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Hi,
I love the Total theme!
I am having trouble with the mobile views of a website I’m building. It is on a temporary domain at: sms1984.wpengine.com.
In mobile portrait view, the header with the logo is too small. This is on an iPhone 5 using Safari. There is a large blank space between the small header on the left and a clickable menu button on the right.
In mobile landscape view, the menu items are replicated as gray boxes without content in them across a row of the screen and these gray boxes overlap the header logo. I assume that the menu items are supposed to be in the clickable menu button, but they are not. This is also on an iPhone 5 using Safari. In addition, the Safari browser crashes often when switching from portrait view to landscape view.
I have not modified the theme’s code using the editor. I have only added one line of CSS in that section of the theme options panel to increase the pixel size of the social media icons.
Is there a free way to host images so that I can paste a link in a message here so that you can see screen shots of the issues above?
Thanks for assisting me!
Michael
Hi Michael,
Glad you like it 
No need for screenshots I see what you are talking about, but if you want to know I personally use this for my Mac – http://www.getcloudapp.com/
1. You do have a large logo on your site, I would suggest adding some CSS to your site to maybe change the way it renders on mobile so it displays the logo full-width and the menu item below it maybe also full width.
Example:
@media only screen and (max-width: 767px) {
#site-logo, #site-logo a, #site-logo img { float: none; width: 100%; max-width: 100%; }
#mobile-menu { position: inherit; top: auto; margin-top: 30px; right: auto; }
#mobile-menu a { float: none; width: 100%; margin-left: 0; }
}
Which would look something like this: http://cl.ly/image/1h0h351b2H2q – of course you’ll probably want to make additional tweaks so it looks best, but that’s my suggestion 
2. Make sure you don’t have a menu selected for the “Mobile Icons” menu. Looks like you might have a menu set to this location but not setup correctly as described in the docs.
ps: I noticed your theme isn’t up to date, you might want to update. If you, please also update the Visual Composer and Visual Composer Extension plugins.
Hi, theme looks great. Noticed that long post titles wrap inelegantly in the sidebar widgets. See screenshot. Any way I can fix that behavior through either eliminating the icons or tweaking the CSS?
Screenshot: http://goo.gl/0lq41i
It’s because of how the icons work. But it shouldn’t be such a hard tweak. I just need to absolutely position the icons instead and add padding to the links – thanks for the heads up!
If you contact me via my profile page – http://themeforest.net/user/WPExplorer – I can send you the updated theme (or just the style.css) with the fix when ready!
ps: You can also disable the icons completely in the theme panel: http://cl.ly/image/0I351v2a2o46
Thanks for your help, this theme is awesome
. I sent you a reminder message via your profile page as you requested. Thanks!

Hi,
How can I change the color of the green button created using the visual editor? My color picker says the button is #8ac32A and I want a different green – #006b33.
Thanks!
All the best, Michael
Hi Michael,
You’ll want to add some custom CSS for this. Example:
.vcex-button.green { background-color: #006b33 !important }
Prepurchase question from a satisfied Office theme buyer.
On homepage 16 you use animated counters. I suppose the counters count to a fixed number.
Is it possible to count to something variable eg number of posts in a custom post category or number of items in a woocommerce category?
Can skillbars be set to progress to some dynamic/variable value?
Thx eliano
Hi Eliano,
Unfortunately this isn’t something built-in. It’s a pretty cool idea though. On this specific template I use a module I created called “Milestone”, I’ll definitely look into adding an option for some dynamic options like posts count. If you purchase the theme send me a direct message to remind me 
The skillbars are a percentage though, not a number. How would intend on using a dynamic variable for this?
Glad you liked Office!
Hello, your theme is excelent and what i was looking for! I have a question that i haven’t see it from any other member as i went at all comments here.
I have browsing the comments and i have seen that some members want to customize the theme to their needs, as i intent to do so. When i click to the link that each member provide here for referense of their problem the page takes some time to load and the website seems to be ’’heavy’’ and not loading fast. As i intent to use the a high customize slider with alot of pictures and maybe each page has its own slider what’s your advice on hosting so the site loads as fast as possible? use of an Amazon drive will it help? Also i see that the demo site is loading fast enough consider that is full and with every function available to show so i may ask what kind of hosting you are using too?
