Total - Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme 5.18.1

• AddedNew Agency Demo “Biz“.
• AddedNew Agency Demo “Victor“.
• AddedNew Blog/Magazine Demo “Poppy“.
• AddedNew Blog/Magazine Demo “Webmag“.
• AddedNew “Bundled Plugins” tab in the Theme Panel that allows you to select which plugins you want to use this way you stop receive notices regarding plugin updates or plugin installations for certain plugins you choose not to use.
• AddedYou can now enable “Infinite Scroll” pagination for the Post Cards & Image Grid elements (screenshot).
• AddedSequential CSS animation support added (new option added to the Post Cards element – for use anywhere else simply add the classname “wpb-animate-in-sequence” to an element such as a row to sequentially animate animated items within the element).
• AddedYou can now enable Videos for the Post Cards element.
• AddedYou can now enable “Accordion” style tabs for WooCommerce products.
• AddedStacking Breakpoint option added to the Advertisement widget.
• AddedYou can now set your links underline offset and thickness via the Customizer.
• AddedYou can now disable the page header title for the search results page via the Customizer.
• AddedYou can now select to display your mobile menu icon label on the left or right of the hamburger icon via the Customizer.
• AddedYou can now remove parent pages from the theme breadcrumbs via a new Customizer setting.
• AddedYou can now align your toggle bar content via a new Customizer setting (left/center/right).
• AddedMany more options added to the Breadcrumbs element for greater flexibility.
• AddedCustomizer options added to change the default load more button loader icon size, color and select from various different loader icons.
• AddedNew options added to the Post Terms element to control the link underline color, offset and thickness when displaying standard links (not styled buttons).
• AddedNew admin column added to the Theme Panel > Color Palette page so you can quickly view the color hex value.
• AddedNew dynamic values for use with Advanced Queries for the current date as well as operators for use when making meta_query comparisons (see docs).
• AddedYou can now select a custom font family for the Icon Box and Feature Box content (previously you could only adjust the heading).
• AddedYou can now enter your preferred dimensions for your numbered pagination items via the Customizer which will apply a min-height and min-width to each item. This can be used to create perfect circles.
• AddedSupport added for the relevanssi plugin when using a custom search results template and the post cards element.
• AddedYou can now select your featured Post for the Post Cards “Featured Card” functionality. This way rather then displaying the first post you can feature a specific post and update it manually.
• AddedYou can now disable the submit button for the “Search Bar” element.
• AddedYou can now select a custom Stack Breakpoint for the “Search Bar” element.
• AddedYou can now enable a “clear” button (x) for the “Search Bar” element.
• AddedYou can now select a shadow for the Icon Box element image.
• AddedBuilt-in support for Relevanssi term highlighting via the theme’s custom excerpt/title functions.
• AddedLink to the Font Manager added to the Customizer font family typography field description.
• AddedThe Grid/Flex containers were missing the Unique ID field.
• AddedNew Card Styles: Blog 19, Blog 20, Blog 21, Blog List 19, Blog List 20, Blog List 21
• UpdatedTotal Theme Core & Slider Revolution Plugins have been updated.
• UpdatedVarious Customizer fields now allow you to click on the “PX” to change the unit (sample video)
• UpdatedVarious Customizer fields now allow you to enter “0” instead of having to use “0px”.
• UpdatedCustomizer “padding” fields to display inputs for each direction (screenshot) – this will also allow you now to only adjust a specific side if you wanted without affecting the other sides.
• UpdatedCustom width fields when editing theme elements via WPBakery now allow the use of calc and clamp CSS functions.
• UpdatedWhen using CSS animations on elements that also have a load more button, the items will now animated only when scrolled to (previously all loaded items would be animated on load).
• UpdatedOptimized the way the “Auto Query” function works with dynamic templates to prevent extra database hits when using standard numbered pagination or pagination is disabled.
• UpdatedYou can now select the “Archive Title” as a source for the Heading element which returns the value from the WP core the_archive_title function (useful for archive templates).
• UpdatedThe Search Bar element has been updated to use flex styles so it can use utility classes instead of it’s own CSS and allow for greater customization.
• UpdatedThe default Footer Bottom copyright text has been updated to use the new [site_name] shortcode and [site_url].
• UpdatedSplit up some of the WooCommerce Single Product Customizer settings into their own tabs to make them easier to find.
• UpdatedImproved Responsiveness of the “slim” absolute positioned carousel style arrows.
• UpdatedHuge optimization for theme carousel rendering on page load. We use advanced CSS to display carousels as a grid prior to the javascript execution (if you are using child theme functions to modify the carousel responsive parameters you may need to disable this optimization via the new “vcex_optimize_carousels_onload” filter).
• UpdatedCarousel script so if there aren’t enough items and “Loop” is enabled the carousel won’t clone items to make the loop work instead it will just hide the next/previous arrows and bullets.
• UpdatedOptimized the infinite scroll pagination for archives (when not using dynamic templates) so it uses the same script as the load more button which prevents the need for extra scripts as well as it speeds up the loading of new posts.
