Hi,

You can use a little CSS to hide it like this:

body.home .woo-menu-icon { display: none !important; }

- AJ

Hi,

I’m looking at your site and I see the CSS but not your custom classes. Make sure to edit the column to add your classname like this – https://cl.ly/nD9v – that’s how the CSS knows which columns to target and it doesn’t just target all of them.

In my example CSS I used “my-second-column” and “my-third-column”. But you can use anything you want as long as the CSS matches the class used for the column.

Make sense?

- AJ

Now it does make sense! I totally forgot about classes.

It works like a charm now.

Thank you very much for help!

Great

Hi there,

1. How many pages and will it also change depending on specific categories/archives/search results? There is a filter you can use – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/snippets/custom-logo-image/ – to alter the logo conditionally.

Depending how you are going to do things I can help tweak the code or suggest the best way of doing it. But I need a bit more info.

2. You should be able to use SVG logos already there isn’t anything preventing it. The only issue you may be having is that you can’t upload SVG images in WordPress which can be enabled via some code:

function wpcontent_svg_mime_type( $mimes = array() ) {
  $mimes['svg']  = 'image/svg+xml';
  $mimes['svgz'] = 'image/svg+xml';
  return $mimes;
}
add_filter( 'upload_mimes', 'wpcontent_svg_mime_type' );

The issue is that SVG images are disabled by default in WordPress is for security reasons I advise you do some research on this first – https://www.bjornjohansen.no/svg-in-wordpress

- AJ

Hi there,

• The theme itself doesn’t support dropdowns by default in the topbar menu or in the custom menu widget when simply inserted to a page.

• Can you share a link where you are using the clever menu plugin? How are you adding the menu?

I was under the impression that the plugin had the ability to insert their menu anywhere on a page via a shortcode. If they didn’t add this ability (seems weird that they didn’t I remember asking before adding it to my recommended list) it’s very easy to insert to your header builder via this plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/menu-shortcode/

Like this: https://cl.ly/n54B

And this is how you find your menu ID – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/find-menu-id-wordpress/

I’ll actually add my own clever menu VC module for the upcoming update (should be out tomorrow) so you don’t have to use the Menu Shortcode plugin and make it very easy to insert any clever menu on your site.

By the way in the upcoming update you will now be able to edit the header and see your full site to make things easier as well – https://cl.ly/n4Zf

Please et me know if you have any follow up questions or concerns. I hope you are having a lovely weekend.

- AJ

great. I added the shortcode and it simply does not display correctly. I have currently moved to another free dropdown menu plugin at the moment and that works with shortcode. Will leave it a couple of days and see if your update fixes the issue. I hope it does.

thanks for the quick reply.

Did you create a custom “theme” for your menu? Like this: https://cl.ly/n5ZT

The “theme” adds all the pretty styling to the menu for the dropdowns and everything.

What free plugin did you end up using? I’d like to check it out and maybe recommend it as well after I’ve looked and made sure the code is safe and without errors. Thanks!

- AJ

Hi,

Unfortunately I am not familiar with that plugin. But any plugin that breaks the default titles on your site clearly hasn’t been coded correctly and it may be best to use an alternative plugin. If they aren’t willing to fix things in the plugin you should consider using a different one and get a refund for your purchase.

The titles displayed in the theme and breadcrumbs are using core WordPress functions to pull the correct title based on the active page so you won’t be able to fix the issue by editing the theme files unless you manually set the title for every page using theme filters ( https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/snippets/alter-main-page-title/) on the site which will be a pain to update the code every time you publish a new post/page/tag/category…etc. Fixing the plugin should be very simple. Usually these issues happen when a plugin is incorrectly using a WordPress filter or they haven’t reset a custom query via wp_reset_postdata or wp_reset_query

I am assuming you mean this plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/notice-bar/ ? I downloaded the plugin and tested it and didn’t have any issues. So if that’s the plugin you are using it sounds like it’s a problem only with the pro version which I don’t own.

There are a lot of notice plugins out there if you want some suggestions for switching I can give you some. Let me know.

- AJ

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ps: I noticed your support license has expired, if at this time you can renew your support license I would really appreciate it. You can also purchase a new copy of the theme for another site/client and it will also renew your support. A support renewal is around $41 so if instead you purchase a new license of the theme you essentially will get a new license for only $17 to use on another site and a support renewal. If financially you can’t at this time I understand but would really appreciate it since I spend a lot of time and money supporting and updating the product – thank you!