Thanks and again excellent job you have done with the theme.
Glad you like it, thanks for the kind words!
It’s possible other members have slow shared hosting servers or they haven’t optimized their server. The theme itself is pretty well optimized for speed, I’ve done a lot of minifying and speed optimized functions to make sure the theme is as fast as possible and continue updating the theme to make it even faster when possible 
I personally use WPEngine for my hosting, which is one of the fastest WordPress hosts out there! Hosting companies such as Bluehost or Hostmonster are very popular, but they are “cheap”...with hosting you really get what you pay for. If you want a quality, fast host you’ll have to pay for it 
Again, thanks for the kind words! Let me know if you have any further questions, sorry for the delayed response on this one.
Hi,
I’m looking at this theme to purchase but I had a question.
For the website I would be using it on, they’ve a lot of video blog posts. I wanted to know if I used these shortcodes below, would it be possible to have small versions of the video visible?? http://totaltheme.wpengine.com/base/visual-composer/recent-news/
I didn’t see any example of what it would look like with a video blog post. So that’s why I wanted to ask. I didn’t want to just have the title show up without the video mini because it would look kind of awkward and plain against posts with pictures.
Thank you for your help!
Hi there,
If you have posts set to the video post format and added the Video url into the meta field: http://cl.ly/image/1L1T2n0L1r2F
Then when you use the recent news of blog grid shortcode it will display the video like such: http://cl.ly/image/1f0w2d001f1p
Of course if you are using lots of videos you might want to choose 3 or even 2 columns instead so that the videos display larger, the example above I did 4 columns for the recent blog grid.
Thanks! That helps a lot! Thank you for the images…that’s going to help me! I’ll be making this purchase as soon as I get the OK from my client. __

Hello, I have a bug with blog, i have 50 articles, but it just take the same 10 (for exemple) and repeat this 10 articles
It just when i have a page > blog. if i just say : last articles in wp, it run normaly
Sorry for my very bad english 
Sorry, it run now

Hello,
I need your help again. Is there a way to apply custom CSS rules to the responsive elements?
e.g I can customise normal elements in theme options using the custom css section and it works fine but when I paste something like the code below it doesnt work. I really want to be able to make changes to the responsive.css file but I don’t want to change the original as this will result in the changes dissapearing when I update the theme.
The main change I want to make, is making the margin-bottom 0px, rather than 25px. I find that the 25px bottom margin results in too big a space on certain elements, when viewed on a phone.
@media only screen and (max-width: 767px) .wpb_column { width: 100% !important; margin-left: 0 !important; margin-right: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 25px; }
Thanks a lot
You can definitely edit the responsive CSS, you just have to add your custom CSS within the correct @media rules. So for example to make the bottom margin 0 the custom CSS would be something like this:
@media only screen and (max-width: 767px) {
.wpb_column {
margin-bottom: 0 !important;
}
}
But this is the margin on columns, if you set it to 0 it might cause some layout issues. You might want to add unique ID’s to elements you want to remove the bottom margin from and target those individually.
Hello,
I purchased the theme in the beginning of January and if I remember correctly I could use the visual composer also when editing portfolio items. Now I can’t find the visual composer anymore inside portfolio editor?? Have you done some changes to this lately?
Thanks, Milla
Sorry, false alarm! Found already the solution from settings.
(And thanks, your theme is great! )

Hi, I’m getting these errors when importing the sample data, please advise as soon as possible. Thanks!
