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Great update with very nice additions! 
Everything worked without problem here.
Great! That means your PHP version is all up to date 
Hopefully you like the new features! Don’t forget to check out the new lightbox style which is super clean/sexy that I made just for Total – Appearance > Customize > Lightbox > Skin > Minimal
Yes, PHP 5.5 here. The new lightbox style looks very good.
Thanks
I get a blank page after latest update – Panic !!
Just submitted a fix, it’s an error if your PHP version is outdated. 2.1.1 should be available in a few moments, Sorry for the issues.
you’re really quick – works now thank you !
Sure thing!
I updated a test site to Total 2.1.0 and followed the instructions for updating Visual Composer, including clearing site and browser cache.
After deleting and reinstalling VC, it’s version is still 4.4.4. Should I install from the included plugins folder that comes with the theme download?
I double checked and it’s definitely version 4.5.1 includes with the theme…try clearing your browser cache maybe?
I cleared the cache a few times and even installed VC from the plugins folder in the download .zip and the plugins page still says 4.4.4 – weird.
My apologies – I had installed Total 2.0.2 – oops
Don’t forget you can setup auto updates!
http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs-category/updates/I got the same Fatal error that EZblueSoftware got.
Just submitted a fix, it’s an error if your PHP version is outdated. 2.1.1 should be available in a few moments, Sorry for the issues.
Hi AJ,
updated to 2.1.x and now the site is down with the following error message”
Fatal error: Can’t use method return value in write context in /home/www/dipmycarnow.com/wp-content/themes/Total/framework/classes/accent-color.php on line 145
thanks,
Just submitted a fix, it’s an error if your PHP version is outdated. 2.1.1 should be available in a few moments, Sorry for the issues.
Thank you for your great customers support
You are welcome, again, sorry for the troubles! I forgot to check on PHP 5.4 
I use 5.5 locally.
I don’t know if this a big deal but you may want to look at it.
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/www/dipmycarnow.com/wp-content/themes/Total/framework/customizer/settings/typography.php on line 564
Yes good call. This will only happen once, then when you save your customizer settings it will fix up. But I updated my code to add an extra check. Thanks for the heads up. I am sure I’ll be releasing 2.1.2 with some more bug fixes over the weekend. I spend a lot of time testing, but there is always something!
Hey there!
Really having fun with this theme still. But there’s this stupid minor thing I can’t figure out.
How can I alter the order of the category filters? I wouldn’t mind it, but my client is very thoughtful about this. Filters always appear in alphabetical order, but I want the exact opposite. The filters are like this: DESIGN – EQUIPMENT – RESIDENTIAL
And I want them to be like this: RESIDENTIAL – EQUIPMENT – DESIGN
I’m sure this a very easy thing for you, but I couldn’t find how to change it anywhere!
Thanks!
Glad you like it still
There is actually a built-in hook you can use to tweak them, example: http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/snippets/portfolio-grid-filter-args/
You can also use a plugin such as this one – https://wordpress.org/plugins/taxonomy-terms-order/ – which should re-order them.
God you know everything…! The plugin actually worked, but I don’t know why the tweak didn’t make it. Either way, now it’s fine. Thank you very much!
I built the theme from scratch and I answer all support questions, so I do know my way around it
Glad the plugin worked!
The snippet will work for altering the order (only if your theme is up to date) but there is no such thing as a custom order unfortunately which is what the plugin does.
- AJ
Hi there, I’m using the custom css to make the header transparent behind my logo but it won’t work. Any ideas?
site-header-inner { background: none; }
http://victoriahydrographics.comThis is because the boxed layout has some extra backgrounds added you aren’t targeting. This code would work:
.boxed-main-layout #wrap,
#site-header {
background: none;
box-shadow: none;
}
.boxed-main-layout #main,
#site-navigation-wrap{
background: #fff;
}
Example: http://cl.ly/image/1U2d2Z190Y0m
Thanks!
