Hi,

The filter you mention will still work, but it’s specifically for the Self Hosted Video Background setting for WPBakery sections, rows and columns: https://a.cl.ly/YEuw5AWg

In terms of video attributes when displaying the Post Media video the correct filter for modifying the video output would be “wpex_post_video_html” – so you can hook into this filter and use str_replace to replace <video with <video and whatever attributes you want. Example:

add_filter( 'wpex_post_video_html', function( $video_html ) {
    if ( $video_html ) {
        $video_html = str_replace( '<video', '<video autoplay', $video_html );
    }
    return $video_html;
} );

Personally, what I would do in the Dynamic Template is use the Video element instead of the Post Media element so you can set up the Video element with all the controls you want.

And if you must you can always set up a different template just for videos that is separate from other post types. You can do this either by using this plugin and having a separate video category – https://wordpress.org/plugins/term-based-dynamic-post-templates-for-total/ – or a little custom code that modifies the template based on either the post format – https://totalwptheme.com/docs/snippets/set-dynamic-template-based-on-post-format/ – or based on if the current post has a video or not (I don’t have a snippet for this currently – but if you purchase a license or log in with the account that owns the theme license I can create a custom snippet for you).

- AJ

Hey, that snippet worked brilliantly! The reason I chose the Post Media module is that I only wanted it on a handful of posts and they would each have a different video (specific to the post) and the Post Media module picks up the link of the specific video chosen for that post. Would the Video module be able to do that? I was not under the impression that it could, but could be totally wrong.

(still searching for which account was used to purchase Total)

Yes, the Video module can display the post video as well like such: https://a.cl.ly/5zuog59x

A lot of the Total elements allow for dynamically displaying post content. For example the Image element can also display the featured image or a custom field image.

And for other element fields where you may not be able to select dynamic data to display, you can use dynamic variables to pull post data – https://totalwptheme.com/docs/dynamic-variables/ – for example you could use an Icon Box to display post data like such: https://a.cl.ly/jku02yWD

- AJ

Hi,

Thank you for your patience, I hope you had a nice weekend. I just replied to your followup comment on the same subject

- AJ

I could not fix this.

is it possible to use images + videos mixed in a gallery? As far as I can see, only images are possible. Is that correct?

Im looking for a gallery where I can use images and videos. Does anyone know one for free? I hope its included here in this theme but I cant find it.

Hi,

This is Aj the theme author. I hope you had a nice weekend.

There isn’t a function that will display images and videos “inline” because usually videos have different aspect ratios and would look strange inside an image grid. However, you can assign videos to images for different galleries as mentioned in the documentation here: https://totalwptheme.com/docs/image-videos-attachments/ – this way you can have videos inside Image Sliders or added to image grids where they would open in lightbox format.

Of course, depending what you are doing you can always use for example the Grid Container to insert images and inline videos into the same grid – https://totalwptheme.com/elements/grid-container/ – but this would be more of a “manual” gallery as opposed to a dynamic gallery which you can do using the theme’s Post Gallery functionality and the guide mentioned above – https://totalwptheme.com/docs/using-post-gallery-image-galleries/

- AJ

Hi Alice,

By default the Post Excerpt element displays only the custom excerpts. In older versions of the theme there was a length field you could use so if you added a length it would switch to a custom excerpt. I changed things a bit in 5.18 so what you would do now if you want a custom excerpt is enable the “Fallback” setting like such: https://a.cl.ly/p9u2vKYE

In the 5.18 update I also added the ability to display your Yoast SEO descriptions as your excerpts as well. For SEO you will want to have meta descriptions, which will generally be a better excerpt the one automatically pulled from the content. So I thought having the ability to display the meta description for the excerpt is best for usability and SEO. Ex: https://a.cl.ly/yAuzpvnd

- AJ

Thanks AJ!

Hi Paul,

That is 100% correct, when creating a dynamic template I wouldn’t want the heading to be manually added when adding the social links because there wouldn’t be a way to remove it on a per-post type basis. If you want a heading when creating a dynamic template you would just add it yourself to the template.