The best way is like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifhQ7Fb-0lE – this way you can build your own custom filter menu and order things exactly how you want.

Alternatively you can use a plugin like this to re-order categories: https://wordpress.org/plugins/taxonomy-terms-order/

- AJ

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ps: I noticed your support license has expired, if at this time you can renew your support license I would really appreciate it. You can also purchase a new copy of the theme for another site/client and it will also renew your support. A support renewal is around $41 so if instead you purchase a new license of the theme you essentially will get a new license for only $17 to use on another site and a support renewal. If financially you can’t at this time I understand but would really appreciate it since I spend a lot of time and money supporting and updating the product – thank you!

Blog2Social is the most likely. The script is not posted in the code, it’s inside a javascript file. When you are testing don’t keep running the site through page speed (it may be cached). You need to view your site source and then click on all .js files and search the code in the browser for “twitter” and see if you can find the culprit.

- AJ

Gotcha, I’ll keep an eye out for that.

For reference, I only started using Blog2Social recently, as Nextscripts started playing up.

If that’s the case, I think we’ll have a go at the development team and see what they have to say.

Sorted – it was none of the above.

It was something I was trying out called ‘Google Tag Manager’.

Looks like something else that Google has to answer for when running page speed projects.

Hi,

Thanks for the heads up! Here is the updated/fixed file – https://cl.ly/n5KE (file will expire in a few days) – you can replace it via FTP in the location mentioned in the error (Total/framework/classes).

That said. I would highly recommend you activate the bundled Templatera plugin and create your header using a templatera template instead of a standard page. This way it’s not going to be included in search results, site maps…etc.

Thank you again for the porting the bug! I hope you are having a nice weekend.

- AJ

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ps: I noticed your support license has expired, if at this time you can renew your support license I would really appreciate it. You can also purchase a new copy of the theme for another site/client and it will also renew your support. A support renewal is around $41 so if instead you purchase a new license of the theme you essentially will get a new license for only $17 to use on another site and a support renewal. If financially you can’t at this time I understand but would really appreciate it since I spend a lot of time and money supporting and updating the product – thank you!

Thank you!

You are very welcome! Enjoy the rest of the weekend and if you need anything else, let me know

Thank you for the rating!

- AJ

Thank you AJ. Now I hace another problem, I already installed Templatera plugin, but suddenly the option of edit each Portfolio Item with Visual Composer disappeared. Any solution?

Thank you.

Very weird. Can you double check your permissions for the post type? https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/enable-disable-vc/

- AJ

Fixed! It looks like the plugin changed it automatically. Thank you, I hope not to disturb you any more .

Hi,

One quick question…was it on a specific browser/device where you saw the issue with the active menu item on the sidebar widget? Because looking at the site it looks like your custom CSS is just overriding the default CSS which is also set to a white color – https://cl.ly/n7oL

I was looking to add a fix for this in the upcoming update but I can’t seem to break it. So if you have any added info that would be awesome, if not, since no one else has reported the bug then I’ll just leave things as is Thanks!

- AJ

Hi AJ I’m using Firefox on PC and Android and the text vanishes on both. Judith has ipad and it looks as though Safari is fine. I have removed styling so you can see your end if you have choice of browsers. A link is https://www.themorayway.org.uk/festival/events/lowlands/ The joys of code! Regards, David

Hi,

Hum, I tested on my PC and also in a cross browser testing site – https://cl.ly/n9pf – and I can’t see an issue

The code is correct, so I really don’t see any reason why that would happen. Are you able to inspect the code in Firefox – https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Page_Inspector/How_to/Open_the_Inspector ?

Thanks so much for your help!

- AJ

Hi. The speed i was referring to was the ping speed . On the old server when I pinged it is showed 340 ms. In the new server it shows 30 ms. I was using nominalia from Spain and I have now transferred all to ventra ip in australia . I was recommend ventra by local IT professionals. Regards

Yes that’s a very big difference! Great. But it’s only a difference of 310 ms which isn’t noticeable.

I see you are using an instagram widget and facebook widget. These do also take some time to load because you need to ping the instagram and Facebook websites. It’s not adding a ton of extra loading time but it does add some time.