I’m starting a new comment thread because my old one has gone unanswered for weeks. . . assuming it just got buried. Here’s my question:
I’m seeing this error message when I try to access a number of different features in WP. This particular example:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 77 bytes) in /home/fpadevelopment/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-customize-control.php on line 145
shows up when I click the Appearance > Customize button. there are also an increasing number of problems with timing out, and other issues that all seem related to memory, or a loop of some kind. some are in WooCommerce, but others are in core WP/Total functionality. I’ve been on vacation for the past few weeks, so on my return, the client is (understandably enough!) getting frustrated and impatient.
I’ve tried contacting the ISP about server setup, WooCommerce about the Woo-specific problems, as well as posting here in the Total Comments. right now, I seem to be caught in a “not our fault” loop between the hosting company, WooCommerce, and you. It would be a big help even to just know where to focus my efforts. I’m assuming it’s something that has to do with Total, since the problem occurs outside of WooCommerce functions, but I don’t know how to narrow the scope of my troubleshooting. Any insights you can provide would be most welcome.
This is a server error. Can you try increasing your memory limit to PHP as mentioned here – http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/increasing-memory-limit-to-php/
This seems to have worked, though I’ve tried similar fixed before and the problem recurred. Will let you know if it comes back. In the meantime, increasing the memory limit so much (I went to 256MB) seems like a band-aid solution. . . it’d be more satisfying to know why WP/Total is consuming so much memory. Do you have any suggestions about how to diagnose and clean up the code so I can use fewer resources? I’m guessing this would help make the site run faster as well, which would obviously be a good thing.
Thanks for your fast reply, by the way. Glad to see my old thread just slipped through the cracks and you’re as fast and thorough as usual when a comment pops to the top of the list!
Total is optimized for speed and low memory usuage (it’s not the one to blame). I have spent a lot of time tuning even the smallest details to ensure this.
Depending on your server you may require more or less (for example if you are using shared WP hosting it’s not as good as dedicated hosting).
I personally use 128MB on my live demo and all admin pages load in under 2seconds without any issues. And I have like 30 plugins active on my live demo.
Another thing that could be causing you issues is if you aren’t using any sort of caching on your site. Are you?
For example if you are paying $10 a month for hosting you aren’t going to expect the same as paying $100 a month or $1000 a month…And WordPress itself is much more demanding then just a standard HTML site, especially if you have plugins active.
I would recommend you check out my guide here – http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/speeding-site/
It looks like the server is extremely slow to load two files, and this is the main culprit behind my loading times:
admin-ajax.php bootstrap.responsive.min.css
Neither of these files is heavy AT ALL, and the problem seems to be some kind of latency. . . the testing tool is waiting several seconds for each file (admin-ajax.php is called twice, with a big hit each time). Are these files used by Total, and if so, do you know their function? Is it possible to disable them so they’re never called (at least on the public-facing side of the site), or are they core functionality?
PS – your guide is really helpful and thorough, and I’ve done followed all the easy suggestions. . . but they don’t seem to apply to this particular issue.
- This is loaded by WordPress admin-ajax.php
- This is being added by a plugin because it’s not added in a theme nor WordPress bootstrap.responsive.min.css
Pretty sure admin-ajax.php should only load for WooCommerce and for the Front-End visual Composer editor. Have you tried disabling plugins to test and see if any are dragging down the site.
Where are you looking that is telling you admin-ajax.php is taking a long time to load?
I’ve deactivated unused plugins, but WC and VC are both used extensively in the site, so even if they’re the culprits, I can’t turn them off permanently.
The page speed diagnostic is here:
http://tools.pingdom.com/fptand the site I’m working on (busting my brain on!) is http://purelyelizabeth.com/dev/
Thanks for the awe-inspiring speed of your reply, btw!
Hi there,
Do you mind telling me where your site is hosted? And maybe a screenshot of active plugins?
I am getting about 2.7second loading times for most your pages which isn’t really that slow but for a second view it should be much faster. On my live demo I get about 0.6sec page load for the second view.