- AJ

Hi Paul,

The “Right Column is Sidebar” basically just sets the column to the same width as defined for your sidebar under Customize > Layout

Sample video from the poppy demo: https://a.cl.ly/E0ueDqep

The “Float Column Right” is intended so that you can have a column on the right side but display it at the top of your site on mobile. Let’s say you already have a layout with 2 columns, when you click this option it will swap their direction so whatever was on the left will be on the right and whatever was on the right will be on the left side. So if you are working with an existing layout you would probably want to first move the column around so they end up where you want them after enabling the setting otherwise you can enable it first then setup your layout. Ex: https://a.cl.ly/mXuWkqNb

Now, if you look in the WPBakery front-end editor because of how the setting works since it’s not a “standard” WPBakery feature it may seem broken on mobile, but if you look at the live site it makes sense what it’s doing.

In web design when elements stack whatever came first in the HTML will of course display at the top. So by default any WPBakery rows that have columns will stack with the left most column at the top. If you want the right most column at the top on mobile this is where this setting comes into place. It adds CSS that will “float” or move the left columns so they display on the right and the right columns so they display on the left, this way you can have the code added to the left column display at the bottom on mobile and vice versa.

Hope that clears things up!

- AJ

Thanks Paul. Sorry about that, I modified the side border element classname to make it easier to target and prevent conflicts with the same classname added to the parent, but I forgot to modify the classname for the inline CSS.

If you delete and re-install the Total Theme Core plugin via the WP admin the fix is there. Or if you want to fix the file yourself the fix is simple: edit plugins/total-theme-core/inc/vcex/shortcodes/heading.php and on line 135 you will find this:

$selector = "{$unique_selector} .vcex-heading-side-border";

which you will replace with this:

$selector = "{$unique_selector} .vcex-heading-side-border__border";

Sorry again and thank you again for reporting the bug!

- AJ

No problem, working now with the plugin reinstall, thank you!

Thx so much A.J. Thorough & very useful response – as usual

ps: I added some code for the next theme update to check the current post content so if there aren’t any paginated elements the theme won’t add it’s code to allow pagination. This way those paginated pages will redirect automatically when not needed. Thank you for bringing this to my attention!

Excellent! Thx A.J.

Actually I do see that there is a debug error in Elementor that can stop the page from loading. This edit isn’t live yet. If you want to send me logins so you can try out the update before I make it like that would be very helpful.

Unfortunately I don’t have Elementor Pro to test the template inside a template issue, but I’m thinking it’s related to the same debug error. Since nothing else has changed that would affect Elementor.

Thank you for helping me test, otherwise I will be releasing the 5.18.9 update tonight and fingers will be crossed.

- AJ

Thank you for looking into this. I updated to 5.18.2 and the issue remains. I sent you an email with credentials.

I logged into the site and everything worked for me (that I tested). I replied back to your email, because I’m wondering if perhaps it’s a specific page or template. Thanks!

- AJ

If your license is active on the site you can go to Dashboard > Updates and you should see 5.18.1 with the fix now. It takes a few minutes for the update to be live here in the ThemeForest downloads.

- AJ

yes my license is active and i update theme also i delete style-rtl.css frome my child theme and every thing is perfect

I want to say that you are a wonderful person, and this is very clear through my dealings with this wonderful theme, which is rich in features and characteristics, and I have been using it for the past years. I wish you all the best

I’m very upset about the bug and having to release a patch, so I really appreciate the kind words. Thank you!

- AJ

Hi,

I released Total 5.18 today – https://totalwptheme.com/docs/changelog/

The Slider security vulnerability only affects users with “Administrator” access and administrators can already log into a site, delete everything or upload anything they want. This is why there wasn’t a rush to release an official update. I honestly don’t understand why these security plugins are even displaying warnings for something like this.

That said, in the future usually when there is a security patch I actually update the server where the plugin gets downloaded from when you install it via the theme (within 24hrs) so you can always log into your site and delete/re-install the plugin for an immediate fix.You can always comment here and ask if the update is ready before doing anything so I can confirm.