Did you already setup the recommended caching plugin from your new server? https://ventraip.com.au/faq/article/enabling-using-lscache-wordpress/

Besides that the only way to speed things up further is to setup a CDN for the static resources – http://www.wpexplorer.com/free-cdn-services-for-wordpress/

- AJ

ps: On my computer your site takes 1.74 seconds to load – https://cl.ly/n52V – which is pretty good.

Hello. I will implement all your suggestions. I appreciate such dedicated service and advice

Hi Thalia,

Awesome, thank your for your purchases!

There is actually a known bug in the theme. If you can update this file via FTP at Total/framework/customizer/settings/ – https://cl.ly/n5vD – it should fix the issue. If you have any problems with that let me know. Or if you want to submit a private ticket and request it be assigned to AJ and send me FTP logins I can update the file for you.

I do plan on releasing the update over the weekend though with the fix if you rather wait. Sorry for the troubles!

- AJ

Sorry, found it, I had put it in CSS

Glad you figured it out, have a nice weekend Chris!

Hi,

Sorry for the confusion! It is because of a tweak in the demo. Here is what you’ll want to do.

1. Go to theme Panel > Custom CSS and remove this line of code:

#site-header-inner { display: none; }

2. Enable your mobile menu – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/mobile-menu-styles/ – currently it’s set to disabled so your links won’t render very nice on mobile.

The reason the menu is hidden when you enable the Header Overlay is because the demo by default uses header style 2 which places the menu below the #site-header-inner element (which is hidden by default). However, the header overlay function displays the menu inline.

Now…if what you want to do is display the menu just like the live demo but have the menu overlayed at the top that is also possible and I can help with that, just let me know.

- AJ

Thank you so much for the reply. I followed the steps and got it working

Hi Michel,

1. Customizing cpt-single.php is completely unnecessary. The theme has filters built-in to alter things as well as options directly in the CPT UI plugin. There shouldn’t be any need to modify that file. Also you can use the dynamic post template function to create your unique layout – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGYuBjqkj8Q

vcex_post_type_grid.php – yes there is only 1 file because there is only 1 post type grid module. You can create your own custom modules if you need though. It’s very easy – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/new-vc-module/

2. When did you notice the errors happening? The errors are coming from the WordPress admin.js file not a theme or plugin file. So this could be a core WP bug. I would recommend disabling plugins though to see if it is caused by a plugin making use of that file. I have never seeing these errors before so I’m not sure where they may be coming from. Make sure your WP installation is up to date as well. And disable any Chrome addons.

Everything loads very well for me in chrome when I check – https://cl.ly/nA4J (fast also).

- AJ

Thank you very much AJ

I’ll follow your advices.

(just FYI, here are the minor mods I wished for the CPT files : http://pnet.fr/cpt-files-mp.png )

Michel

Hi Michel,

Ok these are both easy to do without modifying the template

1. Can you copy/paste your exactly code from the single cpt file in a gist – https://gist.github.com/ – so I can give you the code for this. I want to see exactly what you did and so I can copy/paste the code and not re-write it all.

2. You can add the icon with CSS only like this:

.type-portfolio .vcex-post-type-entry-title::before {
    content: "\f013";
    display: inline-block;
    margin-right: 10px;
    font-family: "FontAwesome";
}

Just change “portfolio” to your post type name. Result: https://cl.ly/nBfe

- AJ

Hi,

This overlay menu style is created with Javascript (more efficient). So to insert extra content you’ll need to use javascript, example:

add_action( 'wp_footer', function() { ?>
    <script>
        ( function( $ ) {
            'use strict';
            $( document ).on( 'ready', function() {
                $( '.full-screen-overlay-nav-ul-wrapper' ).prepend( '<div class="my-extra-html">Something here</div>' );
            } );
        } ) ( jQuery );
    </script>
<?php }, 9999 );

The search isn’t added by default to keep it slim and it just doesn’t look very nice with a search. If you want a search in the header I would recommend using this method – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/creating-mobile-icons-menu/ (see bottom of the page) – it makes more sense and keep the menu slim.

On the smallest devices this won’t display by default though because only the mobile menu is visible but it can be enabled – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/snippets/display-mobile-menu-icons-always/

That said…if you have a mockup of a search field in the overlay and it looks good I’ll definately consider adding it.

