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Hi AJ, Happy New Year. I hope you are doing well.
What CSS do I need to add in order to change the line height of the caption of the image slider? Basically, I am setting up an image slider to scroll through various facts, each has a little clip art image and a text blurb that shows below it. I have it working as I like only the blurb, which is based on the caption, has huge gap of line spacing for the 11pt font I’m using and there is no option to modify that in the module. I’m assuming that I need to add something like
vcex_image_flexslider.caption {
line_heigh=“snug”;
}
Thanks so much!
Hi,
The correct CSS would be:
.wpex-slider-caption { line-height: 1.2; }
Now this would target ALL sliders, if you want to target a specific one you would give your element a unique classname and then target that classname before the .wpex-slider-caption class.
In CSS snug is not a proper value for line-height so you will want to use a numerical value or unit (px, rem, etc) – https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/line-height
Happy New Year!
- AJ
Hi AJ
From time to time, I find the “Updates” page of WordPress says the theme is up to date – but it isn’t. Sometimes, after clicking around the back end it appears and I can update.
But this site refuses to show me there is a theme update for some reason. The theme is stuck on 5.19
https://shorturl.at/QLrWrAny idea why?
Thanks
James
Hi James,
The way WordPress works is it sends checks for updates to my API located at wpexplorer-themes.com. On my end I compare the version on your end to the latest and if there is a newer version I then verify the license on the site and if it’s all good I return an array with details on the latest version for WordPress.
WordPress caches these requests so it’s not constantly pinging the updates API (it does this for all themes/plugins).
So sometimes you may not see an update because it’s cached. I believe if you go to the main Themes page, WordPress does clear the cache and runs the update check again (I could be wrong about that – there is very little documentation on how that all works – and digging through the WP code to check can take a long time).
First, log into the site and go to Theme Panel > Theme License and make sure the license is active. If not, you won’t see update notifications.
Then try going to Appearance > Themes and see if it triggers the theme update check.
If you still have issues let me know!
- AJ
Oh ya…Another thing, WordPress requires that you have at least 2 themes installed (one being a default wp theme) or it won’t show you any updates. The reason for this is because WordPress has a fallback system in place so if the theme you update crashes it falls back to the default WP theme installed on the site. If you don’t have a “backup” theme installed then updates won’t show up in the admin.
Thanks AJ. The licence is activated however there was no back up theme. Just Total and its Child. I updated WP and it added the 2025 theme, and the Total update now shows. Thank you.
I have another problem on this site. The Tribe Events feed on the homepage is not showing the events in order – they seem random, or possibly taking the publish date rather than the Event date. It does not use Cards as this site is quite old now, one day I hope to refresh everything but for now it will still use the old type of carousel / grid. Do you know why it’s not in Event order?
Thanks
Awesome, glad it was an easy fix!
Originally the Events Calendar modified all queries to sort events, but at one point they updated things. So you need to manually set the order if you want them displayed by start date. I have an article here: https://totalwptheme.com/docs/sort-events-by-start-date/ – if this doesn’t work let me know! Hopefully they didn’t change things again :/
By the way, for new sites if you want a simple un-bloated Events plugin I made my own – https://wordpress.org/plugins/just-events/
- AJ
Thanks AJ. That article is about Cards but this site uses the old “Post types carousel” which does not have fields for “Order by”. Can I achieve it with an Advanced query instead? If so what would it be?
Yep – I always use your Events plug in for new site builds, however this one is old and I can’t always update things as much as I would like for business reasons (budget mainly).
Thank you!
James
Hi James,
The Post Types Carousel does have the same Order by Fields: https://a.cl.ly/7KuwoqnJ – you don’t see them?
Those fields should always display unless you are using an Advanced query, in which case you would add the following params:
orderby=meta_value&meta_key=_EventStartDate
- AJ
ps: I do plan on adding a new calendar to Just Events later this year. Probably something similar to what’s on the wp.org online workshops page – https://learn.wordpress.org/online-workshops/ – where it’s generated using javascript.
