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The Total theme includes a built-in Contact form element you can use to easily insert a contact form on your site and it even has support for reCaptcha and privacy…

Adding Contact Forms

Whenever you update any plugin, theme or WordPress you must clear your browser and site cache to help avoid any potential cache related bugs. Clear Your Site Cache It's important…

How To Clear Your Browser Cache

WP_Debug is a constant that when enabled will display any PHP errors on the front-end of your site, this is the most useful tool when troubleshooting your site for errors…

Enabling WP_Debug In WordPress

Important: While this troubleshooting guide can be used for any instance of the WPBakery Page Builder, it is a guide created for customers using the Total WordPress theme, which is 100%…

Troubleshooting WPBakery Page Builder Issues

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

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, there are some known plugins…

Troubleshooting Customizer Issues

WordPress is fairly database intensive so it's highly recommended to host your WordPress site with a webhost that provides built-in caching tools or to use a 3rd party Caching plugin…

Clear Your WordPress Site Cache

If you have created a custom page for your blog, portfolio, staff or testimonials and you want to add it to your breadcrumbs you can do this via theme settings…

How To Add Main Post Type (or Blog) Page To Breadcrumbs

Total includes an advanced custom  function for breadcrumbs built for Total specifically, this function can be enabled site wide but also disabled on a per-page basis if needed. Total also…

Enabling Breadcrumbs

Although Total includes tons of built-in options for customizing the theme, many people may want to make additional edits or more advanced edits via CSS. Below are the 2 methods you…

Adding Custom CSS to Your Site

By default the Total theme uses the following meta viewport tag (when responsiveness is enabled): <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> This is one of the most common viewport tags for responsive…

Altering The Meta Viewport Tag

The Total theme should install without any errors, although on some occasions people do encounter issues so here are the most common problems and their solutions. The package could not…

Theme Installation Errors

From my experience selling WordPress themes on ThemeForest I've realized a lot of customers don't like using child theme's for one reason or another and they prefer to manually alter…

Tweaker (Starter) Plugin

When you are using the "Post Types Grid" module there is an option where you can select to "Filter by Taxonomy" and if enabled it will give you a field to enter the taxonomy…

Locating Taxonomy Names & Term Slugs/ID’s

Action Hooks are a very useful tool in WordPress and they are used to perform functions (actions) in specific places of a theme or plugin. Many themes and plugins, such…

How To Use Action Hooks in WordPress

What is a child theme, when should you be using a child theme, child theme tips and sample child theme download.

Child Theme Setup and Example

Important: If you enable this functionality both jQuery and the Easing scripts will be loaded on the site. So if your main concern is site speed (which it should be) you…

How To Alter Local Scroll Speed

Total includes a powerful grid system you can use for pretty much anything, this includes creating Contact Forms with multiple columns. Understanding The Total Grid The grid is very simple,…

How to Display Contact Form 7 Fields Side-by-Side (columns)

In Total 2.0.0 I added a new function so you can easily redirect any page or post. This field was actually previously added to be used for the "link" post…

Redirecting Pages/Posts

WPEngine by default disabled random order for WordPress queries but it can be enabled right via your dashboard.

Enable Random Order in WPEngine

Some servers (shared hosting planes usually) have a very low limit to PHP by default which can cause a blank screen (white screen of death) or an error on your…

Increasing Memory Limit To PHP

The Total theme by default makes some adjustments to the Visual Composer rows to fix some design issues and also to add some extra options that weren't precent in older…

How to remove the Total WPBakery Row Modifications

By default the Total theme disables the Design Options tab from the WPBakery Page Builder (for several reasons). Which may cause a bug with some 3rd party plugins (I have…

Fix WPBakery Design Options Error

These are some troubleshooting steps if icon fonts (social icons, menu search icon, back to top button icon, WPBakery element icons, etc.) aren't loading on your site (show's a square…

Theme Icons Not Working (How to Fix)
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