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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 "main" blog page. You can…

Blog Page Setup

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 the same post type that…

Alter The Related Posts Query

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 simply go to Appearance >…

Blog Entry Builder: Re-Order & Change 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 is select the Video format…

Adding Videos To Standard Posts

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) is displayed at the top…

Blog Post Media Position

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 also as a grid or…

Blog Styles

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 altered to display at the…

Category Description Placement

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

How To Change The Main Header Title On Blog Posts

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 image, tags, author bio, post…

Blog Single Post Builder: Re-order & Enable/Disable Blog Post Sections

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 WordPress then go to Appearance…

Enable Excerpts For Blog Posts

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 to individual standard post categories…

Custom Category Layouts & Options

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 Series” if you want to…

Blog Post Series

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 posts). To enable this function…

Enable Lightbox For Blog Entries

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 Featured image. All you need…

Post Featured Image Gallery Slider

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 and go to Appearance >…

Exclude Categories From Your Main Blog Page

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 out all HTML. This can…

How to Use The “More” Tag For Blog Entries

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 new standard post, select the…

Adding Audio (self-hosted, Sound Cloud or other) To Posts

Via the WordPress customizer at Appearance > Customize > Blog > Archives & Entries you can easily alter the default text for your blog entries readmore button (see screenshot below). If you…

Alter The Blog Readmore Button Text

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

Blog Post Builder: Re-Order & Change Blog Post Elements

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 the theme Customizer. See the…

Disable Blog Meta (category, author, date, comments)

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 or disabled in the Customizer…

How to Display Author Bio Below Posts

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 various dynamic modules in the…

Custom Blog Post Design using a WPBakery Template
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