Version 6.1 Changelog

Version released on Feb 26, 2025

I still prefer WPBakery, but with this update, all core theme features and Elements are now compatible with Elementor. If you haven't used Elementor yet, you might want to give it a try the next time you create a site with Total. Plus, I've added an exclusive feature that removes most Elementor upsells, making it an excellent choice for client projects.

If you don't use Elementor, don't worry! Nothing to do with Elementor will ever load or run on your site. Any Elementor or WPBakery functionality will only be executed if the plugin is enabled. Any updates we do for either plugin will not affect your site speed or overall theme bloat.

Added 28

  • Added: 🌶️ Term Cards element for displaying taxonomy terms (supports all theme cards and custom cards).
  • Added: 🏞️ Background Slider setting to the WPBakery Sections & Rows. You can choose between custom images or the post gallery and it includes support for the Ken Burns effect.
  • Added: Various elements are now available in Elementor (bullet list, social links, social share, image swap, image banner, divider, icon, steps, menu item, countdown, video, login form, term description, post meta, navigation bar, animated text and multi-color divider).
  • Added: Term Card Query Type to the Post Cards element so you can display posts associated with the current term inside of a custom term card. This will allow you to automatically loop through categories and display posts for each category (like you see on some news/magazine sites).
  • Added: Setting under Customize > Blog > Comments to modify the default Leave a Reply heading.
  • Added: Ability to set the Image element source to “Post Series Image”.
  • Added: Ability to hide the Off Canvas element backdrop.
  • Added: Max Width option for the Off Canvas element logo.
  • Added: Font Family settings to the Horizontal and Off Canvas Menu elements as well as the Toggle element content tab.
  • Added: More styling options for the Off Canvas toggle (background, border, padding, etc).
  • Added: Ability to choose between Hamburger & Icon for the Off Canvas menu toggle.
  • Added: Option to the Image Grid & Post Cards elements so you can disable the default masonry behaviour which aims to maintain the horizontal order of your entries.
  • Added: Hover Image Zoom Level option to the Image Banner element.
  • Added: Customizer option for defining a dynamic template for singular posts that are part of a Post Series.
  • Added: Option to the Post Cards element to exclude the current post.
  • Added: Hover options for the WPBakery Section, Row & Column Overlay (this will allow you to do some cool things with custom cards such as showing an background image on hover).
  • Added: “Elementor Container Compatibility” Theme Panel setting (enabled by default on new installs only). When enabled the theme will modify the Elementor parent containers so that they use the same width and max width as defined in the customizer for the site layout. This will provide consistency between pages created with Elementor and other core theme elements.
  • Added: “Remove Elementor Upsells” Theme Panel setting (enabled) – keep it enabled to declutter the admin area and editor.
  • Added: Builder Type buttons to the Demo Importer where you can choose between WPBakery & Elementor. We are planning to make all new demos work with WPBakery & Elementor while updating the older demos over time as requested.
  • Added: “Edit with Elementor” buttons to the Header & Footer Builder admin pages and the post edit links.
  • Added: Typography setting for the Total Button element for Elementor.
  • Added: Option to the Icon element to select an “Active Icon” when using the “Toggle Element” link type.
  • Added: Order & Order By setting to the Post Types Unlimited plugin “Theme Settings – Archives” tab.
  • Added: Preview for the Post Series element when creating dynamic templates.
  • Added: Styling options for the Post Series element.
  • Added: {{term_description}} Dynamic variable.
  • Added: Custom admin columns to the Custom Cards dashboard.
  • Added: New “icon_logged_in” parameter to the wp_login_url shortcode.

Updated 20

  • Updated: WPBakery & Slider Revolution plugins to their latest version.
  • Updated: 🎨 Your custom color palette colors are now available when using Elementor under their global option (this will allow you to take advantage of the theme’s dark mode functionality with Elementor).
  • Updated: When creating custom cards you can now choose Post or Term for the card type.
  • Updated: Various theme elements are now available in Elementor (Video, Divider, Icon, Image Banner).
  • Updated:  The Post Cards element now supports threaded cards with dynamic queries and ajaxed pagination.
  • Updated: The Staff member position field to allow for HTML.
  • Updated: The sticky header so it’s disabled while working in the Elementor builder.
  • Updated: When using the Elementor Canvas or Elementor Full Width template, the theme will set it’s own internal layout to full screen to prevent extra checks for sidebars and so proper classnames are added to the body element.
  • Updated: The WooCommerce woocommerce/single-product/tabs/tabs.php template file.
  • Updated: The Next/Previous Post Links element to automatically select a taxonomy based on the post type if no taxonomy is defined when the “In Same Term” setting is enabled.
  • Updated: Elementor typography font family selector so your custom fonts defined under Theme Panel > Font Manager display at the top for easy use.
  • Updated: When using the Elementor typography font selector your custom fonts will be added under the “My Fonts” category instead of “Total” to keep things white labeled.
  • Updated: When using the navigation bar ajax filter with the counters enabled buttons with 0 items will now be hidden completely.
  • Updated: You can now enter “0” for the Custom Rewrite Slug field in the Post Types Unlimited plugin to remove the slug completely.
  • Updated: Optimized the code used to register theme elements with Elementor.
  • Updated: All elements are available when creating custom cards.
  • Updated: When WPBakery Slim Mode is enabled dynamic elements are now available when editing any page/post not just templates.
  • Updated: Several settings that were previously available only in WPBakery are now included in Elementor.
  • Updated: Card select field so custom cards and theme cards are separated into option groups.
  • Updated: Theme element fields that allowed you to enter a value for the value now accept a single value which will modify only the border-width property.

