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If your posts are redirecting to the homepage the most likely cause is your posts are actually 404 error pages, however you have enabled redirection for 404 pages under Theme…

Posts Redirect To The Homepage

This generally happens after a user alters the custom post type slug and not re-saving the permalinks. First step to try and fix the issue is to go to Settings >…

Post Types Showing 404 Errors

Edit: Masonry layouts should work now in the latest version of the theme, if you have issues please first try updating your theme. If your Visual Composer Image or Post…

Grids Broken In Tabs

By default the Total theme doesn't have a bottom margin under the header or navigation bar (headers two and three ) because the margin is under the main page header.  But…

No Space Under Header

Important: This article shows how to fix an old bug in Visual Composer (now WPBakery Page Builder) and no longer applies. In Visual Composer 4.8.1 there is a small bug…

Missing Column Edit Link in Visual Composer

Most of the errors you will see in any page speed checker including Google Page Insights have to do with the server and/or usage of the theme and not with the theme itself…

Google Page Insights Shows Errors/Warnings

We have noticed that the WordPress Customizer can get a bit laggy in the Google Chrome browser. If you are finding the Customizer "laggy" (slow) when opening and closing tabs…

Fix Laggy (slow) Customizer

If images aren't being cropped when you have ssl enabled it's because of security checks the theme makes. Everything should work 100% with SSL as long as things are setup…

Image Cropping Not Working with SSL

If you are getting an error similar to the one below, please follow the steps to help fix the issue: Example Error getimagesize('PATH HERE'): failed to open stream: No such…

Troubleshooting getimagesize PHP Warning

Important: Before you go adding custom files or code to your site to customize your post type, be aware that you can make use of our Post Types Unlimited plugin…

Custom Post Type Singular Template File

If you are getting an error message that says "Update package not available." when trying to update your WPBakery plugin, simply refresh the page and try again, it should fix…

Updating WPBakery: Update Package Not Available

The Total theme includes the fancyBox script for the various image and video lightbox features of the theme. It can be used in various builder modules (single image, image grid,…

Adding Lighbox Popups Inline via HTML

If you are looking to use Typekit fonts on your site using the WordPress theme you don't have to install any 3rd party plugins and you can use custom code…

Adding Typekit Fonts To Your Theme

Comments are enabled by default on posts for the Total WordPress theme, however, if they are not displaying here are some things to check to make sure they are properly…

Comments Not Working For Blog Posts

You may have noticed when you purchase a WordPress theme on ThemeForest (such as the Total theme) it includes 6 months of free support and once expired you must renew your…

Why & When Is A Valid Support License Required

By default input fields are a light gray (can be changed in the customizer) but sometimes you may want to add a contact or newsletter form inside a Visual Composer module…

White Forms (White input fields)

If your lightbox images aren't looking quite right most likely it's because they are very large and are bigger then the browser's viewport. Simply go to Theme Panel > Image…

Lightbox Images Not Centered and Too Big

Important: This is guide is very old and the way the theme elements work has been drastically changed. Additionally with the introduction of Card Styles it would be recommended and…

Develop Your Own Custom Grid Element for WPBakery

WPBakery page builder elements are just WordPress shortcodes, so creating a new one is extremely simple. All you need to do is register a new shortcode with WordPress via the…

Creating A New WPBakery Element (Starter Class)

The following guide will show you how to locate the url embed link for a Youtube video so you can use it on your site. The YouTube embed link is…

How to get the Embed URL/Link of a Youtube Video

If you are getting the "URI malformed" error in the browser console when trying to use the WPBakery Page Builder Front-End editor it is most likely an issue with the…

Fixing “URI malformed” error in WPBakery

In WordPress everything has an "ID". Pages, tags, categories, menus...etc all have unique "ID's" which is how they are referenced and saved in the database. This is referred to as…

How To Find a Page, Post, Image, Template or Term ID

The Total theme has a built-in image resizing function that crops images only as needed instead of the core WordPress post thumbnail function which crops images to every defined size…

Post Thumbnail Helper Functions

There is a browser bug that causes your logo to get a 0 pixel height when using an SVG image so when you upload an SVG image it may seem like…

SVG Logo Image Not Working
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