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The Total WordPress theme includes tons of easy to use options to customize the design of your site. Most of your theme options can be found in…

Theme Options/Customizer

Total includes a custom Typography class built exclusively for Total that provides you with a live preview while in the Customizer so you can see…

Altering Default Fonts & Typography

Changing your background is extremely easy in Total and you can actually set it both globally and also alter the background on a per-page or…

How to Change Site Backgrounds

All the theme options in Total are stored using the theme_mods functionality in WordPress. By default there isn't any way to import, export or reset…

Exporting and Resetting Theme Options

Creating full-screen background areas is very trendy these days and Total makes it really easy to do so! The Visual Composer rows have the ability to…

Creating Full-Width/Screen Rows & Backgrounds (normal, parallax or fixed backgrounds)

The WordPress customizer is a core function built-into WordPress so as long as your server supports WordPress then the Customizer should work 100%. That said,…

Troubleshooting Customizer Issues

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…

Customizing Your Theme Design

By default the Total WordPress theme does not use any font-smoothing on the site. A lot of themes add font-smoothing by default but it's really…

Enable Font Smoothing For “Thinner” Fonts

ImportantThis older guide is intended for developers, in Total 5.0 we released a new Font Manager admin panel where you can easily add your own…

How To Add Custom Fonts using Code

Total includes built-in options that will allow you to quickly change the "accent" colors (default is blue) througout the theme. Simply go to Appearance >…

Accent Color

The WordPress customizer is awesome but it can also be a bit slow when  you have tons of options. For this reason I added a…

Enable/Disable Customizer Sections

By default the Total theme only loads the Latin subset for Google fonts (fonts selected under Appearance > Customize > Typography). If you are using…

Selecting Font Subsets (some characters aren’t showing on your site)

Since Total 3.2.0 you can now easily disable all Google fonts right via the Theme Panel. This will not only remove the default Open Sans…

Disable Google Fonts Completely

We have noticed that the WordPress Customizer can get a bit laggy in the Google Chrome browser. If you are finding the Customizer "laggy" (slow)…

Fix Laggy (slow) Customizer

The Total theme includes many great features/add-ons built-in that provide extra functionality but can be easily disabled if not in use to slim down the…

Theme Panel Features Explained

The Total theme includes built-in settings for altering the default button colors used in the theme either globally or on a per-button basis. Global Button…

Change Theme Button Color, Styling & Typography

The Total theme includes built-in settings to completely change the way your forms look on the site. Simply log into WordPress and go to Appearance >…

Styling Forms & Input Fields

In the Total theme there are borders used for headings, sidebars, between blog posts, comments...etc. You can use CSS to alter the border colors but…

Change Theme Border Colors

If you are looking to create rows with background images that basically stay in place while your site scrolls down much like the "Paris" demo…

Fixed Row Background Images

The Total theme includes options built-in for customizing the design of the numbered pagination. Simply go to Appearance > Customize > General Theme Options >…

Alter the Pagination Design

The Total theme includes a unique and exclusive Card API that allows you to display your standard posts, pages and custom post types beautifully on…

Post Entry Cards

Total Cards are used to display post entries within grids and archives and while there are a many pre-build cards to choose from sometimes you…

How to Create Custom Theme Cards Using The API

The Font Manager in the Total WordPress theme is a part of the Total Theme Core plugin which allows you to quickly and easily add…

Register Custom Fonts via the Font Manager

Here you can find a list of arguments that can be passed onto the wpex_card function when displaying theme cards in custom loops or when…

Card Function (wpex_card) Arguments
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