Total Theme v6.0
Release Date: November 20, 2024
- Root Font Size: Total previously used a CSS reset that set the HTML element's font size to 10px, an outdated practice intended to simplify the use of rem units. However, this approach can lead to issues on modern websites. To align with current standards, enhance accessibility, and avoid conflicts with third-party plugins or scripts that rely on rem units, the theme will no longer modify the root font size. If you have been using rem units on your site, please review your settings. Alternatively, you can add the following custom CSS to your site: html { font-size: 62.5%; }
- SVG Icons: The biggest change in this update is switching from font icons to SVG icons to speed up your site, make it easier to update the icons and allow for custom icon selections. If you were previously targeting icons with CSS or inserting icons using the font icon classes/CSS you will need to revise your customizations.
- Partial File Edits: Various partial theme files has been updated. Most notably the searchform.php file. As usual, if you modified any partial files via your child theme you will need to compare them to the theme's version and update them accordingly. To prevent having to do this after each update we recommend never editing partial files. Most edits can be done using hooks/filters, if you aren't sure please reach out for help.
- Dark Mode: This functionality has been introduced but it's disabled by default because it requires loading extra scripts and adding new settings which not every site will want (keeps things slim by default). You can enable Dark Mode via the Theme Panel but if you do this on a previously set up website it will require revising your Customizer settings, pages and templates to ensure colors assigned to various elements are using either theme colors or color palette colors that have dark color variations.
- New Default Font Size & Layout: The theme's new default font size will be 16px and default site width will be 1280px to bring the theme to modern standards. Along with some small design changes to inputs & button paddings, preset font sizes, line heights...etc. When updating your site, you will not be forced into these changes. Instead a new "Classic Styles" option will be enabled in the Theme Panel (tagged under the new "Deprecated" feature type). This way you can update without concerns, but if you choose, you can easily opt-out and use the new standards.
- Updated Logo: The header logo has been updated to use modern flex classes instead of tables (finally). If you had added CSS to modify the vertical-align property of the logo this would need to be changed to use the align-items property.
- Blockquote Design: The blockquote uses new modern CSS for the quote icon - if you had customized the default blockquote design you may need to revise your tweaks.
- Optimized Sticky: If you were previously using the "wpex-js-sticky" class you may want to test with the CSS only "wpex-sticky" class instead. New sticky enhancement's allow for the class to automatically offset the sticky topbar, header and menu elements.
- Input Styles: CSS targeting inputs has been updated to use the :where() pseudo-class function so they can be overwritten with utility classes. Thus, various inputs such as the header search and mobile menu search have been updated to use utility classes where possible to slim down the style.css. If you were targeting any inputs using custom CSS you may need to revise your edits. And if you were doing this, in the future, make sure you are creating/targeting unique classnames for smoother/easier updates.
- Z-indexes: New z-index utility classes have been introduced to create consistency and prevent z-index issues. Any theme element that previously had a z-index has been updated to use these new classes.
- RTL: The theme has been enhanced with direction-aware CSS, eliminating the need for a custom style-rtl.css file. Text alignments and left/right icons are now bidirectional by default, simplifying the development of multi-language sites. If you were manually setting alignments or direction based icons on a multi-language site, you can use this snippet to to revert back.
- Added
New Horizontal & Off Canvas Menu Elements (with these new elements it’s recommended to use the Header Builder for new sites to keep the site as slim and fast as possible – both are available in WPBakery & Elementor).
- Added
New “Dark Mode” functionality.
- AddedAbility to set “Dark Mode” color variations for your color palette colors.
- AddedNew Header & Footer Patterns for WPBakery.
- AddedACF Repeater Dynamic Template type and ACF Repeater element (for ACF Pro users) – this will allow you to display a repeater field as a list, grid, flex container, carousel or ul/ol list. Similar to the Post Cards and Card Builder but for ACF repeater fields.
- AddedNew “Modal (Live Search)” header menu search type.
- AddedMenu Item Mega Menu Columns & Icon fields to the Appearance > Menus dashboard.
