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When installing the Total theme you will see a notice in your WordPress dashboard to install "bundled" plugins. The only plugin you truly need to install is the Total Theme…

Disable The Recommended Plugins Notice

The Total theme comes with several custom widgets, custom Visual Composer modules and other functions that use the name "Total" so you know it's coming from the theme as opposed…

Theme Branding Setting

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

Enable/Disable Customizer Sections

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

It's very important to keep your theme up to date for bug and security fixes and to receive new features. You can always visit the changelog to see the latest…

How Do I Find My Current Theme Version

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 homepage will look like a blog (this is how WordPress is intended to work). If you want a custom homepage you can create it using the page…

Homepage Setup

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

When you purchase a WordPress theme on ThemeForest that includes premium plugins (like those sold on CodeCanyon), you can use those plugins without any problem. However, if you want automatic…

Understanding The Bundled Products License

If you are having any issues with the theme or have any questions regarding how to use the theme you can contact us for help via 2 methods. Important: Do…

How To Request Support or Report A Bug

Update WordPress: Most importantly make sure WordPress is up to date Backup: First make a backup of your site. You should always have backups of your site, but if you…

Updating from a Version Older than 1.6.0

The Post Cards element doesn't have a built-in filter option, but you can still create a filter by using the Navigation Bar element and "linking" it to the Post Cards…

How to Add a Filter to the Post Cards 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. It's possible to change this…

How to Change the Order of Portfolio, Staff & Testimonials

The corporate demo by default displays a static image on mobile devices instead of the slider making loading times faster. This is done via the page setting: Also the slider…

Corporate Demo Homepage Slider on Mobile

Whenever you start with a new theme it can be a bit complicated to know what everything is and where everything is located. Below you'll find the basic "anatomy" of…

Theme Anatomy

By default ThemeForest products include 6 months of free support. If during these 6 months you purchase any another license of the theme to use on another client site your…

How To Renew Your Support License

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)
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