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Hello! We were about to hit the checkout button but then my boss asked me if it can be installed to many multiple domains (hostnames) by using just one license? Any hasty response is really much appreciated.
Hi there,
This is Aj the theme author.
For any ThemeForest theme you need to purchase 1 license for every domain unless your secondary domain is a “development” site you can use the theme for 1 live and 1 development site.
You can read more about the licensing here: https://themeforest.net/licenses/terms/regular
- AJ
Hi Aj, I appreciate your reply. Just one more question. How would you know that the second installation is a development site? How about for wordpress directory installation? For example we have “example.com” running wordpress, then we have another one “example.com/blog” a separate wordpress installation. Do we need just one license for that?
Hi,
When activating the theme you can check the box for development – https://cl.ly/023cd6
If you are creating subsites with different WP installations such as site.com/blog/ the best thing to do is setup a multi-site installation – https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
When you activate the Total theme license on your primary site in a multi-site installation it will be automatically active for all sub-sites.
- AJ
Thanks AJ. The license is a one-time payment right? Instead of annual payment?
Yes, a license is a 1 time payment. There is a “support” license though that renews every 6 months (this is just how this marketplace works). But I only require a support license for submitting private tickets you don’t have to renew your support license if you don’t wanted updates are provided indefinitely as well as support here in the comments.
- AJ
Hello, I have a question. When I activate vertical menu on my website, one of the rows of content where I have an image grid extends to the left underneath the menu. Is there a way to correct this? It’s not a huge issue but it definitely looks like a glitch. My webpage is https://radiojornalera.org (scroll down slightly and you’ll see the image grid in the row below the top intro).
Hi,
So the reason this happens is because the row with the image is set to “Stretch”. On the vertical header style any stretched rows will go under the header because the stretched row makes it take on the whole width of your browser and this includes the vertical sidebar.
Now, I can change the way that works inside the theme but the reason I didn’t is a lot of customers like to give the vertical sidebar a “see-through” background so that any image behind it is visible. Something like this: https://cl.ly/f7541a
So you need to be careful using “Stretched Rows” when using the vertical header style. And it’s actually not really “needed” in this header style either. If you want your content to be “full screen” but ignore the sidebar it’s best to change this on the entire site (rather then making some rows stretch) and this can be done by editing your site layout widths – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/customize-your-layout-widths/ – by basically making the container width “100%” instead of the default “980px”. This will make all your posts/pages touch the sidebar on the left and touch the browser on the right no matter the screen-size. And if you did want to limit the width of the overall site you could always set the site to “Boxed” layout while keeping that 100% container width: https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/theme-layouts/
I hope this helps explain things, let me know if you have any other questions or issues!
- AJ
This is very helpful! Thank you AJ. Always so thorough with the response and well though out.
Quick question, in my contact page, I have a right sidebar, and it now has no margins. What’s the best way to resolve the layout issue if there’s a sidebar in the page?
Hi,
I’m not sure what you mean regarding the sidebar. This is what I see: https://cl.ly/a606ce
Where do you want to add margin?
- AJ
Hello Wpexplorer, you ask to contact you on themeforest for assistance but the Flatiron theme I have from you is no more on themeforest … and I’ve bought it from on other marketplace. So my question is for Flatiron theme : I don’t find where I can desactivate the search bar from the menu, could you let me know please ? Thx in advance !
Hi,
No problem. Happy to help 
This is Aj the theme author.
To disable the search simply go to Appearance > Customize > General Theme Settings > Header and you should see the last option is for disabling the search like this: https://cl.ly/fdf5b0
If you have any other questions or issues let me know!
- AJ
thanks a lot !!!
How do I change the banner? I do not find the option to change or remove it
https://uploaddeimagens.com.br/imagens/opera_instantaneo_2019-04-26_124146_confeitariaemcasa-com-br-pngHi,
So this is actually the “Page Header Background Image” which you can learn about here: https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/page-header-backgrounds/
It looks like you imported the Nouveau theme so here is a video showing how to modify or remove it: https://cl.ly/aa8367
Let me know if you have any other questions or issues.
- AJ
Hi AJ. Can you plan to add zoom in and zoom out buttons to image lightbox?
Hi,
Actually I am planning on switching the Lightbox in Total from the current iLightbox script over to this one: http://fancyapps.com/fancybox/3/ – Which has a zoom function.
