From my experience selling WordPress themes on ThemeForest I've realized a lot of customers don't like using child theme's for one reason or another and they prefer to manually alter their themes. This is a very bad habit because if…
Total includes many built-in options to easily tweak your design, plus all changes you make to colors and fonts are cached in a single theme mod for use by the theme thus speeding up the site (unlike other themes that loop through…
By default the Total theme has removed several WPBakery Elements we didn't like or found a bit buggy. However, we've included a filter in the theme so you can easily re-add them if you must. Below is an example code…
Important: WPBakery modified the User Roles functionality so you can't disable elements for Administrators. For this reason we released the "Disable Elements for WPBakery Page Builder" plugin which allows you to completely disable elements from the site regardless of user…
The Total theme includes a custom admin panel for Managing Custom Widget areas so you can create new Widget Areas and assign them to different parts of your site without having to install any bloated 3rd party plugins. Creating Custom…
The Total theme should install without any errors, although on some occasions people do encounter issues so here are the most common problems and their solutions. The package could not be installed - theme is missing the style.css stylesheet One…
The total theme includes a built-in option to easily remove the slugs for the theme's built-in post types (Staff, Portfolio and Testimonials). This isn't normally advised as it could create issues with the site (404 errors) but due to the…
By default, the Total theme, which comes with the WPBakery Page Builder plugin, disables certain plugin features that aren’t required, including the option to register the plugin license. However, if you wish to register your plugin, it is possible. This…
By default all sub-dropdown items on the main menu open to the right, however, if you have dropdowns on the far right this could cause them to go off the screen which isn't good. For this reason Total has a…
The Total theme comes with a little callout that is by default at the bottom of the page and looks something like the screenshot below: Editing The Callout Globally Like everything else in Total this is done via the WordPress Customizer…