Total - Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme 5.18.1

ADDED: Ajax Pagination (load more button) to Total grid modules – Blog Grid, Portfolio Grid, Staff Grid, Testimonials Grid, Image Grid, Recent News, Post Types Archive & Post Types Grid. (note: When you use the “CSS Animation” option in the various modules it will use the animation when loading new items for cool affects)
ADDED: Z-Index option for WPBakery rows and sections
ADDEDOption for Rows & Sections for the WPBakery page builder to use the post “featured image” as the row background (useful for creating some cool dynamic templates)
ADDED: Option to the “Post Content” module to include a sidebar – this way you can create dynamic templates with content above full-width and still have a sidebar next to the primary content (combine this with the new option for rows to use the featured image as a background to create some slick blog post designs with full-width post tiles with backgrounds)
ADDED: Options to the “Post Content” module to display post series, social share, author bio, related posts and comments (useful when using the new “include sidebar” option if you want these blocks within the same parent element as the post content next to the sidebar)
ADDED: The Fixed Background options currently in WPBakery rows to the section module
ADDED: Alt attribute option for the Total Image module
ADDED: Default simple table styling to the theme
ADDED: Support for the popular TablePress plugin (design fixes and new TablePress WPBakery Module to quickly insert your tables)
ADDED: New Customizer section under the General Theme Settings panel for default table styling
ADDED: “Post Content” option to the typography panel which will target your main content text as many websites use larger fonts for their blog posts. This setting will also target the “post content” module when using the dynamic post template function as well as the page builder text block and any post type or page currently not using the page builder
ADDED: Typography options for blog entry meta and blog entry content and single post meta
ADDED: New TotalTheme\WidgetBuilder class – this is a development class used to create custom widgets for WordPress (exclusive to Total) that allows us to register all the Total custom widgets using the “DRY” method of coding, slimming things down quite a bit and allowing for easier addition of new custom widgets in the future
ADDED: New widget output filters to make it easier to override the output of any Total custom widget
ADDED: New Slim Newsletter Widget (perfect for your footer widget area!)
ADDED: Customizer fields to set custom widths for each one of your footer widgets so they can all be different widths
ADDED: Option to alter the default footer widget bottom spacing (spacing between widgets)
ADDED: New “Popup” notice when items are added to your cart via the shop page (can be disabled)
ADDED: Option to the Posts With Thumbnails widget to “expand” the image to the defined width defined in the widget (currently the image is always 65px wide and the width setting is used for cropping only)
ADDED: New action hook “wpex_hook_after_body_tag” immediately after the main body tag that can be used for tracking code – this hook will never be used by theme functions and should be reserved for scripts that need to be inserted right after the body tag, such as Google Tag manager code
ADDED: Slider arrows to WooCommerce product galleries
ADDED: Customizer option to disable categories in breadcrumbs
ADDED: New function to return correct mobile menu classes (Important: if you modified any of the files at partials/header-menu-mobile-navbar.php, partials/header-mobile-menu-icons.php or partials/header-menu-mobile-fixed-top.php please revise comparing them to the latest theme version).
ADDED: “Visible At Mobile Menu Breakpoint” and “Hidden At Mobile Menu Breakpoint” visibility options to WPBakery Total modules using the theme visibility option
ADDED: Option under Customize > WooCommerce (Total) > Single Product to enable lightbox titles for product gallery lightbox
ADDED: New shortcode “site_url” that returns your site URL. This is useful if you want to create “relative links” in modules such as [site_url]/contact/ – may be useful for stagging sites or development purposes
ADDED; Customizer options to alter the default width of the WooCommerce product gallery and summary blocks
ADDED: A function so if you are using the Classic editor plugin or disabled Gutenberg via WPBakery the “wp-block-library” CSS is removed from the site as it’s not needed
ADDED: Javascript to disable the scroll to warning animation on the WooCommerce cart page when adding/removing items
ADDED: New filter “wpex_get_font_family_stack” which passes along the $stack and $font_family variables if you want to tweak the font stack of any font loaded on the site via your child theme
ADDED: Some new options to the testimonials slider module
UPDATED: WPBakery to version 5.6 – which fully supports WordPress 5.0 without the need for the Classic Editor plugin!
UPDATED: Revolution Slider to version 5.4.8.1
UPDATED: Completely overhaul to the WooCommerce design to make it more modern/cleaner and greatly slim down the CSS used
UPDATED: Default blue accent color to a different blue
UPDATED: Small design tweaks throughout the default theme design for more consistent font sizes, borders, paddings, margins, etc.
