Hi AJ,

anything else. If a left vertical menu is possible, how do I get a dashed line like here on the screenshot? http://bit.ly/2LxmQM4 thanks a lot

... grrrrrr! What’s the matter? The next word is always included in the link. Here is the right link: http://bit.ly/2LxmQM4

Hi,

You can have a vertical style header if you want to use header style 6 – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/header-styles/ – and with a little CSS you can alter the menu style to have those dashes.

This is the default vertical header look – http://totaltheme.wpengine.com/lefty/ – to slim down the menu padding and use a dashed border your custom CSS would look something like this:

body .navbar-style-six .dropdown-menu > li {
    border-bottom: 1px dashed #ccc;
}

body .navbar-style-six .dropdown-menu > li > a {
    padding-top: 5px;
    padding-bottom: 5px;
}

However, if you are recreating the site I would recommend actually using a new and more modern design rather than simply trying to copy the older look. i’m sure your clients would really appreciate that

- AJ

Hi Matt,

Adding javascript to your entire site in WordPress is very easy. You can either do it using a child theme’s functions.php file – https://www.wpexplorer.com/javascript-wordpress/ – or you could go to Theme Panel > Custom Actions and add your inline javascript to the wp_footer hook.

I don’t have much experience with Leadbox, but I assume there must be an easier way to do this without javascript using their native functions. Do they not have a way to target a link using a custom classname or data attribute?

- AJ

I just updated the footer-callout.php file under Total/partials/footer/ – https://cl.ly/tBtN – to include a new filter “wpex_callout_button_attributes” this way you can add custom classes or data attributes to the callout button which is usually the best way to target pop-up scripts.

- AJ

There currently isn’t a built-in way but I can add a tweak for the next update to make it possible. Which module are you looking at specifically and what are you trying to do? This way I can send you the updated file before the official update.

- AJ

Hi, i finally did not use the carousels, just the post grids. I wanted to display a “featured ribbon” with ::before. With grids i could add the style to the class created by the category “featured”, but when using post type carousels the tag or category classes were not added to the entry. Hope to see that in a coming update. Thanks AJ.

So if you wanted to add a ribbon there are easier ways of adding it without using the ::before class, because class names could always change in the future it may not be ideal.

The best way would be to insert it using a filter. For example if you are targeting the blog carousel and want the featured ribbon added before the title you could use some PHP like this in your child theme’s functions.php file:

add_filter( 'vcex_blog_carousel_title', function( $title ) {
    if ( in_category( 'featured' ) ) {
        $ribbon = '<div class="my-featured-ribbon" />';
        $title = $ribbon . $title;
    }
    return $title;
} );

There are filters you can use in the grids and carousels to target the media, title, date, excerpt..etc. Which can be used to override them but also to add to them as in the example above.

- AJ

Hi Mike,

I am waiting for another fix from the WPBakery team before pushing out the update. If I don’t hear back from them today I will push out the update anyway and then include the other fix in the next update. I just didn’t want to update the theme one day and then update again shortly after (usually angers customers). Unfortunately it’s taking WPBakery a lot longer than expected for their fix.

Total is on sale right now, if you renew your license or purchase a new license you can submit a private ticket and we can always zip over the latest plugins to you directly – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/support/

If you can’t afford to renew support at this time I understand if you provide me an email address I can zip it over there instead so you don’t have to wait for the update.

- AJ

Thanks for the reply. My sites are for not-for-profit organizations so I’ll skip the renewal thanks. And I can wait for your update, I found suitable work-arounds.

I don’t want to take you away from the great job you do with the theme.

If the tags aren’t working for you I can help you with some custom code to add to your child theme. It would be possible to add this custom field for your site via a child theme quite easily

That would be so great!! Please send the code or upload it to your snippets section I’m comfortable adding it to my child theme. Let me know if you need my email! Awesome support

Here ya go: https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/snippets/related-posts-by-specific-ids/ It's a bit annoying because you are manually entering the ID’s so you need to look those up. You could get fancy and add a dropdown to choose from but it requires javascript and a custom meta field type – which would take me probably 1-2 hours to do plus a small theme update.

