Total - Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme 5.18.1

ADDED: License registration page – activate your theme to receive updates without having to use the Envato Market plugin (updates will be provided securely via our Amazon S3 server)
ADDED: System Status box to the main Theme Panel
ADDED: Warning message to the demo importer page if the server’s max_execution_time is too low so the user can fix it before trying to import a demo
ADDED: Support to the Total Image Grid module to display image descriptions
ADDED: New Global content layout (full-screen, right-sidebar,no-sidebar) to the Customizer under Layout > General
ADDED: Option for the VC section and rows overlay function to upload a custom pattern for your overlay
ADDED: The ability to display the widgetized footer when using the footer builder – this can be useful if all you want to do is add a new section above the footer with VC content such as a newsletter section or custom callout – Important: This required altering how the footer builder is added so if you made any advanced tweaks to the footer builder via a child theme please double check them
ADDED: Customizer setting under WooCommercer > Single to enter your custom product gallery animation speed (you can enter 0 to disable completely)
ADDED: New Total “Image” module for the Visual Composer – similar to the VC Single Image module but with some different options and ability to show images based on a custom field
ADDED: Sticky support to the header builder
ADDED: Ability to select a Contact From 7 form via the Total form shortcode module
ADDED: Styling for select fields when using the Form Shortcode Total VC module
ADDED: Customizer setting under General > Search if you want to display posts only for search results (good for blogs)
ADDED: Ability to open VC tabs, tours and toggles using the keyboard tab button (for accessibility)
ADDED: Option to the Total Navbar VC module so you can enter an element name to hide the sticky menu at a certain spot on the site
ADDED: New filter ‘wpex_get_index_loop_type’ to be used with the index.php file to return correct loop type for archives (example if the filter returns ‘portfolio’ then the current archive will display using the portfolio entry styles). This is very useful if you add new custom taxonomies to built-in post types like the portfolio to make sure they look the same by default as the other portfolio archives or if you want to add a new post type with the exact same archive output
ADDED: Options to the Portfolio, Staff and Testimonials post types so you can enable the Auto Archive (has_archive parameter) instead of setting up the post type page with the Visual Composer
ADDED:New “No Sidebar, Left Sidebar and Right Sidebar” page templates that you can use with 3rd party plugins that force you to select a page template for the plugin template design
ADDED: New Boxed Title Overlay Style – screenshot
UPDATED: System UI font stack option to display simply as “system-ui” in the Customizer and VC modules – screenshot
UPDATED: Removed version number on Google fonts loaded by the theme to prevent extra browser caching
UPDATED: When editing the Header or Footer with the builder functionality and using the front-end VC editor you will now be able to see the entire site so it’s easier to design based on your site
UPDATED: Author bio social links to make use of the new “wpex_get_user_social_links” function added in Total 4.0 so you can easily add/remove items from the author bio social links, re-order them and even alter the default icon class if wanted via a child theme
UPDATED: Optimized the way the accent color is refreshed when changing the setting in the Customizer so it’s faster and smoother
UPDATED: Total VC menu module sticky function so if you you enable sticky support it won’t disable the sticky header automatically
UPDATED: Index.php to make use of template parts located at partials/loop/
FIXED: Sanitization issue with Google font subsets not allowing you to choose more then 1
FIXED: Issue with custom background color when using the boxed layout
FIXED: Issue with auto lightbox not working when JetPack photon is enabled
FIXED: Bug with “rounded” images setting not working for the image grid module
FIXED: Issue with WooCommerce content not showing up on paginated pages of the shop
FIXED: Issue with Total module icon rendering when previewing template content via the add template button in the backend/front-end editor – example
FIXED: Incompatibility issues with the Contact Form 7 multi-step addon plugin
FIXED: Issue where you couldn’t use shortcodes for the VC icon box module URL field or the VC social links URL field
FIXED: Issue with font-smoothing being applied to VC buttons when enabled in the Customizer Typography tab
REMOVED: Prefixes from opacity declarations in the CSS as they are no longer needed
REMOVED: Visual Composer branding logos from the builder pages since it just takes up extra space for no reason
REMOVED: Visual Composer’s default hidden overflow for stretched rows (only rows with VC parallax backgrounds will have a hidden overflow)
REMOVED: Title attribute on various links where it’s not needed
REMOVED: Recommendation to install the Envato Market plugin