UPDATED: Bundled font icons (fontawesome) have been renamed to prevent conflicts with 3rd party plugins using FontAwesome 5 or older versions of the icons. This means anywhere the theme was previous using the classnames “fa” or “fa-{icon}” have been replaced with “ticon and ticon-{icon}”(Important: If you manually added any FontAwesome icons to your site you can simply enable FontAwesome globally via a plugin or rename your custom html/CSS in your child theme to reflect the changes). Additionally 2 new helper functions have been introduced which can be used in your child themes to return full icon html – wpex_theme_icon_html and wpex_get_theme_icon_html
UPDATED: Bundled Plugins are now provided via a CDN to slim down the Total.zip file size
UPDATED: Sample data xml and json files will now load from Amazon S3
UPDATED: Re-named theme’s main js file from wpex.min.js to total.min.js
UPDATED: Optimized “after update” checks to prevent extra code from running on site load
UPDATED: Sass files not included with the Total.zip to slim things down (we can provide the sass files on request, but you really shouldn’t be editing these – all design tweaks should be done via Custom CSS and if you aren’t sure how, ask and we will assist you)
UPDATED: Combined some CSS files that could be combined to limit server requests
UPDATED: Total button module so if you are using the custom field or custom callback option for a link if the return value is empty the button will not display
UPDATED: wpml-config.xml file to allow html tags in some module attribute translations and to fix some missing attributes
UPDATED: User icon in entry/single post meta to use outline style to better match other icons
UPDATED: Cleaner default breadcrumbs design
UPDATED: Total Newsletter widget uses placeholder instead of value attributes for fields now
UPDATED: Templatera widget so it can work with “Dynamic” post-based modules such as Author Box, Post Meta..etc or dynamic post – this way you can place post-based modules in your widget areas!
UPDATED: Newsletter Widget Design to make it more current and added new option to enable an icon for the subscribe button
UPDATED: Footer Widgets Customizer Panel to split settings into multiple tabs for easier editing
UPDATED: WooCommerce product entries to make the design more modern (Important: Add to cart button has moved so it now displays when hovering over your products) if you prefer to display the default WooCommerce button styles (below the price) there is an option in the Customizer for that.
UPDATED: General optimizations to various functions and classes to improve site speed and slim down theme files
UPDATED: Changed default WooCommerce placeholder image since the default one has too much white space and can be confusing
UPDATED: Nicer default WooCommerce product reviews design
UPDATED: WooCommerce cart widget and menu dropdown/overlay cart functions to display “remove” icons that will allow the user to remove items from their cart via AJAX
UPDATED: Form inputs design to remove default gray background so they are more minimal/modern
UPDATED: Some pixel values in various places to use em’s instead for better consistency when altering body fonts
UPDATED: Some texts that were using light grays for their default colors to use opacity instead making things more consistent when tweaking body colors and backgrounds
UPDATED: Various RTL design fixes
UPDATED: CSS targeting UL and OL lists no longer targets the .entry class but it added site wide
UPDATED: The next/previous post links so the border spans the whole width and not just the container width so it better matches the theme design and added Customizer options for padding, background color and border color
UPDATED: Sidebar links now inherit the sidebar color instead of using custom link colors as it keeps the design more minimal (you can still select custom link colors via the Customizer though if you wish)
UPDATED: Default scroll to top button design so it’s more minimal/standard and looks better on various designs
UPDATED: Footer and WooCommerce tagcloud design to match the default tagcloud inserter in the site sidebar
UPDATED: Default sidebar mobile menu design (more consistent font sizes and search field)
UPDATED: Total Image and button modules so when you add a gallery lightbox it will now display image alt attributes for the lightbox title, captions in the lightbox as well as defined videos – this has also been updated for grid modules that allow you to display the post gallery in lightbox such as the portfolio grid
UPDATED: Default lightbox skin is now called “total” and the CSS is loaded globally and uses font icons instead of image based icons
UPDATED: Post meta CSS to use inline-blocks instead of floats so that post meta can be easily centered if wanted (and added alignment option to the Post Meta WPBakery module)
UPDATED: Text highlight format so that it doesn’t use any images and is more “modern”
UPDATED: CSS for main menu with dropdowns to target WordPress specific classes so if extra ul lists are inserted to the menu area via hooks they don’t get affected by the dropdown styling – which allows for the WooCommerce dropdown cart function to be placed inside the parent toggle element for various header styles instead of using javascript for position it (header three, four, five and the new header style)
UPDATED: Blog load more button and infinite loader spinner gif to display WP core loader gif while loading posts so they are consistent with new grid module load more button and use core wp images
UPDATED: Testimonial entry author avatar CSS to prevent issues with retina images being too large when using the testimonials grid module
UPDATEDAbout widget will now save using the selected image ID instead of full URL and allow you to select your image size
