Hi,

To have items on the same line you just need a little custom CSS, usually labels are blocks so they are added before the input. But you could also just use a placeholder instead of a label – https://contactform7.com/setting-placeholder-text/

That said, there are soo many form plugins out there that do offer a lot more. Contact form 7 is just free which is why it’s recommended. I don’t want to add forms to a live demo site and then tell customers to go out and purchase a plugin before importing the demo.

So you can always do a little search to see if you find something better with more design options (some people really like WPForms but I’m not sure if it has styling options built-in)

- AJ

Thanks, Could you possible tell me what custom CSS I would use for that? Paid plugins are really excessive for my needs so Contact Form 7 is the route I will go.

If you share the URL and let me know which fields you want side by side, sure I can help with that.

Hi Chris,

Normally this would be one of the following:

• Memory limit being reached so it can’t render: http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/increasing-memory-limit-to-php/

• 3rd party plugin causing a javascript error in the backend. Do you see any issues if you open the browser console? and did you try de-activating any 3rd party plugins?

• WordPress is outdated but your theme and plugins are up to date.

- AJ

Hi there,

WooCommerce 3.3.0 was literally released yesterday. I am aware of this and I’m updating the theme today with any required WooCommerce fixes. While I wish I could always release an update instantly to the theme it does take some time to go through everything, tweak things if needed as well as finish up any pending updates.

Thank you for your patience,

- AJ

Thank you for your response, I did not know when it was released so I was just reporting. Sorry for this seeming like a quick report. actually I would have held off upgrading if I knew the release date.

Oh no worries! It’s just sometimes it gets a bit overwhelming when a lot of customers are doing the same But I can totally understand especially since not all theme developers are on top of things. Sorry if I came across as being a bit rude.

I am doing some final tweaks and checks and then I’ll push out the update. If you want you can view the upcoming changelog here: https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/upcoming-update-changelog/

- AJ

You gave me a good idea though…I just added some new options to the widget for the upcoming 4.5.5 update to be released today: https://cl.ly/pFVJ

Glad to have helped!! This old man just bought electric mountain bike. Feel like a teenager again. Roll on Spring. Very best wishes to you. David

Dam nice, I was actually looking at some youtube videos about the electric bikes yesterday on the Global Mountain Bike Network channel. I love MB – can’t wait for the weekend to ride

Hi,

Simply log into WordPress and go to Theme Panel > Image Sizes > WooCommerce to tweak your default settings. By default in this demo I only added cropping for the entries which you can either remove or tweak: https://cl.ly/pEXn

- AJ

I’m not having issues when using your imported theme settings and the repeat background. Here is an example: https://cl.ly/pCLn

Do you mind saving the settings so I can view the live site?

- AJ

I changed a bunch of times and worked, thanks!

Oh nice! I’m glad it’s working now. If you need anything else, let me know.

- AJ

You need to purchase the theme first Then you can install it and use thee demo importer to import the demo.

- AJ

Oh, have you checked out the video for the page builder? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JyW4yAyTl0

Creating pages is very easy and quick.

That said, if you have a mockup or layout you are looking to copy let me know, I could either show you how in a video or make a simple Templatera template and export it for you so you can import it.

- AJ

That would be great! Please let me know how can i send them over.

You can open a private ticket and request it be assigned to me (AJ) -https://wpexplorer-themes.com/support/

There is an uploader for uploading images but you can also just submit a plain ticket and I’ll reply back for further info (for example if you have a PDF that is too large to send through our form).

I am working on new a new Template System anyway so it would be great to have some inspiration

- AJ

Hi Chris,

Looks like your site is using https but you are using an http URL for the video, make sure that your youtube video URL is also using https otherwise it won’t load for security reasons.

- AJ

That is great !! Never come across this.

Thank you for your ‘sage’ advice.

GREAT SUPPORT ! ...... as always

Chrus

Haven’t changed user names :/ I tried contacting you on the 26th, I believe. Anyway, sure, I’d love to get on Slack. This has been a monstrous headache so far and I’d love some advice.

I sent you an invite to the email that I had in our support portal (office at our domain.com)

Do you understand though that unless you manually activated your licenses in the past in the theme setting you won’t have any “active” licenses defined in the support portal? It sounds like you may be working with older versions of the theme prior to the activation function being added.

- AJ

Once in slack feel free to send me a DM by clicking my name on the left hand-side and we’ll figure out what’s going on here.

Hi Michael,

The issue with having those options in a module is the CSS needs to go inline and inline CSS overrides responsiveness so if you were to enter custom widths the responsiveness would break.

I do have plans though for some new modules (working on adding some new magazine style modules) and one will have by default that left/right look so I can look into maybe adding custom widths for that.

Since I am planning on having these new and better modules I don’t want to tweak the older ones too much from here on since I believe most customers will make use of the newer modules

- AJ

Hi AJ, does this then also mean that responsiveness breaks when setting a custom width in the “Customizer – Blog – Archives and Entry” setting, when using the 1 column “Left image and right content” style?

