Hi,

The directory structure is correct (comparing the the github repo – https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/tree/master/templates/order) if you aren’t seeing the changes live can you make sure it’s not a caching issue? Be sure to clear any plugin/site/browser cache whenever you are updating the files.

Total doesn’t tweak any of those files, but even if it did, the child theme should take priority.

What are you trying to change exactly?

- AJ

Hi Neil,

What are you trying to display exactly? Because you could use the Total Slider and set the order to “random” – https://cl.ly/pxXs

But more importantly, because you are using WordPress you should either have built-in server cache or a caching plugin active on your site it’s possible using this type of plugin would not even work because your site may just show the first image that got cached. The only way to truly have a random image displayed on a cached site is v via a javascript-driven function.

- AJ

Hi,

It looks like this is the only page where you have a background image correct? If so, the best solution is to just add some CSS to the page to make the content white for this page. Like this: https://cl.ly/pxii

Example code:

body #main,
body #main a,
body #main p,
body #main h2,
body #main h3,
body #main h4 { color: #fff; }

By adding the CSS to the page directly via the page builder (http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/making-css-edits/) it will only be applied to this specific page.

Now if you wanted your site text to be white across your entire website you would add this code instead at Theme Panel > Custom CSS.

- AJ

hello, i dont want the text to change color. I want the background for the text area to change color. But in the sides, i still want to keep my own picture.

Oh…that can be done via CSS like this:

body .page-header {
    margin-bottom: 0;
}
body #main #content-wrap {
    background: #fff;
    padding: 40px;
}

You could also use the boxed layout and then some code in your child theme to move the header/footer outside of the boxed layout: https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/snippets/move-header-footer-outside-boxed-layout/

Although the CSS is much easier, but up to you!

- AJ

Hi,

Thank you for your patience over the weekend. This is Aj the theme developer. It is possible via some custom code added to your child theme. I can give you the code needed, but first I need to make sure your theme is up to date. Can you double check and make sure you are using Total version 6.1 and you setup a child theme? http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/child-theme/

If you are up to date please replace this file – https://cl.ly/pxGm – via FTP in Total/partials/header/

Then you can add this code to your child theme’s functions.php file:

add_filter( 'wpex_header_logo_output', function( $output ) {
    if ( is_front_page() ) {
        $output = '<h1>' . $output . '</h1>';
    }
    return $output;
} );

That will add an h1 around your text on the homepage only.

- AJ

Hi AJ, no need to apologize… thank you very much for your help, your code works perfectly!

Didn’t hear from you. Couldn’t figure it out. But hacked it with CSS display: none;

Hi,

Sorry for the delay over the weekend. Usually I don’t take the weekends off, but I had to this time. I just replied to your last comment explaining why this would happen, please check it out and if you have any follow up questions let me know!

- AJ

Hi,

This is Aj the theme developer. Thank you for your patience over the weekend (I hope you had a good one). Usually I don’t take the weekend off, but I had to this time.

This error is unfortunately server related. All the plugins are inside the theme which means they are installed on your server, if they can’t be accessed it’s because your server is denying access to your own files If you contact your webhost they should fix this for you. But you can also re-download the theme on your computer, extract and you will find all the plugins under Total/framework/plugins so you can upload them via Plugins > Add New and selecting the zip files.

If you still have issues or any follow up questions please let me know.

- AJ

Hi,

Since you need something very specific you’ll need to use some custom code via a child theme. Here is a sample snippet: https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/snippets/display-custom-menu/

- AJ

Thank you!

Hi there,

• Looks like your buttons all have an orange background and color – https://cl.ly/ptNG – Please double check your button settings under Appearance > Customize > General Theme Options > Links & Buttons

• The inputs are using standard “values” not placeholders. So you would clear the text before adding your own custom content. However, you can easily switch them to placeholders instead. I see you imported the freelancer demo, so I will fix it on the demo as well and update the sample data.

It’s very easy, please see here: https://cl.ly/puFr

Thanks for the heads up!

- AJ

Great, thank you!

Hi,

It looks the same for me on desktop and on my iPhone. I do see you have WP-Rocket active have you tried clearing your cache? And if you are using another CDN like CloudFlare as well, make sure to clear that cache also. The only reason I can see for this happening is if you are seeing a cached version of the site.

- AJ

Yeah, in the end it was an issue with Rocket cache. Though it was turned off Varnish was somehow still loading the pages based on Rocket Cache files. After removing some of its code in wp-config and some files it caused 404s and blank pages. Now with it back on and a DreamPress Rocket bridge plugin all is fine again.

Actually I just added a new setting to load the script globally – https://cl.ly/puM3

If you want to make use of this function here is the updated file – https://cl.ly/pu9x – you can replace in Total/framework/classes/

- AJ

That worked… thank you!!

You are welcome If you need anything else let me know. If not have a fantastic weeekend!