Sorry AJ, you are absolutely right, I must have been daydreaming 
So that’s all sorted.
On the subject of your Events plug in … this particular client uses the “Venue” and sometimes “Organiser” information that the Tribe Events plug in allows him to do. Basically, he can set up Venues and Organisers via the plug in, and then choose them from a drop down when he publishes a new event. I would like to recreate that functionality when using your plug in but not sure what the best approach would be – perhaps ACF or tags, but I’m not really sure which – or even some other method. Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks
James
Hi James,
The Event Calendar uses taxonomies for Venues/Organizers. I would recommend you use my Post Types Unlimited plugin to add these as taxonomies. Then to display them on the page you can use the “Post Terms” element. If all you want is to display a simple link to the venue/organizer – then you can use ACF to add some fields to these taxonomies and a dynamic template to render the venue/organizer – https://totalwptheme.com/docs/category-taxonomy-template/
Now, depending what you need if you instead want all the venue/organizer details on the event itself. You could register these as custom post types. Then use an ACF relationship to “connect” the events to the venue/organizers. Then you can use the theme’s Post Cards element for your event template to display them via the Custom Field query type.
And you can of course use ACF to add fields for your venue/organizer post types if you want to define data for those.
- AJ
ps: I may consider adding Venue/Organizers to Just Events – but best as an add-on because it does add significant bloat to the core plugin.
Hi AJ
Thanks for this great idea. I’m really interested in showing the venues / organisers on the event post itself.
Re your suggestion:
You could register these as custom post types. Then use an ACF relationship to “connect” the events to the venue/organizers. Then you can use the theme’s Post Cards element for your event template to display them via the Custom Field query type.
I need some help with understanding:
“ACF relationship” – would that be the “Post Object” field? Or something else? Because I think I have tried using a Post Card custom field query and the Post Object did not show up.
It would be brilliant if I can get this working!
Thanks
James
Hi James,
I believe the relationship field is the same as the Post Object (under the hood) as it works basically the same – https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/relationship/
The Post Card’s custom field query works by displaying the related posts defined on the current post being viewed. So this would be used when creating a dynamic template.
So lets say you register a relationship/post object field for your events. On event A you select “Venue A and Venue B” in this field. In your dynamic template assigned to events, if you add the Post Cards with the custom field query set to display posts from such relationship/post object field, when you visit Event A you should see Venue A and Venue B in the post cards.
I’ve double checked and it is working as expected.
Now…with the latest version of Total (specifically 6.0) I’ve added a new Term Cards element. This makes it possible to display highly customized views for taxonomies. So it would actually work better to use taxonomies for Venus. In your dynamic template you would then insert the Term Cards element and set the query to “Current Post Terms” – https://a.cl.ly/4guvO7x8 – then select your custom Venue taxonomy under the taxonomy dropdown below.
With the new Term Cards element you can select from pre-set card styles, but you would likely want to create a new card style for your Venue display. Theme elements have been updated so they display taxonomy information – so the image element can display the term image, the heading/page title element can display the term name, the term description can display the description…etc. And of course if you add ACF fields to your venues (you probably would) the theme elements can also display term custom field data. Just like creating standard post cards…
Let me know if you have any questions!
- AJ
ps: I’m hoping to update Just Events next month to include a Calendar view as well as Venues – fingers crossed I get the time! Personally, I will actually set up the venues as a taxonomy.
Hi AJ
Amazing explanation and the “Relationship” field worked perfectly. For this particular site, I won’t use Taxonomies as the Relationship is better for my purposes.
Thanks again
James
Great!
Hello,
On WP theme options panel I see notification that license is not activated. Same time in Total License Manager is the status Active. If I try to copy the license key to my WP Total theme then I get error message “This license is already in use”. I have only one webpage and I haven’t reinstalled the website. How I can activate license on my webpage?