Failed to import “Theme Installation”: Invalid post type forum Failed to import “Using The Page Builder”: Invalid post type forum Failed to import “Customizing The Theme”: Invalid post type forum Failed to import “”: Invalid post type reply Failed to import “”: Invalid post type reply Failed to import “”: Invalid post type reply Failed to import “”: Invalid post type reply Failed to import “”: Invalid post type reply Failed to import “”: Invalid post type reply Failed to import “”: Invalid post type reply Failed to import “”: Invalid post type reply Failed to import “”: Invalid post type reply Failed to import “”: Invalid post type reply Failed to import “”: Invalid post type reply Failed to import “”: Invalid post type reply Failed to import “”: Invalid post type reply Failed to import “”: Invalid post type reply Failed to import “”: Invalid post type reply Failed to import “”: Invalid post type reply Failed to import “”: Invalid post type reply Failed to import “Downloading The Theme From ThemeForest”: Invalid post type topic Failed to import “Uploading Sample Data”: Invalid post type topic Failed to import “Recommended Plugins”: Invalid post type topic Failed to import “Creating Pages”: Invalid post type topic Failed to import “Building Custom Post Layouts”: Invalid post type topic Failed to import “Creating Unique Homepages”: Invalid post type topic Failed to import “Using The Admin Panel”: Invalid post type topic Failed to import “Changing Colors & Layouts”: Invalid post type topic
The errors basically tell you what’s going on…
Posts aren’t being imported for bbPress. This is going to happen if you don’t have bbPress active on your installation. If you don’t want the Forum sample data, just ignore the errors. If you do want the bbPress sample data, be sure to activate the plugin prior to importing the data.
OK, great, thank you! BTW, if I activate bbPress, do I need to re-import the sample data, or will bbPress be able to find it?
You would have to re-import it. But you shouldn’t really need sample data for bbPress
It’s just a few dummy forum posts.
Hey guy,
Love this template! Going to suggest it to a friend.
If this is an ok place for feature requests in the next update, here are a few that I thought of.
1) custom css. a) edit window too small. b) copy/paste out from edit window looks strange. Perhaps not preserving the line breaks.
2) mobile top bar. Can we have another content area in the upper-right instead of requiring it to be social buttons?
3) icon box is transparent or barely visible in Chrome after slide-in style. example: http://www.sportsmanspizzeria.net/pizza/
4) callout item. If you don’t want to use the button by entering a blank entry for the button text. It keeps coming back and you have to clear the default text (which makes the button appear) each time you edit the item. Can it not reset to the default text if cleared?
5) More header options? Perhaps one like “Left Logo – Right Navigation” but instead of being on the same line, the nav is under the logo. I know this sounds similar to the existing option, but I like the clean non-button look of “Left Logo – Right Navigation”
Thanks for the great work. A happy customer here. 
Sorry for the delay!
Great, I’m glad you like the theme 
1. Is your theme up to date? I updated the Custom CSS field a few updates ago, should look like this:
http://cl.ly/image/0P2L1D1V1n1n2. By default no. I’ll look into adding a new option to override the social buttons. That said, it would be very easy to alter via a child theme. Have a look at functions/header/top-bar.php
3. That is very strange. I can’t seem to recreate the issue on my local install, it’s possible maybe something else on the page is bugging it out. Does it do the same thing with any animation?
Personally though I would leave the animation out on this specific layout I think it looks cleaner when it loads with the content.
4. Thanks for the heads up I just fixed the Visual Composer Extension plugin to prevent this for the next update. If you contact me via my profile page I can send you the updated plugin via email.
5. You can actually achieve that with just a few lines of CSS, whereas adding a whole new option gets pretty complex and bloated code wise.
Ex:
#site-logo {
float: none;
width: 100%;
}
.navbar-style-one {
clear: both;
position: inherit;
top: auto;
right: auto;
margin-top: 20px;
}
http://cl.ly/image/1533362W2S3m
WPExplorer,
Amazing theme! I am considering purchasing your theme and these questions would help confirm my decision.
FUTURE UPDATES
- How long do you plan on updating this theme for?
- If Visual Composer (WPBakery) and Layer Slider (Kreatura Media) continue to produce updates to their plugins, will those updates be reflected on this theme?
- If you make a newer/future theme still using Visual Composer and Layer Slider plugins, and I upgrade to the new theme, will it play nice or break custom pages/templates/etc?
PRODUCT PAGES
- Can I use VC page builder on product pages?
- Can I add additional custom tabs to product pages?
SEARCH
- Can there be Search on the header of tablets and mobiles?
EVENTS CALENDAR
- If I wanted to add a full robust calendar system, what would you recommend? Would this be possible? Some use shortcodes, so would it play nice with Visual Composer? Below are some plugins:
Thanks, jasamour
Hi Jasamour,
Sorry for the delay!
1. I’ll keep updating the theme for as long as possible. This is somewhat of an impossible question to answer. For example if something were to happen to me or to ThemeForest then I obviously can no longer provide updates here.
