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…
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…
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…
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%…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…