Honestly, most speed issues are server related, which is why I ask. I have had customers complain about their site speed and after a lot of troubleshooting it turned out they were paying $1/month for their hosting (so of course it was crap). That’s why I want to make sure the hosting isn’t an issue here.
It’s at MediaTemple on a Grid plan. This isn’t the cheapest hosting around, but it’s certainly not a dedicated server either. That said, I’ve run LOTS of WordPress sites with many themes (including a bunch with Total) and this is the slowest site by far.
I’m not sure what you’re using to test load times, but mine are MUCH slower than your 2.7 seconds, usually between 6-10 at this point, but occasionally as low as 4.5 or so. I’m using Pingdom’s free tool. Actually loading it in the browser is much closer to the Pingdom score than 2.7 seconds.
Active plugins are:
Akismet Contact Form 7 Duplicator Import External Images Layered Popups LayerSlider WP Visual Composer Extension W3 Total Cache WooCommerce WooCommerce Authorize.net Gateway WooCommerce Shipment Tracking WooCommerce UPS Shipping WooThemes Helper
sorry, the plugin list had line breaks in the editor, but they went away when I posted. . . anyway, I imagine you can make sense of them
since my last post, I’ve done a lot of experiments and think I’ve taken care of the problem to the client’s satisfaction. there are still some mysteries, but if they’re satisfied, I’m done! please disregard above unless you’re really curious yourself
Actually I used to be on the Grid about 4 years ago and switched to WPEngine because I had too many issues. One suggestion though is the Media Temple Grid used to have an addon for like $20 a month or something so you could have a dedicated database and this helped a lot (until my traffic skyrocketed). I am not sure if they still offer it or what it was called, but worth looking into if they still have it!
Media Temple also has a new managed WordPress hosting plan which my girlfriend reviewed – http://www.wpexplorer.com/media-temple-review/ – because of the nature of WordPress sites and what they require it’s sooo much easier to just use a managed plan. Of course if you are also hosting other non-wp sites maybe it’s not worth it. But I love that most have built-in caching systems so you don’t have to bother with buggy plugins like W3 Total Cache.
Your GF’s review is really helpful, but what I’d really love is a comparison (from a disinterested third party) between MT and WPE’s managed WP plans. I think it may be worth a try to go to one of their mid-tier plans, since most of my clients have had me rebuild their sites in WP over the past few years, and I think I could justify the increased expense if there’s a radical improvement in page loading speed. Thanks for the tips.
I’d like to add (not for the first time) that your support for Total is really top-notch. Between the features, usability, and support, I’ll probably use this theme for 75% of my new sites—only using something else if there’s a very specific specialized need. You guys are awesome.
I have used the Media Temple dedicated plans and they are good (if that’s what you mean) but you do have to manage everything your self (memory usage, errors, updates..etc.) I actually when from MT Grid to VPS to Dedicated then switched to WPEngine. But this was many years ago, it looks like a lot has changed over there.
Because we only deal with WordPress we usually only review the WordPress products and services, hence why we haven’t tested the other plans as of recently.
Let me know though what you find out, I am always curious and trying to give my customers the best suggestions possible, so the more I know the better!
Thank you so much for the kinds words. And actually I am the only person over here – I code all my themes from scratch and support them. Unlike other themes that have a whole team behind theme, I am a lonely wolf
I would love you to stick with Total of course! If you have any further questions/issues please open a new comment and let me know!
ps: If you haven’t yet can you please go to your ThemeForest “downloads” and rate the theme? I would really appreciate that. Thank you!!
- AJ Clarke
Whoa, you’re a one-man band? Even more impressive. Will leave you a great rating/review now.
Sounds like I should put this site up at both MT and WPE and do some speed tests. . . both have a money-back intro, so nothing risked other than time, and then I’ll know. Thanks for the lead.
