restaurant & Menu Management
- Restaurant managers can independently manage menu items and restaurant details
- Each dish can be assigned to multiple menus with different pricing
- Structured backend schema ensures seamless linking between restaurants, menus, categories, and items
- Dropdowns and checkboxes prevent errors in menu configuration
Performance & SEO Optimization
- Gatsby handles caching by default, ensuring fast page loads
- Uses Yoast SEO and Open Graph tags for better search visibility
- Lazy loading for images to enhance performance
- Minification of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for optimized speed
Content Workflow & Deployment
- WordPress role-based authentication allows controlled access for restaurant managers
- Changes in WordPress are not pushed instantly—they are first reviewed on a preview website before deployment
- One-click deployment for publishing updates efficiently
Multimedia & Third-Party Integrations
- Supports embedded videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and other sources
- Google Analytics integration for tracking website traffic and user behavior
Scalability & Future-Ready Setup
- Headless CMS architecture separates content from frontend for better flexibility
- Hosted on Cloudways (WordPress backend) & Netlify (Gatsby frontend)
- Easily extendable for additional features in the future
Challenges & Unique Aspects
- Complex Data Schema linking restaurants, menus, categories, and items
- Smart Data Entry UI using dropdowns and checkboxes to minimize errors
- Gatsby-WordPress Sync using gatsby-source-wordpress for efficient data fetching