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In this theme we have enabled some additional options in your post editor which we think are really useful. Formats: Total Styles for text highlights, thin font & white text, plus…

Custom Editor Styles

The Total theme includes a powerful custom built (for Total only) metabox that allows you to tweak multiple aspects of the current page/post. This includes, but isn't limited to, disabling…

Theme Settings Metabox

Total includes an advanced function for creating local scrolling links. By using the local scroll functions in the theme it crease a "smooth" scroll affect to the target element it…

Local Scroll Links & Buttons

By default comments are disabled on pages because for most people it's not needed. However, if you want to enable them it's very simple. Go to Appearance > Customize >…

Enable Comments For Pages

The Total theme includes a special format which will make it easy to add a checkbox list to to any page/post via the default text editor: Step 1: Create a…

Adding A Checkmarks List

By default in the Total theme the page header has a bottom margin to add space between the title and the content. However, sometimes when building a custom page you'll…

Disable Page Margin

By default the WordPress editor hides the Font Family, Font Size, bold...etc from the post editor. To enable it simply click on the "Toolbar Toggle" button:

Enable Font Font Options In The Editor

By default the Total theme has buttons at the bottom of every page/post so you can quickly edit it while logged into your site. See screenshot below: To remove these…

Disable The “Edit Post/Page” Links

By default the Total theme does a pretty good generating excerpts for the Visual Composer modules, however, depending on how you are creating your pages these automatically generated excerpts may…

Adding Custom Excerpts

Total includes 2 built in formats for easily adding dropcaps to your site without the need of shortcodes. To use them simply highlight the letter you want to become a…

Adding Dropcaps

The Total theme includes a built-in shortcode for creating a login/logout link which you can add anywhere on your site (including certain options in the Theme Customizer such as the…

Adding a Login/Logout Link

The Total theme includes options located at Appearance > Customize > General Theme Options > Page Animations so that you can enable an animation whenever a page is loaded on your…

Page Load-In & Load-Out Animations

The way it works on ThemeForest (click here to view the bundled plugin docs on their site) is when a premium plugin (sold on Codecanyon) is included for free with…

Understanding The Bundled Products License

NEW - Ajaxed Filter: In Total 5.6.0 we added a new Ajaxed filter function that will allow you to not only "show/hide" items in a grid but actually use ajax…

Custom Grid or Post Cards Menu Filter Via the Navigation Bar Element

By default in WordPress whenever you query posts from the database they display in order of publish date with the most recently published item first. So by default your portfolio…

How to Reorder Portfolio, Staff, Testimonials or Other Post Type Entries

The Total theme has a built-in module that allows you to easily insert a grid/list of your WordPress users. You can display all users, admins only, authors only, contributors only…

How to Display A Grid of your WordPress Users (authors, admins, etc)

The Total theme uses the classname "theme-button" to create buttons so you can add a button anywhere on the site including text widgets if needed. Step 1: Add your text…

How to Add a Button in a Text Widget (Footer/Sidebar)

When creating dynamic templates for your posts you may want to show related items at the bottom of the post. You can easily do this with the Post Cards element…

Show Related Posts in Dynamic Templates

Since Total 4.9.3 a new lightbox script "Fancybox" has been included with the theme which supports inline popups so that you can open any code in a lightbox including contact…

How to Open a Contact Form in Lightbox Pop-up using a Widget

The Total theme is an advanced and highly modular framework built on hooks. This means you can easily modify theme parts via your child theme using add_action and remove_action functions…

Custom Actions Panel

Total 5.3 introduced a new Toggle functionality built-in that will allow you to show/hide sections, rows or specific elements on the page. This is accomplished in the following way: Create…

Toggle Elements (Show/Hide Sections, Rows and other Elements)

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…

Post Cards Ajax Terms/Category Filter

By default the theme includes various bundled plugins and when you first install the theme you will be asked if you want to install the plugins or not. Whenever the…

Suppress Bundled Plugin Notifications

The Total theme includes the ability to assign colors to your categories, tags and custom taxonomies. Assigning colors to your terms allows you to do some cool stuff such as…

Category (Taxonomy Term) Colors
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