• ADDEDSupport for shortcodes in all Total VC module text & URL fields that make sense to support shortcodes
• ADDEDLoad More pagination style for the blog
• ADDEDHouzz, Whatsapp & Spotify to social options
• ADDEDNew Option to the Customizer to exclude specific pages from being redirected incase you want some pages to be visible still and added new filter ‘wpex_has_under_construction_redirect’ you can use in a child theme for more advanced tweaking of when and when not pages should redirect
• ADDEDOption to the Total VC Image Slider module to disable the thumbnails carousel function
• ADDEDOption to the Total VC animated text module so you can enter a fixed width for the animation text which can be useful when adding a background for example so the background stays fixed and only the text changes
• ADDEDNew Total VC modules to use in Dynamic templates – post meta, social share
• ADDEDNew filter to the Total VC Image grid module (vcex_image_grid_attachment_ids) which can be used in a child theme to define the images for any image grid if you want to pull images from a 3rd party plugin for example
• ADDEDCustomizer setting to choose your custom pagination arrow style
• ADDEDCheckbox Customizer setting under Blog > Single if you want to display your media (featured image/video) above the content and sidebar for all posts
• ADDEDOption to single image module to define a title for your lightbox image/video/iframe
• ADDEDCustomizer settings for post gallery sliders under General Options > Post Gallery Slider
• ADDEDCustomizer setting under Blog > Archives & Entries to enable/disable the display of audio players for audio format posts on your archives (disabled by default)
• ADDEDCustomizer setting for WooCommerce to disable the default shop output if you want your main shop page to be built exclusively with the Visual Composer
• ADDEDNew template “Blog – Content Above” so you can have Visual Composer content on your main blog above the content and sidebar
• UPDATEDVisual Composer & Revolution Slider Plugins
• UPDATEDBetter UI for various Total module settings – screenshot
• UPDATEDUnder Construction function to use the 307 status code for the redirection
• UPDATEDOptimized the javascript for the Image Gallery Slider module a bit to prevent extra inline styles from being added to the thumbnails
• UPDATEDMinified output for the Post Types Slider Total VC module
• UPDATEDAnimated text module to include screen-reader-text
• UPDATEDCustom 404 admin page to use chosen select for the select dropdown
• UPDATEDWooCommerce account page so the Login and Register sections are in 2 columns when using the full-width layout for the page
• UPDATEDBetter ratings display on singular Woo products
• FIXEDAlignment option not working for the Total VC Icon Box “Top Icon” style
• FIXEDIssue with WooCommerce search results trying to use the default search archive rather then the default woo page
• FIXEDIssue with custom css not working properly for the before/after image VC module
• FIXEDIssue with Total custom select styles being added even if the select is set to display:none
• FIXEDIssue where stretched VC rows wouldn’t display if JS was disabled while troubleshooting the site
• FIXEDIssue with animated text module where the animated text styles were being added to the “after” text
• FIXEDIssue with image banner module where button was not included in the hidden content when the “Text on Hover” setting was enabled
• FIXEDSanitization issue when using the phone number setting in the topbar social options and issue with social options not rendering correctly in the Customizer
• FIXEDIssue with Visual Composer buttons showing up in the ACF admin panel
• FIXEDIssue where if you had Google fonts set in the Customizer and then disabled Google fonts via the Theme Panel the theme would still set those sections to the Google font
• FIXEDIssue with Single Image lightbox when setting the source to “Featured Image”
• FIXEDIssues with lightbox when using the JetPack Photon CDN
• REMOVEDSlider Revolution metabox from the templatera edit page to prevent confusion
• REMOVEDAutoHeight animation on gallery sliders for blog entries when set to a masonry grid for smoother and more efficient grids

• ADDED: Front-end Editor support for Templatera – Hot!! Exclusive to Total theme
• ADDED: System UI font stack to first option of font choices – screenshot
• ADDED: Envato Market as a recommended plugin
• ADDED: New WooCommerce Carousel VC module that will display products in the same exact style as your default archives (so it will show the rating, button, price, sale tag, image swap..etc) and renamed the old one to “custom” to prevent confusion – screenshot
• ADDED: Orderby Top Selling & Best Rated settings to the WooCommerce VC carousel modules
• ADDED: Customizer Typography setting for Buttons so you can easily make all buttons on the site a custom font-family, font weight, font style, transform, line-height and letter spacing
• ADDED: New filter ‘vcex_post_type_grid_entry_blocks’ which allow you to add custom sections to the Total post type grid VC module entry content as well as override the output of any current blocks (media, title, date, categories, excerpt, read more)