- AddedOption to the Header Builder to select an alternative header template for use with Transparent headers.
- AddedOption to choose between JavaScript or CSS for the Header Builder sticky header.
- AddedImage Position option to the Image Sizes panel that can be used with the Aspect Ratio setting.
- AddedA 200ms delay dropdowns to prevent “flickering” when quickly hovering over menu items.
- AddedBackground & Border color theme color pickers to the WPBakery section, row, column and text block elements so it’s easier to use your color palette.
- AddedHover Title & Add to Cart Hover Image Overlay styles.
- AddedTheme Panel option so you can disable the “Post Media” custom fields.
- AddedNew visibility settings: “Visible on Small Phones” and “Hidden on Small Phones” (640px breakpoint).
- AddedClassname “megamenu-col-full” which can be added to a mega menu item to display it full-width (for example if you want some columns at the top and a full-width column below them).
- AddedHeading tab to the Post Cards element for inserting a heading before the cards that will not display if there aren’t any items found.
- AddedCarousel arrow styles: rounded white, rounded black and rounded accent.
- AddedTop right carousel arrow position.
- Added“Flex Justification” field to the Post Cards element for use with the flex container and horizontal scroll display types. This way you can horizontally align your cards. For example, if you select 4 columns as your flex basis and you have only 3 posts you can display them centered, spaced out, etc.
- AddedURL Search Parameter field to the Post Cards element which allows you to enter a URL parameter name to perform searches on the post cards element based on the current page URL. This allows you to create on page search functions like the theme filters page.
- AddedReload on Clear on/off switch for the search bar element, which can be used when creating a custom search function that’s hooked into the Post Cards element on the same page so when the user hits the clear button it will also refresh the page to revert the query back to all posts.
- AddedBleed option for the Post Cards carousel display type, which will allow items to overflow to the side(s).
- AddedAbility to use FadeOut animation for the Post Cards element when set to the Carousel type and displaying a single item.
- AddedIcon Dimensions, Icon Background and Icon Border Radius options to the Toggle element.
- AddedAnimate, FAQ Markup, Icon Type and Icon Position options to the Toggle Group making it easier to control the display of all child Toggles.
- Added“Homepage” as a link option type for various elements (Image, Button, Heading) which is useful with the header builder.
- Added More theme styles to the WPBakery Tabs element.
- AddedBottom Margin to the WPBakery textfield element.
- Added“Auto” layout option to the Callout element.
- AddedIcon size options to the Button element.
- AddedDirection option to the Social Links element (horizontal/vertical).
- AddedMore Cart icon options added to the Customizer.
- AddedDynamic variable for displaying theme icons icon_{name} or icon_id_{attachment_id}.
- AddedDynamic variable primary_term for displaying the primary term name (alias for category).
- AddedBasic styling for block based WooCommerce cart and check out pages.
- AddedOff Canvas Sidebar option added for the WooCommerce cart (this is the new default cart style).
- Added“Dynamic” option to the Customizer Sidebar > Mobile Placement setting. When selected the sidebar will automatically be placed at the top when using a left sidebar.
- AddedCustomizer option to enable a logo for the sidebar mobile menu (text or image).
- AddedCustomizer option for entering a custom “gap” for items added to the Header Aside area in a flex header.
- AddedCustomizer option to control the custom logo icon size.
- AddedCustomizer option to select the main menu “Dropdown Arrow Size”.
- AddedCustomizer options to modify the Header Search Replace background color, text color, text transform and font size.
- AddedCustomizer options for sticky WooCommerce product summary and sticky gallery.
- AddedCustomizer option to enable a sticky sidebar.
- AddedCustomizer option for header menu dropdown “Max Width”.
- AddedCustomizer options for WooCommerce cart thumbnail max width and cart responsive breakpoint.
- AddedCustomizer option for WooCommerce to enable a sticky summary which allows you to create the affect where it looks like the product gallery images scroll vertically.
- AddedCustomizer option for WooCommerce to enable a sticky gallery so that the gallery images remain sticky if your product details are very long (like Amazon.com).