Hi,
This is Aj the theme developer.
If the License Manager is showing the same domain, it’s likely what happened (my only guess) is that the license was activated when the site was using http and then you’ve updated the site to https or the site was using www and than the www was removed or vice versa.
The easiest solution is to remove it from the License Manager then re-add it to your site. If that does work please let me know!
- AJ
HI AJ, Strangely enough, jquery.min.js has been at the end of the DOM for some time now. Since then I can no longer code jquery.ready in Woody Snipptes because jquery is loaded too late. If I change the functions and position the jquery.min.js in the head, some other things in the template no longer work. Do you have any idea what can be done?
Hi,
jQuery is not used in the theme by default. Many years ago I updated most of the theme to use vanilla JS to remove the need for jQuery. So, jQuery will only load if needed. The theme will use it only for the following elements: lightbox, carousel and slider. If none of these elements are on the page jQuery won’t be loaded by the theme.
If jQuery is loaded on your site it’s going to be because you are using one of those functions or a plugin on your site uses jQuery.
You can add code to your site to move jQuery up to the site head so you can use jquery in your custom code that loads earlier. But this is not generally recommended because it slows down page loading and lowers page speed score.
Ideally, you should write your custom code using vanilla JS and not jQuery. This will keep your site fast and prevent the needed for the extra dependency. There isn’t anything in jQuery you can’t do with plain javascript.
If you are only familiar with jQuery you could paste your jQuery code into ChatGPT to get the vanilla JS version of your code (i’ve tried it before many times and it works well). And hopefully slowly learn javascript to move away from jQuery.
- AJ
The recent update where you changed ticons to svg from font is extremely annoying. Why didn’t you leave the font in the package for backwords compatibility?
Hi,
This is Aj the theme author.
Can you please explain the issue you are having that is making things annoying? As long if you were using theme functions to display icons on your site, it should be a smooth transition.
The reason I ask is because some customers thought all their icons broke but the issue they were having was cache related. I need to ask to make sure this isn’t the case here.
Now, if you were using the font icons manually in your custom CSS (which is what I suspect is the issue) and don’t want to update your CSS to use modern inline SVG’s you can download and use this plugin – https://a.cl.ly/NQunKAvq
I didn’t keep the old icon font inside the theme because most users won’t need them, thus creating extra bloat. That’s why I decided to add it inside the plugin, so only the customers that want it can download and use it.
Please let me know how if you have any followup questions or other issues I can assist with!
- AJ
Understood. Yes I used them in several places via css classes and overrides. I found the old system easy to use and easy to customize on the front end. I was able to finally resolve all of my issues, but I have used this theme for several years with my agency, so will likely encounter this issue on many of our old clients sites. Would be difficult for the clients to fix this kind of thing on their own.
Hi,
You could give your clients the plugin I linked to above and have your clients install it on the site.
Or if you manage a lot of sites, perhaps you are using a management system like ManageWP, then you can install the plugin on all sites at once so there won’t be any worries.
I totally understand using font icons is easier, but with page speed being such a priority and font icon sets being significantly large as every single icon available needs to be loaded on the site always, it was very important for me to modernize the theme and swap to SVG icons.
If there is anything I can do to help to make the transition easier please let me know!
- AJ
Hi AJ!
I have a little issue hear that i can’t seem to figure out. Can you help please.
This page: https://quantumleapgolf.com/
There is a button in the 1st image “EXPLORE QLG” – When you click it scrolls to the 1st row directly underneath.
THE ISSUE: click the button it scrolls down ok, but (ON MOBILE and tablet) its scrolling past the top of the row and ending up with the header covering some of the text. Easy to see if you take a quick look.
Thank you for you help. Tony
.
Hi Tony,
The problem you are having is that this link isn’t setup as a Local Scroll Link so the theme doesn’t know to smooth scroll to the section and offset the sticky header. In order to offset the sticky header (because the browser can’t do it automatically) the theme needs to run javascript to do that.
