Thank you AJ, I will implement that and let you know how it works.

In the meantime, I have another question:

5. I have created new taxonomy with your Custom Post plugin, that is linked to two Post types that has been created before. Question: how to setup this new taxonomy to appear like (category) checkboxes when editing Post types? They are now showing as tags on the right but I need to have check-boxes so I can set primary categories… See these screenshots for clarification: https://imgur.com/uoRMgvs https://imgur.com/uoRMgvs

Thank you! Brando

Hi Brando,

In order to have the “checkboxes” you need to enable the “Hierarchical” setting when editing the taxonomy: https://cl.ly/9d1894

The wording can be a bit confusing but it’s the way WordPress separates the different types of taxonomies in their documentation so I feel like it’s best to follow their exact wording then try and write something myself as it could confuse people that are familiar with the register_post_type function arguments.

- AJ

Looks like CloudApp may not be working so the link above may not work. If you can’t see my screenshot here it is hosted elsewhere: https://i.imgur.com/FsCIFCj.png

Hello, yes please, can you help me with java code? i can’t do it with anchor or css? because i don’t know java… thank you very much

Hi, can you help me with the code? THanks

Hi,

Here is an example of how the code may work: https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/snippets/total-filter-grid-scroll-to-items-on-filter/

Result: https://cl.ly/65f88f

This would be added to a child theme’s functions.php file.

Now, for Total 4.9 I’m considering actually changing the buttons on mobile to create a select form on mobile rather then stacking the buttons. Thoughts?

- AJ

Hi there,

Currently the only way to prevent that is using some custom CSS. Example:

@media only screen and (max-width: 767px) {
   body #top-bar #top-bar-content, #top-bar .top-bar-menu { float: left; text-align: left; width: 50%; }
   body #top-bar-social.top-bar-right { position: static; float: right;  width: 50%; top: auto; right: auto; margin: 0 }
}

May require some !important tags if the code isn’t working right.

And depending what you are doing with the topbar, it could be possible to instead tweak the output completely via a child theme and use the default row classes – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/snippets/sample-total-grid-html/

If you don’t “need” the topbar customizer settings for example we could hide the panel from the customizer and then do a custom output for the topbar.

- AJ

ps: I could look into adding a new classname such as “topbar-responsive” that can be removed via a child theme or Customizer setting to prevent this, the only thing is no one has ever requested it before so at this point it seems like added bloat and it could affect current customer customizations (unless you can convince me otherwise).

thanks for looking at this and the guidance – much appreciated!

Hi,

This is AJ the theme author.

Do you get any error when you try clicking the troubleshoot link: https://cl.ly/9da5b8

I see your support license has expired so you can’t submit a private ticket but if you want I can provide you an email address so you can message me directly with your site logins so I can take a look. In the worst case I can manually activate the theme for you

- AJ

Many Thanks AJ. I’m going to send you an email to solve it. You’re the best.

If you want to email me please send it to wpexplorer [at ] gmail [dot] com – let me know when you’ve sent the email so I can check, since this email address isn’t used often as support is usually done via the ticket system.

- AJ

ps: Alternatively you can renew your support license and submit a ticket instead:

• https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/renew-support-license/
• https://wpexplorer-themes.com/support/

Hi,

Sorry I wasn’t making an assumption I was simply confused by your sentence in your comment – https://cl.ly/09fe3d – from what I understood you imported it on the same site that you had already imported the landscaping demo which was what I based my reply around. It wasn’t clear that this import was on a new installation.

I just tried the sample data locally and recorded a video for you: https://cl.ly/f91f06 – so you can see there isn’t any known issue. In order for me to help you I would need more information so based on your original comment I was assuming you did import the sample data over the Landscaping demo and which is why you were having some issues.

Now, if you do want me to log into your site and test for you, I can definitely do this. You can submit a private ticket and request it be assigned to me. Otherwise, if you want to try the demo importer again but this time if it fails, have a look at your server error logs and let me know what sort of errors you are receiving and I can help you that way.

Please do understand my perspective reading your original comment and what I would have perceived from that.

Also going out of my way to suggest creating a multisite for your forum for management and SEO reasons, is what I would consider outstanding support. Most developers will only respond to your questions but I go out of my way to take some extra time and provide useful tips to my customers.

Of course I understand your frustration as you are having some issues. But I do hope you can see things from my point of view as well.

Just let me know how I can be of further help.

- AJ

ps: I’ve been awake since 6 am yesterday and it’s midnight here, so I’m going to bed. But I’ll be up in the morning answering any pending questions and tickets.

Thanks and sorry to bother you, AJ.

