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My blog posts show on my home page. I have enough posts now that the first one doesn’t show. I want a next/previous button to take the reader to the older posts, but the Total Next & Previous Post button didn’t take it to posts, it took it to random pages – my no-longer-in-use construction page and my about page. How do I do this? Thank you. It’s homeplusbiz.com.
Hi,
You are using the Post Types Archive module on the homepage to display your recent posts. You can enable pagination on this module like this: https://cl.ly/rEF1
However, it would be better instead of using that module, if you want a paginated homepage of posts to just use the Blog template instead which will automatically insert your posts on the page and then you can control the pagination via Settings > Reading as mentioned in the top part of this documentation article – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/blog/
- AJ
This got me thinking. I’ve changed the Post Types Archive as a temp plan.
I’d really like a read more button at the bottom of the posts on the home page that goes to a page with a grid that has an image for each category, maybe showing the image for the last post in that category. I’ve always thought it was annoying to have to read through page after page of blog posts on someone’s site. I can see part of this in my mind – a link at the bottom to a new Page and a grid on that page. But I can’t see how to have it automatically send posts to categories. Thank you! (And I’m not a programmer.) P.S. If this isn’t possible, a grid with the last dozen posts would be my 2nd choice for the Page.
Hi,
If you want a page with a grid for each category it’s very easy! Simply create your new page and insert the “Categories Grid” module – https://cl.ly/rFzb
This will display a grid of your categories and link to each archive with the latest posts from that category.
The image displayed for each category is set when creating or editing your categories – https://cl.ly/rFu2
- AJ
Thank you! It came awesome! I added a button to the bottom of the home page that directs to the new categories grid. Thank you! https://www.homeplusbiz.com/blog2/
Hi,
Oh that looks great! (probably much better for SEO also).
So when you add a custom image to the category by default it sets it as the header background which can be disabled in 2 ways:
- Disable with this option – https://cl.ly/rGGv (when editing the category)
- You can use code in your child theme to disable it site wide. Add this to your child theme’s functions.php file:
add_filter( 'wpex_enable_term_page_header_image', '__return_false' );
- AJ
Hello AJ,
Can I please ask you an advice about visitor navigation after having seen a blog post – knowing that I don’t consider usual “Next/Prev” or “Related Posts” as satisfactory.
When the visitor clicks on an entry from the blog page grid (paged) and has read/scanned the post, I think it would be preferable to let him easily go back to the blog page grid he came from, to click on other posts he choses.
For this, do you think I could add Breadcrumb just after the post content ? (post serie if any)
That would probably be more tricky to return this way to a page other than page 1.
And of course it wouldn’t help visitors coming directly via the Post URL, but that’s OK.
PS : I’ve disabled Page title in Post Singles via the snippet you gave me.
Michel
Hi Michel,
Honestly, most people if they want to go back click on the back button in the browser. But if your concern is more for SEO and letting Google know where your main blog page is so it’s added in the breadcrumbs you can define that in the Customizer under Customize > Blog > General > Main Page.
- AJ
Thank you, AJ.
I’m not so worried (yet) about SEO but have added as you say in Customizer. and drop the breadcrumbs idea for now.
Michel
Hi, I have a question before I buy the template: are in all demos also the psd. files included? (for example, this picture http://totaltheme.wpengine.com/sustainable/wp-content/uploads/sites/67/2016/02/eco-infograph-400x400.png too?) I would like to change the text there or the colors.
Hi,
Unfortunately not all the items are available in PSD form. This specific one I actually purchased here – https://creativemarket.com/TheSeamuss/448664-50-Infographics-Best-Sellers?u=wpexplorer
But there are other really great free info graph PSD’s out there I can recommend some if you want (whether you buy the theme or not).
I hope you are having a nice weekend, - AJ
I have a few questions regarding the regular license. My company is interested in using your theme but needs to get clarity regarding the licensing agreement. Please let me know if you can help.
Hi,
You can find the licensing agreement here – https://themeforest.net/licenses/terms/regular – basically you can do anything except resell it. So you can create a website for your client with it (1 license required for each client, and we can offer bulk sale discounts), you can use it for any website that sells goods (commercial sites). The only thing you can’t do is re-sell the theme as is as a theme (for example reselling it here on Envato under a different name or using code in the theme to create your own theme for resell).
