There are many pub & bar website designs using WordPress or Joomla gives you the functionality and the flexibility to be creative. These CMS platforms offer everyone a tool to create effective websites to promote their business online.
A website has the power to reach and engage with millions of visitors, so it is probably your most effective marketing tool. You own your website, so you have full control of the quality and the content you publish.
The pandemic has shown us just how important it is for us to have a place to socialise, meet up with friends and celebrate with loved ones. Pubs and bars will return in abundance once the country is safe.
We use these themes because they contain all the features you need to publish and operate a fast and effective website. Features such as reservations systems, integrations with OpenTable, menus, social media likes and shares, opening times and maps.
1. Pubzinne
Pubzinne is a pub and bar WordPress theme with integrated OpenTable reservations system.
The OpenTable reservations widget offers website visitors the facility of booking a reservation via OpenTable which is an extremely popular reservations system.
This pub theme is mobile optimized, so it looks great on mobile devices for those checking reservations on the go.
This theme also comes with an events calendar so you can promote special events such as a particular football game or rugby match, darts matches and live bands.
There is also the standard contact form for all types of general enquiries such as those looking for a job or those checking details of the menu.
There are 4 home page designs to choose from with lovely modern layouts and animation options. You can add staff details, a blog and there is even a shop option for selling products, so you could sell t-shirts or any product on the website.
There is also a pop up which is great to get peoples attention with upcoming events.
A menu is included, so you can publish the menu items on the website if you are selling pub food.
Finally, you can add testimonials on the site and there is even a counter so you can add number of visitors each day or number of numbers of draft beer sold.
This theme is cross browser compatible, has dozens of short codes, GDPR compliant with colour style editor and admin interface.
2. Craft Beer
Craft Beer theme is designed for a brewery, pub or bar and comes with 6 home page designs. This design is fully customizable and will resize on all mobile devices.
Comes with great beer related icons and incorporates a shopping facility to sell items on the website.
You can add a map of your locations and details of the team of employees which is nice for people wanting a friendly place to drink and relax.
Comes with a bespoke under construction page for when you are carrying out maintenance.
You can add a menu and special offers on a nice image background.
Comes with animation and a contact form for general enquiries.
Add you social media logos on the home page menu so people can follow you on social media.
3. Bridge
Bridge is a popular theme that uses Elementor builder which a highly sophisticated website builder for WordPress.
You can embed a video on the site which offers visitors a nice insight into the business.
Comes with smooth scrolling and back to top button.
Add you social media logos on the home page menu so people can follow you on social media.
There is an inbuilt reservations facility, so visitors can book a table. There is the menu feature and location map.
This theme comes with lots of guides and tutorials so you can really learn how to create beautiful websites.
4. Gourmet
Joomla is another great CMS that we work with and worth looking at for pre built themes.
Gourmet comes with 11 different templates with various designs to chose from for all types of food businesses with 138 pages, 4000 icons, 15 portfolios, 75 components and 13 different header styles.
I love the animation for this theme, the buttons animate and the drop down animates which is a nice touch.
You can add testimonials, pricing and lots of icon graphics.
This is a nice, clean, fresh and modern theme with lots of elements and pages to create a beautiful website for any food and drink business.
Site is built with FramworkY and also available in WordPress.
5. Barnelli
Theme has 4 options for the home page including a video introduction which is popular with internet connections getting stronger.
Barnelli shows that the menu can be at the bottom of the screen to showcase images as a whole screen introduction using layered slider or static images.
There is a reservation form and a wine list with prices. Good use of white space and nice and clean typography.
Meet the team design is nice and simple with social media links.
Theme shows that less is more in some website designs.
6. Jz Pub & Bar
Jz Pub and Bar theme is specifically for a certain type of place but it really makes a nice impact and contains lots of useful features.
The visual composer module is a drag and drop website builder that allows you to move content around and make edits quickly.
Other features includes event management tool, shop, multiple slider options, blog, menu and header options.
Theme contains 5 different sliders and lots of different header and footer styles and mailpoet is included for newsletters.
If you like this design then you can really make it your own and make it fit the business nicely.
7. Bar by Divi
Divi offers lots of demos and the flexibility divi offers is limitless.
Elegant themes is changing the way the traditional website is designed with different home page styles without sliders.
The Divi bar theme has layered content on image backgrounds giving the site a really nice feel.
The theme comes with the blog and although it is not a menu feature, you can create a menu from the list feature.
Summary
These are a few of the themes available for website projects for bars and pubs but there are others that are more general for standard designs. Many plugins are free when included in a theme bundle and the developers keep the themes up todate with the latest security and technical requirements.