Honestly, these responses are WAY more than I needed. We have another simple solution now anyway which would not require us to buy another license for Total (one of the reasons we dislike Envato’s model in general).

This aspect was just a small part of an overall plan already in progress, and we’re well on our way with a great multi-site licensed theme. Still love our one experience with Total though and that client is happy, so all’s well. Cheers!

—Deej

Sounds great. I wish you the best of luck with your endeavors!

- AJ

Hi,

So the “Blog” modules by default only work for Standard post types unless you use an Advanced query, example: https://cl.ly/901663

But you can use the Post Types Grid or Post Types Carousel modules (which are nearly the same as the Blog Grid and Blog Carousel) modules for displaying your custom post types.

- AJ

ps: I actually made a new plugin if you wanted to look which is slimmer/faster then the CPT UI plugin if you are interested in looking at it:

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-types-unlimited/
• https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/adding-custom-post-types/

Thx for your reply! It’s great if you guys developed your own plugin for custom post types! Question tho please: will it be possible to associate a WP template to a custom category? Or only post types? Looks like you remove the field “Dynamic Singular Template ID”...

Hi,

The Dynamic Singular Template ID is not WordPress template function it’s actually an exclusive Total theme function based on the WPBakery page builder. The issue is that page builders like WPBakery are intended for creating pages not categories (taxonomies) so even if you could use a template for a category, there is no way to correctly display your posts. I am going to look into creating the ability for any Total module to display the current query via the post types grid, carousel grid…etc for the upcoming update and see if it’s possible to make the page builder work for archives, it’s going to be a bit tricky but I think it’s possible.

That said, depending what you want to do it may be possible and easy to do so via a child theme. If you let me know what you want to do with the specific category/taxonomy maybe I can assist with a child theme edit for this.

- AJ

Hi Connie,

Unfortunately there isn’t a search function like this available inside the theme and it’s actually impossible to add as a “separate” module because a “filter” simply checks the classnames of items on the page and shows/hides them. A search function would have to actually search the WordPress database and return the results, this requires AJAX functionality so it would have to be something built-into the actual grid module (not separate) and it’s actually a lot of work to create this function. Also because of how WordPress search works it can be a fairly slow function.

If you need a more advanced search/filter type functionality there are some plugins out there (not many) such as FacetWP which allow you to create this. But pretty much any of those plugins are built-in more for ‘developers’ so they require some coding and there isn’t any good free one that I am aware of.

Depending what you are doing, maybe using a “Directory” plugin is a good solution. Directory plugins often have built-in search/filter functions.

- AJ

Got it. Thanks for the explanation.

Hi,

Adding a slider to the WooCommerce product page is very easy. Example: https://total.wpexplorer.com/base/shop-without-sidebar/

This can be done using the Slider option in the page settings on the product page – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/page-settings-metabox/

There aren’t options to change the pagination “text” because it uses icons for next/prev instead of text: https://cl.ly/bb78ad

But also the theme is localized so you can translate anything if needed via .POT files in a child theme or using a translation plugin such as “Loco Translate”.

Changing the “Products per Row” is easy via the columns option: https://cl.ly/12c600

If you have other questions let me know!

- AJ

Interesting. I am not sure why the marketplace restricts this kind of functions but I am sure there are reasons.

Thanks for providing the feedback! I also already block ip’s on false logins. I’ll look at the captcha too.

It’s just not something that should be added inside a theme because if you ever switch themes you lose your security settings and have to re-add it. Also plugins load before themes, so it makes more sense to have security procedures inside a plugin. Otherwise you could potentially install some random plugin that has malicious code and that could override your security settings done in the theme.

- AJ

This makes totally sense.

Hi Bob,

Oh, this looks like an issue with the WooCommerce lightbox only (not when using the theme’s lightbox) and it’s happening because you’ve selected a custom color for button hovers on your site and the WooCommerce plugin isn’t correctly resetting button styles

This requires a 2 step fix which I added for the next theme update:

• https://cl.ly/39c0de (replace in Total/framework/customizer/settings)
• https://cl.ly/c0f863 (main style.css replace inside the Total theme main folder)

So you can replace these files or just go to Appearance > Customize > WooCommerce (Total) > Single Product and change the lightbox style to use the theme lightbox instead of the WooCommerce one.

- AJ

ps: Technically it’s a WooCommerce issue but it’s such a tiny fix adding it in the theme is no problem

Thank you very much for your support, AJ! Have a nice day,

Bob

Thank you for continuing to report bugs, have a great weekend!

Hi,

Sorry for the delay, I’m not sure how I missed your comment but just now I noticed you never received a reply

What I am confused about is what you are referring to as “Products Archives”. It’s definitely possible to change the columns (very easy actually and no need for plugins) but I don’t understand what you want to change.