Let me know if you have any questions and what your company wants to do and I can let you know if it’s ok or not 
- AJ
AJ – please check slack when you can – just a few questions
Will do. I’ll reply to any pending tickets and slack messages today. I hope you had a nice weekend man!
- AJ
Hello AJ,
I am not able to disable the top bar. I have gone to Users/Your Profile and unchecked “show toolbar when viewing site” (actually did that a few weeks ago and checked again just now) but the top bar stubbornly refuses to go away. And it shows I think for anyone visiting the site. See http://therussiantrilogy.com/home/ for example.
What am I doing wrong or have not done, please?
Hi,
The WordPres “bar” at the top of the site isn’t showing when I look.
But if you are referring to the Total top bar – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/edit-top-bar-content/ – that’s not part of WordPress so the settings are in the Customizer under Appearance > Customize > Top Bar > General > Enable.
- AJ
I was mixing my metaphors again. I had switched off the WP bar, not the top bar in the Customizer. all clear bow.
Have a good week-end AJ
Hi AJ, Can you please let me know the most optimal size for the header logo and the retina logo?
My logo always seems to appear blurred for some reason when viewed on a mac. Thanks
Hi,
There is no optimized size. If it’s showing blurry it could just be caused by the native downsizing in the browser if it’s showing at a smaller size then it’s native size. What’s the URL?
- AJ
Hi AJ, I have created 2 variations of a landing page using the total theme. Do you know of any plugins etc which can allow us to run A/B tests on these variants and provide conversion reports similar to Unbounce / Leadpages landing page A/B tests?
Also, is there a simple way we can get similar functionality as LeadBoxes wherein we have a button/link which will popup a form.
Please let me know of ways to do the above which do not require any customization via child themes etc – i’d like to have a simple solution to replace LeadPages and LeadBoxes without messing with too much technical stuff.
Thanks
LINKS : https://www.leadpages.net/blog/leadpages-leadboxes-leadlinks-using/
Hi,
- For A/B testing what I usually use are utm links and track with Google analytics – https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/campaign-url-builder/ – this way you can track the links being clicked and have different links for different landing pages. You could also setup Google Tag manager and e-commerce goals for this.
Services like Unbounce are primarily for creating the landing pages, the actual tracking for A/B tests are run via other functions and by tracking how users interact with the site.
Using a heat map plugin or service is also a good idea.
- For popups the most popular one out there is probably OptinMonster – http://www.wpexplorer.com/out/optinmonster – popups are a huge functionality definitely plugin territory. There is another very popular one on code canyon – https://codecanyon.net/item/popup-plugin-for-wordpress-convertplug/14058953
- AJ
Hello, does Total template propose to add a search bar on the homepage? For instance, this search bar could be composed by 3 tabs “choose your destination”, “choose your activity”, “choose your budget”. Thanks a lot!
Hi,
There isn’t any built-in function for this because there isn’t any built-in “destionation, activity, etc” type functionality. What you would want to do is incorporate a “directory” plugin with the theme or use custom post types and taxonomies – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/adding-custom-post-types/ – then use a 3rd party advanced search plugin.
Most multipurpose themes you see with this function in their demos are just using 3rd party plugins since it isn’t something that should be in a theme’s core.
- AJ
Anyone know how to center specific blog post titles? Usually my blog post titles are right-aligned, but I have a particular post I’d like to center the title.
Not talking about the breadcrumb title, which has customizing options at the bottom of the post editor page. I mean the actual title given to the article, below which appears the category, author, comment count, etc.
Thanks!
Hi,
This is AJ the theme developer.
This is very easy to do with some CSS, I can help with the code if you want. But if you want to center it ONLY on some posts the best way would be for you to create a new tag to add to these posts such as “post-centered-title” that we can use to target the title via CSS only for items added to this tag.
If you want to target all titles it’s very easy and I can help with that. Quite a lot of customers lately have been setting up their blog without any sidebar and then centering the title/meta/thumbnail and giving the article a smaller width – if that is something you would be interested in I can provide the code for that.
- AJ
Hey AJ, thanks for replying -
At the moment, I’d like to ONLY target a specific post, so CSS for that would be excellent! Setting it up as a tag would be great & useful.
