Blog (Standard Posts)

The Total theme of course also includes support for a blog via the standard posts and you have 3 methods you can use to create your…

The Total theme includes a related posts section for your portfolio items, staff member pages and your blog posts, this section displays more items from…

Total includes the ability to add, remove and re-order pre-built "blocks" from both your blog entries and blog posts. To modify your blog entry elements…

Total includes various post formats for standard posts such as gallery, video, quote and audio. So to add a video all you need to do…

Remember you can always create Dynamic Templates for your posts to fully control the post design. By default the blog post media (image, video, audio..etc)…

The Total theme includes various "Blog Styles" for your standard post entries. This will allow you to show your posts in the default way but…

Total of course supports category and taxonomy descriptions. These by default are added as the "subheading" under the main page header but can also be…

By default the main page header displays the word "Blog" for the title. This can be easily altered in the customizer at Appearance > Customize…

By default in the Total theme you can select from various preset "blocks" for your singular blog post design including elements like the title, featured…

By default the Total theme displays custom excerpts for the blog entries. If it's showing the full text instead it's because excerpts have been disabled. Log into…

Note: In Total 5.0+ you can now also create fully custom templates for your categories! The Total theme comes with advanced options to make adjustments…

The Total theme includes a custom taxonomy called Post Series which is available for your standard (blog) posts so that you can easily create “Post…

Total includes an option to automatically enable Lightbox for your blog entry featured images. This is disabled by default (by default blog entries link to the…

The Total theme includes support for the "Gallery" format which when selected will display an image slider on your blog posts instead of the default…

The Total theme already includes a built-in option for excluding categories from your main blog page due to the high requests. Simply log into WordPress…

By default the Total theme displays auto excerpts generated from your blog content for the archive entries, this uses the WordPress function wp_trim_words which strips…

The total theme includes the ability to display audio for your blog posts either via oEmbed (WordPress function) or self-hosted HTML5 audio. Simply create a…

Via the WordPress customizer at Appearance > Customize > Blog > Archives & Entries you can easily alter the default text for your blog entries readmore button…

New Dynamic Templates: You can now create a custom layout for your Portfolio Posts using the WPBakery template via a "Dynamic Template" learn more →…

The blog "meta" is the section that displays by default under your post title for blog entries and posts. This can be easily disabled in…

By default the Total theme displays a little bio under the blog posts with the author information like the screenshot below: This can be enabled…

Total has a built-in functionality called "Dynamic Templates" which allow you to create custom layouts for pages/posts on your site using WBakery templates along with…