This works right now that I’ve deleted WordPress and the theme then re-uploaded them. (See question below)

Great, thanks for letting me know!

Hi Michel,

I am not having issues testing any of those modules locally when using -1 for the excerpt length. Example: https://cl.ly/2o112R2i1f0C

Are the posts also private? If so, WordPress may not be showing the content because it’s set to private.

- AJ

Hi,

Can you share the URL in question so I can take a look. When testing locally it appears to be working correctly – https://cl.ly/2R323G412D2H

You should be seeing the changes live in the backend like the video above. If that isn’t happening it’s possible you have a plugin active on your site that is breaking the Customizer due to a javascript error.

Do you see the changes in the backend but not the live site or do you have issues with both?

- AJ

Yes, I would like to place the same slider on all WooCommerce categories… also with full-width option.

PS Do you have tutorial how to use your “Total Tweaker Plugin“?

Hi,

If you want to insert the slider on ALL WooCommerce categories the best way is using a theme hook – http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/action-hooks/

Example code:

add_action( 'wpex_hook_main_before', function() {

    if ( is_tax( 'product_cat' ) ) {
        echo do_shortcode( 'slider_shortcode_here' );
    }

} );

This will add the slier before the main title, you can use a different hook depending where you wanted inserted.

Regarding the “Total Tweaker Plugin” this is for advanced developers, it’s just a basic example on how you can alter theme filters/hooks using a plugin instead of a child theme. There isn’t a tutorial on “how to use it” as a developer it should be pretty clear. If you aren’t an advanced developer I would recommend sticking to a child theme for custom edits rather then a custom plugin as it can be tricker.

All sorted. I’m late to the hooks party but I’ve arrived – hooks.. absolute genius. https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/action-hooks/ love it!

Hooks are definitely awesome! If you need any extra help with this or understanding/using hooks let me know.

- AJ

I forgot to mention this is with the “Left Icon” option selected. I’m hoping to have the icon on the left and then center align both the icon and text. So far I’m able to center align the text, but not the icon. Thanks!!

Hi,

So the left icon box takes on the full-width of the are it’s inside. So if you placed it in a row for example and want to align it centered horizontally on that row the only way is to assign it a width so that the browser knows what size it should be and can center it, otherwise it will always take on the full width of the row.

You can do this using the width option under the “Container Design” tab. Example: https://cl.ly/170Y423T0H3U - AJ

Hi David,

I spent like 45 minutes trying to figure this out because there isn’t a “good” way of really doing it. There is a hook named “woocommerce_product_duplicate_before_save” that you can hook into to alter the data before the duplicate post is saved but you can only tweak the data that WooCommerce uses to duplicate the post you can’t alter the post author.

There is another filter “woocommerce_new_product_data” which is the one that sets the new post author as the currently logged in user – this is what you want to hook into, however, this filter doesn’t pass along the $product variable so it’s impossible to get the author from the original post to pass onto this array

The only thing I can think of is to hook into “woocommerce_new_product” because the duplicate product has the same name as the original with (copy) added at the end. So maybe you can do a search for any posts with the same name as the newly created post and then get the author for that post and update the new post to use the same author. But I can see how this can cause some issues, especially if your process is altering the title on creation as well.

- AJ

Hi AJ Sorry for delay acknowledging, was away camping when you replied. 45 minutes of your time is over and above, you are too kind for your own good. I had been exploring 3x functions – wp_update_post(), wp_insert_post_data() and wp_insert_post. Wordpress.org Codex and forums seem to suggest wp_update_post should work – it does for everrything EXCEPT post_author which reverts to ‘0’ if you try to change it. Forums seemd to indicate insert_post_data should work but insert_post wouldn’t. Something to do with ‘Loop’ or the timing. However, I have had another go and eventually got wp_insert_post() to work just fine, or so it seems. All I’ve done is edited the Post array – sure I tried that days ago but obviously had typos spoiling the code somewhere. Because I want to keep all last years festival events ‘published’ – https://www.themorayway.org.uk/festival/events/ until next year’s festival is launched I wanted to create an exact copy which I have allocated to a new custom status of ‘Last Year’. This copy can be edited or Archived behind the scenes by the Event Providers (authors). When the new festival is ready for ‘launch’ Admin will then bulk Archive the previous festival and Publish the new. Thanks for being there – you’d be surprised how much it helps. All the best, David PS This the Bulk Handler code – if you spot an obvious ’ horror’ do let me know.