I’ve already reduced the centered/no-sidebar post width by going into VC composer’s editor, selecting the text block, and customizing the margins on left and right (which only works because my entire post is a single text block, of course).
Thanks! Oshan
Hi Oshan,
I hope you had a nice weekend
So if you only want to center the title on 1 post you could just edit the post and use this setting: https://cl.ly/rGkR
You can also add your own custom styles to this selector via a child theme if you wanted to create some different pre-defined header title styles.
If you want to use CSS instead, your code would be like this:
body.postid-5 .page-header-title {
text-align: center;
}
Where “5” is the ID of the post you are targeting.
Now if you want to limit the post width for the no sidebar layout it’s better to not use the page builder (generally the VC editor should be for building complex layouts like pages not really for blog posts) and instead use CSS. Example:
body.single-post.content-full-width #content-wrap.container {
width: 750px;
}
This will center your post as such: https://cl.ly/rHNW
- AJ
Hey AJ -
Actually, I’d already noticed the title setting you mention in your first comment. I tried all the available options previously, none of them altered the position of the title. That’s why I posted on the forum.
What I found is that enabling or disabling the title feature there, and subsequently changing the setting to centered or whatever else doesn’t move my title at all, it moves the breadcrumb titles that appear above the post title.
I’m not sure why my breadcrumb titles are affected rather than my actual title.
I also tried using you CSS code, didn’t work. I’m adding them into the Custom CSS window provided by the theme, making sure the post id’s are correct, but the title remains where it was.
Any idea why the title setting moves my breadcrumb titles rather than the post title? (My post is still a draft, unpublished, I don’t know if this changes anything).
Thanks, Oshan
Hi Oshan,
These settings are for the “Page Header Title” area – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/total-wordpress-theme-anatomy/ – sounds like you are referring to a different title. Can you share a screenshot perhaps? And/or URL? Thanks!
- AJ
Here’s a screenshot/upload: https://imgur.com/a/7H5JN7G
In the picture there are two types of titles, the one centered at the top “Home – Musings – Musings – The Crisis of Identity at Rest”
And the lower title, left-aligned with meta underneath, “The Crisis of Identity at Rest”
I’m trying to center the second title. The first title is what the title settings move around, which is a bit confusing to me. Maybe I’ve done something peculiar that’s messing with my settings, or does this seem normal to you?
Really appreciate the continued help, Oshan
Update, I’ve figured out a few things that may provide clarification for you (though I remain confused).
By editing this setting, “Custom Title” (https://imgur.com/a/7ngzVni), the titles now look like this: https://imgur.com/a/7ngzVni
I’ve always assumed that this field was the main title for a post, where it says “Crisis of Identity at Rest” in this image: https://imgur.com/a/VvgeMvk
The setting you mentioned moves around the top title, “Testing Title”, but I cannot move the bottom title, which has the meta data underneath (category, author, etc.).
So the field when creating a blogpost above the body area is not, in fact, the main title input? Is there a way to make it so the top title, “testing title”, has the meta below? Or a simpler fix?
thanks! Oshan
Hi Oshan,
Thanks for the screenshots it really helps! It looks like you imported the Mason demo which had the page header title disabled globally via the Customizer – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/disabling-page-title/
What you are trying to modify is the blog post title. That is very easy to center!
Here is the code:
.single-post-title {
text-align: center;
}
body.single-post .meta {
text-align: center;
}
body.single-post .meta li {
display: inline-block;
float: none;
}
Result: https://cl.ly/rI59
Now, if you want to actually move the post title into the header it is very easy to do via Appearance > Customize > Blog > Single.
See this video: https://cl.ly/rHw2
- AJ
ps: The theme is at a discounted price right now if you wanted to renew your support or grab a new copy for another site
AJ -
Yes, that’s it! Thank you.
That centers the tittle & meta for all my posts…is there a way to use the post.id feature of code to single out a specific post title to be centered, leaving the other ones unaffected? I’m not sure how to add the post id into that last code you gave me
Yes…I didn’t realize this would be such a long question requiring so much of your time, I will definitely look into renewing support & posting good reviews about you & your theme.
Thanks!