Make sure to follow the instructions here for proper local scrolling links: https://totalwptheme.com/docs/local-scroll-links/
Now, it’s not proper coding to use numbers for a unique ID – it technically breaks the HTML on your page. Make sure your section ID starts with a letter and uses proper ID syntax. A good id for this section would be something like “explore-qlg”.
Looking at your site I also see your header setup doesn’t really work well with the “Shrink Sticky Header” so I do recommend going to Appearance > Customize > Header > Sticky Header and change the “Style” to “Standard” which will work better on your site.
- Aj
THANK YOU AJ – “local-scroll” – that’s what i was missing!
I got a security warning that WPBakery was out of date, so I bought a license from them directly and was looking how to activate the license.
But now I see maybe my Total was just needing a renewal. If I buy a new support license for Total will it update the WPBakery version?
According to my site I have Total v4.6 and it doesn’t show any update available for me at this time. But WordFence indicated a critial security issue for WPBakery being out of date.
Hi,
This is AJ the theme author.
You will want to update the theme which indeed includes new/safe versions of the plugin: https://totalwptheme.com/docs/update-theme/
And if you want, you can activate your own WPBakery license, please see the docs here: https://totalwptheme.com/docs/activate-wp-bakery-page-builder/
However, I don’t generally recommend updating WPBakery outside of the version included/recommended by the theme. The reason for this is because I personally check the WPBakery plugin to ensure there are no errors before shipping the latest version to you. For example, their last 8.1 update has a few issues so I didn’t update it in the last theme update as noted on the changelog: https://totalwptheme.com/docs/changelog/6-0-3/
You can always look at the theme’s changelog to view the currently included plugin version in the sidebar: https://totalwptheme.com/docs/changelog/
Let me know if you have any questions or issues updating.
- AJ
ps: Your site is quite a few versions behind, often when customers have incorrectly set up optimization plugins or they forget to clear their cache after updating they think the update broke the site. If you are using any optimization and/or caching plugins please be sure to purge those after you do update the theme. Total 5.0 and 6.0 had some big enhancements. You will likely want to have a look at them on the changelog. It’s always a good idea to stay on top of theme updates and read the changelog. Whenever I update the theme you should get an email from Envato as well to let you know – if you weren’t getting those update notifications, make sure they aren’t disabled on your Envato account and/or that the emails aren’t getting spammed.
Thank you. Upon reviewing the update theme help doc, I can see I have already verified the Total license (it shows good on the theme page) and I have V4.6 installed, so isn’t it odd I haven’t been getting updates in my wordpress dashboard?
There are a few reasons as to why your site may not show the update notice, the most common issues is only having the Total theme and no other theme installed. WordPress requires you to have at least 2 themes installed (one being a default wp theme) or it won’t show you any update notices.
WordPress has a system in place so if the theme you update crashes it falls back to the default WP theme installed on the site. If you don’t have a “backup” theme installed, WordPress prevents any updates from showing up.
Can you go to Appearance > Themes and make sure you have at least one of the default WordPress themes installed.
Another common issue is manually re-naming the theme folder (Total) on the server. If the theme folder is renamed it won’t update, because WordPress uses the folder name to store the active theme name, customizer settings, etc. So it’s renamed and then updated the name will change again breaking all sorts of things.
- AJ
Hi AJ, I make use of the standard sidr mobile menu at our webshop https://konro-grill.com, do you have any idea how I can make the submenus slide over the main menu instead of dropdowns? Like the mobile menu at this website: https://mediamarkt.nl Thanks!
Hi,
There is no built-in way to modify that. You would need to add custom javascript to your site for that affect or instead of using the theme’s sidr menu use a 3rd party plugin for your menu such as superfly – https://codecanyon.net/item/superfly-responsive-wordpress-menu-plugin/8012790 – you can set the mobile menu style in the customizer to “Disabled” to remove the theme’s mobile menu so your custom mobile menu can be inserted via a hook.