- AJ

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ps: I noticed your support license has expired, if at this time you can renew your support license I would really appreciate it. You can also purchase a new copy of the theme for another site/client and it will also renew your support. A support renewal is around $41 so if instead you purchase a new license of the theme you essentially will get a new license for only $17 to use on another site and a support renewal. If financially you can’t at this time I understand but would really appreciate it since I spend a lot of time and money supporting and updating the product – thank you!

Hi,

There isn’t any list because there is no such thing as default or recommended.

• Logo: Your header will expand to fit whatever logo you add. So in terms of size it just depends on what your logo looks like and how you want it displayed. The theme doesn’t constrain it. Generally speaking png is better quality then jpeg or gif’s but again it depends on your logo. Some logos may look perfectly fine as a jpeg and since it’s a smaller file it’s better to use.

• Full-Screen photos: This depends on the height of the section where the photo is added (if it’s a background). The content of the image (for example a scenic image is a lot different then an image with people in it). It also will depend if you are using the boxed layout or full-width layout – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/theme-layouts/

• Photos inserted into pages: Depends mostly if you are concerned about quality or loading time. If you have a fast server (maybe even a CDN) inserting larger images may look better and provide automatic retina support but if your site loads slow then you may want to greatly reduce image sizes so that your pages load faster or consider not even adding any extra images you may not need. It’s also of course going to depend on your default site widths – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/customize-your-layout-widths/ – and if your image is inserted on a page or in a column.

One thing you can do to always be on the safe side is inspect the area where you are adding your photo to see how much room you have. You can do this in any browser via the developer tools. Example using chrome: https://cl.ly/n5Vj (in this example I have a picture added to a column in a row set to 2 columns. You can inspect and see how much space is available in the column (notice the dimensions when highlighting a column or the row) and you can check how much space is available in the row as well.

But using this method to upload images at the exact pixels is usually just extra work for no reason. Just upload large enough images that look good but that aren’t so large it slows down a site. I generally tend to use 1000px max images when adding on a page inline and 1500-2500 for images added as a row background.

These are design related questions not really to do with the theme. It’s literally impossible to provide any sort of guidance as to what size image you should upload for any particular section without knowing your site design, what the original image looks like and the affect you want.

Hopefully this helps though!

- AJ

Hi,

I’ll just go a head and finish it today. Once it’s ready you should see it right away under Theme Panel > Demo Import.

If you can reply back to this comment (so it gets re-added to my comment queue) I’ll let you know when it’s ready.

- AJ

Thank you so much!!! Would you mind pointing me to the link that explains how to add that demo to my site, please? I don’t know how to do that.

The link is here – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/importing-sample-data/ – all you have to do is click a button

That said, because the theme caches the demos list (to prevent many checks to our server). You may not see the demo available at the time of launch and if that’s the case let me know and I can show you how to clear the cache so that it shows up.

- AJ

Hi there,

The file mentioned in the notice is located in your child theme which means at some point you or someone placed the file there and modified it. You should have a look at the updated file and compare it with yours to see what needs changing – https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/blob/master/templates/myaccount/form-login.php

- AJ

you are correct, my fault – thanks for the help sorry to bother you.

No worries Have a great weekend!

Hi Sarah,

Removing these things are very easy via the theme filters, example – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/snippets/cpt-single-blocks/

I agree having basic support for the plugin in the theme is a good idea (a panel in the Customizer to adjust things) but I don’t have a license of the plugin. Any chance you want to submit a private ticket – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/support/ (request it be assigned to me) – this way I can help you with the tweaks mentioned above and maybe you can send over the plugin so I can add some built-in support. I don’t have experience with the plugin so I would it if you can provide me with any sort of other info regarding options that would be necessary or any styling that needs fixing, etc.

I really appreciate it! In return I’ll help you with your tweaks You can send FTP logins also if you want me to add the code to a child theme for you.

Or I can send you a beta of the theme with some added options to test.

I am having trouble finding any sort of online documentation for developers if you know the link please send it over. In order for me to properly add options for layouts and such I need a list of the conditional functions available in the plugin so I don’t have to read through all their code – thanks!!

- AJ

Hi AJ

That’s great. I will send a private ticket next week. This is my ‘background project’ and I’ve just got buried under other stuff today. Many thanks!

Sounds great! Have a nice weekend.

- AJ