Discussion on Total - Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

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Hello, I’m having issues with my text customization : when you add a “custom text” element in some areas of the page they are centered below the title but in other areas they aren’t. I tried using the center button for text edits but with

  • elements, only the text is centered.

    Maybe it’s related to the “corporate” template ?

  • Hi,

    Can you share an example? I am not sure what you mean. By default all text in themes should be left aligned and if you want it centered by default it would require a little custom CSS which I can assist with.

    - AJ

    Hi, Thank you for your answer. I’ve fixed the problem by adding some css. I have an other question, the first item of the menu is hidden by the logo when you reduce the viewport before the burger menu appears. How can I fix that ? I was thinking about adding a breakpoint but I can’t do it without editing the code so I wanted to ask first.

    Hi,

    You can actually use the theme settings to alter the breakpoint – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/alter-mobile-menu-breakpoint/ – no need for custom CSS.

    - AJ

    Morning Alex This is a cheeky request so please feel free to reject it. It concerns Woocommerce (I think) not your theme. Customers to our site https://www.themorayway.org.uk/festival/events/ do not have customer accounts, but purchase events (products) as ‘guests’. The providers of the events have User accounts and enter their event (product) information themselves via the usual backend dashboard. Some are not comfortable with IT and forgotten passwords are fairly common. The ‘Lost your pasword?’ link takes them to ‘my-account/lost-password/’ The link in the email sent by Wordpress takes them back to ‘my-account’ where they enter and confirm a new password, which when saved takes them to the /my-account/?password-reset=true page. If they login they end up on a customer account page which confuses them (They have lots of help tips, but . . . folks don’t read them as you know!) It would be so much easier for our more nervous Users if, having confirmed the new password they were taken to /wp-admin/ for the admin login page, not the Customer Login page. I am finding no help/advice on this out there on the www. Before, experimenting too much myself can I ask you for a quick comment/advice as to how/don’t bother/look here….. etc PS Our festival is now over for this year. The site you helped us create has been much praised. A massive leap forward in usability for our customers. Thank you. The theme just continues to get better and better. All the best David Binney

    Hi David,

    So actually redirecting the user after a password is reset is very easy! But it does require a bit of custom code added to a child theme – http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/child-theme/

    Here is the hook to use: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/after_password_reset/

    However, it appears WooCommerce is making their own redirections so you would need to hook into WooCommerce’s action instead named “woocommerce_customer_reset_password”.

    The code to add to your child theme’s functions.php should look something like this:

    add_action( 'woocommerce_customer_reset_password', function() {
        wp_redirect( admin_url() );
        exit;
    } );
    

    If you want to disable the user page completely that is also possible.

    - AJ

    Thanks AJ What a brain you have in there. Did a quick search on the use of the hook, found a few suggestions but non a match on yours for simplicity and understanding. Works beautifully. Hope you make room for a summer break. Cheers, David

    Is the anyone who has a problem with creating links (after the update 4.7? When i try to put a link in it freezes and i even cant get out the box i work in. Have a good day. Riel

    Hi Riel,

    A link where? In a menu, text editor, a certain module? I’m not seeing any issue: https://cl.ly/sin9

    - AJ

    ps: Be sure to purchase a license of the theme to access support, thanks! – The theme is on sale for 50% off right now also ;)

    Hi, is it possible to get WP Bakery update 5.51 as part of my recent Theme Purchase? Thanks great Theme!

    Hi,

    The updated WPBakery version 5.5.1 was released in the last theme update last week – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/changelog/ – you just have to update your theme so you can update the plugin. The plugin updates are provided with the theme this way if there are any tweaks needed in the theme or any bugs I can fix them before sending them over to you as opposed to having the plugin update separately.

    If you aren’t sure how to update the theme please see here: http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs-category/updates/

    Once the theme is updated you will see a notice to update the WPBakery Page Builder at the top of your WP dashboard or you can go to Appearance > Install Plugins to access the updates from there.

    - AJ

    Hi AJ,

    I’m having problems with how the ‘tags’ content is showing up on a mobile device.

    They look fine on a pc, in their 4-to-a-row format, but look a little squashed up and elongated on a mobile – and probably on a tablet too.

    Is there a setting somewhere that can make changes to mobile and tablet views only?

    Hi,

    Can you share a live example?

    By default the tags aren’t in “columns” they display as simple buttons with a little padding, background and border like this – https://cl.ly/shJm – it should display the same on mobile, they shouldn’t be stretched out.