2. Yes, I actually provide auto updates for these plugins via my own system. And you are always welcome to email me for the zips.
3. I plan on using this Total Framework for any of my new corporate style themes, so there shouldn’t be any issues.
4. Yes. You can enable the VC composer under Settings->Visual Composer for any post type.
5. To add more tabs to the product pages you’ll need to customize the WooCommerce product tabs output. http://docs.woothemes.com/document/editing-product-data-tabs/
6. There isn’t any search in the header by default on mobile devices. But in the next update I think I’ll add it to the mobile menu pull out section.
7. In regards to the Calendar, you’ll have to pick the one you think looks best. I personally haven’t used any of these. There is also a very popular free one – http://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/
WPExplorer,
Thanks for your thorough reply. I am purchasing your theme today.
In regards the mobile search, I would say definitely on the toggle out menu. It would be better at the top. Try it and see how it looks.
Great 
I will be testing some things for the next update for sure (to be released in 1-2 weeks – but if you message me privately I can send you the update for the search before the final version is ready). I am also looking into possibly making sub-items toggle in the mobile menu to allow for more room on there.
Hi, my site is running incredibly slowly, I think it might be to do with the layerslider but I can’t turn it off. That dashboard is running slowly too though, so maybe not…
It’s not likely being caused by the LayerSlider or the theme. This theme has been coded to run really fast. My live demo for example loads in under 3 seconds and without any CDN, minifying, caching..etc.
Do you have other plugins active (not suggested by the theme) that you can try disabling to test?
Its also possible it could just be your server so you might want to contact them to ask.
If you are on shared hosting it could be anything..maybe your server is being throttled or maybe another site on your cluster is slowing you down…etc.
Just upgraded WP to version 3.8.1 and Total still working and looking awesome 

WPExplorer, nice TOTAL theme.
I noticed there is no Search on tablets and mobiles? Is there a way to activate that?
Great, glad you like it 
Humm… I could add a search bar maybe on the toggle out menu. Do you think that would be good? And if so would you think better at the top or the bottom.
We’re trying to fix a bug and cant figure it out. This has to do with portfolio full screen. The margins show on load and then when you make an adjustment to the browser height then margins disappear. We’d like there to be no margins ever. All images stitched perfectly together. Can this happen?
http://wpexplorer-demos.com/total/portfolio/portfolio-full-screen/onload – http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/i3/52e165f49c6665-78784691
After height adjustment – http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/i3/52e16691cf01f8-01145712
I personally don’t see this issue. I checked in chrome, firefox and safari on my mac. What browser are you using?
Hello, I have come accross a problem with the mobile menu. I have a menu which has the following structure: main menu item/ sub level 1/ sub level 2/ sub level 3. However, when I view the menu on a mobile device sub levels 2 and 3 have the same amount of padding so there is no way to tell the difference between sub level 2 and 3. Would you be able to fix this in the next update so a sub level 3 item appears slightly to the right of a sub level 2 item or provide me with a solution to change this myself?
Thanks very much
Thanks for the heads up dude!
If you add the following CSS to your site it will move the items over for 3 and 4th level dropdowns:
.sidr ul li ul ul ul li a { padding-left: 50px; background-position: 32px center; }
.sidr ul li ul ul ul ul li a { padding-left: 60px; background-position: 42px center; }
I’ll be sure to take another closer look in the next update to make sure it looks perfect.
Great works perfectly now. Another thing (not urgent) for you to consider for a future update is that when viewing 3rd and 4th level dropdowns, that because they pop up to the right that they go out of the container (mainly a problem when viewing website on ipad landscape). I have made a work around for the time being by reducing the font size and the minimum width of the sub menu from 140px to 90px. However, I don’t think a 4th level would fit in the container as 3rd level is a struggle to fit in at the moment.
Thanks for your fast reply and solution, saved me an evening of trying to work out how to do it!
Seems like an issue mostly when drop-downs are on the far right, correct?
I could add a classname for sub-items so that they open to the left instead of the right.
It’s extremely difficult to do it automatically because items on the far left should still open subs to the right but maybe items on the far right of the menu should open subs to the left.