Hi,

When inspecting the code I see the icons are being converted from standard html into SVG’s – https://cl.ly/puTW – which could be breaking them (hard to tell).

More importantly your site is not loading the theme’s core style.css file which includes the CSS for font-icons. It looks like someone copied the theme’s style.css to the child theme and modified it and it’s missing a bunch of crucial CSS, including font icons.

I highly recommend altering the child theme to correct this and properly load the parent style.css and then add only your custom CSS to the child theme.

Looking at the site it appears to have very few if any custom CSS alterations so it should only take a couple minutes and can help prevent a lot of issues in the future.

- AJ

Good stuff. Thanks! I use WPEngine so I can copy my site to staging and then perhaps even do the initial install of Yoast there, and then I’ll look over the staging site appearance, and if no problems appear then I’ll go and do a fresh install of it on the live site (assuming there isn’t any complicated licensing issue that would arise from do 2 separate installs—staging and live…if so I’ll just install live).

In the future I’ll do all theme and plugin updates on staging first. It’s all about eliminating risk for us, so the staging site is great advice! I really like WPEngine. Had to switch from Bluehost a couple months ago as I was not satisfied with them.

I’ll be keeping my eyes and ears open (but only via word of mouth/references) for a go-to developer who is even half as competent as you!!

Thx again.

Murphy’s law—right out of the box, Yoast doesn’t work. It won’t let me uncheck and save as unchecked the box “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” under Search Engine Visibility in “Reading Settings.” Ever encounter that? (I had previously uploaded a robots.txt file to the root file a month ago, but I went ahead and deleted it (through FileZilla) and Yoast still refuses to save the Search Engine Visibility box as unchecked.

I guess I'll have to find another solution (like perhaps go be an off-grid farmer or caveman and let this int'l non-profit die that I've been volunteering over 1500 hours per year for, and on it's tomb we'll say Mark Zuckerberg killed us, all because he required some ridiculous tag on our website that we couldn't accomplish :/

Hi,

On nice I use WPEngine as well (I have a premium dedicated server)

WPEngine stagging manually disables that option to prevent your stagging site from being indexed creating duplicate content issues, it has nothing to do with Yoast SEO. It’s actually important that you never enable that on stagging. But you can disable it as shown here – https://github.com/10up/restricted-site-access/issues/9

- AJ

Hi,

Currently, there isn’t any option or filter just for the link attributes so you would have to modify the entire social output via the ‘wpex_get_user_social_links’ filter.

So I added a new filter for the next theme update. Here is the updated file – https://cl.ly/prKd – you can replace via FTP at Total/framework/ – this adds the new “wpex_get_user_social_link_attrs” filter so you can add a target blank like this:

add_filter( 'wpex_get_user_social_link_attrs', function( $attrs ) {
    $attrs['target'] = '_blank';
    return $attrs;
} );

Via your child theme’s functions.php file.

- AJ

Hi AJ,

Thank you for doing this. But it isn’t working for me. I have replaced the core-functions.php file under /framework and added the code below to my child function. The Facebook and Twitter links are still opening in the same page. There hasn’t been a target added to the anchor. See: https://www.wb.line49.ca/author/dave/, the top author box with the square icons come from Total.

Thanks so much for all your help.

Hi,

Are you looking at a cached site by any chance? I am definitely seeing the target blank being added – https://cl.ly/pxvf

- AJ

But after I get some notification about direct mail. Posibility also send to master@... I saw this mail cl.ly event section

I use auto custom excerpt with ACF. My excerpt field is Şöbə profili – Kataloq

This issue happens if you changed your username on ThemeForest (looks like it used to be cancavid). I deleted your username from the system so you can log in now.

Yes too much SPAM is sent to our support email so we don’t reply to direct messages as it would be too hard and time consuming to provide quality support.

- AJ

Hi Aj, Thank you very much for your solution! I think this can give a better look to this module.

Just want something “minimal” like this https://www.flickr.com/gp/128880302@N06/F7d368

THANK you very much for your time.

FRAN

Hi Fran,

• First replace this file via FTP at Total/framework/3rd-party/visual-composer/shortcodes – https://cl.ly/pusz

This file will be in the next update as well and it adds a custom style: https://cl.ly/ptg8

Then you can add CSS to your site for the custom Style to match your needs:

.wpex-social-share.style-custom li {
    margin-right: 12px;
}

.wpex-social-share.style-custom a {
    height: 30px;
    line-height: 30px;
    width: 30px;
    display: block;
    padding: 0;
    color: #777;
    border: 1px solid #aaa;
    font-size: 13px;
    box-shadow: 0 0 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
    transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out;
}

.wpex-social-share.style-custom .wpex-label {
    display: none;
}

.wpex-social-share.style-custom a:hover {
    background: #000;
    color: #fff;
    border-color: transparent;
}

Result: https://cl.ly/puDX

- AJ

Hi Aj, I copy the custom css maybe some one can use it, I had to change some things because yours did not work as your screenshoot. Icons were align to right bottom, deleted box shadow so looks cleaner, set height and width to auto, and the final result is pretty good. Any way, THANKS, because with out your help I could not do this.