    - AJ

    Hi AJ. I am updating my most recent question pertaining to www.snc.care… I figured out that the Responsiveness boxes needed to be unchecked in both the WPBakery Page Builder General Settings and the WP Customizer > Layout > General settings in order for the header to scale down in the Portait orientation on mobile phones. But now that the header is scaling properly in both Portrait and Landscape modes on the phone, the right side of the page is cut off slightly. I have tried “centered” settings in a couple of places, and tried 90% for portrait and landscape under Customizer > Layout > Mobile Phone Widths. How can I get the (boxed) page and its background centered so the right side isn’t cut off in either portrait or landscape mode?

    Hello AJ, Sorry for the delayed reply… I substituted the php file with the file you provided and all looks great now. Thank you again so much. Love your theme, but I haven’t yet dealt with SASS; I am used to just working with html and php files to make various changes in the few other themes I have worked with. Thank you again!

    Great ;)

    I’m not sure what you were trying to imply regarding your SASS comment but maybe this will help:

    Even though Total uses SASS to generate it’s CSS files you shouldn’t ever be looking at or modifying those files. If you want to locate the CSS applied to a specific element use your browser, example: https://cl.ly/tChf (this is the Chrome developer tools window).

    Any extra customizations to the site should be done by adding Custom CSS to override the theme’s core styles or you can use a plugin like this – https://wordpress.org/plugins/yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer/

    - AJ

    Hi AJ,

    I know you sent this in July. I have been out of the country for a couple of months… Thank you SO much for clarifying the editing of files! I am still learning how to edit the CSS and HTML files in WP themes, so this is very helpful to know that I do not have to know SASS to edit the theme. The plugin looks very interesting.

    Again, thank you so much!

    Rebecca

    Feature Request (please)

    Is it possible to add an WPBakery expandable section element to Total Theme?

    It would work similar to the FAQ/Toggle element, but give more functionality to have elements in the expandable section. It’s beneficial in the ability to have “show more” / “show less” expand/collapse sections on pages. Ultimate Addon has this feature and the only reason I purchased their addon. I’d prefer to have the feature in Total Theme. :-)

    Thank you, Joe

    Hi Joe,

    Here is the deal. ThemeForest is making a bunch of new rules for Themes that they will be enforcing. One of them is you won’t be allowed to have built-in modules like those in Total. So I will be extracting the current modules and creating a “Total Builder Addon” plugin instead that includes all the previous modules but also some new ones and hopefully added support for other builders like Elementor/Beaver/Gutenberg. So I am making a list of new modules to add and I think this would be a great one. Do you have an example of how you are using it so I can take a look? I assume you are referring to some sort of toggle that you can use to actually hide rows, correct? If so, the best way would be to have the setting added to a section so you can choose to make a section a “expandable” then any rows/content added in that section would be hidden by default, this would be fairly simple to do and hopefully not require any manual edits to the builder code.

    Thanks!

    - AJ

    Hey AJ,

    Thank you for your response and explanation. That is correct – a section that can expand and collapse. The expandable section can contain rows with elements – i.e. text blocks, forms, pricing tables, etc.

    Here’s a site to test drive an implementation of an expandable section. http://www.temporary-url.com/01602

    My site is still in development, but here are some screenshots showing two expandable sections: http://www.temporary-url.com/E09

    ”... the best way would be to have the setting added to a section so you can choose to make a section a “expandable” ...” – yes agree! :-)

    Hope that helps.

    Thanks, Joe

    Added to my todo list, thanks for the inspiration ;)

    Seems like there’s a glitch with the current version – the Import/Export page no longer shows up under Theme Panel even when activated. The link still works if you type in the correct URL though.

    This functionality hasn’t been changed in a long time it should still be working – https://cl.ly/shhI – do you have any plugins active or child theme code that could be removing it?

    - AJ

    Strange! There appears to be a conflict with the “Admin Menu Editor” plugin. Import/Export doesn’t even show up on the plugin settings page, it’s just removed entirely: https://cl.ly/sibG

    I installed the plugin and I see the issue ;) I updated the file to use PHP_INT_MAX for the admin_menu hook’s priority when registering the submenu, The reason was so that this menu is always at the bottom. However, the plugin you are using is using the same hook but because the theme is using the largest possible priority this panel is registered after your plugin does it’s thing….Hope that makes sense.

    I changed it to use 9999 instead and that works. If you want to update via FTP here is the file – https://cl.ly/si2y – replace via FT under Total/framework/classes/

    - AJ

    Hi AJ i have a page with a blog-grid inside. The blog-grid is set to 1 column. The picture is left. Is it possible to show the picture in the next row on the right side, than the next row on the left side, then again right… The effect that i mean is shown for instance here (if you scroll down a bit) https://www.santacruzbicycles.com/en-US Thanks

    In case somebody needs it: seems something like helps… .vcex-blog-entry.entry-has-details:nth-of-type(odd) .entry-media { float: right; }

    Awesome, thanks for sharing!