One last thought: I’d love to have a nonpublic convo with you. Is there a good way to reach you that’s not on a comment thread?
Thank you for the rating/review You are very kind!
You can message me privately via the form on this page – http://themeforest.net/user/WPExplorer
Hi AJ,
Loving the advanced post grid element. I’ve been working with custom queries and have a strange problem with Wordpress escaping the ampersand sign when I save the page. So this:post_type=portfolio&portfolio_category=xyz&custom_tax=pdq
turns into this:
post_type=portfolio&portfolio_category=xyz&custom_tax=pdq
(not sure if this will display correctly, but the amp; keeps getting added on and screwing the query up).
I noticed this was fixed in Visual Composer 4.4.2 (see changelog) and since Total 2.0.2 includes Visual Composer 4.4.4, it seems like the issue must be how the Total theme is handling the query string.
One clue is that if I preview the page, the query works fine, but once I update the page and reload, the ampersands pop back in and the query returns no results.
Can you please look into why this is happening?
The theme itself doesn’t make any changes to the Grid Element. This module is “un-touched” by the theme.
I am actually testing in 4.5 and having the same issue you mentioned. Let me ask the Visual Composer developers about this. They used a textfield for the custom query where they probably wanted to use an html field that keeps all entities untouched.
Got it. At least we know it can be replicated. Thanks for taking this to the VC developers!
Hello,
I have the theme in use on the following site, www.threesixty.business
On the page http://threesixty.business/case-studies/
i was wondering, if it was possible to get the portfolio items to link to a pdf rather than the portfolio item.
Also, on this page, http://threesixty.business/portfolio-item/just-food-for-dogs/ if the above can’t be done and i have to go to the portfolio item, then can the related times be removed?
Thank you as always for your support
Hi there,
You can use the “Redirect” option to redirect a post anywhere else such as a PDF – http://cl.ly/image/0g1I2I060i1t
The related items can be removed via a setting at Appearance > Customize > Portfolio. However, In version 2.1.0 that is being released shortly I added a whole builder function instead – http://cl.ly/image/123q1N1q3l3u – not only to add/remove items but also move them around
Thanks for this,
Its not the “related posts” i wanted removing but the “related” on this page http://threesixty.business/portfolio-item/hollins-green-community-shop/
Thanks
That is being added by a plugin, I’m not sure which though. Please check.
Hi,
For a while our website worked nicely. Now no images are displayed anymore. We haven’t done any changes, although some automatic updated were done for Wordpress. Please have a look and let us know how to fix this? www.greensectorit.com
I see a bunch of “Unsecure” errors on the site – http://cl.ly/image/2C0B461K1j0r – It looks like all your images are linking to an https domain but your site is set to http.
Double check your url’s at Settings > General.
thanks! removed the https:// works fine now.
I have purchased 5 Total themes for clients and am very impressed. I plan 3 more purchases in the near future for new clients.
For some reason, my Visual Composer wasn’t updated on one site and the site became dysfunctional. Thankfully, your helpful video (www.youtube.com/user/wpexplorertv/featured) showed me how to delete the old Visual Composer and install an updated version. Thanks for the help.
Awesome!
Thank you for sticking around with Total Version 2.1.0 will be in the update queue momentarily with another update for the VC plugin some new total VC modules, a few speed optimizations and some fixes
HI AJ,
First thank you for your awesome theme.
A few questions:
When will you be releasing the updated version?
Also, currently I am on version 2.0.2, and I am having problems when trying to import the theme options that come with the sample data. When I update on the local instance of my site, it works just fine; however, when I try to update the theme options on the hosted version of my site, it does not work?
Any advice?
Version 2.1.0 will be added to the update queue in about 5 minutes to be reviewed by ThemeForest
What version of PHP is your live site using? The import/export functions saves the data as json and it requires a specific PHP function for it to de-code itself and get uploaded.
It appears that my live site is using PHP version 5.2.17, and my local site is using version 5.5.15. Could this be the issue?
