A beer list that updates the website and the printed menu in one go
The problem
København is a craft beer bar in Halifax whose list changes almost daily. Every change was being retyped by hand twice: once into the website and once into the printed table menus. Mistakes crept in, and the two never quite matched.
What we built
A WordPress plugin that takes the spreadsheet the bar already keeps, validates it hard, and publishes it to the website and to a print-ready PDF menu in one step. Wine follows beer on the same shape.
The file imports, or it doesn’t
The rule that governs everything: there is no partial import. If a single row fails validation the whole file is rejected with a clear message naming the row, so the menu on the wall is never half right. Warnings are shown but never block a publish.
Three layers each do one job: read the spreadsheet into clean rows, check the shape, then check the meaning. Every row that makes it through is complete, so the menu renderer never has to guess.