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Is there any way to add spaces or line breaks at the end of excerpts? I’m trying to get the excerpts in the Blog Carousel to all have the same height, but since my excerpts have slightly different word lengths, I can’t figure out how.
There isn’t going to be a way to have the same height in terms of the actual words and manually editing each text is going to be a pain. If all you want is the backgrounds to be the same height you can do that with a little CSS. Example:
.wpex-carousel-blog .wpex-carousel-entry-details {
min-height: 200px;
}
Simply change 200px to the height that best works for you. Or you can remove the background completely which is most likely how the module will look in the future, like such:
.wpex-carousel-blog .wpex-carousel-entry-details {
background: none;
border: 0;
padding: 20px 0 0;
}
Hi, AJ,
nice to hear you’re feeling better. I was a little worried and I am happy that you are back again. I thought something was wrong. Not giving support for so long time is not your way to work.
I got a problem. Picture 1 shows the initial situation. If I select a gallery page like in picture 2 e.g. page 3, gallery 1 also changes to page 3. Gallery 1 should of course stay at page 1. I used the module Image Galleries/Grids.
One more question. I want to do my next project with “Elementor”. Visual Composer is slow and sluggish and the German translation is completely wrong in many places. How does “Total 4.7.1” work with “Elementor”? What works and what doesn’t? Are there any problems with Elementor?
Have a nice day
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Hi,
So in WordPress pagination changes the full URL, as you see when you select page 2 from either gallery it changes the URL of the page which is why both galleries are going to be affected. Its not possible otherwise. My recommendation would be instead of pagination (disable pagination) and make a new page for each gallery then but a button below that says “view all” and goes to another page that has pagination. This is also better for SEO and you can display more items per page on the “view all page”.
Total works perfectly with Elementor and I even made the Header/Footer builder functions and dynamic template functions work with the plugin. In fact many customers do use Elementor already.
Personally I find WPBakery to work faster for me. But it does really depend on your server and the browser you are using (in general Firefox is faster when using page builders from my tests).
- AJ
Hi AJ, thank you for the really really quick answer. I will follow your advice and hope it works. A question about Elementor. Can I install demo content? Your demo pages are created with Visual Composer. Is there still a way to install demo content but work with Elementor? Is it possible to make “Total” fully compatible with Elementor? I think that a lot of customers want that too.
Best wishes especially for health.
Hello! I want to leave the height of the header fixed so that the logo overlaps the header, how can i do?
Hi,
Rather then setting a fixed height on the header you can simply use some CSS to give the logo a negative position. Example:
body #site-logo {
position: relative;
bottom: -40px;
}
Let me know how that works for you.
I got this theme like a week ago and as mentioned in a previous comment I enjoy it, eventhough a timeline addon is missing. That’s fine since it’s more advanced, however, why for the love of God isn’t there a simple table button on the text editor?! This is ridiculous. Can someone from Total theme tell me how I can get this for free? I want a simple button for tables. I’m not going to freaking pay for something basic as that.
Never mind. I got “TablePress”. Still find it baffling that not even a simple table button is provided like with the Enfold theme. Personally, I find this a negative (half) point.
It’s a great idea. I’ll add this to my todo list. If you have any specific examples or requests let me know. I could even include this premium plugin in the next update – https://codecanyon.net/item/easy-tables-table-manager-for-visual-composer/5559903
Honestly, only a couple customers have requested tables and they used plugins for it. I try and only add functions to the theme that are requested often to keep the theme as slim and fast as possible.
It makes sense that you wish to keep it as slim as possible, so my earlier remark in regards to the timeline is definitely something that can be missed, but like the default table button of the WYSIWYG? The easy tables table manager seems nice but it will depend on how this impacts the price and your revenue.
Hi, I discover the theme. Is it working well with Hbook and/or Motopress hotel booking ? Can I use the visual composer to design it too ? Thank you !
Hi,
Unfortunately I am not familiar with these hotel plugins. Total should work with any plugins, however the visual composer page builder only works with standard style posts/pages. Usually hotel plugins use custom templates and re-designing them requires custom code. That is something you would have to ask the developer of the plugin about.
Dear all, After download and install the theme on my WP dashboard, I get this error: “The link you followed has expired. Please try again.”
What is the problem and how to solve it. Many thanks
Hi,
This is a WordPress error that has to do with the server. Usually you just have to increase your server’s upload limit (to at least 20MB) as the limit may be smaller than the theme size itself.
Also you’ll want to make sure you are using at least PHP 7.0 and your server has at least 256MB of memory dedicated to PHP.
Hi A.J. URGENT: as we were updating our Total (from 4.7 to 4.7.1) via Wordpress, we got an internal system error. After a while, Wordpress and the site came back… BUT no more Total in our theme list!!! What do we do now. Pls help asap.
In fact the TOTAL folder is still on the server but for some reasons WP doesn’t see it.
This usually happens if for some reason the style.css file is missing or the server permissions are incorrect (the server is giving files incorrect permissions on upload so they can’t be accessed).
My recommendation is to delete the theme completely and re-install it. If you still have issues contact your hosting company to make sure your server permissions are correct and the theme files can be accessed by WP.
Hello, is there a way of adding breadcrumbs to posts?
Breadcrumbs should be added to posts by default. The breadcrumbs are located in the main header area. Example: http://totaltheme.wpengine.com/adapt/visiting-a-modern-art-museum/
Did you disable the main header area? If so you can re-add breadcrumbs with a little code which I can assist with. Here is an example: https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/snippets/move-breadcrumbs-trail/
Thank you, I’ve enabled it in main post header area, all works!
Hi AJ,
Ignore all the previous comments on blog building, as I now got a ‘sort of’ working blog – but with a few cosmetic errors seemingly.