The new lightbox won’t have any custom “skins” but I think that’s a good thing because it will keep things much slimmer and faster.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
- AJ
Yes, I tested and I agreed this is very fast. I liked. I am excited for this new feature 
Hi AJ,
It’s me again with a new feature request for the next update.
I would like to see an option where I can control the background-position in visual composer at every row & column. So I was thinking about an input field, right under the background-image where I can typ ‘center bottom’.
Please let me know what you think of this option!
Hi there,
Is your theme up to date? You should have the option already: https://cl.ly/46930e (I can’t inject this below the actual background option because of how WPBakery works that’s why it’s its own setting below).
Now…if you are creating many rows with similar style backgrounds my recommendation would be to instead add a classname to these rows (something like my-fancy-rows) then add some CSS to your child theme for that:
.my-fancy-rows { background-position: center bottom; }
This way if you ever decide to or your client wants you to change the position of all backgrounds you can do it quicker by modifying your CSS instead of manually editing the rows with the builder.
- AJ
Hi AJ,
Never mind! I never tried scrolling down xD
Hi AJ, I hope you had a great Easter! Would it be possible to only load WP Bakery files on pages that use WP Bakery (frontend)? ...we only use WP Bakery for a few selected pages, never on the blog-section for instance. Thanks!
Hi,
I did, thank you! I hope you did also and are having a nice weekend so far.
So it’s possible to remove “files” on certain pages but it’s more efficient and actually possible to disable a plugin completely on certain areas of your site.
If you send me either a list page slugs you would want to use the builder on only. Basically what we can do is create a “Must Have” plugin that you upload onto your server under wp-content/mu-plugins/ so it always gets loaded on the site and what it will do is check the current page URL via $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] and if it’s not inside our array of allowed pages then we can disable WPBakery from that page by hooking into the option_active_plugins filter.
There are plugins for this as well: https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-load-filter/ – if you prefer to not use code. But the code should be fairly straight forward and I would likely make a doc article about this incase other customers are wondering the same thing.
- AJ
ps: The reason the CSS has to load site wide is for things like Templatera widget, footer builder, header builder..etc.
Thank you AJ,
I actually remember that you already helped me with something similar for The Events Calendar (mu plugin -way) on another Total -project, I’m sure I could reuse that for this so no need for you to do that again (unless you see a demand for an article). I had been trying Elementor and noticed that it only seems to load it’s files when it’s in use so I thought maybe there was some ”built in” way to have WP Bakery function like that.
…we have disabled ”header builder”,”footer builder” and do not use Templatera at all for this site….would there load css/js for these any way?
Thanks!
Hi,
WPBakery has to load site wide also because of 3rd party add-ons (it can’t know what and when things may be needed). It could be possible to do the same for WPBakery but the actual benefits are too slim. And Elementor may not load css/js but the plugin itself is still running it’s functions. The method I suggest actually prevents the plugin from doing anything at all, it’s like the plugin isn’t even active on the site
Just let me know if you want some help with that.
And ya, I could create a function to remove the plugin CSS/JS when not being used by the page, templatera, header/footer builder but the issue is you can’t know what 3rd party WPBakery plugins are doing. And it’s also only possible to remove css/js via a theme since plugins load before themes. To disable a plugin completely it has to be done the “mu plugin way” as these conditional checks are done prior to the loading of plugins.
- AJ
ps: I do have quite a few customers using Elementor with Total and liking it very much. But I think I would like to make a dedicated Elementor theme to have Total as my WPBakery theme and a new one as my Elementor theme? You think you would be interested in something like that? Of course built-in a similar way (partial files, hooks, filters, Customizer, speed focused, etc) but more modern default design.
Thank you AJ,
I can post a general example here when I´m ready, in case someone is searching for this in the future.
As for a dedicated Elementor theme, right now I don’t see anything that would motivate us to switch over to Elementor but ofcourse that could change for upcoming projects. I actually prefer working with Total + ACF as I see great advantages both for us and our clients (even though it takes longer to build). Is there something that prevents Total from being the perfect base for either Elementor or Wp Bakery? Would it not be better to put all focus on 1 theme (Total)? If you do start a new theme from scratch then I´m sure you have good reasons for that but I guess I fear that Total could suffer because of time and resourses?
Thanks!
Hi,
I had your comment saved i just finally got around to replying to you
So basically there is nothing stopping Total from being the perfect theme for Elementor, the reason to make a new Elementor and new Gutenberg theme (potentially) is only for marketing purposes to help target specific markets and bring in more money. The more money I can earn from theme sales the more help I can hire.