No, because the Customizer can output the CSS in a style element in the head tag. When using modules the CSS must be added inline which overrides CSS in stylesheets/head tag.

That’s awesome. Thanks!

Yes, if you could help me with code and where to place it in the child theme, that would be great. I’m only using this function on one page, using the landing page template if that makes a difference.

Here’s the page for reference https://www.jennifermeyering.com/photography/

I want the image to displayed at full so no need for cropping.

Oh hey there Jennifer, I didn’t recognize you from your username, nice to see hear from you again, I hope you are having a great start to 2018.

Whenever I see you site I notice some new little tweaks here and there and keeps getting better and better

I was a bit confused at first because you have a row with white text on a white background so I couldn’t see anything but I see what you are going for.

This code should work (tested locally before sending it you)

add_action( 'wp_head', function() {

    if ( ! is_page( 415131 ) ) {
        return;
    }

    $images = wpex_get_gallery_images();

    if ( ! $images ) {
        return;
    }

    $random_image = $images[ array_rand( $images, 1 ) ];

    if ( $random_image ) {
        echo '<style>.vc_row-o-full-height{background-image: url(' . $random_image . ');background-size:cover;}</style>';
    }

} );

The only issue is depending how your site cache works you may see the same image and not a random one as the image could be cached. If that is the case it’s possible to add a transient to clear the cache every so many hours or days or to disable the cache on this page only.

- AJ

Awe, thanks! If only I knew how to code as well as you… hehe

Thank you so much for that code. It works perfectly and exactly what I wanted!

I use WP Rocket as a cache so if I see problems with the same image repeating, I’ll just disable the cache for that page.

Thanks again! You’re awesome!

the problem still exists after a complete reinstall.

there is a image grid under the textblock. but not shown.

Hi,

When I look at your page I don’t see any code for the image grid. When testing locally in the latest version I’m not having any issues: https://cl.ly/p9s6

Unfortunately just looking at the front-end it’s impossible to know what’s going on. Have you selected your images correctly? Do you see any errors in the backend?

If you want you can open a private ticket so we can log in and have a look – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/support/ – as it’s the only way we’ll be able to assist.

Additionally you may want to try first increasing your memory limit as well as enabling WP_Debug (to check for errors):

• http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/increasing-memory-limit-to-php/
• http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/enabling-wp-debug/

- AJ

ps: Re-installing WordPress will never fix a bug because all you are doing is installing the same thing you already had.

ok, i opened a private ticket.

HI there,

I am doing well, thank you for asking. I hope you are doing well also.

1. It’s showing all of them for me but there isn’t a lot of space for all those slides – https://cl.ly/pALt – generally I would recommend displaying only 3-4 testimonials at once.

Do you not see all the dots like my screenshot?

You could use the Testimonials Carousel though instead to show multiple at once. It has a custom gray design but it would be easy to tweak via some CSS or via the styling options in the Customizer.

2. The colors look good on my iMac as well, however, it is a very very light hex color (#f2e5fc) so on some displays (lower quality screens) it may not be very easy to see as well on different brightness.

I would recommend increasing the color a bit because it is very light it’s almost a white actually with a slight pink. This is a great tool for that: http://www.0to255.com/

- AJ

HI AJ,

1. yes..Now it is showing… What I did is to remove dots. For the moment my client want to add like 10 testimonials in the same page..if I found a better solution..I will change.

2. Yeah.. This 0to255 is really good tool!!! thank you very much. I add these hex colors that I am using in an old laptop…and it looks like white.. So I will have to look for an other color..very “soft” pink/beige it is nice…but the next one which is just a bit darker..It’s a very girlish color. So maybe gray is the best solution..

Thank you very much! Hope to finish soon this site to share it here for others.

Hi,

What are you trying to change exactly? The logo itself can be fully customized via Appearance > Customize > Header > Logo. Here you can change the colors if it’s a text logo or you can upload a custom image logo if you want an image logo – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/custom-logo/

Now, if you want to change the logo to have a different logo on different pages that wouldn’t be a CSS change because you can’t alter an image src attribute with CSS you would need to use some PHP via a child theme. Here is a sample snippet – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/snippets/custom-logo-image/

- AJ

Hi there,

Nice to hear from you again

- What do you mean by “squished” it looks good to me: https://cl.ly/pB8q

Now if what you want is to make the testimonials expand so they take up the whole screen, simply edit the row they are on and select to stretch it like this: https://cl.ly/p9qR

- Simply edit the testimonial module on the page and enter a custom size for the thumbnail: https://cl.ly/p9vI

Or if you have selected the “testimonial_entry” for the image size then you would go to Theme Panel > Image Sizes > Testimonials to alter the size there.

- AJ

Everything looked good except for the baby image was cutoff. It used to be correct – I did change the font so maybe that’s it?