UPDATED: LocalScroll javascript so you can add the classname “wpex-ls-offset” to any fixed element on your site so that it can be included in your local scroll offset (for example if your site has a custom sticky element at the top and you are using local scroll on the page you can add this classname to your custom element to make sure the browser scrolls to the proper location taking the height of your custom element into account)
UPDATED: Input font size to 16px for safari on touch devices to prevent zoom on focus
FIXED: Issue where the WPBakery editor tabs show up under the “Field Group” editor for the Advanced Custom Fields plugin
FIXEDDouble local scroll data attribute added to sections causing warning in W3C checker
FIXEDOne Click Demo Importer Plugin not properly importing RevSliders causing a 500 internal error
FIXED: Issue with product entry and product category images stretching due to recent WooCommerce updates
FIXED: “Top Border” option not working for menu dropdowns
FIXED: Customizer social sharing options not rendering changes on the live site in preview mode
FIXED: Alignment in the testimonials slider module when displaying the slider arrows
FIXED: Link color and hover color customizer options not working for the toggle style mobile menu
FIXED: Issue where Blog Post Title typography options was also affecting WooCommerce single product titles
REMOVED: WooCommerce plugin CSS files (now all WooCommerce CSS is located in the theme’s wpex-woocommerce.css file which is much smaller)
REMOVED: Deprecated “skins” folder which was deprecated back in 2015 to slim down the theme structure
REMOVED: Custom WooCommerce button styling options (woocommerce buttons will now automatically take on the styling of your theme buttons – this greatly slims down your site’s CSS)
REMOVED: Extra “Disable Comment Cookies” option in the Theme Panel since there is now one in WordPress under Settings > Discussion

ADDED: Option to Post Types grid and Post Types Archive modules to add a heading – for users that may need a heading that shows/hides depending if there are posts to show or not
ADDED: Option to the Image Grid and Carousel modules to link to the full image without lightbox (so if you want to use your own custom lightbox you can)
ADDED: Option to show/hide empty categories for the Categories grid and carousel modules
ADDED: New filter “wpex_callout_button_attributes” so you can customize the footer callout button attributes (href, rel, target, data attributes, etc). Can be used to add custom attributes needed for lead generation plugins or popup scripts
ADDED: New filter “wpex_get_header_aside_search_form_placeholder”
UPDATED: WPBakery page builder to version 5.5.4
UPDATED: Post Types Carousel module to include extra dynamic classes in each entry (post id, cat, tag, etc)
UPDATED: Typography options so the logo, menu, header aside options don’t display when using the custom header builder function and removed the widget typography settings when using footer builder function to prevent confusion
FIXED: Bug with the staff email links
FIXED: Bug in the Customizer when disabling the Footer Bottom it doesn’t get removed in the Customizer preview
FIXED: Translation issues with the footer callout button text when a custom icon is added to the button
FIXED: Bug in the Customizer where the Social Sharing options were showing the words “share”, “tweet”, etc instead of the website name when enabling/disabling sites
FIXED: Bug with the Overlay Header background option only working for the “white” style

ADDED Mobile alignment classes
ADDED Option to the Customizer to choose your Callout button style (default, outline, graphical, 3d. etc) and color (from the presets) as well as icon position (after/before text)
ADDED The “skip-lazy” image class to fix conflicts with JetPack lazy load as needed in Total modules such as carousels, sliders or masonry grids
ADDED New filter “wpex_enqueue_google_font” which can be used in your child theme to disable the theme’s enqueing of your selected Google fonts (or or certain fonts only)
ADDED Option to the Bullets module to select “No Icon” if you want a list without any bullet icon
ADDED 2 New helper classes for developers “hide-at-mm-breakpoint” and “show-at-mm-breakpoint” which can be used to show/hide elements based on the mobile menu breakpoint (when the normal header menu turns into a mobile menu) – useful if inserting extra content to the header via theme hooks
ADDED Option to the Image Slider module so you can disable auto video play if you have videos added in the slider
UPDATED WPBakery Page Builder to version 5.5.1 (includes undo/redo options in editor, 5 column rows, PHP 7.2 improvements, extra p tags in grid bug fix, hoverbox element fixes for iOS and Firefox, and more – see changes.txt file inside the plugin for all changes)
UPDATED Slider Revolution to version 5.4.8
UPDATED Comment form cookies are disabled by default for GDPR compliance – added a checkbox to the Theme Panel to re-enable them if wanted – but in general you shouldn’t need the WP comment form to remember people’s names.
UPDATED Navigation Bar WPBakery page builder module to support shortcodes in the “Navigation label” field (example for adding icons)
UPDATED WooCommerce template files for version 3.4+
REMOVED Some unnecessary conditional checks for the mobile menu icons which was causing an issue if a global menu wasn’t set for the header but a custom menu was defined in the page settings for a specific page
FIXED Potential bug where the shrunken sticky header remains shrunken when scrolling back to the top very quickly
FIXED Social share issue on mobile with the twitter share button when the Twitter APP is installed
FIXED Active filter category not working in the blog grid module
FIXED Styling for new cookies checkbox in comments box