Thanks to AJ for the help
Hi,
Yep that is the correct answer! I’m glad you were able to figure it out and thank you for letting me know and sharing the code with others.
- AJ
Not sure if this is a bug or it’s just something specific to my website.
The mobile alternative image for the slider isn’t showing up on an iPad in landscape view. It’s working fine in portrait view and on the iPhone in both landscape and portrait view. Below are the settings that I’ve been using for almost a year that use to work and I’m not sure when it stopped working on the iPad in landscape view.
Slider Revolution Settings > Layout & Visual > Mobile
Disable Slider on Mobile: ON Disable KenBurn On Mobile: ON
Hide Element Under Width Slider: 900px Predefined Layers: 0px All Layers: 0px
Edit Page > Settings > Slider Slider On Mobile: Disable
Thank you in advance for your assistance. Have a great day. Bill
Hi Bill,
This is Aj the theme developer. There is actually a small bug in the last update which has been fixed for upcoming total 4.6.2. Here is the fixed file – https://cl.ly/rCOE – if you want to try updating under Total/assets/css/
If you still have issues please let me know (and if possible share the URL).
- AJ
Forgot to mention that neither the alternative image or the slider is showing up on an iPad in Landscape mode. I’ve just tested with Hide Element Under Width; Slider: 1366px with the same result if that helps at all.
Bill
Wow that was fast. Thank you AJ. much appreciated. Have a great evening. Bill
Did the updated file work for you?
- AJ
The updated file did work. Thank you AJ
Hello,
I have multiple pages that need to have the mobile menu be active for certain pages at all times, then do the full screen overlay. I also have some desktop menus that have two regular desktop links then a mobile menu hamburger that would do the full screen overlay. Is there any way to add a class or id to a certain menu item and have it show the child list items as the full screen mobile menu? I already know you can choose a custom menu per page and how to set up the full screen mobile menu. Would I need to add an action hook?
Thanks,
Hi,
This is Aj the theme developer.
If you want some pages to only show the mobile menu you can use some CSS to target these pages and hide the main menu and display the mobile one via CSS.
I’m not sure what you mean by “Is there any way to add a class or id to a certain menu item and have it show the child list items as the full screen mobile menu?”. If you want a custom mobile menu you can define that in the menu locations – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/create-custom-mobile-menu/
However, based on your comment it sounds more like what you want isn’t to use the mobile menu but have a secondary full-screen style menu applied to certain pages, is this correct? If so, you may want to consider using a 3rd party plugin such as this one – https://codecanyon.net/item/superfly-responsive-wordpress-menu-plugin/8012790
- AJ
I’m editing the colors and changing the photos. I also added a page. Do I need to use the child theme? I would prefer to use the main one but don’t want it overwritten with updates. Will css changes be overwritten with updates? Thanks.
Hi,
The only reason to use a child theme is for advanced modifications like editing theme template files or using custom snippets such as those found here – http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/snippets/
If you are only adding custom CSS as long as you add this under Theme Panel > Custom CSS or Customize > Additional CSS then it’s saved in your database it won’t be overwritten by any theme updates.
The important thing is to never edit the theme files because those are what get overwritten on updating.
- AJ
Okay. Thanks, AJ.
Hi, I just bought another licence and when I try to add the new theme it imports it and gives an error message saying that the link has been gone out, or something like this. I have the DEBUG on to see the notice
Hi,
Are you getting any of the errors mentioned here? https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/theme-installation-errors/
- AJ
Hello Aj, I think you deleted my last comment. But anyway, I’m currently using the Classy template to do the next, I want to upload an image as the header of my website, but all the time I do it, this white border appears, is there any way to make my image fit in the entire header space?
Here you can see which borders I want to delete: https://gyazo.com/602f8fa7dbfe487e82ef343ceec6b699
To clarify what I want to achive is the next: https://gyazo.com/7e6f9e60a5b74242a3b5251541b68525
Hi,
This is AJ. It’s actually impossible to delete comments on this marketplace but sometimes if ThemeForest is having issues it’s possible the comment wasn’t submitted or it’s also possible someone else flagged the comment 
Regarding your question…The boxed layout by default has padding in the header so that the logo and menu match the inner content. If you want to remove the padding it’s very easy by adding some Custom CSS to your site:
.boxed-main-layout #wrap #site-header-inner.container { padding-left: 0 !important; padding-right: 0 !important; }
- AJ
Note: I modified the css above a bit after submitting the comment. The correct code is this:
.boxed-main-layout #wrap #site-header-inner.container { padding-left: 0 !important; padding-right: 0 !important; }
- AJ
Thanks a lot AJ, I’ve been like 3 days searching for the correct CSS id
Hello!