By the way, Slider Revolution is a terribly bloated plugin and if I could I would never recommend or include it with my theme. However, since it’s always been bundled I need to continue including it for legal reasons. If you want to share the site where you are using the slider perhaps I can recommend an alternative design that doesn’t use the plugin so that you can speed up your site. In general I don’t recommend sliders for sites these days either. Here is a good read if interested: https://yoast.com/opinion-on-sliders/

And if you must use a slider this is a good free alternative that you could consider replacing RevSlider with – https://wordpress.org/plugins/depicter/ – and you will always get updates via the WP dashboard directly from WP.org.

Like I mentioned, I must always include Slider Revolution with the theme since it has always been included, but I am exploring some ideas for Total 6.0 to discourage people from using it. If you have any ideas or suggestions I would love to hear them, thank you!

- AJ

Hi James,

You could use CSS to keep the arrows always visible, but the best solution is to modify the lightbox settings and set the idleTime value to false. Example:

add_filter( 'totaltheme/lightbox/l10n', function( $l10n ) {
    $l10n['idleTime'] = false;
    return $l10n;
} );

The default value is 3 (aka 3 seconds) but if you set it to false it removes the check all together. Perhaps this is something I should add a customizer option for, I put it on my todo list.

This is PHP code so it would be added in your child theme functions.php file or via a code snippets plugin.

Additionally, if you aren’t adding captions to your images you could also try this CSS – https://gist.github.com/wpexplorer/39bcdf49b5bc6cdb3138a4cde4bb4209 – which places the gallery thumbnails below the image which you can use to navigate instead. Example result: https://a.cl.ly/12ulWLXE

- AJ

Hi AJ

Think I might have discovered a small bug. Trying to add an Extra class name to the List (bullet) element, and when I save the element the class is not getting saved. When I reopen the element the field is empty.

Thanks

James

Hey James, I just saw your latest comment with the same report, please have a look

- AJ

Hi,

You shouldn’t use the same local scroll ID for 2 elements on the page because it will conflict and more importantly cause potential accessibility errors. If you must have 2 different rows with the same local scroll ID, you should place both rows inside a Section, remove the local ID’s from the rows then add the local scroll ID to the section.

That said, having different rows for different breakpoints is often not recommended, can you share the URL to see what you are doing so I can perhaps provide an alternative to help keep the site better optimized?

- AJ

Hi James,

Big difference, because my plugin is integrated with the theme so you won’t have access to all the theme settings when you create your post types or taxonomies – https://totalwptheme.com/docs/wp-content/uploads/sites/51/2023/08/total-post-types-unlimited-total.jpg – which means you will need to use custom code for this (which you can of course if you prefer, but a bigger pain IMO).

ACF works, but it’s such a mega bloated plugin I’ve really become less of a fan as they keep adding more and more bloat. So many plugin developers just dump every feature in the universe into their plugin to try and make more money. In my opinion plugins should be coded to serve a single purpose. A custom fields plugin should be used to add custom fields – not post types, taxonomies or become a page builder (ACF also has tons of code for creating templates, custom blocks and page building capabilities).

You could also use the Total’s meta factory class to add custom fields via a child theme – https://totalwptheme.com/docs/snippets/add-custom-metaboxes-to-total/ – it’s quite simple to use and includes the basic fields needed for most sites.

I hope to make my own free custom fields plugin in the future that is JUST for custom fields (using the class from the snippet above so if you are using Total it won’t need to load any extra code for registering/saving fields). I just don’t have the time right now and it’s not something that will help pay the bills :/ Hopefully next year! Or maybe if someone want’s to help fund/sponsor the project…

- AJ

Great info, thanks AJ.

Hi,

This is Aj the theme author. Thank you for your patience!

Is the footer gone on all pages? If it’s just a specific page perhaps it was disabled via the Theme Settings metabox on the specific page – https://totalwptheme.com/docs/page-settings-metabox/

Or maybe for some reason the actual footer created with the Footer Builder has some issues. Here are some things to check.

• Is the Footer Builder page drafted or published?
• Did you perhaps click the “Disable Row” option on the row being used for the footer builder template – so the row is being hidden on the frontend?
• Is there any child theme code that may be disabling/removing the footer?

