The Total theme includes a built-in element which can be used for showing a simple contact form and by default when a new form is submitted the form is sent to the website's administrator's email address. If you want to…
The WPBakery Page builder includes various built-in Elements and when used with Total there are over 100 more exclusive elements added. To keep your site slim and fast you may want to consider disabling builder elements that you don't need…
Old Guide: No Longer RequiredThe theme now uses SVG icons by default, ensuring modern standards and faster site performance. By default, the Total theme loads icons as a custom font family. This approach ensures better consistency with spacing and line…
This theme includes a few Ajax functions such as the Ajax Filter, load more button and infinite scroll pagination. By default when loading new items the theme displays the default WordPress loading icon but this can be easily changed via…
In Total 5.6.1 we introduced "Dynamic Variables" which provides access to more dynamic values with a slimmer format - we recommend using those instead! When creating dynamic templates you may want to take advantage of some of the built-in shortcodes…
By default WordPress category URL's use the format "site.com/category/category-name", however, depending on your site and how you use your blog it may be a good idea to change the default category slug. For example, lets say you are using your…
The Total theme is a very advanced and modular theme which has been coded with the use of "hooks" to allow better development but also child theme modifications such as adding/removing/moving content without having to actually edit any template files…
In Total 5.6.0 we added the ability to create an ajax filter for the Post Cards element via the Navigation Bar element. This will allow you to display categories or custom taxonomy terms that when clicked will sort the Post…
In order to translate WPBakery templates (Templatera) you need to enable translation for the plugin via the WPML settings located at Settings > Post Types Translations. Once you enable translations you can create variations of your templates for each language…
By default the Total theme's link color is the same as the accent color (blue) and links are only underlined on hover. However, you can easily alter the default link styles via Appearance > Customize > Global Styles > Links.