In Customiser > Forms, “inputs padding” does not appear to work for Gravity Forms text fields [single line], only works for text areas [multi-line].
Also, would love to see Customizer options for Forms Typography! I see forms, I see typography, but can’t currently change things like Label [and Input] Size/Weight/Style/Case…. only Label [Input] color.
Thanks for all you do to make this theme great!
Hi,
This is AJ the theme developer. The issue with adding Typography for forms is that every plugin uses different classnames and CSS for their forms so in order to have it in the theme would require the use of !important tags which could break things and cause more harm then good.
The settings are working for me when testing locally and Gravity Forms any chance you can share the URL so I can take a look at your form and see what’s up? Thanks!
- AJ
How does Total theme load the meta title and description?
Hi,
Meta titles are added by WordPress and meta descriptions are not added neither by WordPress or the theme. For your on page SEO such as these 2 tags you should be using an SEO plugin. I use and recomend Yoast SEO.
You never want these to be added by the theme because if you ever switch themes you will lose all the valuable SEO. All meta tags such as title, description and open graph should be done through 3rd party plugins.
- AJ
I feel very stupid asking this but I have purchase the Total Team yesterday and the client wants Glitz and Glam Style, I installed the demo content, BUT how do I change the Glitz and Glam.png I presumed its in a setting but cannot see anywhere how to change this
Hi,
Please have a look at the theme documentation here: https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/custom-logo/
If you have any issues with altering the logo, suggestions or any bug reports let me know!
- AJ
HELP!
I have a huge problem with gravityforms. Can’t get it to work. Can’t add fields, or edit them.
Also I have problems with contactform 7 not working.
Everything is up to date.. anyone else with the same problem?
Hi,
This is AJ the theme developer. Both plugins should be working just fine with the Total theme and the Total theme doesn’t even load any code in the backend that could break the adding/editing of fields, it’s impossible.
Have you already checked to make sure there aren’t other plugins on your site causing the issue? Usually errors like this happen if you install a badly coded plugin that is causing a javascript error in your WordPress admin.
Also make sure your server is WordPress compatible – https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/
Have the plugins never worked? Or is this a recent issue?
- AJ
Note: Gravity Forms is a premium plugin, if you submit a ticket they should be able to help you fix this issue.
Hi again. I tried deactivating all plugins, even tried to make a clean install and run the total theme instead of childtheme. I got contactform 7 to work – after updating it somehow changed the html code for the form.
Gravityform still doesn’t work
Everything is wordpress compatible.
I’ll try and see what I can do/and contact gravity forms.
Gravity Forms is a premium product (it actually is pretty expensive) so they should be able to help you out. We have a lot of customers using it without issues so it could be a simple server tweak that needs to be done. I hope they can sort it out asap!
If you need anything else from my end let me know.
- AJ
Is there a known issue with Contact Form 7 in Safari with Total theme? It is working in all other browsers. In safari it just gets spinning arrows and nothing happens, this is the form in question: http://islanddetailandcolor.com/contact/
Any insights would be great!
Hi,
No there isn’t any known issues, if you test a live demo it’s working correctly – http://totaltheme.wpengine.com/agent/contact-us/
I checked your site and I do see the problem, but I don’t see any errors in the console so it’s not possible to know what’s going on looking at the live site only.
Are you using any other plugins on the site that could be breaking the form? Have you tried disabling 3rd party plugins?
If you use this plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-extras/ – to disable AJAX submissions does it work in Safari?
Your theme is outdated it’s possible that updating the theme to the lastest version could fix the issue since there has been a fix recent updates to the Contact Form integration:
- http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/changelog/
- http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs-category/updates/
I would suggest maybe updating the theme first.
- AJ
Hi there, thanks for this. Just to follow up, updating the theme did not fix the issue, but disabling ajax did fix it. Hope that helps in case this comes up with other people as well.