I would personally recommend setting your mobile menu style in the customizer to the newer “Dropdown (Full Height)” option. Which will look similar to the one on this demo: https://totalwpthemedemo.com/consultative/ (this demo is technically using the header builder – but it’s the same sort of design where it fills up the screen and is shown under the header).
The sidr script has a lot more code than the suggested mobile menu, thus, swapping to a different style will slim things down a bit. It’s also more common to have the dropdown/full-height style mobile menu these days.
Alternatively if you wanted to take a little time you can make use of the new Horizontal & Off Canvas Menu elements in Total 6.0 to create your custom header via the Header Builder – https://totalwptheme.com/docs/header-builder/
The Off Canvas Element – https://totalwptheme.com/elements/off-canvas-menu/ – is even slimmer and it actually makes use of the modern details element – https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/details – which means there is no javascript needed for the dropdown toggles and they are more accessible by default. This is actually the recommended (by many experts) way to create mobile menus for modern sites as it doesn’t require any added dependencies keeping the site as fast as possible.
I see it could be a pain to do on your site because you have some custom stuff in the header like the search and the fancy menu hovers but wanted to mention all this because they are new theme features in case you were unaware.
- AJ
Hi AJ, I have one site that uses the Total image swap feature, but it has stopped working! Only the secondary image displays. I’ve tried deleting and redoing, and setting up a fresh configuration on a new page. Theme and plugins are all up-to-date. It’s been like this for a few months. Got any suggestions?
Hi,
Can you share the URL so I can take a look?
The Image Swap actually uses very basis CSS for the affect. I’m wondering if the issue you are having is cache related or a conflict with other CSS on the site.
It could also be possible (as I’ve seen similar issues) that you are using some sort of CSS optimization plugin that is incorrectly optimizing the code causing the code to break.
If you can share the site with the issue I should be able to know right away what’s going on. Thanks!
- AJ
Here’s the page: https://ohioriversouth.com/our-team
Hi,
The issue is there is a lazy loading image script on the site that is setting the image opacity to 1 causing the second image to display always instead of on hover (the affect is done by having the second image with an opacity of 0 and then on hover it gets an opacity of 1).
I can’t tell what plugin is causing the issue, but I see some CSS variables named “smush” so I’m guessing the plugin has that word in the name.
Now, Total actually uses native browser lazy loading by default on all images which is supported in all modern browsers – https://web.dev/articles/browser-level-image-lazy-loading
Using a 3rd party plugin to loazy load images with javascript will actually slow down and lower page speed scores. I recommend sticking to name browser lazy loading.
- AJ
Is there a way to eliminate the animated loading wheel?
Hi,
This is Aj the theme author. I hope you had a nice weekend!
There is no loading wheel by default in the theme, so it’s either been enabled on your site via the Customizer under Appearance > General Theme Options > Page Animations. More info: https://totalwptheme.com/docs/page-animations/
In which case, setting the in and out animation to “None” will remove the theme’s loader.
You can also disable the functionality completely via the Theme Panel (uncheck the “Page Animations” setting and save).
Otherwise, it’s coming from a 3rd party plugin. I mention this, because I have seen some customers that had a loading wheel animation on page load that was added via a plugin.
- AJ
I nuked my sites a couple of years ago thanks to an ex stalking me through one of them. Today I’m trying to reinstall Total on one of them but am getting a message that my license is in use. Is there a way I can update this so I can reinstall it?—nevermind, I figured it out!
Thank you for letting me know 
For anyone else wondering you can manage your licenses here: https://my.totalwptheme.com/license-manager/
Hey Adrian, I found a bug: If I use a row, e.g. 4/6 + 2/6 and I want to change something in the Design Options Tab of the right column (2/6), e.g. only the background color or something else and then save it, then my column suddenly becomes a 1/12 column, i.e. 4/6 + 2/6 suddenly becomes 4/6 + 1/12! Please fix this!