• FixedWhen using the Post Cards element with the Featured Card enabled the last post was not loading when using the load more button or when using standard pagination with the featured card disabled for paginated pages.
• Fixed The custom background wasn’t working with the Teaser box element when set to the Boxed Square style.
• Fixed The “Transparent Header Offset” setting wasn’t working correctly when used along with a Full-Height row.
• FixedThe WPBakery show animations wouldn’t work correctly when the DOM was changing due to dynamic elements such as load more buttons, grid filters and toggles.
• FixedWhen adding a custom color to the Breadcrumbs element it wasn’t working as expected due to the default opacity added to the separator and ending trail text.
• FixedThe scroll to top button border radius setting wasn’t working.
• FixedThe Shrink sticky header logo start height field wasn’t displaying in the Customizer when using header style one.
• FixedWhen adding a shadow, fixed background or featured image background to a WPBakery column it was being added to the inner row columns as well.
• FixedWhen using dynamic strings for Advanced Queries inside multi-dimensional arrays, the strings were not being converted to their dynamic value.
• FixedThe Events Calendar before/after content was being added twice to the site due to an update to how the Events Calendar default template works.
• FixedThe List Divider was not showing when using the Post Cards element and loading new items via the load more button.
• FixedThe deprecated WPBakery tabs, tours and accordions were not showing up with the recent javascript optimizations.

AddedNew setting added to the WPBakery Row element so you can set the Column widths to take on the default Layout widths (content area + sidebar widths) defined in the Customizer. This way if you create a dynamic template and want to insert a row with a sidebar you can use this new setting to ensure the layout used in the dynamic template matches other standard pages with sidebars. It also gives you more control over the widths. This setting will work with any 2 column layout (1/2+1/2, 1/3+2/3, etc).
AddedReddit has been added social options.
AddedExtra classname and Unique ID options added to the Social Share & Post Comments elements.
Added“Active Toggle Text” setting will now display when the Button element “On click action” is set to “Toggle Element” so that you can display a different text when the button is active and the toggle area is visible (sample usage).
Added [comments_number] shortcode can be used to display the number of comments on the current post (by default the shortcode will display formatted text like “10 Comments” but you can use format=”false” to display only a number).
AddedCustomizer options added under the Social Share Buttons tab so you can enter custom labels for your buttons (for example if you want to change “Twitter” to “Tweet”.
AddedCustomizer option added to enter a custom placeholder text for the header search.
UpdateTotal Theme Core updated to version 1.4.4
UpdatE You can now insert the Feature Box into the Grid & Flex containers.
UpdatedThe Youtube social icon now uses a play button icon instead which is more readable.
FixThe feature box Image was not properly stretching when the Vertical Align option was enabled.
FixWhen disabling the dark surface on the Sidebar mobile menu the links would still hover white.
FixWhen displaying a video lightbox via the Theme button using a shortcode the url was not being parsed correctly (when the lightbox type field was set to video instead of default).
FixWhen assigning a Custom Widget area to a post type it was only being applied to the singular post and not the post type archive.
FixThe Header Replace search style was not inheriting the header text color defined in the Customizer so if you had a custom header background and color it was still displaying with the default gray text.
FixThe Image Swap overlay style was not swapping image when tabbing with the keyboard.
FixThe Image Swap overlay style was not swapping back when double tapping on mobile devices or swiping.
FixThe header background was incorrect when using the Boxed Layout with a custom inner content background color and a custom header background color.
FixThe Social links element was incorrectly expanding the links when the Labels setting was enabled.
FixIcon Boxes were not “stretching” inside grid/flex containers when they had a CSS animation and/or URL wrap.

AddedDemo released – Worship (already available for use).
AddedHeader Style “Flex: Centered Logo” added.
AddedPost Excerpt element added (great for use with dynamic templates).
AddedCard Styles Added – Blog 16, Blog List 16, Blog 17, Blog List 17, Blog 18, Blog List 18, Staff 7, Staff 8.
AddedThe new Blog 18 and Blog List 18 card styles have a clean design and a link around the entire entry (highly requested card style).
AddedYou can now enable “Alternate List Style Card Thumbnail Position” on the Post Cards element that will swap the post card thumbnail between showing on the left or right.
AddedCustom fields (Budget, Company Name, Company URL) added to the portfolio post edit screen Theme Settings tab that can be displayed when creating dynamic templates or via the new “Project Details” portfolio post layout block in the Customizer.
Added“Project Details” block now available under Customize > Portfolio > Single Post > Post Layout Elements (disabled by default).
AddedYou can now enable a select dropdown for smaller screens on the Staff Grid, Portfolio Grid, Blog Grid, Testimonials Grid and Post Type Grids filter.
AddedYou can now choose “Do Not Stack” for the Post Cards Media breakpoint, this way if you are using a left/right card style you can keep that layout for all devices.
AddedYou can now enter a custom “Media Max-Width” for the Post Cards element which provides more control over the thumbnail display. For example if you select 60% for the media width but want to make sure the image is never larger than 200px wide you can now use this field for that.