Because Total is my “baby” I will always spend a lot of time on it. I’m actually going to be deleting like 8 themes from my portfolio to slim things down as well as I hired someone to help maintain all my free themes. So I should have plenty of time to keep Total and any new themes updated. In fact my plan for the new themes is to include 3rd party addons so there wouldn’t be too much development there. For Total I’ll continue making custom functions, modules, addons, etc exclusive for Total not found anywhere else. It will still be my primary focus.
By having a couple new products targeting different customers will hopefully bring in more exposure for Total or some more profits so that I can afford to hire more developers/support staff to help me out and make Total even better!
- AJ
ps: I know you use Total + ACF and in the upcoming Total update 4.9 I’m going to make it possible for you to use any of the Total WPBakery modules (like the post types grid) outside of WPBakery as standard shortcodes. I know this is something you really wanted Also the Total grid, carousel modules will have 2 new settings: One to enable “Current Query” under the Query tab so if you add the modules to an archive (for example to override the default categories archive) it will display the category posts and a second “Related Query” setting to show related items from the current post if inserting the modules on a post (you can do this now with the Advanced Query but having a setting will make it easier).
I will either be adding a filter to enable this functionality or place an option in the Theme Panel (disabled by default) to enable the module shortcodes even when WPBakery is disabled. Via a child theme you would be able to define which modules can be used as well as if the CSS should be loaded on the site or just the shortcode functions (like if you wanted to use the post types grid but not use any of the theme’s CSS for it).
Additionally any modules with Javascript (slider, lightbox, carousel, masonry grids..etc) will load their js in their own files instead of in total.min.js to slim down the default theme’s javascript file for those not using WPBakery or specific modules.
So some good optimizations and stuff coming in Total 4.9, especially for those not using WPBakery such as yourself.
Any other suggestions you have, please send them over so I can consider them!
- AJ
Hi AJ, sorry for my late response
4.9 sounds absolutely brilliant, I couldn’t think of a better setup
I completely understand your points for working with multiple themes although I believe there could be great potential for marketing Total theme as a lightweight core compatible with any builder (but I’m really not qualified to say which is the best route to take) …I’m actually glad you mention Gutenberg here also, although I’m certainly not in any hurry to start working with it I do believe it can attract customers and maybe themes that catch on early have lots to gain as it evolves.
In the meantime, in case someone is searching for the ”MU plugin” way of enable WP Bakery only on certain pages this is what I did (based on a snippet you helped me with for something similar, a while ago) from my tests its working really well.
add_filter( ‘option_active_plugins’, function( $plugins ) { $request_uri = parse_url( $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’], PHP_URL_PATH ); $is_pagewithwpbakery = strpos( $request_uri, ’/pagewithwpbakery/’ ); $is_anotherpagewithwpbakery = strpos( $request_uri, ’/anotherpagewithwpbakery/’ ); if ($is_pagewithwpbakery === false AND $is_anotherpagewithwpbakery === false) { $key = array_search( ‘js_composer/js_composer.php’ , $plugins ); if ( false !== $key ) { unset( $plugins[ $key ] ); } return $plugins; } else {return $plugins;}
Thank you for your hard work, it’s truly appreciated Have a great rest of the weekend!
Darn I wrote a pretty massive reply to you and then accidentally refreshed the page. Anyway, to sum things up..the update is coming along well and should hopefully be done this week. Right now I’m just focusing on Total and not really thinking about anything new (maybe in a month or so). Of course Total will always be my primary focus
Thanks for sharing the code for others that may be looking, it looks good!
I hope you are having a great weekend!
- AJ
HI AJ, hope you are well. i have a question about the WooCommerce detail page on my site I hope you can help with. (imgn.co.uk / passw on front page:im1 ).
The general site is fullscreen / full width / no sidebar which is fine however i would like to restrict the width of the WooComm detail page to a max of 1400 pixels.
Up until very recently i was using a bit of CSS to restrict it ( .wpex-woo-entry {max-width:1400px; display:block; margin: 0 auto;} ), and this worked fine, however I have upgraded WC to the latest version and this upgrade has, I believe, stopped it from working.
Do you know a way i can achieve this with come CSS or ideally within the settings? Cheers, Chris
No worries.. I changed the CSS to to be .entry-content > div.entry instead of .wpex-woo-entry and its worked fine.