Are you trying to make the related section 1 column: https://cl.ly/555972

Or when you say “Product Archives” are you referring to the MAIN shop page?

- AJ

Hi AJ,

“Product archives” is what WooCommerce calls pages displaying products. We need such pages to be displayed in list view with 1 column: http://prntscr.com/nlvw3o. They display products within subcategories.

And our main shop page displays only categories. We need categories and subcategories to be displayed this way: http://prntscr.com/nlvuoz (grid view with 3 columns).

So the layout for categories/subcategories pages (including the main shop page) should be different from the layout of pages displaying products.

Thanks! Svetlana

Hi Svetlana,

The reason I was confused is because your main shop is setup to display categories and when you mentioned you wanted the “Categories” in 3 columns I thought you were referring to the actual category page displaying products for the category. Now I understand

So to edit the pages that actually show products go to Appearance > Customize > WooCommerce (Total) > Shop & Archives and change the “Shop Columns” field: https://cl.ly/002257

Now for your main shop displaying categories there are some ways to do it, but what I would recommend since it would be easiest is to disable the default WooCommerce display via the option at Appearance > Customize > WooCommerce (Total) > Shop & Archives > Disable Default Shop Output : https://cl.ly/61bcbf

This will give you more freedom for designing the main shop page that shows the categories. So you can edit the shop page and either insert the WooCommerce shortcode:

[product_categories columns="3"]

Or you can use the Total “Categories Grid” WPBakery page builder module to display the categories on the page, this could give you more freedom and creating a custom layout to display shop categories.

Make sense?

Otherwise if you do not disable the “Default Shop Output” option to alter the columns for categories would require some child theme code which I could assist with if wanted.

- AJ

Hi,

This is AJ the theme author. These count() notices (technically warnings not errors) will happen in PHP 7.2+ if your theme and plugins are not up to date. Can you check to see what version of the theme and WPBakery you are using?

• https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/changelog/
• https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs-category/updates/

- AJ

ps: Now I am releasing Total 4.8.5 today if you were planning on updating you could wait for that if you wanted. And of course if you have any questions, doubts or issues with updating let me know!

Thx AJ.

We moved away from Yoast SEO a couple of years ago as we had issues with it. We’ve been happily using SEO Framework ever since. It’s lighter weight, which is fine with us.

Open Graph Meta tags are enabled in the SEO Framework settings.

It looks like the issue is that on a Page, SEO Framework uses for Open Graph the image set for the home page; versus for a Post, SEO Framework uses the specific image set as Featured Image for the Post.

So it looks like for each Page, we will have to manually specify which image SEO Framework uses for Open Graph – given that it doesn’t figure out on its one which image to use, contrary to a Post.

Does that make sense based on your experience with Yoast?

Edmond.

Hi Edmond,

I have never had issues with Yoast and it does automatically use the post/page featured image for the Open Graph meta. This sounds more like a bug in the SEO Framework plugin. I’m not familiar with the plugin though, so maybe something to ask them about.

- AJ

Ok, thx AJ. Good night.

Hi,

So wpbsearch isn’t a default shortcode in the theme or the WPBakery plugin so I’m not sure how you were adding it.

When I did a Google search for “wpbsearch” I see some tutorials coming up for manually adding a search shortcode to your site, so my guess is perhaps this was added manually inside the theme (instead of a child theme) by someone. Or that it was added in a child theme but when you updated your theme you accidentally re-enabled the parent Total theme (WP shows an option to do this) so your child theme isn’t active now.

Total has it’s own shortcode though which I would recommend – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/topbar-searchform/ (this article is showing you how to add in the topbar but could be added anywhere).

- AJ

Hi,

Did you import this demo: https://total.wpexplorer.com/married/ ?

If so, the background is done via the page builder so you simply need to edit the page to modify it. Here is a video: https://cl.ly/742b4e

If you imported a different demo or are referring to something else please let me know, I’m not sure what you meant by “cover of wedding” and what plugin you are trying to use.

- AJ

ps: I think I may enable the “header aside” function to be used with the vertical header (this is a field that shows up in the customizer when using certain header styles such as the new “Flex” header styles and it allows you to insert code, shortcodes or even custom templates – this way you aren’t limited to widgets and it won’t require a plugin. Do you think that would be helpful?

Thank you AJ! I was able to solve it via the wpex_hook_header_inner action now but thank you for providing the updated plugin. btw: I wasn’t able to find your plugins anywhere on your site anymore. I looked at the total subdomain, the docs and the main wpexlorer domain.

Regarding the aside function -> I would love to see that in the header 6 as well. Easiest and fastest way to add content to the header.