The default background position of the page title is 50% 0 for this particular image you may want to center it or place it at the top. Adding some CSS to the page like this would fix that:

.page-header {
    background-position: center center;
}

Which would give you this result: https://cl.ly/pBMg

Changing the font wouldn’t alter this, the only thing that could have changed would be if the image itself was modified since the backgrounds for the page title have worked like this for a long time now.

- AJ

Many thanks AJ. Your answer is really really helpful. About the language, yes, I plan to build up one multiple languages website. It is OK. I can learn how to use translator plugins. About the site, yes, I agree with you. It could be better to build up the pages I need. Honestly say I have to get some knowledge about word press. This moment I thought I could learn the structure and how the WP is organizing the content by using and changing demo. But it is nice if you can show me the video. Thanks again…..

Have a nice day!

For the most part the content on the demos are just normal pages created with the page builder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JyW4yAyTl0

Except for Blog posts which are just normal posts with plain text added.

I think the best place to start though is to first have a look at the theme structure here: https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/total-wordpress-theme-anatomy/

Even though it’s a very “complete” theme it’s still very slim in the sense that there isn’t much to learn and the page above should help a lot.

If you have any specific doubts or confusion let me know so I can help!

Once you get a hang of the theme it should be a piece of cake to use and customize

- AJ

Many thanks, AJ

Ha ha, that made me laugh Thanks for that! (delinquent updater)

No, you never need to or should update step by step because ultimately it does the exact same thing.

Version 3.6.0 is old but not insanely old so I don’t think there is anything to really worry about. Excerpt you should check out the warning notice on version 4.0 – http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs-category/updates/ (click on the left side to scroll down to that version). The main thing to note is the changes to the “center row” function which has been deprecated so if you continue making tweaks or building with the theme that you use the new stretched row functions instead.

Of course I would recommend doing a quick backup of your database just incase anything goes wrong.

Since built-in updates didn’t get added until more recently you would either want to temporarily switch themes, delete Total and upload the new version or use the Envato Market plugin to update it – http://www.wpexplorer.com/envato-market-plugin-guide/

Once updated you can go to Theme Panel > Theme License to activate your license and you will get auto update notices in the dashboard via our own API.

If you have any questions or run into any issues just let me know!

- AJ

Hi Ron,

1. The share buttons are created using the default way of sharing links stated by the different sizes.

Facebook share’s are completely independent from the theme because the only parameter they take is the URL the text comes directly from your open graph meta.

Twitter by default takes the title in the share link although you could show a summary, it makes more sense to have the title of the post and when someone clicks it if they don’t want to just tweet the title then they will edit it and write whatever they want (most users do this).

Pinterest and Linked in share links take a title and summary parameter.

Google Plus always looks at the Open Graph meta 9nothing needs to pass through the URL).

You could modify the file at partials/social-share.php to change how the share links work but I don’t really see any problem in the way things are currently setup and no one has ever mentioned any issues before.

I am open to any suggestions you may have, how were you expecting things to work? And were you looking to alter things on a per-post basis or globally?

2. The CSS to center the social share would be this:

.wpex-social-share {
    text-align: center;
}

.wpex-social-share li {
    float: none;
    display: inline-block;
}

To be honest, while Total does have built-in simple share (most customers are creating business sites without even a blog) for high traffic blogs I recommend using 3rd party social share plugins such as AddThis or Sumo (no matter the theme) for optimal social sharing and statistics. Most people though don’t even need to worry about social sharing though because they don’t even get enough traffic for it to matter.

- AJ

Hi AJ,

Thnx for your swift reply. The CSS for center the social share works great.

Somehow it feels weird to me that on 1 page the social media shares behave differently. Of course this goes for other websites as well. I’m probably just nitpicking.

I’d especially like to influence LinkedIn and to lesser extent Pinterest. I suppose I could rewrite the first paragraph. That would work. However, being able to change the Title and Summary on a per-post basis would be neat. I can’t do that now, can I?

I will look into the other plugins you mentioned.

Yes, I’m following standard practice when it comes to adding the social links but I am totally open for suggestions or at the very least adding some filters if you wish to change things via a child theme.

- AJ

Thank you AJ.

I’ve looked at the documentation and existing hooks but am unable to find what to add for my objective.

So I’ll follow your advice not to make search results shareable.

The code to add it is very simple:

add_action( 'wpex_hook_content_bottom', function() {
    if ( ! is_search() ) {
        return;
    }
    wpex_social_share();
} );

To see what hook to use you just need to open search.php and see what hooks area available and choose one. And to see how to load any theme file check out the Total/framework/hooks/partials.php file or use simple get_template_part functions to load the file.

And while it will load the code for social sharing (you need to keep the code you mentioned previously as well but change is_archive to is_search) the title, description and open graph meta won’t work so the sharing would be a bit weird.

If you want full-site social share you can always just use something like this – http://www.addthis.com/ – and have it placed in a fixed position across the whole site and just disable the theme’s built-in share function.

- AJ

Thank you indeed AJ, also again for the nice way you provide useful knowledge beyond issue fixes

Michel