This is annoying because it doesn’t matter in which column you want to change something! It immediately breaks the column after I click on »Edit Column« and confirm this with the SAVE Button! 
Hi,
This is AJ the theme author. Adrian only helps me weed out private tickets.
The reason for this is because 4/6 and 2/6 is not a valid WPBakery layout. If you use 2/3 and 1/3 it works correctly. Here is a video example: https://a.cl.ly/JruQqPQq – as you can see it only get’s messed up when you use 4/6 instead of 2/3 and 2/6 instead of 1/3.
Can you confirm it’s the same thing on your end?
- AJ
Hi!
Is it possible to assign a different dynamic template to a single WooCommerce category?
In the customizer, we’ve set a dynamic template for the shop archives, but we want to use a separate dynamic template specifically for one category. Is this possible?
You can assign templates using custom code: https://totalwptheme.com/docs/snippets/define-dynamic-post-template-via-code/
Or you can use this add-on I made: https://wordpress.org/plugins/term-based-dynamic-post-templates-for-total/ – this will allow you to assign the template right via the WP Admin for any taxonomy term.
- AJ
Hello AJ,
Need a quick help, I have used header builder (Dynamic template) previously and now moving back to the default. But when doing so, somehow I cannot be able to change the Logo link. How can I do so?
Also for the Mega Menu, please let me know if we can customize it to the menu used in this example: https://ecoliv.com.au/
Hi,
The logo by default links to your homepage, if there is no link added in your main logo perhaps it’s disabled under Appearance > Customize > Header > Logo > Logo Link.
That’s the only function that would remove the logo link besides the extra option when editing a page under the theme settings, that allows you to scroll to the top of the site when clicking the logo – https://a.cl.ly/KouRlx6v
The menu example provided is not really a mega menu in the traditional sense and may be a bit complex to accomplish using the theme’s functions.
You can easily create a column based mega menu dropdown – https://totalwptheme.com/docs/creating-mega-menus/ – but there is nothing in the theme that would both allow the same menu to open for each link (like in your example) as well as well as have it perfectly line up with the menu items.
The example site is coded using a grid – https://a.cl.ly/yAugZGE7 – this allows the items to flow right under each other. Then what they do is apply a CSS height to hide the items: https://a.cl.ly/04uzNmXy – it’s not a “standard” menu with a dropdown.
If you wanted to recreate that it would be best to use the Header Builder so you an insert all your links inside a grid and then target it with CSS for the hover affect. You can then use the theme’s new Off Canvas Element (added in Total 6.0) to provide a mobile version of the mobile menu.
- AJ
Wow, love the detailed feedback AJ. Thank you so very much for this.
One quick thing, I have tried using header builder but the only problem im facing is with the fonts for the menu, as Im using custom fonts, I cannot change the menu fonts from there. Rest is perfect. Appreciated! Thanks
For example, on the Toggle (FAQ), I’ve changed the font family of the heading but cant change the font family of the content. Need help, Thanks
Hi,
I am adding font family options to the Horizontal Menu & Off Canvas Elements in the upcoming 6.1 update (which I hope to have ready for download tomorrow).
I will also add an option for the FAQ content font family. However, you really should have a consistent font family across your whole site. In the case of the FAQ, the font family for the content should be the same font used for the body font family for your whole site (as defined under Customize > Typography > Body).
Generally on a website you should either use a single font family for everything or a different family for headings and body (maybe also a different one for the logo. but that should generally match headings).
I often see people get a bit “crazy” defining custom fonts everywhere and this will make things very hard to modify in the future if you ever want to change your fonts as you will need to go around everywhere and manually modify them. You really should be setting different fonts in a page builder sparingly. It can also really make a website look “weird” when the typography is all over the place.
- AJ
Oh great. Thanks a bunch. AJ. Appreciated!
I’m working on a few more enhancements for customers that use Elementor with Total – but I should for sure have 6.1 ready at some point this week. Just keeping you posted!