AddedYou can now enable “Custom Design” on the Social Share element which can be used to display social links differently than the default theme design controlled via the Customizer. This will allow you to display social sharing links in one way at the top of your post and differently at the bottom of a post when creating a Dynamic Template.
AddedLetter spacing field added to the Page Title element.
AddedPost Subheading option added to the Heading element “Text Source” field.
AddedNew setting for the Post Next/Previous Post Links element allows you to disable the text underline when using the “Plain Text” button style.
Added “Font Weight” setting adding to the Contact Form labels tab since the default font weight for the contact form label font weight is semi-bold this will allow you to change it.
Added “Before Text Font Weight” setting added to the Custom Field element.
Added “Label Font Weight” setting added to the Post Meta element.
Added “Extra class name” field in the WPBakery element popup edit box for Total Elements now links to the CSS Framework for quick access to theme classes.
Added“Long Dash” option added the the Post Meta element separator options.
AddedVisibility setting added to the Flex & Grid Container elements.
AddedArial Label setting added to the Button element.
AddedCustomizer option added to control the vertical link padding for your main menu items when using one of the new Flex header styles. This is useful when enabling the “Hover & Active Underline” so you can move the underline closer or farther from the text as well as move the dropdowns closer to the text.
AddedCustomizer option “Top Bar Item Responsive Breakpoint” so you can control when the [topbar_item] shortcode elements stack.
AddedThe Author Bio element now has a new “Alt 5” style to choose from (matches new Blog 17 post card style).
AddedField added to the Post Types Unlimited admin screen so you can change the default read more button text for entries.
UpdatedThe Total Theme Core plugin has been updated to version 1.4.3 and Slider Revolution to version 6.5.24.
UpdatedThe Feature Box element has been updated to use modern flex styles for slimmer code, remove the need for equal height javascript and overall more flexibility.
UpdatedThe Social Links element now uses flex styles to prevent extra spacing from being added below each icon and slim down code.
UpdatedTotal theme element font size fields now accept calc() and clamp() values.
UpdatedTotal theme element font size field displays in full-width now by default to make it easier to add complex font-sizes (screencast).
UpdatedPost Cards element now allows you to enter a custom Column gap value when showing a Grid or a custom List Spacing value when displaying a list.
UpdatedCSS now automatically targets any mega menu heading that has a “#” as the link to set the pointer-events property to none so you don’t have to worry about adding the “nav-no-click” class to your mega menu headings.
UpdatedRenamed the “Bolder” font weight used in Total element settings to “Black” and added “Extra Bold” setting to prevent confusion.
UpdatedThe theme CSS framework Gap classes can now be applied responsively so you can have different gaps at different breakpoints.
UpdatedThe Top Bar “Responsive Breakpoint” setting now allows you to select “None” if you wish to prevent the items from stacking on smaller screen sizes (if stacking is disabled and the Top bar content is too long a horizontal scrollbar will be added).
UpdatedThe Top Bar items (when using the [topbar_item] shortcode) will now stack at 640px instead of 479px for consistency and so they can make use of utility classes.
UpdatedThe Header Aside content field when using a flex header style now has a quick insert button for adding the Social Links shortcode.
UpdatedThe Post Cards element now allows you to select 70% and 80% for your Media Width.
UpdatedThe social share buttons now have better screen reader text when the labels are disabled (when it’s only showing icons)
UpdatedYou can now insert the Social Links and Author Bio elements inside the Flex Container element.
UpdatedThe Email social color button now uses gray instead of yellow to match the social sharing buttons and for better contrast (accessibility).
UpdatedThe Post Cards element will now allow you to display the divider before the first entry when showing a List style grid with the divider enabled.
UpdatedRead more links (archives and cards) now include aria-label text for better accessibility (learn more).
FixedWhen using the Spacing element if you entered a calc() or clamp() value that included a px unit the spacing wouldn’t work correctly.
FixedThe Custom Login “Bottom Links Hover Color” option wasn’t working.
FixedIssue where the Ubermenu mobile menu may not be clickable.
FixedIssue where using a Numbered list with a load more button would reset the counter whenever new items were loaded.
FixedNot being able to scroll when using the popup cart function and having a lot of items in the cart.
FixedImage Banner element was not adding the image alt tag when enabling the “Use Image Tag” setting.
FixedWhen enabling a filter for the first time when using a Total grid element via the WPBakery frontend editor the grid wouldn’t display.
FixedThe Text logo (non image based logo) was not vertically centered when using the Centered Header Logo style.
FixedThe Testimonials 9 Card Style wasn’t adjusting correctly when changing the media width.
FixedCards were not displaying with equal heights when using the CSS Modern Grid Post Cards grid style.
FixedWhen updating bundled plugins even plugins that were not previously activated would be activated after updating.
RemovedCSS that was targeting header menu items to disable pointer events if a link didn’t have an href because it could break 3rd party plugins.
UpdatedSome total element descriptions in the WPBakery insert popup had a period at the end so the periods were removed for consistency.
RemovedThe text underline on the Recent Comments with Avatars widget.