Hi Chris,
So there are a couple reasons why I wouldn’t recommend this CSS. First targeting “wpex-woo-entry” isn’t a good idea because this classname is intended for the product entries only but due to a WooCommerce bug it gets added on the single products as well 
And targeting .entry-content may not be the best idea as this only targets technically what’s inside the post editor (of course WooCommerce dumps stuff in here also) and it’s a better idea to target the entire “content” area just incase you ever insert stuff via theme hooks. But also just like the first part of my reply that extra “entry” class shouldn’t even be on the page so if WooCommerce fixes the issue it should go away in a possible future update so best to not target it.
.single #content { max-width:1400px; display:block; margin: 0 auto; }
To target all singular pages or:
.single-product #content { max-width:1400px; display:block; margin: 0 auto; }
To target WooCommerce posts only.
Targeting the #content area would be better as those “entry” classes shouldn’t technically be there and it’s just a better habit to target “core” theme elements as opposed to dynamic classes added inside the content area.
Hope that makes sense! And I hope you are having a nice weekend!
- AJ
Awesome – thanks so much for this.
Hi AJ, I have a question concerning the GRID possibilities. I really like them the way they are. I use hem a lot on my testimonials pages. I have a title displayed, the text, sometimes an imgage (or two, three), then an ‘avatarish’ image under the message and the name of the writer and also the city and date. Name, city and date I get from the Custom Post settings on your Custom Posts. Very handy! Now the problem is (and I wrote it earlier) that I would like to use Elementor as my Builder. It is much better than WP Bakery in some ways. BUT: when I try to use your grid settings, it just doesn’t work 100% – in your settings almost everything is possible but with their settings I have a choice between Excerpt or not, I can’t see the name and city and so on, it is just hopeless. I tried to make my own Custom Post Types but that doesn’t change a thing. I know it all sounds a bit much, but when you look at the site https://www.dekeukenvernieuwers.nl/referenties/ then you can see what I mean. This is a setting that I can achieve with Total/WP Bakery and I just can’t get that with Elementor. There is no option to choose your Grid settings. Do you have any suggestions? I fear that I will have to stay with WP Bakery and that is not so good for mobile as Elementor. Kind regards, Josh Haijer
Hey Josh,
Nice to see you around
The main problem here is that WPBakery works on shortcodes and Elementor works by inserting the html directly on the page (which in my opinion can be a real pain when wanting to make global edits to the site which is a reason I am still leaning more towards WPBakery style builders).
The Total grid modules are coded specifically for WPBakery so if the plugin is disabled they can’t be used. The modules rely on specific functions that load only when the plugin is active. I could have coded things different so you could manually use the Total grid shortcodes without WPBakery by actually dumping the shortcode on the page manually but first of all most people are using WPBakery and the ones that aren’t are using their own system so having all the extra shortcodes defined when WPBakery isn’t loaded is a big a mount of added bloat and it’s just not efficient coding.
If you don’t like the grid modules available for Elementor you could consider maybe getting an extended license of this awesome plugin to use in your projects – https://theme-one.com/the-grid/
Now…that said, I am going to be making a bigger update to Total in the near future because of ThemeForest rules I need to “extract” different functions from Total and place them in plugins. So I will be creating a “Total Companion” plugin that will be automatically/force enabled when you are using Total and will contain the extra WPBakery modules and the registration of Total post types (portfolio, staff, testimonials).
What I will do when I get here, is I will code the modules slightly different so even if you are not using WPBakery they can be enabled as standard shortcodes via the Theme Panel or a filter in your child theme. This way you can use them even without the builder and you can either have a second site open with wpbakery where you can insert a module then switch to copy/paste into your Elementor site or I can make some documentation pages with a list of the available shortcodes and their parameters.
Also this addon is pretty amazing – https://jetelements.zemez.io/ – it’s only $29 for unlimited sites also and should work fine with Total (if you have issues let me know). It’s actually a plugin that is being bundled with a lot of ThemeForest themes and I’m also considering it for a big Elementor theme I plan on developing (I want to have Total for people that like WPBakery or for specific client sites and a new theme for those that like Elementor).
Would like to hear your thoughts on that.