Hi AJ, hope you are well. Sorry to trouble you but do you know of a way to hide the breadcrumbs in a Portfolio archive page?
No worries, all sorted!
Great, for letting me know!
By the way, for most sites I would probably recommend hiding the breadrumbs globally in the customizer. Then adding them only to the dynamic templates for the part of the site where you do want them.
- AJ
Hello
Since a few weeks we have the issue that our footer, which is created via the dynamic templates function, isn’t translated anymore. We use WPML to translate our WordPress website. The dynamic template is translated properly and it worked for years but now it doesn’t seem to be working anymore. Our main page is in German but we also provide English and French versions of the website. The pages work as they should but the footer is always displayed in German even on English / French pages.
So the issue looks a bit like this: German Page + German footer English page + German footer (Should be the English footer) French page + German footer (Should be the French footer)
In total we have 3 websites setup exactly the same way but I only encounter this issue on one of our pages.
I’d be glad for some help
Issue is fixed…
Thank you for letting me know!
Hello,
I recently purchased your theme because I love the design of https://totalwpthemedemo.com/synergy/, I think it’s perfect for my needs. However, when I tried to import the “Pre-Made Demo Sample Data,” I saw a note advising against this if using Elementor.
Could you please clarify how I can properly use your theme with Elementor? The Themeforest page mentions Elementor compatibility, but I’m feeling a bit lost.
Thank you for your help!
Vishal
Hi Vishal,
This is Aj the theme author.
The demos are all created using WPBakery, this is because it’s the primary builder the theme is coded around.
I do mention this on the landing page under the demo section description – https://totalwptheme.com/#demos and I also have a notice on the theme’s Elementor landing page – https://totalwptheme.com/elementor-integration/
But I apologize if there was any confusion. I will double check the ThemeForest description to make sure it’s mentioned there as well just in case.
Now, I do have plans on creating Elementor variations of the demos in the future, but there has been little to no demand for this as most of my customers prefer and use WPBakery.
If you are going to use Elementor it’s almost always recommended to use the Pro version (WPBakery is already premium and included in the theme) because the Free version lacks so many features. And if you are using Elementor Pro then you will already have access to all of their sample sites and pages that you can use to build your site. This is another reason why I have felt it unnecessary to bloat up the theme with Elementor variations of my demos.
Now, the reach demo is very simple. What you could always do is simply import the Theme Settings only (to get the general design – aka the colors, font sizes, site width, mobile menu, header setup, etc) – https://a.cl.ly/P8uKeJ5j – then build out the pages using Elementor. You can always take any images you want from my demo and uploading them to your site if you want to use them also.
Perhaps, this would be a good time though to start creating and offering Elementor versions of the theme demos. I can get to work on making the Elementor demo for Synergy and should be ready by tomorrow. The problem is because of how Elementor stores it’s data (it doesn’t use the classic editor like Gutenberg or WPBakery) it may require me updating the way the theme’s demo importer works to fully support importing Elementor demos. But I will get on this and test it all out…Personally I really dislike Elementor (I find it very bloated, slow and harder to use) so I’m not really looking forward to making Elementor demos, but it can for sure help me with sales so It’s work it
Please let me know if you have any followup questions, concerns or feedback!
- AJ
Hi Aj,
I can’t thank you enough for your help in starting with the Synergy theme for Elementor. It truly means a lot!
I’m sure many WordPress users, like myself, rely on Elementor, and creating an Elementor version of the theme/demo will definitely benefit thousands of theme buyers. It might even encourage many more to give even buy & it a try.
I really appreciate your effort in making this happen so quickly. Thank you for your dedication and support!
Vishal
I’m working on the Elementor version of the demo and wow, it’s really such a pain to use – especially compared to WPBakery. Creating pages with WPBakery is so much faster and easier and Elementor has so many bugs and quirks.
I will try my best to get the demo done by tomorrow!