Let me know if you think an extra class for defining which direction subs should open would be useful!
ps: This is ipad landscape only though, because portrait should show the mobile icons.
Yes that is correct. I think that would be useful if there was an extra class, just so there is more flexibility incase several sub menus are required. I dont know if it is possible with dropdown menu, but can a sub item appear below an item? Eg when you hover over dropdown 1 the submenu items of dropwdown one appear below it (almost like a hover accordian).
Also something you might want to consider for the mobile menu is having sub menu items only showing when the parent item is clicked (could have a small arrow next to it). The reason for this is that if a menu has a lot of items, I think it can look a bit messy. It would cleaner if only the top menu items were showing unless you clicked on one which brought a dropdown of that items sub menu.
Hope that makes sense!
Thanks very much!
I’ll definitely take both ideas into consideration, thanks!
The toggle for the menu is something I’ve considered doing, but most people (from my experience) have A LOT smaller menus then I do in my demo. Nonetheless, a toggle would look nice, so I’ll mess around with that.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Brilliant, I look forward to seeing the result if you manage to do it!

Whenever I create a column, and add other styling to it, the solid border adds their by itself, how can I remove it? I cant see other option in the boder style, it contains solid, dashed, dotted, but not “none”?
Screesnhot: http://d.pr/i/7p9
The default columns shouldn’t have any border, I just double checked to make sure I didn’t mess anything up in the last update.
Anyway, the border is added with the color option, from your screenshot it looks like you have the border set to light gray. Just clear out the Border color setting and it should be fine. Adding a “none” to the border would just be an extra check, which is why I have it setup that if a color is selected it gets added.
Let me know if you continue having issues and please make sure you are using the Visual Composer included with the theme. I’ve seen people that were using the Visual Composer that they got from another theme and the author of that theme had edited the plugin files causing all types of issues.
I checked everything, still cannot find why it keeps adding border. It happens on every new page I create. I resetted the style.css and still same things happened.
Really frusturating, whenever I create page the border adds to the style. When checking HTML code, it says following:
As you can see I didnt selected any of the styling, the colors are cleared out. But in the setting it says “border style: Solid” I cannot change that to “None”. Thats why It adds 
Ok, I think I figure out. If I add column and then add a row in that, or opposite, not sure, then it add the border. otherwise its fine now 
Even when I do what you said and add the column and then the row its fine for me…The border might be coming from elsewhere, but hard to know where without looking at the URL.
Either way I’ll probably add a border “none” in the next update just as a second precaution 
Hi! Great Theme, thank you!
I have a little problem. If I set a featured image for video post everything is well. But if I only have an embedded vimeo video the description text seems buggy at the blog page.
In this screenshot first video is without featured image, second one is with featured image set. http://milanpawlowski.de/temp/total-screen.pngHi,
Glad you like it!
Hum, this shouldn’t be happening. Could you let me know if you are using the main blog template or inserting the blog grid shortcode.
If you want you can send me a direct message via my profile page with your site url and logins and I can check for you, it’s a bit hard to troubleshoot with a screenshot since I can’t see any code.
I don’t know why, but the problem has solved by itself. I will ask you again, if it comes back. ; )
Thank you
But I have another question: Where can I find the settings for oembed videos. So that I can hide the vimeo-title and authors image in the inserted vimeo canvas. Is there a possibility? Or do I have to go into the main wordpress-code.
There aren’t any “settings for oembed”. The only available arguments for the wordpress oembed function (unfortunately) are height and width: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_oembed_get
If you want to remove vimeo titles you’ll need to create a function that filters the embed_handler_html and the embed_oembed_html hooks. Looks like you can find some answers online with a Google search…
But the easiest is if you have a Vimeo Plus account you actually can set to hide these things from your video’s settings.
Hi one more request sorry… Buddypress integration???
Or if you could please explain how I could do this myself? Thanks so much
There isn’t any built-in styles for BuddyPress because it adds a lot of bloat and not a whole lot of people use it.
It is a plugin though, so it should work out of the box. The only thing you’ll really need to do is probably add some CSS to make it look good.
OK thanks. Do you have an alternative to buddypress that you’d recommend for use with this theme?
I’m not sure there is anything decent out there for creating a social type website for WordPress with members besides BuddyPress.