Again – thanks for the fast and helpful feedback, AJ. Much appreciated.

The plan is to have all those plugins on WordPress.org so I can provide automatic updates for them so I didn’t want them added to my site anymore.

The issue is that WordPress is having some problems with their plugin review team so I haven’t been able to submit new plugins for review. I’ve had a free Event plugin I made for almost 3 months now in the queue waiting for review With so much money and man power, I can’t comprehend what’s going on over there at WP.org – it’s like they refuse to pay for plugin reviewers. Not sure…

- AJ

Wow. Awesome!!!! Thank you very much. This is going to be very useful for my site.You are the best. I just can’t thank you enough!!! :)))

No problem, I have had a few customers request it before so I felt like it was good time to do it

If you do have any issues with it, questions or suggestions just let me know.

- AJ

I will … THANK YOU!

Hi there,

Honestly, Gutenberg is horrible and I have no current plans to make anything that revolves around it. I hope to make a new theme that is focused primarily on Elementor so that Total can be my WPBakery theme and the new one my Elementor theme which are the 2 biggest methods people are building sites these days.

There is a reason why the “Classic Editor” plugin is used by over 4 million websites and is a top downloaded plugin. Gutenberg is not a good way for building sites and even worse for running a blog. The reason it was included in WordPress was because they wanted it for their WP.com customers – you may notice most self-hosted WP users don’t touch Gutenberg, it’s just complex, buggy and some aspects of how it works just don’t make sense. And it’s not even a “true” builder much less a “visual” builder since it’s done in the backend.

If you do like the “Gutenberg” way of creating pages then Elementor is a better choice and a lot of my Total customers are actually using Elementor with Total right now and love it. And WPBakery is making 308 sales a week, so it’s not going anywhere anytime soon.

In all honestly it really depends on your client and maybe it’s something to consider (using different methods for different clients). What I’ve found is most clients create a new site with a WP theme and then a year later pay someone else to remake their site with another theme. That’s why the WP market is so massive and still fruitful. I’m not sure if maybe you are just overthinking things, but definitely there is no need to make a “switch” to Gutenberg. If we are lucky enough, Gutenberg will either die out or get the updates it needs in which case, then it could be a worthwhile consideration. How it stands now, I wouldn’t ever consider using it and I don’t think I am alone on this.

- AJ

Hi AJ,

Thanks for the reply. I’ve only given Gutenberg a quick try nothing extensive. Not a fan yet but I don’t see it going away. I’m getting a few requests from folks that know about the new editor and want to use it. WordPress kinda put us in a hard spot.

I’ll look into Elementor – I was hoping Gutenberg would kind of morph into an Elementor / WPBakery (wishful thinking on my part).

If you do decide to give it a go – Let us know. Thanks again!

Yes, Gutenberg is definitely not going anywhere, but neither is WPBakery or Elementor. Right now the classic editor plugin has over 4 million users. So at the same time, it’s not like the classic way of doing things is going away.

Here is the thing though…WPBakery and Elementor were both created to replace the default Classic Editor in WordPress so what’s the difference if it replaces Gutenberg instead? I’m not sure why people are so concerned with Gutenberg in of itself when it can be easily replaced by Classic Editor, WPBakery, Elementor, Beaver Builder, Divi Builder….etc. Would love to know your thoughts on this if you have any.

- AJ

ps: My ultimate goal would be to have Total (primarily WPbakery based theme) a new Elementor based theme and a new Gutenberg based theme. Thus being able to sell to each market separately as everyone has their own preference in what they like to use to build sites. When I get around to making the Elementor and Gutenberg themes (right now focusing on some bigger Total updates as this will still be a big focus of mine) they will have a more “modern” approach to the design compared to Total since I’ll have full freedom starting from scratch but work similar in terms of development (hooks, filters, header/footer builders, dynamic templates..etc). Running 3 large themes shouldn’t be a problem once I hire a bit more support staff I’ll still be able to spend 3-4 hours on development/support for each theme everyday Total isn’t going anywhere, but I do want to offer some other solutions for those looking or maybe for specific clients you may want to use a different theme. I know I have somewhat of a “cult” following because people like the way I code things and provide support so I want to be able to provide products specifically for those looking for an Elementor or Gutenberg exclusive solution.

Always welcome your thoughts!

Hello AJ,

Thank you so much, and don’t worry at all of course, I definitely don’t expect quick answers when as you say there’s no blocking problem – which almost never happens with Total

It’s just that I try my best to avoid asking you.

Michel

No problem, let me know if you have any issues with the code or any other questions.

- AJ

Thank you again, AJ.

Michel