/* minimal custom social share */ .wpex-social-share.style-custom li { margin-right: 12px; }

.wpex-social-share.style-custom a { height: auto; line-height: 20px; width: auto; display: block; padding: 10px; color: #777; border: 1px solid #dadada; font-size: 10px; transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; }

.wpex-social-share.style-custom .wpex-label { display: none; }

.wpex-social-share.style-custom a:hover { background: #000; color: #fff; border-color: transparent; }

You can also use the built-in cropping functions in WordPress, do you know how to do that? WordPress has the ability to crop any image you upload via the edit button.

- AJ

Thanks AJ for this other hint, i know that

Thanks AJ for this other hint, i know that

Hi,

Actually this is how it works now since Total 4.5 Make sure your theme is up to date: http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/changelog/

- AJ

Hi,

No one has ever requested this feature so it’s not something I’ve looked into before. Is there a specifically plugin you were trying so I can have a look and try it myself to see why it’s not working?

My recommendation though would be to go with a solution for the page builder such as this – https://codecanyon.net/item/visual-composer-addon-image-hotspot-with-tooltip/8729185 (haven’t tried it though myself).

I think it could be cool to add this as a new module in the next theme update though. while customers haven’t requested it I can definitely use it for demo purposes. If you have any specific “design” you are trying to recreate please share so I can check it out for inspiration, thanks!

- AJ

Thanks for the answer. I use this plugin. But it is not ideal to use shortcodes in the text editor. There is also no function to change the picture size. To move a hotspot, I have to use the front-end editor. It is better to do this in the backend editor. It would be very cool to get a hotspot module in the next update. I think many people will like it.

Thank you for the input. I added it to my todo list Hopefully I can figure out a good way of adding it that works better. If you have any suggestions or design ideas for this module please let me know!

- AJ

Hi Neil,

Looks like there is actually custom CSS on your site which is removing the top border on the menu – https://cl.ly/prIN – can you double check your child-theme’s style.css file. I can’t tell where the code is since it’s all being cached/minified by your caching plugin.

- AJ

Hi AJ,

I found the issue it is in the style.css, but on second look I think I will just leave the way it is now on the site. So thank you for getting back to me promptly.

Btw, I am testing out keycdn for 30 days or whenever the free bandwidth amount runs out as it fits my budget and requirements. I tried Cloudfare and I ran into some problems, but will consider that later. Thank you for the recommendation.

Rev Slider sucks speed-wise, and I see it sends libraries site-wide. I did try in disabling in the global settings, by isolating it to the homepage and Shop page IDs, but it works on the homepage and disappears on the Shop main page.

People have looked at my site and compliment your design, but unfortunately speed is still the issue with Rev Slider, etc being culprits. I wish the Total sliders could just replace it and provide same functionality (fitting landscape and square images without the slider resizing vertically), but I know it was out of scope for you and your team with respect to the design.

On the whole, I appreciate the work you’ve done on the theme nonetheless, so thank you.

Hope you have a nice weekend AJ. Neil

Hi Neil,

Slider Revolution is actually extremely fast, any slowness from the slider won’t be do to the slider itself but the images you are using, it takes longer to download the images used in a slider then the time it takes to load slider assets since they are so small. So I’m not sure how you are testing things and coming to this conclusion – right now though your site is being minified via autoptimize so it’s impossible for me to isolate the slider on your site specifically.

Even if you are using all slider settings loading all the scripts it’s under 200kb whereas the first image you are using on the slider is 348kb. Revslider is very slim and highly optimized.

Also setting the slider to load only on specific pages will only increase loading time for visitors that never reach your homepage or shop page. If you set it to load across the whole site once a visitor comes to your site it will load the scripts even if they are on another page and cache it in their browser so if they do end up on the homepage/shop it will load quicker

Of course you can use the theme’s Image Slider module for the homepage instead if you prefer. I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t.

- AJ

Thank you very much AJ, it works fine

And I could even quickly change items from CPT to blog with “Post Type Switcher” plugin.

A minor unrelated question please : when adding a Portfolio Item, the page title is “Add New Item”. I couldn’t find in which file it can be changed to “Add New PORTFOLIO Item”

Michel

Hi Michel,

The file is framework/post-types/portfolio/portfolio-config.php – but you don’t edit this file (you can’t). You would use the wpex_portfolio_args filter to alter the default arguments.

The reason the theme uses a generic Add New Item text is so there aren’t any issues when you use the setting to rename the post type.

- AJ

Thak you AJ, I’ll do my best with the filter