    Hi, I have all favicons set, but some pages on admin or when opening a pdf in de browser it shows this favicon

    https://imgur.com/a/EFU7btL

    How can we use just the default icon?

    Thanks

    Ok fixed it, there was an old one in the / root

    I know that Gutenberg are not out in core yet but just to let you know that the Lightbox thumbnails and arrow are not working with default WordPress gallery when Gutenberg is activate. When insert media as Gallery the lightbox does working but it not show the thumbnail or an arrow to click to the next images.

    hmm Test again. It is really conflict with Gutenberg. I was confused testing on both my live site and localhost. The live site lightbox not work but this might conflict with another plugin. But please check with Gutenberg. The lightbox is work but the thumbnails and arrow not appear. This test only have Gutenberg install alone.

    Lightbox shouldn’t work with the Gutenberg module because that module just opens up the image. I tested and that’s exactly what’s happening. In order for the Gutenberg image gallery to have lightbox you need to add extra javascript to the site. If the plugin is ever added to core I will add a setting in the Theme Panel to enable that – it won’t be added by default because it can break 3rd party scripts like JetPack.

    Maybe it looks like lightbox because when you open an image in the browser it has a black background but it’s not a lightbox it’s just the image.

    - AJ

    Hi AJ. It actually did work on my page with Gutenberg. You can see it in action from the link below. It just not show the arrow and the thumbnails for the gallery. It acting like a single image.

    https://www.wpthaiuser.com/document/

    - Another request. I am not sure if this is issue or it suppose to be this way but I think it could improve. I think the lightbox for gallery (in post) when viewing on mobile they should have controller (next-prev arrow) like it did with the Gallery post format slider. I found to sweep on mobile is struggling sometime because the content underneath lightbox still scrolling.

    Thank you.

    Last versions ignore global background color set in Options > Background. I see necessary color in a preview in Options, but real pages show white color, not my color. The problem arrived this spring. Earlier it worked more than 2 years. To fix the problem I had to use custom CSS and set: body { background: #f6f6ec !important; }

    Hi,

    Oh, yes I remember this site. Great work by the way.

    So I see your custom CSS on the site but the theme is also spitting out the right code. When removing your custom CSS from the child theme it should still render correctly – https://cl.ly/siC9 ( the bottom 2 are coming from your child theme and the top value is coming from the theme).

    So I’m not sure how you would be seeing white unless it was some sort of caching issue.

    Now your child theme is loading twice on your site – https://cl.ly/shq5 – this isn’t necessarily a problem in of itself but it could mean there is an issue with how the child theme was setup. I would recommend double checking the functions.php file to make sure there isn’t any issue there.

    - AJ

    Thanks for your response! I removed the custom background from CSS and reproduced that issue with white background on sub-site: https://www.wnsoft.com/fr/privacy-policy/

    Can another problem with CSS which you found be related with this code:

    /* * Load the parent style.css file */ function total_child_enqueue_parent_theme_style() { wp_enqueue_style( ‘parent-style’, get_template_directory_uri().’/style.css’ ); } add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘total_child_enqueue_parent_theme_style’ );

    / Load child style.css file */ function total_child_enqueue_child_theme_style() { wp_enqueue_style( ‘child-style’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri().’/style.css’ ); } add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘total_child_enqueue_child_theme_style’ );

    Probably I fixed issue with background color of pages. I opened again Options > Background. The color was correctly set. However I changed it to another color and then back to necessary color and saved changes. Now the background color became correct. I did it for all my sub-sites in multisite.

    Hi there, Love your theme and have purchased it 3 times, somehow my webshop at Sasdesign wont update the theme… it says ‘Update Failed: Download failed. Forbidden’ when updating with the envato connection… what do I need to do? All items are up to date except the theme and therefor the pagebuilder as well. Thank you, best regards Eugenie

    Red your blogpost about updating and the Envato Market plugin 2.0 and updated through the dashboard… that worked ;))

    I’m looking to add a partial underline for H1 where approximately 25% of the text is underlined. I’ve used the following additional CSS and it works fine if the heading is left aligned, but if the heading is centered it doesn’t work (the underline stays to the left of the block). Can the following CSS be adjusted to achieve this or is there a better way to do this?

    h1 { position: relative; line-height: 1.2em; } h1:before { position: absolute; left: 0; top: 1.2em; height: 0; width: 100px; content: ’’; border-top: 2px solid #FF6C2F; }

    Any chance I can get a reply to this question soon? I renewed support specifically to ask this question, but it’s been 5 days and no response!

    Hi,

    This is Aj the theme developer.