It’s also possible that if there is some sort of PHP error on the page it is causing the rest to not render, so if there is an error before the footer it could stop the footer from showing. Are you able to share the URL so I can have a look?

- AJ

Hi Sally,

Sorry for the delayed reply, things have been a bit crazy over here!

a) You can actually use this URL – my.totalwptheme.com/wp-json/twpt-license-manager/check/ – and enter the license code at the end to see where it’s currently registered.

Or if you own the license you can log into the site my.totalwptheme.com/ – and click on “License Manager” at the top to see where all your licenses are activated.

b) Email me at wpexplorer [at] gmail dot com for any sort of custom work. I can let you know if it’s something I can help with and provide a quote for you Thank you for thinking about me! I would love to help with some customizations.

c) Depending where and how you want to use the colors there is a new option in the updated Total color picker that lets you use the category colors in various elements. Example: https://a.cl.ly/5zuKxAGb (in WordPress categories are referred to as “Terms” – terms is a global name for any taxonomy item – category, tags, custom taxonomy terms such as portfolio categories, portfolio tags, etc).

Now, the Total color picker is not yet integrated into WPBakery rows because of some limitations, but you can use utility classes to target any element as mentioned on the docs here – https://totalwptheme.com/docs/category-colors/ – for example if you have a category with an ID of “5” you can add the classname “has-term-5-background-color” to any element to give it a background equal to the primary category color.

Here is how you can locate a term ID – https://totalwptheme.com/docs/locate-page-id/

It would be helpful if you can share an example of what you are doing (feel free to do so privately) so I can see why whatever you are doing isn’t working as expected.

- AJ

Hi AJ – this was so very kind of you, and helpful to me at the time. I did try but couldn’t implement your suggestions in point c) re the colour picker but I will return to this soon when I have more time. I also decided against completely renewing the main agency website for now, but again I will return to this anon and be in touch!

In the meantime, and where I would really welcome your help in the shorter term, is with the following (copied and pasted below). I would be VERY grateful if you could indeed ” help you make a custom shortcode you can add into your card that does nothing but grab the information you need and display it without any custom loops, thus avoiding the WP limitations and issues”. Shall I give you access to the specific site in question? Yours extremely hopefully and sorry about the long pause in the convo! S

Hi AJ! Thanks so much again for your help. Since we were last in touch I have familiarised myself with postcards and they are out of this world! ....

Anyway… On a different site (Ensemble360.co.uk) I tried out the postcards too, with great success, again using the post card facility to enter a custom field (containing the relationship with other posts) in the query. I have a question however:

On this new site I use an ACF field (relationship) to be able to add the related Programmes (CPT) for an Ensemble (CPT) and vice versa. (There is a function to make each get added to the other ie bi-directional). On an individual programme post I can nicely show not only the information from the programme post but also from the related (via ACF field) Ensemble post. Example: https://ensemble360.co.uk/programme/mahler-faure-and-dvorak/ I could even show the related PLAYERS stored on the Programmes’s related Ensemble using postcards – such happiness! Anyway, my actual question is this: can one use PostcardsCards within Custom Cards?! On this page I am using postcards to list the programmes. https://ensemble360.co.uk/concert-programmes/ If however I try to also show on that list, for each programme, the ensemble name (and ideally more info eg number of players which is a field on the ensemble post) it won’t work. I tried this using postcards within the card design, the former to get inormation from the Ensemble. It worked for the first programme listed but not for the remaining ones on the page. I can set up an example (I deleted the tests) if helpful but if essentially it is crazy to try to use postcards WITHIN the design of a custom card and I am trying to do something the theme is not designed to allow, then I will try it a different way instead. This is my question!

Thanks AJ!

WPExplorer WPExplorer Author

10 months ago Flag Hi there,

Hey, that’s awesome! Glad you like the post cards feature

The problem with Post Cards within post cards is it starts creating an infinite loop (because of how WP_Query works in WordPress) so while it’s technically possible (I’m not quite sure how you are doing it though) there are definitely some limitations. I would be more then happy to log into your site to see what you are doing.

Because perhaps instead of using a post card inside a post card like you mentioned I can just help you make a custom shortcode you can add into your card that does nothing but grab the information you need and display it without any custom loops, thus avoiding the WP limitations and issues.