- AJ
Hi AJ, thank you so much for your long long answer!!! I understand a little bit more. I checked the plugins you mentioned and especially the theme one grid possibilities look good – but alas, not what I need. One way or another, I think all the programmers look at each other and discover the wheel again but no one has the same power as your grid system. I like most of them, but they all think in posts that you have to open to read. But my testimonials are often too short, better place them together on one page. And wat I don’t understand: all theres testimonial carrousels, they all look the same – with images of people in a circle – and mentioning their job function etc. but ‘my’ real people are people who send in a testimonial about one of our workers without their picture. No one does that. But it is so important for me to show the world: these are real people who like our job, these are their names and here is where they live and they are real!!!
All these carrousels give me the creeps, I never believe them to be honest! Anyway, I guess I will work with WP Bakery. Too complicated to change with more than 2350 testimonials in the archive….. It is OK – don’t think that I don’t want to work with WP Bakery, but I find their way of handling mobile not efficient or modern. With Elementor you can adjust things better in my opinion. Thanks again! And keep up the good work, yout theme is still the best because of all the possibilities is has! Kind regards, Josh Haijer
Hey Josh,
When moving modules out of the core theme into the Total Companion plugin as I mentioned above I’ll code things in a way where you can still use the grids outside of the WPBakery (manually) if needed/wanted. It may not be done right away because it’s a massive change and my priority is just getting the theme up to the ThemeForest Theme rules which will take place at the end of May. But if not now, at some point I will make all the Total WPBakery modules work independently of WPBakery if you wanted to use them as a simple shortcode.
Also I do plan on making my own big Elementor theme and when I get there, I’ll be sure to ask you and other customers what sort of modules they would like to see included. I’m even considering making my own Elementor addon plugin that I can manage myself and build upon.
- AJ
ps: This could be a handy plugin for you – https://codecanyon.net/item/responsive-pro-addon-wpbakery-page-builder-formerly-visual-composer/21279498- although if a site is done correctly you shouldn’t ever need to “worry” about responsiveness, this is usually just an issue when using fixed paddings/margins on sites.
Hello! Loving the theme. I am building my site, but I cannot get to display the green padlock in the browser because there is a code added in the header by the theme that is not secure: .........<style type=”text/css” data-type=”vc_shortcodes-custom-css”>.vc_custom_1556122129174{padding-top: 100px !important;padding-bottom: 60px !important;background: #111111 url(http:// ...... Where do I modify this code? Website is https://gospelhealing.com/ Thank you!!!!
HI there,
This is AJ the theme author. Firs of all, I’m glad you like the theme
So the issue here is that the background defined in the page builder for your row is using http instead of https. When building pages with the page builder it uses the protocol of your current site so when you set your background image for the different rows on your homepage they were saved with http because that was the protocol of your site at the time or you have https disabled in the backend (you should have https in backend and front-end if that is the case).
Now you can manually edit your homepage but whenever you switch from http to https the best thing to do is to actually do a search replace in your database to make sure your entire site is using the correct protocol. So you will want to make a database search for:
https://gospelhealing.com
and replace with:
https://gospelhealing.com
This is common practice when making your http to https and will avoid having to go through the whole site to locate any manual links added to the site (such as images, menus and cross-page linking) which can take quite some time.
- AJ
Thank you! I was able to fix it!!! Works great!
Where would I find a list of the shortcodes for the icons. I read in one of the comments that font_awesome icons have been replaced by ticons, but then in Feb there’s a post in the Total support pages saying to use Font_Awesome shortcodes… I’ve tried those, some like twitter, and the default ones – phone, home, envelope – work, but when pulling from font awesome’s site, other’s like ‘store’ are not showing up when I use the same settings for shortcodes in the top bar part of the customizer.
Any help would be great. Thanks!
Hi there,
This is AJ the theme author.
So the theme uses the original FontAwesome 5.7.1 icons (just renamed to prevent conflicts with plugins) so you can find the list of icon names here: https://fontawesome.com/v4.7.0/icons/
The reason for not switching to FontAwesome 5.0+ is because it’s significantly larger (slower to load) but more importantly they re-styled a bunch of icon designs so for customers that have been using Total for a while updating can break the look of their site. But it’s possible to load this script via a plugin if you did want to make use of the newer icons.
I’ll be adding a list of all icons just like the link above to the Total docs site as well. Let me get on that!
- AJ
Hello, i bought an extra 6 month of support but I can’t submit a ticket. Could you please help me?
Hi Jencor,
This is AJ the theme author.