So hopefully this works for you

- AJ

Hi,

This is AJ the theme developer. Sorry for the delay, I’ve been in-and-out of the hospital as of late. I checked and it doesn’t seem like you opened a ticket for my support staff to help, so hopefully you got things working.

If you are not seeing the “Theme Panel” then the theme hasn’t ben activated or there is a plugin that is causing issues with added panels and you may need to try de-activating 3rd party plugins.

If you still need some help with the demo import please let me know so we can sort this out. Again, I apologize for the delayed reply.

- AJ

Hi,

The Customizer setting is global. If you want to target blog posts only you would want to instead use a little custom CSS. Example:

body.single-post #content-wrap.container {
    width: 680px;
}

- AJ

Hey AJ,

Thanks for the info. I need to add this inside Customize > Additional CSS field, right?

Correct, or you can add it under Theme Panel > Custom CSS.

- AJ

Hi,

Sure the video guide is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGYuBjqkj8Q

So basically you would want to create your template like this: https://cl.ly/tBMc

- AJ

Hi,

This is Aj the developer. Sorry for the delay, I’ve been in and out of the hospital as of late. I see you didn’t submit a ticket to my support staff so I am hoping you got things working as you wanted.

This is what I currently see on your site: https://cl.ly/tBdW

Nice work by the way, really digging the colors and layout.

- AJ

Hi,

This is usually caused by some sort of limitation on the server or by a javascript error on the page.

Since you didn’t have the issue before can you remember any newly added plugins or changes made to the server since it started happening?

- AJ

https://upperarlingtonoh.gov/senior-center/ (is the live site to my staging.uaoh.net which seems to work fine). I added some css to the .gov site but this doesn’t work in all browsers. My navigation will be active sometime this week.

Everything is working correctly for me now, did you manage to fix the issue?

Video: https://cl.ly/tKix - AJ

Yes. I don’t know why but all of a sudden it started working in all browsers… Huh! I’ve said it before and I will keep saying it, you rock!

Hi AJ,

No problem and I do hope things are better for you now!

That’s great news with 4.7.1, awesome! …I’d be happy to testdrive if it’s to any help

Thanks!

Hi AJ, I hope everything is well with you! Any chance v4.7.1 will be released before the weekend? Thanks!

Going to release it today definitely

Hi,

1. I actually did put that on my todo list, I am just not sure yet if it should be a built-in function or an add-on plugin. I really wanted it mostly so I could update my landing page to have an off-canvas menu for viewing the various theme modules/features rather then a separate landing page for those.

If it’s built-in it would be a very simple singular sidebar area using widgets. If it was an addon plugin it would likely include unlimited off-canvas sidebars (via a post type) so you can use a page builder for their content.

Thoughts?

2. I am working on a little WooCoomerce theme but it’s going to be fairly minimal – https://cl.ly/syfw – for smaller shops not like Amazon style shops (like Flatsome) but I would be very interested in making one of those in the near future. Right now I need to update around 30 old premium/free themes and I am working on moving the demos over to a subdomain at demo.wpexplorer.com/ I am also working on a brand new documentation for my themes and Total. Planning on releasing my own hosting later this year and also a theme bundle site (yearly fee for unlimited usage on my themes – gutenberg/elementor based) and will be starting out with 10-20 themes so I’m working on those. Additionally the big Total 5.0 update which I want to release before the year end. Which will be a fairly big revamp. So I have a lot on the plate, creating a massive WooCommerce theme would be a massive undertaking for me at this time. For now I am focusing on some smaller but nice looking new themes

- AJ

Definitely possible but would require a bit of code in a child theme – http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/child-theme/ – There are a few ways of doing it, the easiest is to just insert it via a hook – http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/action-hooks/ – and use a little CSS to show/hide it accordingly.

If you can share your current URL I can provide some sample code for you to work with.

- AJ

Thanks AJ, here is my url: https://bit.ly/2mo7o9S

Thanks for your patience.

So the PHP code would look like this:

add_action( 'wpex_hook_header_inner', function() { ?>
    <a href="#" class="my-signup-button theme-button show-at-mm-breakpoint">Sign Up</a>
<?php } );

This would go in your child theme’s functions.php file and modified accordingly.