• ADDED: Extra classname “wpex-has-items” to header menu cart item counter if there are currently items in the cart this way you can style things differently if there is or isn’t items in the cart
• ADDED: Button option for the Total VC image banner module
• ADDED: Background position setting for the Total VC image banner module
• ADDED: Custom width to the Before/After image module so you can set a width according to your image size & alignment option
• ADDED: User Access setting to the Section module
• ADDED: Alignment option to the Total heading module (left/center/right) when a custom width is defined
• ADDED: New Customizer setting under WooCommerce > Single so you can choose to display the tabs in the default location or on the right side next to the image
• ADDED: Shortcode [username] which displays the name of the currently logged in user
• ADDED: Customizer Option to vertically align the header aside content in the header when using header style two
• ADDED: Typography Option for the header aside content
• ADDED: Two new helper functions for developers ‘wpex_array_insert_before’ and ‘wpex_array_insert_after’ to allow you to insert a new array value to an existing array
• ADDED: Margin setting to the staff social module so you can increase the spacing between icons
• ADDED: Visibility option for the site breadcrumbs so you can choose if the breadcrumbs should display on mobile or not
• ADDED: New “Slim” arrow style for Total VC carousels – screenshot
• ADDED: Options to change the default browser highlight colors – screenshot
• ADDED: Option to the page settings metabox so you can enable/disable the footer bottom for specific pages if needed
• ADDED: New Customizer option to fetch the page header title background from the post featured image – screenshot (this setting will only display when there is a default page header background image defined)
• ADDED: New option to the Image Slider and Testimonials Slider to enable/disable the auto height function – screenshot
• ADDED: Align option to the text block VC module when a custom width has been added and a Visibility setting
• ADDED: Responsive font size choices to the testimonial slider VC module
• ADDED: New Customizer settings for WooCommerce – hide entry add to cart button, entry alignment, hide entry rating, border radius for sale tag, padding for sale tag, shop columns gap,
• ADDED: Option to disable the page header from the Header builder main admin page for easier access to the setting without having to open the customizer
• UPDATED: Optimized the Customizer Typography settings to speed things up a bit
• UPDATED: Form styling options in the customer to include options for the input “focus”
• UPDATED: Optimized some Customizer settings to show/hide via a new javascript function without having to make checks to the WP database
• UPDATED: Breadcrumbs to display parent posts for hierarchical custom post type posts
• UPDATED: Disabled the revslider addons page unless the slider plugin is active since these are premium addons to prevent any confusion with the end customer
• UPDATED: Staff grid and carousel modules to include the advanced query setting
• UPDATED: Some code to make stretched rows load quicker
• UPDATED: Page title with background functionality so if you have a page header background set globally in the Customizer it will be used for the background when one hasn’t been set yet on the individual page settings
• UPDATED: Optimized the way post types are excluded from search results
• UPDATED: Tweaked Templatera widget so it loads any custom CSS in a more optimized way and to allow for refreshing the widget in the Customizer without refreshing the entire site when adding/customizating the widget
• UPDATED: VC text block so if a custom color is selected it will be applied to headings in the module as well
• UPDATED: Built-in breadcrumbs to auto grab the posts page and add it to the URL for blog posts if a blog page hasn’t been defined in the Customizer and updated the structured data markup
• UPDATED: Customizer Button Settings (background, color, border-radius, hovers) to also target the header 1 menu button
• UPDATED: Deprecated Total callout module so it’s no longer deprecated, added CSS to center the text and button and added some extra options to the module
• REMOVED: Pingback url from header.php file most modern themes don’t include it anymore and it reduces the number of http requests on the page
• REMOVED:WooCommerce slider setting in the Customizer and migrated it to the shop page slider meta settings to limit database checks and keep things better organized
• FIXED: Yoast SEO not auto generating a meta description when using the Visual Composer
• FIXED: Tribe Events bug where event date in the subheading may not show correctly
• FIXED: Bug with outline button styles and the theme’s custom accent color being applied as a background in carousel modules
• FIXED: Content padding not working on feature box VC module
• FIXED: Issue with dynamic template functionality and Polylang
• FIXED: Issue when using custom font stacks that include quotes
• FIXED: Lightbox “close” icon on single Woo products when only 1 image was added to the product