    Regarding your question basically you would need to use a different CSS when the h1 is aligned center or to the right to move your little underline.

    Where are you using these styles? Because if you are using the WPBakery Page Builder there is actually a style you can already use for this. Here is a quick video: https://cl.ly/shX2

    Now, the module does have an extra underline but you can easily remove that with a little CSS:

    body .vcex-heading-bottom-border-w-color { border: 0; }
    

    - AJ

    ps: If you don’t get a reply within 24 hours please let us know or submit a ticket – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/support/ – because of how ThemeForest works I am the only one answering comments but I have a staff helping out with all tickets so you can get a reply there even if I am absent for some reason (not usually the case).

    Thank you!

    Hi AJ,

    Its been a while, but still using Total and loving it!

    Quick question if i can:

    I need a gallery with thumbnails that i have a different thumb image to what appears as the main image, is that viable with anything that is built into your site, i use rev slider and wp baker page builder.

    Basically i need a shot of a kitchen in a colour then the thumbnails would be my colour swatches and when you click the image changes colour.

    I have looked around and i cannot find an off the peg solution for wordpress.

    Any ideas?

    Many thanks

    Patrick Boxell

    Hi Patrick,

    I don’t have anything built-into Total for this as it’s something fairly unique and no one has requested it. Usually this is something you would only see in a shop and plugins like WooCommerce already have this sort of function.

    You could do it with Slider Revolution though as it does allow you to define a custom thumbnail for your slide – https://www.themepunch.com/revslider-doc/thumbnail/ – different from the main image.

    If you only need one or a few of these using the slider should be easy, but if you need some sort of dynamic function that uses a custom post type or custom-fields then you may need to look into coding something custom.

    - AJ

    Hello I bought this theme couple days ago. I’d like to customize main page. Wanted delete all the contents on main page but it’s hard to do it. I used “Base-lite” and need your help.

    Hi,

    If you want to delete all the content on the main page the quickest way is to just delete the page itself then make a new one. Otherwise you can just edit it and click the x button to remove each row like such – https://cl.ly/si5B

    Or you can switch to text mode and highlight everything and delete it like such: https://cl.ly/shTF

    - AJ

    Hello. You’re theme is exactly what I’ve been searching for! One question: How or where do I insert a line of JavaScript code? I only see the ability to add CSS code. Thank you for your help!

    Hi,

    This is Aj the theme developer. I apologize for the delay in the future if you don’t hear back from me feel free to open a ticket so my staff can assist – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/support/ – normally I am super quick at replying here but sometimes life throws you a curve ball.

    The theme itself doesn’t have a built-in function for inserting javascript for security reasons it’s not a good idea although technically you could go to Theme Panel > Custom Actions and if you insert javascript using script tags it will work in the wp_head or wp_footer hooks (as you need them). For example this is useful when adding Google analytics tracking -https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/google-analytics-tracking/

    But for actual custom scripts (like javascript used for tweaking the theme or running custom functions) using an external stylesheet via a child theme would be best – https://www.wpexplorer.com/javascript-wordpress/

    If you have any followup questions or issues let me know. I’m glad you like the theme!

    - AJ

    when i try to update slider revolution & wpbakery, i got this error message

    Downloading update from http://xxx.com/wp-content/themes/Total/framework/plugins/js_composer.zip…

    Download failed. Not Found

    Hi,

    This is an issue with server permissions. As you can see the link is going to your own server where the plugins are found, if they can’t be accessed it’s because the server is not allowing it. You either need to fix up server permissions (your hosting company should do that for you) or you can simply re-download from ThemeForest, extract and locate the plugins in the theme locally so you can update via FTP.

    - AJ

    Hi. I don’t think that you have tried compatibility with donation plugin “Give” but maybe you could theoretically say is it possible to use it with this theme?

    Hi,

    Of course you can use any plugin with the theme. If you do have any conflicts or issues with the plugin let me know and I will fix them up ;)

    By the way the theme is now 50% off if you haven’t picked it up yet!

    - AJ

    http://www.industrialpersonnel.co.uk/HOME-2/

    Hi AJ,

    Another little issue. I’m trying add a row of custom icons like shown on the above page, but I’m wanting text under each icon, aligned.

    I’ve looked but I’m unable locate this option?

    Can you help.

    Thanks

    Chris

    Hi Chris,

    Actually in the last update – http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/changelog/ – the new WPBakery includes a 5 column option ;)

    Screenshot: https://cl.ly/siGt

    - AJ

    Thats great. Just upgraded the theme but WPBakery is the same. Maybe I need to manually upgrade WPBakery?

    You should see a notice in the backend saying to update your WPBakery plugin. If not you can always go to Appearance > Install Plugins to access the plugin updates.

    - AJ

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