Fixed 36

  • Fixed: Not being able to upload woff2 and woff files in the Font Manager.
  • Fixed: Custom Header & Footer not translating when using WPML.
  • Fixed: Off Canvas Element Close button settings missing when using Elementor.
  • Fixed: Off Canvas Element showing the top border in elementor when a title/logo wasn’t defined.
  • Fixed: Off Canvas Element title logo not working in Elementor.
  • Fixed: Off Canvas Elementor not opening while in the Elementor editor making it harder to preview changes.
  • Fixed: Border Radius option missing in the Heading element when using Elementor.
  • Fixed: Issue where Elementor was loading the theme’s ticons.css on the live site when not needed.
  • Fixed: Post edit buttons where showing in the Elementor editor when using the header or footer builder.
  • Fixed: WooCommerce plus and minus buttons showing on products when only one product is allowed to be added to the cart.
  • Fixed: The Extra Class Name field wasn’t properly saving for the Callout element.
  • Fixed: Layout issue in older grid elements when using the Left Thumbnail style grid and entries didn’t have thumbnails.
  • Fixed: The Horizontal Menu Element was adding the ID to the inner element instead of the outer one.
  • Fixed: There wasn’t any gap added to the Off Canvas header area between the title and the close icon.
  • Fixed: Post Series admin column was not using the custom Post Series name as defined in the Customizer.
  • Fixed: Changing the Post Series order was not changing the order of the next/prev links.
  • Fixed: The Next/Previous Post Links element was not automatically setting the taxonomy to Post Series when a post was part of a series.
  • Fixed: Elementor bug that prevents any border radius from working properly when added with Elementor.
  • Fixed: Certain element settings not displaying in Elementor.
  • Fixed: Extra spacing around icons when added via Elementor in certain elements such as the List Item.
  • Fixed: Full Screen overlay elements (search/mobile menu) were not going over the WordPress admin bar.
  • Fixed: Clicking the back button in the browser was not taking you to the last clicked on anchor link.
  • Fixed: Search 4 card style not displaying the correct post type name.
  • Fixed: The Image Slider element was not working with ACF gallery fields added to taxonomies.
  • Fixed: Card block design issues in the Gutenberg editor caused by recent WP updates.
  • Fixed: Display issues with the Link card style when used with the ul/ol display types and long post titles.
  • Fixed: The Gutenberg WooCommerce products grid had layout issues when inserted into the main shop page and using the Customizer setting that disables the default shop output.
  • Fixed: Image Sliders added inside toggle elements not rendering correctly.
  • Fixed: Close button design in the WooCommerce notice.
  • Fixed: Lightbox not working with the Carousel element on new installs that have Classic Styles disabled in the Theme Panel.
  • Fixed: The On Click iframe URL setting used for various elements, such as the button, were not parsing shortcodes and dynamic variables.
  • Fixed: The Top Bar social link customizer settings were not being properly sanitized as URL’s and so characters such as %20 were being stripped out.
  • Fixed: The “Single Column Checkout” theme customizer option for WooCommerce wasn’t working.
  • Fixed: Missing “Overlay Color” setting for the Post Cards element when displaying a carousel with a bleed setting enabled.
  • Fixed: Issues with the wpex-sticky class not working in the context of WPBakery columns and elements added inside WPBakery columns.
  • Fixed: Issue with images being preloaded when they shouldn’t be when the imagesLoaded script was enqueued.

Removed 1

  • Removed: The “Remove Post Type Slugs” Theme Panel setting has been removed. You can now enter “0” for the slug field in the portfolio, staff, testimonials post type settings admin page instead. This will be done automatically if you were previously using the setting when updating.

New Hooks

wpex_card_styletotaltheme/integration/wpbakery/featurestotaltheme/remove_cpt_slugs/post_types
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