It could well be…WordPress actually requires version 5.4 or greater – https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/
great, thank you for this info
Let me know if updating doesn’t help – either way though you need to update, especially for security reasons.
AJ,
Just wanted to say thanks. I updated to PHP version 5.4 on my live site, and now I am able to import the theme options without issue. You rock! Looking forward to the theme update!
Great, I am glad that worked!!
ps: If you haven’t rated my theme yet in your “Downloads” section, I would really appreciate you taking the time to do so – thank you!
AJ,
I just gave you a 5 star rating for your theme; however, I want to make one suggestion. I think it would be awesome if you could add a custom post type for Events. One WP plugin that I think works particularly well for events management is the Events Manager plugin. If you could somehow work with the developer of this plugin to integrate it with your “Total” theme, I think that would be absolutely amazing.
Thank you for the rating
I haven’t added a built-in events post type because like you said there are many great plugins out there. Total has been tested and even includes custom functions for this plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/
Send me the link to the plugin you like and I’ll test it and if needed add some tweaks for it.
Hi, we have great problems with backgrounds, parallax, image or color in boxed layout, we can´t to do 0px margin and padding in parallax, always respect the padding of layout (we need this padding for content but not for background and parallax background, or image background.
Can you help us with this issue?.
Tnx
I am not sure what you mean, can you share the URL with the issue so I can see?
Can you see the margin in parallax? we dont want margin.
disable header and disable title in page options dont work in boxed. for resolver previus isue we must to do negative margins… ????
Disabling the page header and title definitely work on boxed…the only difference of the Boxed layout is literally a class added to the body tag for custom styling.
If what you want is to remove the margins on the left and right you do that the same way as the full-width layout using the “Full Screen” layout mode – http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/full-screen-rows/
I just saw your review, please see here – http://totaltheme.wpengine.com/base/visual-composer/parallax-backgrounds/?site_layout=boxed
You can see it works perfectly fine. If it isn’t working for you I am willing to help you but giving the theme a 1 star is not fair, because the theme does work. There is simply an error on your site and I will help you fix it, but you need to give me more information. Thanks!!
Please let me know how I can help you.
- AJ
I made a test page for you showing a boxed version with the title disabled so you can see how it should work – http://cl.ly/image/3r2I2N0Z3a2D
Hi there,
I see the snippets to add new block on blog section but i have no idea on how to get this to work.
could you please give me some guidance here.
http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/snippets/new-blocks-blog-post-layout/this link doesnt seem to help me figure out the way.
Please help.
thank you
I am not sure how to make the snippet any more clear …hum.
This is literally just cut/paste and edit. You’ll need to have a child theme setup – http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/child-theme/ – then you would paste this into your functions.php file and tweak it to fit your needs.
Which part are you confused about?
And you need to make sure your theme is up to date because this will only work in Total 2.0.1 or greater.
All PHP snippets would go in a child theme functions.php file, it’s how WordPress works
If you aren’t a developer though, you may want to consider hiring a developer to help you with advanced modifications.
- AJ
hey Thanks for helping me out this far.
I can do a little bit of coding but since this is not my expertise i just need to catch up a little on this.
so correct me if i am wrong here..
so all we need to do is adding the snippet over in the child theme function.php correct?
and then i have to create php file under the child theme or the main theme? cause i dont see the subfolder partials/blog on child theme
Is your theme compatible with the new layers for wordpress? Thank you for your help!
I think ThemeForest is confusing people…Layers for WordPress is literally just a theme with some built-in page builder modules. It’s not a plugin…For a theme to be “compatible” with layers it has to be coded using the base Layers theme, it can’t be integrated into existing themes.
Personally I am not a fan of that at all…and if you notice the sales for Layers themes are very low, I don’t know why ThemeForest is making such a big deal about it.
Hi AJ,
When I try to add links/web address to button 2 and to teaser box it shows up as undefined. I’ve been encountering this problem for the past week since the update. Because I update my website daily, this is affecting my business. Can you please help or let me know when the next update for this problem will be resolved?