- AddedCustomizer option where you can enter the position for your Header 5 centered logo. This is a numeric field, so if you enter 3 your logo will be added after the second item.
- AddedCustomizer option to disable the WooCommerce “Added to Cart” notice that displays on the single product pages – when disabled, if you are using the new Off-Canvas cart function it will open when the page refreshes to let the user know the item was added to the cart.
- AddedHealth Check so if your license is not active or you don’t have a default WP theme installed it will let you know that updates won’t display for the theme.
- AddedAria label options in the Accessibility panel for the Toggle Bar button, open cart button and open search buttons.
- AddedUtility classes for color palette borders: has-{color_slug}-border-color.
- AddedOption to the Post Types Unlimited “Theme Settings – General” tab to disable WPBakery. This way you can quickly disable it completely for any post type without messing with User Roles.
- AddedNew text_color and opacity attributes for the highlight shortcode.
- AddedInner background, border width, border style, border color and padding options to the Image element.
- AddedImage Overlay option to the Image Swap element.
- AddedIntegration for the free LifterLMS plugin.
- AddedNotice to the bundled plugin installation page to alert users that they can disable plugins via the Theme Panel.
- AddedHelp tab to the Appearance > Menus page explaining how to create mega menus with some useful classes.
- AddedImage Aspect Ratio option to the Posts Thumbnails Grid & Posts With Thumbnails widgets.
- AddedImage Container Width field to the Posts With Thumbnails widget so you can define a width without having to crop the image.
- Updated
SVG Theme Icons – The theme will no longer load a theme icons font family. Instead all theme icons will render using SVG html code. Previously a fairly large theme icon font was loaded which contained all icons and CSS to render them which created unnecessary bloat. Now only the code needed for the icons used on a given page will be added to the site keeping your site as fast as possible. This was a crucial update in modernizing and optimizing the theme. If you were previously customizing any icons via CSS or inserting icons using HTML (you should have used the theme functions or shortcodes) you may need to revise your edits.
- UpdatedThe WPBakery Page Builder and added fixes/enhancements for their latest version.
- UpdatedThe Header Style 5 (centered logo inside menu) now uses PHP instead of Javascript so it will display instantly.
- UpdatedSticky topbar, header and menu javascript has been moved into their own files and loaded only if needed.
- UpdatedHeader search javascript has been moved to their own files (dropdown, overlay, header replace) so only the code for the selected style is added to the site.
- UpdatedTheme Panel icons.
- UpdatedTheme icons have been updated to use newer/modern designs (based on the latest FontAwesome v6) and more icon options have been added.
- UpdatedOptimized how theme SVG icons are used so instead of having hundreds of SVG’s inside the theme the theme now uses a single JSON file with all icon definitions.
- UpdatedMobile menus are now rendered only when the user first opens them to optimize page loading. A new event wpex:mobileMenuRendered is fired if you need to inject content with JS.
- UpdatedThe Image Sizes panel now has a “Crop?” setting added for each image size to hide the crop settings by default.
- UpdatedThe theme now uses modern logical properties and values for left/right margins, paddings and borders to provide automatic RTL support.
- UpdatedThe default font size and layout width has changed to 1rem and 1280px respectfully to bring the theme into modern standards. If you are updating these changes won’t affect the site. A new “Classic Styles” theme panel setting will be automatically enabled for anyone updating so you don’t have to make any manual adjustments to existing sites.
- UpdatedThe Blockquote design has been updated to use an SVG icon via modern CSS instead of an image. This way the icon will automatically change color based on the text color.
- UpdatedThe Mobile Menu Style choices now includes “Dropdown, Dropdown (Inline) and Dropdown (Full Height).
- UpdatedThe mega menu heading default font size now uses the “Large” preset font size so it stands out (was too small before).
- UpdatedThe Header menu dropdowns now inherit their font size instead of being slightly smaller. The menu dropdown font size was previously set to 0.923em, so while most won’t tell the difference of this change, it will keep things consistent and prevents issues when using em values for your custom font sizes.