There can be a slight delay between purchasing a license and the Envato API updating, also we do use caching on our support site to prevent so many requests to Envato. Can you try logging in and clicking the button to refresh purchases – https://cl.ly/b66a96 ? Or trying in a new browser?
Now you can also ask me any questions here if needed. I can gladly help you with anything you need
- AJ
Hi,
This should definitely not cause any errors for mobile friendliness, this is very common important code used for accessibility. And you can see when checking the main Total landing page (with that same code) that it should be fine: https://cl.ly/e527dc
Can you share a photo of the actual error message you have from the mobile checker? Thanks!
- AJ
Hi, I would like to get the portfolio categories in a specific order on the overview-page where I have used the Portfolio Grid. I have Installed the Plugin Category Order and Taxonomy Terms Order (https://wordpress.org/plugins/taxonomy-terms-order/) but it doesn’t work. Do you know an other plugin that will work or is it possible to change the order in som other way?
/Erika
Hi Erika,
The plugin should work correctly and it is tested with the theme. Have you gone into the plugin settings and checked the box that enables the sorting site wide?
- AJ
Hi,
I was wondering if there’s specific coding that I could implement into the them to add a bar above or below the header where I could include text info such as: store hours, location/address, phone number and email?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Hi there,
You could use the already included “Top Bar” – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/edit-top-bar-content/
But if you need or want to add a custom area it’s very easy to do via a child theme using theme hooks – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/action-hooks/
If you aren’t familiar with WordPress hooks I can provide an example code.
- AJ
I’m moving my blog from one site to another, copying it exactly, but now the posts are duplicating on the page below the “Read More” button.
HI,
Hum, that’s very strange (never seeing that before). Can you share the URL so I can inspect the code?
- AJ
It’s probably something I did. (It usually is https://www.shannonbrown.co/blog/
Hi there,
Thank you for your patience, I hope you are having a nice weekend so far!
So what’s going on is you have your page setup as the “Blog” template but you are also using the WPBakery page builder to insert your blog grid. So all you have to do is edit the page and select the default template like such: https://cl.ly/89b271
- AJ
Thank you!
Hi AJ, At the bottom of my home page I have a “Recent posts” Grid. Currently, the 1/2/3/4/5/6 all goes to separate pages which means if they want to see more posts it basically refreshes the same version of the page.. which is not the best UX.
I’d like the posts to be scrollable within the 1 page instead of pagination breaking up all of them into multiple pages.. is this possible?
I think it’s called AJAX, excuse my noobishness.
Hi,
The theme doesn’t have AJAX support for the grid pagination rather it has a “load more” button that loads items via AJAX (which is more common then the pagination) – https://cl.ly/7b50e1
Although for SEO reasons and even usability my advice would be instead to place a simple button that says something like “visit the blog” or “view all” that goes to your main blog and if you don’t have a “main” blog page, it’s definitely a good idea to have one if your site isn’t “just” a blog.
- AJ
Hmm, neither the “RECENT POSTS” or “BLOG GRID” widget has the “LOAD MORE” option for me? Not sure how to locate that!
Oh I see you are on Total 4.7.1, this option was introduced in 4.8 – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/changelog/ – which was somewhat of a large update so you may want to read at least the important notice on the 4.8 changelog if you do update your theme.
If you are unsure how to update please see here: https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/update-theme/
And let me know if you have any concerns before updating or if you update any issues.
Hope you are having a nice weekend.
- AJ
ps: For your site though I think it would be best to create a new blog page with standard pagination and from your homepage under the recent posts put a button that says something like “view all” or “visit the blog”. Mostly thinking in terms of SEO.
Thanks AJ for the continued support. I have updated now, works great. However, I noticed for my blog pages, the breadcrumbs is not showing the full path. It just shows Homepage—> Blogpost Title .. without any category..
Is there a way to debug this? Thank you!
Hi, there isn’t any known bug with the breadcrumbs. Looks like you may be using the Yoast SEO plugin, when active the theme will use the breadcrumbs from Yoast instead. To add the category to the crumb trail you need to modify the Yoast Breadcrumbs settings. Can you verify this is the issue?
- AJ
Hi, I have downloaded the last version but i have problems , the template do not work correctly, this message appears when I edit example page” Failed to load plugin url: http://185.104.152.201/~bcn314/wp-content/themes/Total/assets/js/dynamic/wpex-tinymce.js" , and i see anythyng on the web. can you help me
Hi,
This error is usually caused by a 3rd party plugin breaking the TinyMCE editor or with browser cache. First I recommend clearing all browser and site cache and re-trying.
