WPBakery Page Builder

The total theme includes the ability to give any row a minimum height. This can be used for testing purposes if you just want to add some empty space while working on the site or it can be used to insert a row with a background and have it display at a particular height even…

Important: Since Total version 4.7 and WPBakery 5.5.1 there is no a 5 column option you can use right in the page builder so you no longer have to follow this guide. Because the page builder doesn’t include 5 column layouts by default (due to how their bootstrap works, although they say they are adding…

The Grid Container is a new element added in Total 5.2 which will allow you to easily create grids with various builder elements without having to create rows and columns. This element is great when adding a grid of elements inside a column so you don’t have to make use of inner rows and columns.…

In Total 5.2 we introduced a unique feature exclusive to the Total theme where you can access various pre-built section templates (Patterns) and insert them into any page. This system not only provides a good way to find inspiration when building pages but also speed up page building by making use of pre designed sections…

Total 5.3 introduced a new Toggle functionality built-in that will allow you to show/hide sections, rows or specific elements on the page. This is accomplished in the following way: Create a Hidden Element that will be “Toggleable” First you want to create an element that you want to be “toggleable” (aka show/hide via a click).…

The WPBakery page builder (and various Total theme elements) include options to enable a CSS animation which will animate the element when it becomes visible on the page. The way the animations work by default is as soon as the element becomes visible it will be animated, so if the element is at the top…

The WPBakery Page builder includes various built-in Elements and when used with Total there are over 100 more exclusive elements added. To keep your site slim and fast you may want to consider disabling builder elements that you don’t need on your site or disabling core WPBakery elements such as the “Single Image, Custom Heading”…

The Total theme includes a custom function for adding shape dividers when building pages with the WPBakery page builder (if you are using Elementor you can refer to the Elementor page here). Shape dividers basically allows you to create separations between sections/rows using cool SVG’s. Below is an example of a row with a couple…

When using the WPBakery page builder whenever you insert a row with columns the columns will be stacked on mobile. Sometimes you may want to reverse the column stacking on mobile, for example if you have a row with an image on the right when stacked the image will be below the left column but…

The Color Palette functionality in Total allows you to define global colors for use on your site. While it’s not possible to integrate the colors into the WPBakery CSS design options tab it’s still possible and very easy to use your color palette colors for WPBakery elements. To use your color palette colors in WPBakery…

In Total 5.8.0 we released a new and exclusive feature we’ve named “WPBakery Slim Mode” which can be enabled in the Theme Panel (see screenshot below). What does Slim Mode do? When you enable Slim Mode the theme does a few things: What if I wanted to use some of the older Theme elements? As…

In version 7.4 of the WPBakery plugin they introduced what they call their “SEO Toolkit” which is basically just extra settings you can use to modify your on page title and meta description tags and a little SEO analysis of your page content. While in theory the feature sounds like a good idea I highly…