Where I am now:
Using a blog posts page ‘News’ for my posts.
On the post pages midlandsmaidens-escorts(dot)com/midlands-maidens-news – or /music-box – or /secret-diary (mmsnews, musicbox and secretdiary are the categories), all is working fine – except on pagination in mmsnews, where if you go to a paginated page, ALL posts are shown and ‘News’ appears in the title bar of the blog post rather than the category, meaning presumably that the blog post page has kicked in.
I’ve created three new PAGES – midlands maidens news, music box, and secret diary with the assumption that I can substitute these for the present categories and put all the posts from these categories into their own Total Blog Grid, but before I do that, what settiings should now be made in WordpressBackEnd>>Settings>>Reading>>PostsPage – should it be left blank, or should there be a page in there?
The problem I was having before was that using this last method, if I’d got ‘Blog Pages show at most 20 posts’, then all those posts that were 21 posts or more old were returning 404s.
What I’d ideally prefer is to have all the blog posts appearing on Total Blog Grids, with the page titles remaining intact, rather than ‘News’ kicking in when you go beyond the first page of posts.
I tried following the documentation, and got loads of 404s beyond blog post 20.
Some guidance in using new pages for blogs would be much appreciated.
AJ. For some reason, maybe due to an update or something, the stock tool looking photo that came with my total WP theme that I was using on my homepage, disappeared. Any ideas why that might of happened or how to get it back? I am a novice WP user. All help is greatly appreciated. Thanks so much. Billy
Hi Billy,
Would it be possible to share the URL so I can take a look? Thanks!
www.billyjgrogan.com
Hi there – I have been grandfathered into the role of website manager on our site that is actively using Total theme. I am not sure if it was removed by a previous staff member somehow, but I cannot access the demo importer under the theme panel. Can you advise if there is some way to bring this back, or update to have this feature available somehow? Thank you in advance!
The only way to disable it is under the main “Theme Panel” so have a look at the settings there. But you can also use this plugin to import demos: https://wordpress.org/plugins/one-click-demo-import/
Welcome back AJ and thank you for v4.7.1 It´s awesome!
Hi – What is the latest version of the theme? I’m worried that I’m way behind on updating and when I update it’s going to crash my site. Thanks!
The changelog can always be found here: http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/changelog/
If you need any help updating or have any issues let us know.
Hi AJ, Welcome back, sorry you weren’t 100%! I am having an issue. When I updated to the latest version of your theme today, I cannot see how to update WPBakery page builder – WP is telling me it needs an update, but I can’t find the plugin in your theme zip. Any ideas what’s up?
UPDATE: ok, i got it figured out. AJ, may i suggest working on your naming conventions between WPBakery and JS composer? I see now they do the same thing, but I guess due to naming inconsistency, i had to delete the old WPBakery plugin and reinstall as your js_composer plugin file, which then updated to the new WPBakery plugin.
Kinda confusing!
No reply needed! 
Bill
Hi Bill,
Whenever you update your theme you should see a notice at the top of the site to update the plugin as shown here: https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/update-plugin-notice.png
And if you don’t see that for any reason you can go to Appearance > Install Plugins to perform the updates.
I’m assuming you deleted it via FTP and that’s what caused the confusion?
The foldername for the plugin is js_composer due to it’s original name many many years ago, because it’s a 3rd party plugin bundled with the theme renaming it can cause issues with customers and updates so it’s not something I can do. This is the original name of the plugin as provided by the developers. I don’t modify any of the bundled plugins as this causes all sorts of problems.
Hi AJ, i just sent you an email regarding youtube embed sizes in Woocommerce info tabs. Any advice or direction would be much appreciated! Thank you so much.
Hi,
We don’t have any email we use for support. Do you mind posting the question here? Or if you renew your support than you can submit a ticket – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/support/
Depending what you want to do in terms of adding videos to tabs, I personally would recommend against it as video embeds can really slow down the page. Placing an image with a link to a video would be my personal recommendation in this regards. But in general the videos should be responsive so they should expand to the width of the tab, are you having issues with the embed going outside the tabs or being too small?
Sorry! The issue was using the default “paste the youtube link into the text area” the video was filling the whole width of the tab (very huge). I found a function that forced a resize of videos to a defined max-width which fixed my issue. Thanks anyway! P.S. Welcome back! Glad you are feeling better… one day at a time!
I am also glad you are back! So I bought another license to celebrate! (Also because of your generous discount:) Hope you are recovered from your health issues!!! Thanks again for an excellent theme!!!!
Hi AJ, I was genuinely worried about you, convinced that something was wrong. I just want to let you know that It’s nice to have you back here Welcome back.
Bob
Hi AJ,
Welcome back!
Hey AJ,
I am in the process of centering two buttons side-by-side and came across the Multi-Buttons option–which appears to be created for this purpose. However, I noticed that Multi-Buttons option doesn’t have the same level of control over borders, background and text colors, and icons that the Total Button offers.
I like the Total Button and originally tried to use it but couldn’t get it to play nice when I wanted two buttons side-by-side and centered in the row.
Do you have any plans to add the same functionality in the Total Button to the Multi-Buttons option?
Thanks for your help and welcome back.
It would be nice to be able to apply a custom border, backgrounds, text colors and icon to each Multi-Button.
...and be able to target Multi-Buttons with Unique IDs
If you want to use the standard buttons centered you can as well though. Like such: https://cl.ly/de24ca85bab0
Hi AJ,
nice to have you back.
Hope you’re well.
Olli
Thanks Olli 
Hopefully here to stay! I don’t really want to go into details with my health, but I’m happy to be back as well. Either way I’m working on hiring mew support just incase I’m not here or have to leave again for a bit.
You’ve always been a great customer and I appreciate your warm welcome!