If that doesn’t fix the issue you can disable 3rd party plugins to test.
Now, the wpex-tinymce.js script is only used for this editor shortcodes button – https://cl.ly/054ea1 – which most customers don’t use anyway.
So you can go to Theme Panel and disable “Editor Shortcodes” to remove the button completely which will remove the error also (may need to clear browser cache again) because the script will no longer be loaded by the theme.
Also, make sure WordPress is up to date!
- AJ
Hi, just noticed that from a testimonial in the Testimonials Slider it is not possible to click on links anymore. Neither textlinks nor buttons work. Can you please fix this? Thanks!
Hi,
It’s working when I test locally, can you share a sample link so I can see? Thanks!
- AJ
Hi.
It’s working for me on your site also: https://cl.ly/fd64e6
But one thing is if the slider is about to transition (you have auto play enabled) it does prevent clicking, this is to prevent issues with swiping on mobile devices to go to the next/prev slide. Or if your device is touch-enabled you may need to click twice on the link.
It is also possible that the touch to swipe function can cause issues on certain browsers because when you click inside the slider it assumes you are going to swipe and go to the next slide.
What I could do is add a new setting to the Testimonials module to disable touchSwipe on desktops so it only touch swipes on touch-screens which can help prevent issues on desktops. Or make it something that can be disabled via a tiny child theme edit and I can send you the modified file so you can update via FTP if you wanted to try it.
Please let me know your thoughts!
- AJ
Hi AJ,
It seems to be a problem with my Chrome browser. Edge seems to be working fine. Maybe Chrome is blocking clicks because it expects a swipe in stead of a click. If you could add a setting to disable touch swipe on desktops that would be awesome! In the meantime I will do some research on why it worked last week and stopped working since this week (maybe an update for Chrome did this?)
Cheers!
FYI, I found out that since the last Chrome update in the settings at the bottom there appared an icon with the text “Managed by your organisation”. There is no managing organization for me so I started googling on this. It seems that not being able to click on the slider buttons is related to this. One I removed the responsable registry key and some directories connected to it, all works fine now.
Oh awesome!
I’ll still be making some tweaks in the theme though to disable swipe on desktops (either by default or if wanted – either way configurable by the user via a setting or child theme). As I do see some potential issues and also it’s just not needed on desktop I don’t think most people will actually click and swipe on a computer.
- AJ
Hi there,
I just switched to Total Theme. I am using Elementor to build my website, however I am facing some major issues:
1. In my home page, I created several image galleries with Elementor (one gallery has 2 columns of 3 photos in a row, total of 6 photos; another gallery has 1 column of 4 photos in a row, total of 4 photos), when I was using previous theme for my website, they were normal, but after switching to Total theme, the image galleries are all messed up. The gallery with 6 photos are now showing 6 columns, 1 photo per row; and the other gallery is also showing 1 photo per row, and it now has 4 columns. I edited the number on the Elementor gallery editer, but the numbers can’t control the how the gallery is displayed anymore Anyone know how to fix it?
2. In my blog page (page that displays all of my blogs), I set the blog Excerpt Length in Elementor, but after switching to Total Theme, this no longer works. I really want to decrease the number of blog summary on the page. I am really frustrated.
3. Total theme comes with a scroll to top button at the bottom on the right, but I want it to be on the left side as I want to install a live conversation icon at the right. Anyone know how to change the scroll to top button to the left side?
I’d appreciate it if anyone can help me fix the problems that I face. Total theme is great, but these are the troubles I run into.
Arnold
Hi Arnold,
This is AJ the theme author.
1. The reason the galleries appear broken is because Total has a custom function to override WP galleries and because of how WordPress works only 1 function can work at a time so it creates a conflict. You simply need to disable the Custom WP Gallery in the Total theme via the Theme Panel. More info here: https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/fix-elementor-galleries/
2. By default the blog is controlled via the Customizer under Appearance > Customize > Blog > Archives & Entries. But it sounds like maybe you are using an Elementor module for the blog page, if so can you let me know what module specifically you are using and if its a pro module? Thanks!
My guess though is that Elementor is using the excerpt_length filter to modify excerpt length which isn’t a good idea as they should be creating their own custom function for their custom excerpts.