add_filter( ‘handle_bulk_actions-edit-product’, ‘my_bulk_action_handler’, 10, 3 );

• Use wc function – product_duplicate($product)
• (Default is to save as ‘(Copy) – Draft’ ) / $original_product = wc_get_product( $product_id ); $duplicated_product = $wc_mwof->product_duplicate( $original_product ); // Remove ‘( Copy )’ from Event name) $duplicated_product_name = $duplicated_product->get_name(); // Pick out the Event name $new_product_name = str_replace( ’ (Copy)’ , ’’ , $duplicated_product_name ); // Strip out the ‘( Copy )’ section $duplicated_product->set_name( $new_product_name ); // Put revised title back // Save $product data then update associated data $duplicated_product->save();

$duplicated_product->set_status( 'last_year' );    //    Change status to 'Last Year'

// Change default author (current User) back to original author $duplicated_post = get_post($duplicated_product->get_id()); // Fetch Post for each Product (Event) $duplicated_post_array = (array) $duplicated_post; // Convert the ‘Object’ to an array $duplicated_post_array[‘post_author’] = intval($original_author_id); // Revert author from ‘Current User’ to ‘Original Author’ wp_insert_post($duplicated_post_array); // Use this array to update the duplicated Post } }

$redirect_to = add_query_arg( 'bulk_events_processed', count( $product_ids ), $redirect_to );
$redirect_to = "https://www.themorayway.org.uk/festival/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=last_year&post_type=product";
return $redirect_to;

• Display Admin notice top of Events page */ add_action( ‘admin_notices’, ‘mwof_bulk_action_admin_notice’ ); function mwof_bulk_action_admin_notice() { if ( ! empty( $_REQUEST[‘bulk_events_processed’] ) ) { $events_count = intval( $_REQUEST[‘bulk_events_processed’] ); printf( ‘

  ’ . _n( ’%s event duplicated to Last Year.’, ’%s events duplicated to Last Year.’, $events_count, ‘domain’ ) . ‘

  ’, $events_count); } }

That is very strange, I actually see your username is correctly registered on the site and it’s showing your purchases. So you should be able to log in. It sounds like there is an issue with the API itself, which is usually a cookie issue. Can you try in a different browser or computer?

- AJ

Thanks! I was able to log in

You can check out the online docs if you aren’t sure how to use different parts of the theme.

All the main theme customizations are done in the WordPress Customizer under Appearance > Customize. For any advanced tweaks you would use a child theme. For editing pages if your client is using the bundled page builder than you would use that.

- AJ

Hi Tiffany,

So the Overlay header background color is applied only to the header area. Here is a video example: https://cl.ly/3632090O1D2d

As you can see when adding the background color to the header it gets added where the header is only. Now, if you need to add a transparency over your entire carousel this could be a bit tricker basically what you need is to have an element on top of your entire row that contains the carousel. Is that what you need? If so can you share the working URL so I can see and provide a recommendation. Thanks!

- A

AJ, yes, that is EXACTLY what I am trying to do…except I would like the menu items to be dark and the overlay background color to be an opacity of white or cream. This feature works when the Overlay Header Style is white and the Overlay Header Background is dark (as in the video), but not the other way around. LMK if you would like screen captures. The site is not live yet.

Ohh…thanks for the heads up! There is a bug with the background not being added for any other style but the “white” style of Overlay Header.

Here is a temp fix if you want to update via FTP under wp-content/themes/Total/framework/classes/

I plan on releasing Total 4.7.1 with the fix as well. Thank you for reporting the bug!

- AJ

Hi,

Because of how Yoast SEO works it can’t highlight text inside a page builder like Visual Composer (WPBakery) or others. But honestly, these readability scores provide little to no actual SEO benefit. You would have a blog with an article that has a Yoast score of 0 that still ranks #1 in Google and an article with a perfect score that ranks on the 4th page of Google. There is much much more to SEO then just “readability”.

I highly recommend when writing content on your site to focus on the user so that your articles are natural and actual for people not for bots. This will provide the most benefit to your users and in turn better SEO.

