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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 policy acceptance. This way if you just need a simple contact form on your site you don’t need to use a 3rd party plugin. Contact…

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 to clear your site cache first before clearing the browser cache otherwise clearing the browser cache is useless. Not all sites will have cache on…

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. If disabled and your site has an error you may see a blank screen or a message that simply reads “There was a critical error…

The WPBakery front-end editor is one of the best and crucial aspects of working with Total, so if it’s not working correctly it would be a bummer. Below are the basic steps to take to help fix any errors with the WPBakery page builder and get it running as it should! 1. Re-Save your page First…

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 are included in the same category(ies) as the current post. These queries can be altered very easily via a child theme. Have a look at…

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 that could break things as well as specific server settings that could cause issues. Below is a list of the troubleshooting steps to go through…

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. While caching will greatly speed up your site it can also cause some headaches when making updates and/or changes to the site. Below is a…

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. Below you will find instructions on setting the “Main Page” for your Blog or other post types. Blog (Standard Posts) Since the blog is made…

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 includes support for the Yoast WordPress SEO breadcrumbs if you rather use that one. Enabling/Disabling Theme Breadcrumbs To enable or disable breadcrumbs go to Appearance…

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 should be using for your tweaks. Important: The number 1 rule when working with a WordPress theme is to NEVER edit the style.css file manually.…

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 designs which allows for zooming into your site when using mobile devices. Altering The Meta ViewPort Tag Luckily the Total theme is all about modular development,…

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 be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet. One of the most common reasons people have issues is because they try uploading the Full…

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 their themes. This is a very bad habit because if you ever need to update the theme (updates usually fix issues, so you should always…

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 name and another field to enter the terms. If you are new to WordPress or just not familiar with taxonomies this may be very confusing, but…

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 as Total, use action hooks as an easy way for users to modify the output of the project or to add their own custom code.…

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

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 may want to sacrifice controlling your local scroll speed and keep the setting disabled. The Total theme includes 2 different methods for Local Scrolling links,…

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, it consists of a main wrapper that uses the “wpex-row” class with a negative left and right margin and inner columns that have left and right…

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 format for standard posts but has been updated so you can use it on any page or post to redirect it.

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

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 site. Luckily increasing the memory limit to PHP is very simple and can be done with a small tweak in your wp-config.php file. Have a…

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 versions of the plugin. This however, may cause some issues with 3rd party plugins or with your personal preferences. Luckily it’s very easy to remove…

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 only seeing it happen twice). The solution is very simple though. Go to Theme Panel Locate and enable the option that reads “WPBakery Page Builder…

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 instead). Clear your Site & Browser Cache If you are updating from an old version of the theme perhaps you simply need to clear your…