This will add a button that shows up only when the mobile menu is visible hence the “show-at-mm-breakpoint” class (your theme will need to be up to date since this class was added in the last update).

Then you will want to use some CSS to position the button absolutely where you want it. If you aren’t sure how and you have the button on your site let me know and I can provide my recommended CSS for it’s positioning. You could also move the mobile menu to the left, center the log and add the button on the right easily if you wanted that layout.

- AJ

I enabled svg uploads using a plugin but I cannot seem to switch the logo – I put the svg logo in the customizer but I cannot see it. I understand that I will need to add code such as was done for the genesis theme see – https://thebrandid.com/using-svg-logos-wordpress-customizer/ On my page – I put the svg logo in customizer and I see it there – but not on the page – http://dev.galmedpharma.com/test-tabs/ here – but the svg logo does show up in the image box – please advise. thanks

Hi,

Your front-end is showing text which means that the Customizer option is either not saved or your live site is being cached.

Besides allowing SVG uploads there is nothing you need to do. I just tested locally and SVG’s are working correctly for the logo when assigned in the Customizer.

Did you want to share a link to your SVG so I can try with that one specifically? I can share a video showing it working.

Sounds more like a caching issue or simply that the setting wasn’t actually saved in the Customizer. Can you check?

- AJ

ok – you were correct + I needed to add width: 100%; height: auto; in css as it was rendering at 0×0. thanks

thanks the first fix – worked perfectly – I actually needed to update search-entry.php and now that works – the second fix – for the search finding pages off the site – so I need to index these pages from the other site on my site as they are not a wordpress site. So the results will appear on my site and then link to their site. Do you know how I can do that? Also – how can I have certain pages not appear in search results? thanks

Hi AJ – if you can advise regarding the above on how to index an external site within the search on my site – that would be most helpful. thanks

Hi,

There are no built-in methods in WordPress you can use to index the pages from your other site onto this one. You would have to create some sort of public API on your other non-wp site that you can call from your other site. Unless both sites are on the same server and you can access the database from the non-wp site on the wp site and then include items into the wp search. Both which are complex and time consuming so I can’t provide the code for that. Maybe there is a script you could find though to assist.

An easier alternative would be to use a 3rd party service like Google search for site, sitesearch.io or addsearch.com so you can embed a custom search onto your site.

In terms of hiding certain pages from search results you can either hook into the WP core “pre_get_posts” hook or use a plugin like this – https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-exclude/

- AJ

Hi,

So you would add the buttons like this – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/header-one-menu-button/ – then with a little CSS you can alter the colors so they are unique. Every menu item has it’s own unique ID’s and classname that you can use to target them. If you share your URL I can give you the sample CSS for this.

- AJ

Thanks. I have done this creating a new css class “spl-menu-button” and using css #site-navigation .spl-menu-button>a>span.link-inner { background-color:xxxxxx; color: xxxx; }

In WordPress the custom taxonomy files are named in this format taxonomy-{your-taxonomy-slug}.php so if your taxonomy slug is “popular_cities” then the file would be taxonomy-popular_cities.php

You can start with the theme’s default page.php file and then rename it and just remove line 31 – https://cl.ly/syzr – and add your own custom entry output. And you can use the Total “wpex_pagination” function to output pagination.

The only reason to create this custom file though is if you want a different output for the entries. If what you want to do is insert content above or below the posts instead you should just use a hook – http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/action-hooks/ – and not create/edit any files.

- AJ

I have tried this but it is not working can you please provide me some demo or sample so that i can check it is working or not

is it possible to display single portfolio in portfolio grid with particular portfolio id if yes then how can you please share a video demo for the same

Hi,

It’s working when I test. If you want me to record a video for you as proof I can, but you’ll need to purchase a license of the theme. Dedicated support is for verified buyers only. Thanks!

- AJ

ps: If you did buy it make sure you are logged into the correct account, sometimes customers have multi accounts and aren’t logged in the right one.

Can you please explain your issue/question? Thanks!

ehm, oops. I’m so sorry I must have posted this by mistake. Sorry to waste your time!