Total does have a function that alters this filter as well to fix some WP bugs, which can create a conflict if Elementor is also using the filter. You should be able to remove the one in the theme though by adding this code to your child theme’s functions.php file:
remove_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'wpex_custom_excerpt_length', 999 );
But, I actually updated the theme for the next version to prevent the Total’s code from overriding when Elementor is enabled. The update is very simple if you wanted to manually apply it to your site. Simply open the file at Total/framework/core-functions.php and locate the wpex_custom_excerpt_length function and change it to look like this:
/**
* Change default excerpt length
*
* @since 1.0.0
* @todo Do we really need this?
*/
function wpex_custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
if ( ! defined( 'ELEMENTOR_VERSION' ) ) {
$length = '40';
}
return $length;
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'wpex_custom_excerpt_length', 999 );
So if you compare your code with the updated code the difference is this:
if ( ! defined( 'ELEMENTOR_VERSION' ) ) {
$length = '40';
}
Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
3. This is a very simple CSS edit. Simply add this code under Theme Panel > Custom CSS or in a child theme’s style.css file:
body #site-scroll-top { right: auto; left: 30px; }
And simply change the 30px to the distance you want from the left side.
If you need anything else let me know!
- AJ
Hi AJ,
First of all, thank you very much for the quick reply.
About your message:
1. Disabling the custom wp gallery works great for my problem. Thanks!
2. I am using Elementor’s “Post” to show my posts in my blog page.
By adding the codes: “remove_filter( ‘excerpt_length’, ‘wpex_custom_excerpt_length’, 999 );” my problem gets solved. As for manually apply the update, I guess for now I am not donig that since it seems a little bit complicated for us newbies. Lol.
3. The codes work perfectly for scroll to top button. Thanks!
Arnold
Hi Arnold,
Great! I’m glad to hear everything worked for you If you need anything else at all let me know! Or any suggestions for Total to make it more Elementor “friendly” I would love to hear you suggestions.
- AJ
Hi Does Total theme comes with default H1 tags? Cuz yoast keeps reminding me that my page has mutiple H1 tags, but I can only find the one I set as H1.
Hi,
The main “page header title” section is an H1 tag – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/total-wordpress-theme-anatomy/
But this can be easily changed via a child theme (I can give you the code).
Now, if you want you can share a sample URL so I can inspect the code and see where the H1 tag is.
That said…Yoast doesn’t check the front-end so it can’t possible find the h1 tags inside the theme. It can only inspect your Elementor code, so my guess is there is an Elementor module you are using that is an h1 tag by default and you need to change it when inserting it to the page.
- AJ
Hi Aj, thanks for the reply. The H1 tag problem happens in my about page: https://ribrosco.com.tw/about/
Also I have another issue, my pagination display weirdly, if you don’t mind, please help me check it, too. thanks. the link is: https://ribrosco.com.tw/tape-measure/ I want the pagination to be more like thi: https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/alter-pagination-design/
-Arnold
Hi Arnold,
So both of these are h1’s – https://cl.ly/5a1ce5 – the easiest and best solution is to change the second one “Richard & Brothers – Providing…” to an h2 tag instead of H1. You should be able to change that when editing the module with Elementor.
For the pagination it looks like Elementor CSS is resetting some of the pagination design and causing some issues.
This CSS should help at least get the numbers inline:
.elementor-pagination .page-numbers { display: inline-block; }
I will setup a test page locally for the pagination to modify things so that the Elementor pagination can have the same look as the theme pagination which is this: https://cl.ly/d6883a
Either I can place it in the theme by default or send you the updated code. Let me know your thoughts!
- AJ
Hi Aj,
Thanks for the reply.
Please send me the update code of turning the pagination into the same as theme. Appreciate your help very much.
-Arnold
Hi Arnold,
I actually wasn’t able to figure out what Elementor Widget you are using to display items here: https://ribrosco.com.tw/tape-measure/ – is this part of Elementor Pro?
- AJ
Hi Aj,
I use Elementor pro’s “post” widget. Hope that helps. Thanks again.
-Arnold
Ok, I will have to contact them to get a copy of the pro version (or just buy it) so I can test accordingly. Thanks for letting me know.
- AJ
ps: Once I reply to comments they get marked as “read” so if you want me to reply back to you after I test, just reply back here so your comment pops back into my unread dashboard – thanks
Ok i’ll wait patiently for your testing. Thanks again~ -Arnold
