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The Total theme includes a custom taxonomy called Post Series which is available for your standard (blog) posts so that you can easily create “Post Series” if you want to…

Blog Post Series

Total includes an option to automatically enable Lightbox for your blog entry featured images. This is disabled by default (by default blog entries link to the posts). To enable this function…

Enable Lightbox For Blog Entries

The Total theme includes support for the "Gallery" format which when selected will display an image slider on your blog posts instead of the default Featured image. All you need…

Post Featured Image Gallery Slider

The Total theme already includes a built-in option for excluding categories from your main blog page due to the high requests. Simply log into WordPress and go to Appearance >…

Exclude Categories From Your Main Blog Page

By default the Total theme displays auto excerpts generated from your blog content for the archive entries, this uses the WordPress function wp_trim_words which strips out all HTML. This can…

How to Use The “More” Tag For Blog Entries

The total theme includes the ability to display audio for your blog posts either via oEmbed (WordPress function) or self-hosted HTML5 audio. Simply create a new standard post, select the…

Adding Audio (self-hosted, Sound Cloud or other) To Posts

Via the WordPress customizer at Appearance > Customize > Blog > Archives & Entries you can easily alter the default text for your blog entries readmore button. If you want to conditionally…

Alter The Blog Readmore Button Text

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

New Dynamic Templates: You can now create a custom layout for your Portfolio Posts using the WPBakery template via a "Dynamic Template" learn more → Total includes an advanced function…

Blog Post Builder: Re-Order & Change Blog Post Elements

The blog "meta" is the section that displays by default under your post title for blog entries and posts. This can be easily disabled in the theme Customizer. See the…

Disable Blog Meta (category, author, date, comments)

The best way to add custom post types and taxonomies in the Total theme is via the free Post Types Unlimited Plugin (created by us). All you need to do…

How to Add New Custom Post Types & Taxonomies

The Total theme allows you to define "featured" videos for your portfolio items much like you would define a featured image. These videos are saved in the database associated with…

How To Display Videos on Portfolio Grid in Lightbox

By default the testimonials are added in the backend via the Testimonials post type but do to customer requests we've created a little extension that will allow you to display…

Testimonials Front-End Form Submission Add-On

Once you have added your portfolio items you can easily display them on any page via the Portfolio Grid or Post Types Grid page builder module. Both modules support a…

How To Display A Portfolio Grid with Category Filter

By default the Total theme displays a little bio under the blog posts with the author information like the screenshot below: This can be enabled or disabled in the Customizer…

How to Display Author Bio Below Posts

Total has a built-in functionality called "Dynamic Templates" which allow you to create custom layouts for pages/posts on your site using WBakery templates along with various dynamic modules in the…

Custom Blog Post Design using a WPBakery Template
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