Hi Sally,

Have you by any chance tested in more recent versions of the theme? At some point I updated the Post Cards to allow for inner cards by storing the previous query in a class variable if the query is inside another – https://a.cl.ly/E0uOJ267

So it should technically work now. But if it’s not, I would be more then happy to log into your site to see what’s going on and get this fixed up – https://my.totalwptheme.com/log-in/

- AJ

Hi,

This is Aj the theme author. Thank you for your patience, things have been a bit crazy over here!

Since the Custom Actions panel doesn’t support PHP (for security reasons) you would need to use a child theme or a code snippet for this. The code is very simple. Example:

function digitaliway_google_tag() {
    if ( ! is_page( 'page-slug-goes-here' ) ) {
        return; // bail if not on the page we want the code added to.
    }
    ?>
    YOUR CODE HERE;
    <?php
}
add_action( 'wp_head', 'digitaliway_google_tag' );
add_action( 'wp_footer', 'digitaliway_google_tag' );

Let me know if you have any followup questions or issues!

- AJ

ps: Total actually has built-in support for the native browser <dialog> element which you could use for inline modal windows as well. Here is a basic HTML example:

<a href="#" aria-controls="popup-1" class="wpex-open-modal">Popup</a>
<dialog id="popup-1" class="wpex-modal"><div class="wpex-modal__inner">This is my Popup</div></dialog>

I’m not sure how or why you are using the inline Lightbox, but you may want to use dialog element instead so it can use native browser functionality instead of the lightbox scripts which require added CSS and jQuery.

I’m using it because I thought the lightbox is the only option, having it listed somewhere in the light box page could let people know that this option exists. I’m assuming that there isn’t a dedicated page explaining this option, If there is, I didn’t notice it.

Regarding the local scroll ID, the problem is that The light box does get open but it gets open with a misleading message, It sends you searching for a solution somewhere else while the problem is that the ID is in the wrong place.

Regarding the 70%, To reproduce it you need to create an inline Lightbox, place a video inside it and open it. You’ll see that the content Inside of the light box is max width 70%

The modal function was added fairly recently. I added a new doc article just now – https://totalwptheme.com/docs/modal-dialogs-html/

I just recently updated the docs design and I’ve been going through and updating articles as many are a little outdated, I have over 400 documentation articles so it takes quite some time and I have many new ones to add also because the theme has really evolved over the years.

If you ever see a doc that isn’t very helpful, is outdated or something is missing please let me know and I can work on it right away. Thank you!

I’m not able to recreate the video issue. Here is an example of the code I’m using to test – which is the correct way to add a video in lightbox if you aren’t using one of the theme’s elements:

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1iI4tAoUzgc?si=kTlP7Fge0H6LF2bx" class="wpex-lightbox">Open video</a>

Which works perfectly for me: https://a.cl.ly/d5uXoRe0

I’m curious to know what you are doing on your site where you are adding lightbox links using HTML rather then using theme elements/functions instead, if you are willing to share

- AJ

All you need to do is click the little trash can icon next to your license in the license manager under the “Deactivate” table heading so that you can then use it anywhere else

- AJ

Thanks AJ!!

Remediation Update to version 6.7.14, or a newer patched version

Hi,

This is AJ the theme author. I am releasing an official Total update this week, for the meantime I’ve already uploaded the updated slider plugin so you can just delete and re-install the plugin to get the latest patched version.

If you read the vulnerability warning though it says that it requires “administrator-level access and above” – which isn’t really a vulnerability since administrators can basically do anything they want to your site and it also only affects multi-site websites, so if you aren’t using a multi-site install you don’t even worry about updating at this point.

I’ve included RevSlider since the theme was released many years ago so I must continue including it with the theme, but honestly if you can avoid using the plugin on your site it’s highly recommended. Sliders are not recommended for most websites. This is a good read if interested: https://yoast.com/opinion-on-sliders/

If you show me what you are using the plugin for on your site, I can help you come up with an alternative so you can delete the plugin from the site, speed things up and never have to worry about updating it.

- AJ