Thank you
The fix will be out in a little bit, I just woke up. I am going to review all my changes for Total 2.1.0 and I will submit the update. Once it’s out, please follow this guide to update your Visual Composer and fix the issue – http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/updating-visual-composer/
Hi. Revolution slider is simply not displaying. I have it listed on the side bar of the dashboard, but when I click on it I have an empty page. Have already deleted the plugin and manually uploaded the zip file, but it does not work. I have Total 2.02 and Revolution Slider Version 4.6.3 Please help.
If you have an empty page it could mean 1 of 2 things.
1. A javascript error, I would have to view the page to check for errors in the console.
2. A PHP error in which case you’ll need to enable WP_Debug so I can have a look at the error – http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/enabling-wp-debug/
Either way, there isn’t a known bug so I would have to have a look at the page. Thanks!
Thank you for getting back to me. I have checked and updated Java. I have enabled WP_Debug and I get the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function simplexml_load_file() in /home/linweb38/l/lavida.org.uk-1082869817/user/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/revslider/inc_php/framework/settings.class.php on line 679
Thanks again
Oh ok so simplexml() is a PHP function which should be loaded on your site, if it isn’t can you try contact your host so they can enable it?
Or if you know how this can be enabled via your php.ini file.
Thank you!
Hello AJ,
Using header style 3… How difficult would it be to move the “aside” content on “top” of the logo rather than below the logo. Where can I change this?
Thanks so much.
Very easy if your theme is up to date
Here I wrote a snippet for you: http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/snippets/header-three-aside-top/
If you want have a look at framework/hooks/actions.php to see all theme actions. All the functions hooked into them are well named so it should be easy to see what’s going on.
And more on action hooks here – http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/action-hooks/
Thanks for the fast reply! What is the best method to add this snippet? (ie.to make sure it is not overwritten when the theme updates) Manually edit the php file and resend via ftp? Sorry – a little new to WP framework
All snippets should be added in a child theme – http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/child-theme/ – this is PHP so it would go in functions.php
I knew I purchased this theme for a reason. Support = golden! BTW, contact page one was not in mine. Is there a way to get it?
Not sure what you mean about the “Contact Page” though are you trying to duplicate one from the demo?
Hello AJ – yes – trying to duplicate the demo layout for contact page 1
If you don’t want to import the full sample data you can see the code for this page here – https://github.com/wpexplorer/total-sample-pages/blob/master/Base/Contact/contact-1
Hello AJ – am about to go live with the site – my pagespeed insights are terrible… GT metrix is really decent thought
Host is saying to “Please optimize your scripts to reduce the cpu burden.” I am running Total Cache & Autoptimize (only html & css is minimized – didn’t want to chance breaking a script on js)
Any thoughts on what I can do? carolynsonline.com
Thanks Michael
The Google page insights is crap though. They will give you a horrible score just because you have some bigish images on the page which in fact may not even be slowing down your site at all. I hate that people care so much about page insights, because it really doesn’t matter much…I have seen sights that load in 0.3 seconds and have a 40 page insight score.
Looking at your site it’s the same thing…Your bad score is simply due to your image sizes. For example your Portfolio images are set to crop at 500px but they are shown on the desktop at 230px. So you can change your cropping for the images to 230px instead and that should help bring the score up a bit. But it may not look ideal on mobile devices. It’s really up to what you think is more important.
To me your site loads in under 2 seconds and what’s actually slowing down the site the most is waiting for the twitter API (you have something on the page calling the twitter API). The site itself is fast I wouldn’t worry about some dumb scores…When people say that speed is important for SEO rankings, it is true, but Google looks at the actual time it’s taking for your site to load not your page speed score.
