Total - Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme 5.13

ADDED: The ability to activate your theme license on one development URL – this way you can always have the theme active on one live site and one development site
ADDED: Author bio module for the page builder for use with dynamic templates
ADDED: New option under the Theme Panel to enable “Thumbnail Format Icons” which will display the post format (video, audio, gallery, image, standard, quote) icon over the featured image. Enabling this function will do so globally so the icons will be shown on your main blog, categories, tags, related items
ADDED: New “list” layout option to the Total navigation bar builder module which displays items one on top of the other but not full-width
ADDED: Repeat-x and Repeat-y options to the page builder design options
ADDED: Video overlay icon option to Total image module for use with video lightbox
ADDED: Ability to define an end time and time zone for the Total counter module
ADDED: Ability to display current username for the Total Heading module (great when creating custom user profile pages)
ADDED: Options to the Total Image builder module if you want to display the avatar of the post author or the current user
ADDED: Button option to the Total Categories carousel module
ADDED: New filter “wpex_body_background_settings” which you can use to alter the site background image, color, style or pattern conditionally via PHP instead of CSS if needed (see framework/classes/site-backgrounds.php for usage)
ADDED: Start value option to the Total milestone (note: if the value is greater then the value entered for your Number field then it will count down instead of up)
ADDED: New filter (technically an action hook) named “wpex_entry_media_after” so you can insert anything after any post media entry
ADDED: New filter “wpex_search_action” so you can easily alter the searchform’s action attribute used in the theme’s header and mobile menu
ADDED: New filter named “vcex_supports_advanced_parallax” to allow you to disable the Total advanced row parallax background settings – disabled by default when the Massive Addons plugin is enabled to prevent conflicts
ADDED: Border option to the Total button module
ADDED: Local scroll option to the multi-buttons module
ADDED: New filter “wpex_footer_widget_col_classes” for easily tweaking the footer widget column classes (for example if you want to add custom responsive column classes).
ADDED: Option to the page builder row settings so you can quickly disable the bottom margin on all columns inside the row
ADDED: New filters “wpex_responsive_video_wrap” and “wpex_responsive_audio_wrap” which you can set to false if you want to remove the default theme’s responsive video and audio wrappers used for post entries and featured media blocks
ADDED: Email option to social sharing options (disabled by default must enable in the Customizer) and updated the links to use nofollow rel tags and ADDED: aria-hidden tags to the font icons

UPDATED: CSS for the main layout classes so the main “content-area” element does not have a default width. This is to prevent issues when adding new custom layouts via the “wpex_get_post_layouts” filter and it also slims down the CSS used for layouts
UPDATED: The header menu search dropdown function – previously the menu element was always inserted directly into the header element which means javascript was needed to position it on certain header styles and the dropdown search style wasn’t supported for all header styles. Now the dropdown will only be directly in the header for header style 1 but it will be a part of the search icon li element for all other header styles which means no more js is needed and it’s better optimized now. This also means you can use the dropdown search style for the vertical header style.
UPDATED: Letter spacing settings in page builder modules to accept em values
UPDATED: Total countdown builder module html output to make it easier to style the countdown however you want via CSS and removed leading zeros from the numbers
UPDATED: Page builder row “full width on tablets” setting so it doesn’t affect any grid modules added inside the rows
UPDATED: The total custom excerpts function to make use of the “get_the_excerpt” filter when showing custom excerpts
UPDATED: Spacing module to accept em values
UPDATED: Skip to content accessibility button design to be cleaner and match more “standard” skip to content links used on popular sites
UPDATED: Improved accessibility for numbered pagination links
UPDATED: Archive images without alt tags will no longer revert to post tiles, image title, image caption…etc and will simply display an empty alt tag. This change was made for accessibility reasons. Single post featured images will continue using the post title for the alt for SEO reasons and because these images don’t have a link around them with a title tag.

FIXED: Issue with the form shortcode not working when the Contact From 7 plugin is inactive
FIXED: Issue with WordPress categories/archive widget not working when set to “dropdown” in WP 4.9
FIXED: Issue with not being able to use the post__in parameter for the Advanced Query function in Total page builder modules
FIXED: Issues with the font_awesome shortcode target and rel attributes
REMOVED: Disabled searchform autocomplete for the header menu search dropdown because it looks bad

• ADDED: New option to the page settings meta under the header tab, so you can enable local scroll to your logo so when you click the logo it goes to the top of the page (useful for local scroll sites).
• ADDED: Custom code to allow page builder templates to be translated by Polylang
• ADDED: Developer helper function – wpex_get_first_term_id – for grabbing the first or primary (based on yoast SEO) term ID for the current or any given post
• UPDATED: Visual Composer to version 5.4.5
• UPDATED: Renamed Visual Composer settings in the theme Panel to “WP Bakery Page Builder”
• UPDATED: The “vcex_no_posts_found_message” filter so it can be used on the front-end (this filter allows you to display a message if there aren’t any posts found whenever using a Total module that calls posts/pages dynamically)
• UPDATED: Top bar social links sanitization so it allows shortcodes if needed
• FIXED: Issue with github link not working for the social links module
• FIXED: Issue with the border radius not being applied to row overlays
• FIXED: Debug error “Notice: Undefined variable: header_style”
• FIXED: Debug error caused by Templatera plugin
• FIXED: Issues with the Total social widgets not saving in the backend widgets editor after updating to WP 4.9 and added support for shortcodes to the url fields (can be useful to display social links for current user for example).
• FIXED: Design issues with color pickers in Total metabox and page builder modules since the WP 4.9 update
• FIXED: Issue with lightbox titles showing even when disabled in the Image Carousel module
• FIXED: Issues with search when using post_type in the search parameters
• REMOVED: WPBakery Page builder meta tag from site header

• ADDED: New line break shortcode [br] which you can use in Total VC modules such as a heading to add text on 2 lines
• ADDED: New function and filter “wpex_get_header_menu_search_form” so you easily override the theme header searchform
• ADDED: New option to the Customizer under WooCommerce > General to replace the header search form with the WooCommerce product search form
• ADDED: Ability to add the classname “five-columns” to any 6 column VC row to turn it into 5 columns instead.
• UPDATED: VC Page Builder to version 5.4.4
• UPDATED: Slider Revolution to version 5.4.6.3.1
• UPDATED: Header menu overlay search and cart overlay design so it’s more modern (changed ID and classnames to prevent conflicts with any possible customizations to the old design)
• UPDATED: The Total Custom CSS panel to make use of new WordPress 4.9 code editor
• UPDATED: WordPress gallery shortcode to have a default gap of 20px between the images which you can also change manually in the gallery shortcode like this. Also added a new filter “wpex_wp_gallery_shortcode_gap” so you can dynamically alter the gap value.
• FIXED: Layout issues with Total sliders and masonry grids inside VC tabs
• FIXED: Yoast SEO notice regarding wp_seo_get_bc_title filter
• FIXED: Thumbnail height and width not working for testimonials slider thumbnail navigation (and added new crop location setting)
• FIXED: Compatibility issues with updated Real Media Library plugin
• FIXED: Issue caused by the WP 4.9 update with live preview button placement when hovering over demos in the demo importer admin page
• FIXED: Issue with the demo importer not requiring the page builder plugin before importing demos