- AJ
I’m still working on this, but there are some changes I need to make to the theme’s demo importer. Mainly adding a new option to choose your preferred builder this way the demo list doesn’t have items “duplicated” and keeps things better organized. I recorded a quick video to show you if interested: https://a.cl.ly/z8u9Z6R7
If you wish, you can email me at wpexplorer [at] gmail dot com and I can let you know when it’s all ready.
And I will send over a zip with the updated Total Theme Core plugin that will include the changes for the demo importer so you don’t have to wait for the official update.
Thank you again for giving me the push I needed to finally do this
Hello AJ, I really love your theme and all the updates you have been doing constantly. I have been using the theme for years now and I am getting pretty good at it! As a Design System Designer I do have a few recommendations that I think would make your theme even better, some minor but some also major ones that I would find myself very useful! IS there a way I could send you a direct email?
Send me a DM to wpexplorer [at] gmail dot com.
Hi AJ,
I don’t have any questions for the theme but wanted to say that I purchased this theme years ago and I really appreciate your support on it and upkeep by continuing to update the theme. Thank you!
Wishing you a happy new year and continued success.
Hi,
Thank you & Happy New Year – I hope it’s a good one
- AJ
Hi, is ACPT plugin (acpt.io) supported?
thanks cstibi
Hi,
This is AJ the theme developer.
I am not familiar with that plugin, but any properly coded plugin will work with any theme. I did look up the plugin though and I see it’s for creating post types.
I would recommend instead using my plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-types-unlimited/ – which I coded specifically with Total in mind and has tons of extra settings exclusive for Total that allow you to handle the design for your custom post types easily including creating dynamic templates.
More info here: https://totalwptheme.com/docs/adding-custom-post-types/
So you can save a lot of money using my free plugin (the plugin you mention charges a yearly fee) and also have more control over your post types. And if you need custom fields for your post types, the theme fully supports the free ACF plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/ – or you can use code to define custom fields via the theme’s API – https://totalwptheme.com/docs/snippets/add-custom-metaboxes-to-total/
In Total 6.0 I even added support for ACF repeater fields via the new ACF repeater dynamic template type and element.
- AJ
Hi AJ, thanks you for your evasive answer to everything!
Is your solution depends on which builder (VC or Elementor) I use?
Doesn’t matter. It works with WPBakery, Elementor and/or Gutenberg
If you have any issues or problems setting up your custom post types just let me know!
- AJ
Maybe frontend submission and filtered listing are also available?
Post submissions aren’t built-into Post Types Unlimited but it’s very easy to create a custom form (would probably take less than an hour). Personally I think it’s best to create a custom form so only the code you need for your site is added rather then using a form builder.
I actually made a frontend submission form plugin for the theme’s testimonials which you could also easily download to and modify/rename for your needs – https://totalwptheme.com/docs/testimonials-form/
For filtering – this depends on what you need. Total has basic filters built-in – https://totalwptheme.com/docs/post-cards-ajax-filter/ – and also a whole API for advanced filtering with custom code – https://gist.github.com/wpexplorer/e95f2bc43c82a227787e8ae0d8a87432 – Or the Search & filter plugin is will work with Total and the Post Cards element – https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-filter/
Now, of course you can use the plugin you asked about – but you will likely need to then use custom code to do things like modify your post layouts, define custom templates, etc. Ex:
- Define dynamic templates with code snippet: https://totalwptheme.com/docs/snippets/define-dynamic-post-template-via-code/
- Theme filters search: https://totalwptheme.com/docs/filters/
I’m not trying to persuade you away from the plugin, rather, I’m trying to provide alternative solutions so you don’t have to pay those yearly fees for a plugin that appears to be quite bloated. As everything you may want to do could potentially be done with a little custom code or with free alternatives and keeping the site as fast/slim as possible.
- AJ
Thank you for your detailed answer! This is called maximum quality support!
No problem – let me know how I can be of any further help!