Hope this helps a bit. Sorry for my ranting…
LOL – no worries about the rant – I get it, believe me! I still need to set up cloudflare and do a few other tweaks but will leave the rest alone. I removed super cache and went with total cache – seems to do a better job. I agree, it’s more important that it looks good rather than save 2 tenths of second IMO. The only other things I am trying to bring up a bit are the query strings from static resources and javascript parsing.
The twitter widget is the feed in the footer. Is there another you suggest using? I’m using easy twitter feed & easy Facebook like widgets.
Removing query strings is easy, I have a snippet for that – http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/snippets/how-to-remove-script-version-numbers/
But yours are added by the Cache plugin, so not 100% sure if my code will remove them or if it will trigger too early, you may have to tweak the priority.
Well the twitter widget and facebook loads really quickly, I just mean it’s the only thing that slowed the site down at all for me – but that depends on their site. Normally what I do is use a 3rd party site that tracks the ways users interact on my site and if I notice not a single person is clicking on the twitter widget then I’ll just remove it. This is the one I used to use – https://www.inspectlet.com/ – but I don’t really have much time these days for micro optimizations…I just pay a crap ton for my host and leave it as is for the most part
Quick question – the light-box (clicking on photos) for portfolio items is not centered – it’s now in the upper left corner – did I goof somewhere?
Sorry – and can the portfolio items be random order rather than newest to oldest – I didn’t see an option for that?
Can you please show me the URL with the issue for the lightbox?
Yes the portfolio items can display at random when using the Portfolio Grid, see the “Order and Orderby” parameters under the “Query” tab when inserting/editing the module.
In the future can you pease open a new comment for new issues so it’s easier to follow – thanks!
Hi AJ! I have some troubles with portfolio grid after updated the theme. I’m using portfolio as a catalog of my apparel. http://ashe-fashion.ru/womenswear/
Each of my portfolio items belongs to several portfolio categories. For example: one dress can belong to “womenswear”, “dresses”, “sale” and “spring2015”.
On a “womenswear” page I have a portfolio grid with filter. On query tab I specified categories that I want to see in filter (like “dresses”, “blouses”, “skirts” etc).
Before theme update it was exactly what I see in filter. But now in a filter tabs I also have all the parent and service categoties that my items belongs to (like “womenswear”, “new”, “sale”, “spring2015”, “fall2014” and so on). I could delete these categories, but I need them to set query on other pages like “collections” or “new arrivals”.
How can I make filter shows only categories that I need?
F*ck, your site looks amazing! Awesome work
Looks like you are using 2.0.1, I actually fixed this in the last update 2.0.2 – http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/changelog/
But I am releasing 2.1.0 today! So if you want you can just wait for that update so you don’t have to update twice.
- AJ
Thanks) I’ve just updated to 2.0.2 but it still looks the same.
Here is what I found in changelog: New classname “filter-cat-[id]” to filter links in the Total VC grid modules (blog, portfolio, staff, testimonials..etc) incase you want to hide a specific filter category via CSS
Is that what you mean? Can you please shortly explain how can I use it?
Hum…maybe I am not understand the issue. Can you show me a screenshot of the Query screen from the Visual Composer?
So the issue is it’s showing more categories then the ones you have defined right?
This I fixed in 2.0.2…hum. Very weird! I added a new function called vcex_grid_filter_args() that would fix that problem with all categories showing.
I will be releasing 2.1.0 in a few moments after you update do you think you can send me a private message with temp wp and FTP logins so I can have a look?
I tested again locally and you see it should work by showing only added categories -> http://cl.ly/image/3i2k0l2m1t3Y
I guess the problem is that my portfolio items belongs to more than one category. So it shows categories that I defined plus all the other categories these items belongs to..
I’ll send you logins if update will not fix the problem! Thanx)
Yep, that shouldn’t be a problem though I had fixed the issue, but maybe I’m crazy and the fix wasn’t added until this upcoming version Hopefully it fixes it, if not send me those logins and I’ll make sure it’s fixed !!
Just sent you logins becauze update didn’t help. Hope you’l find what’s wrong with it))