Spend more time focusing on quality content that people want to actually read, social media and backlinks to your site.

I personally use custom code to disable these functions in Yoast because it slows down the backend and in my opinion doesn’t offer much benefit.

- AJ

That’s what I suspected, but no doubt Yoast will disagree.

I’m also a little fed up of needing to write my posts like a little kid to make them more ‘readable’.

No problem, I’ll disable the Yoast readability scores from my dashboard. (Yes, apparently you can do that now too!)

Hi,

Can you make sure the Custom Sidebar setting in CPT UI is empty (no blank spaces either)? Looks like this.

You don’t need to filter the “wpex_get_sidebar” because by default if your custom post type or taxonomy in CPT UI doesn’t have a custom sidebar it will will revert to the main sidebar. I double checked locally as well to make sure there isn’t any bug.

- AJ

Hi Aj, Yes, the Custom Sidebar setting in CPT UI is empty just like the screen shot you provided. I commented out the function that filters “wpex_get_sidebar” but no sidebar shows up: https://www.2018.mikestewart.ca/zones/vancouver/cambie/. I changed the filter ‘wpex_post_layout_class’ on regions to be ‘right-sidebar’ and the sidebar shows up correctly, but when I change the class back to ‘large-sidebar-width’ I don’t get the sidebar. So, there must be something I am missing with setting up the wider sidebar layout.

I have this function to setup different layouts: add_filter( ‘wpex_get_post_layouts’, function( $layouts ) { $layouts[‘large-sidebar-width’] = __( ‘Large 1410 – With Sidebar’, ‘total’ ); $layouts[‘large-width’] = __( ‘Large 1410 – No Sidebar’, ‘total’ ); $layouts[‘medium-width’] = __( ‘Medium 945 – No Sidebar’, ‘total’ ); $layouts[‘small-width’] = __( ‘Small 750 – No Sidebar’, ‘total’ ); return $layouts; } ); What do I need to add to ‘large-sidebar-width’ so it gets the sidebar added to its layout?

Thank you for your help.

Hi AJ, I haven’t received an answer to this and still need to have the custom layout and show the main sidebar in the aside with id=”sidebar”.

I tried changing the layout to Right Sidebar and then the sidebar shows up, but I need the wider custom layout for these taxonomy pages and can’t get it to show on them. I also put in a ticket about this (titled “Need to add a sidebar to a custom layout”) and haven’t gotten back and answer from it either.

Thank you.

Hi,

You can disable Auto Play under the General settings tab for the module: https://cl.ly/0r0D1a1Y0e1S

Hi Anne,

I tried looking through the MapSVG documentation and couldn’t find anything regarding integrating it with a custom post type such as “portfolio” so this is something you’ll need to ask them about. I see you can manually Add links but I don’t see anything on their docs regarding adding items via a post type and displaying it’s data (featured image/content) so you’ll need to ask the plugin developers about that, I would hope it would be possible since it does a appear to be a very robust plugin.

- AJ

Hi,

This is AJ the theme developer, I apologize for the delay. Your ticket was assigned to me and I haven’t been able to do much support over the last month or so. I am logged into your site right now via FTP to get this matter fixed up. You should see an email from me shortly.

- AJ

Hi,

This is Aj the theme developer. Sorry for the delay, I’ve been having some health issues recently.

To display code on a WordPress site you will need to use a plugin. There are many out there for example this one.

If you don’t need to add many you could also just place your code on gist.github.com and then embed the snippet on the site so you don’t have to install a whole plugin for that.

- AJ

Hi,

Yes this is very easy with a little custom CSS. For example if you want to make your blog content only smaller the code would look like this:

body.single-post #content-wrap.container {
    width: 800px;
}

Note: The max width should remain the same for all items as that’s used for responsiveness what you want to edit is the width itself if you want to slim it down on larger screens.

- AJ

You’re the man! I’ll be making another purchase soon.

Well, I tried again and the forms seem to be working again. Not sure why, but you can disregard this question.

Hi AJ…I thought my issue had been resolved as I was able successfully submit all of my forms on August 16th. Then today, my client is getting the error message again: “One or more fields have an error. Please check and try again” for all the forms. Any idea what I can do? Do you think this is a configuration error or a sever issue? Thanks!