- UpdatedThe searchform.php file has been updated to include new checks for easily modifying the style, placeholder, input_id, input_class, submit_class, submit_icon and submit_text via the core ‘search_form_args’ filter.
- UpdatedBBPress styles to clean a few things up and remove forum title icons.
- UpdatedThe theme button “Active Toggle Text” field now allows for shortcodes and dynamic variables.
- UpdatedIf you want to link to a section on your site using an element ID instead of the theme’s local scroll ID you can now do so using the format site.com/#_section-id – by using an underscore after the hashtag it prevents the browser’s initial jump to the section so that the theme can scroll to it smoothly and properly offset sticky elements. If your site doesn’t have any sticky elements you don’t need to worry and you should disable the option under Customize > General > Local Scroll Links > Scroll to URL hash.
- UpdatedThe default block quote design uses the new CSS image-mask property for the quote icon for retina-ready icons that support custom coloring.
- UpdatedThe Image Grid element now supports Custom Links when used in Elementor.
- UpdatedWooCommerce product tabs default design.
- UpdatedThe WooCommerce notices to use the newer block based notices by default (disabled when updating – can be enabled via Customize > WooCommerce (Total) > General > Block Notices).
- UpdatedThe options to enable the search & cart icons in the header menu now work with the Flex Header styles (when updating those settings will be automatically disabled if you are using a flex header so you don’t have to manually update your site).
- UpdatedThe WooCommerce Template part element now displays only the specific part name in the WPBakery backend editor so it’s easier to see the various parts on the page.
- UpdatedThe WooCommerce cart page will now display vertically on small screens so it’s easier to use and so it can display product thumbnails.
- UpdatedThe Customize > WooCommerce > Shop & Archives > Category Description Position setting now allows you to select “Hidden” as an option.
- UpdatedThe WooCommerce plus/minus quantity buttons are now added with PHP instead of javascript so they render instantly. If you are using a plugin that also inserts plus and minus buttons this change could cause a conflict and you may need to go to Appearance > Customize > WooCommerce (Total) > General and change the “Quantity Buttons Style” to “Browser Default”.
- UpdatedThe WooCommerce “Menu Cart: Display” setting in the Customizer now has a new option “Icon with Dot” which will display the icon and if any items are in the cart it will show a small dot on the top right over the icon.
- UpdatedWhen using visibility settings in the WPBakery page builder items will no longer be hidden but rather display with an opacity making it easier to work without having to switch to smaller screen sizes to view them.
- UpdatedThe comments pagination older/newer comments links have been updated to include arrows and to look like links so they are more accessible. We’ve also added a fix for a WP bug when changing the comment order so it displays the correct text.
- UpdatedThe Overlay Search style magnifying glass icon is now a button which provides better accessibility.
- UpdatedThe Image Banner and Teaser elements now have the same link options as other elements.
- UpdatedThe checklist format has been updated to use an SVG icon.
- UpdatedIcons added to the categories, archive, recent comments an recent post widgets now use SVG’s instead of theme icons.
- UpdatedSome Card styles where using “Text 3” instead of “Text 2” for the excerpt text color making it too light.
- UpdatedThe theme icon shortcode margin attributes so they support any unit (not just pixels) and the color attribute supports the accent color as well as css variables. A new attribute has also been added named “bidirectional” which when set to true will flip the icon horizontally in RTL mode.
- UpdatedThe Recent Posts with Icons widget icons to match the icons added over images when the “Thumbnail Post Format Icons” option is enabled in the Theme Panel.
- UpdatedOptimized the CSS for the thumbnail post format icons so they display instantly instead of waiting for the page to load.
- UpdatedGutenberg editor CSS has been updated so form styles are only applied to theme elements to prevent conflicts with 3rd party plugins and editor inputs.
- UpdatedWhen “Editor Styles” is disabled in the Theme Panel the theme will still load the needed styles for theme blocks and cards.
- UpdatedWhen “Editor Styles” is disabled in the Theme Panel the theme will still add a little inline CSS to the Gutenberg editor to increase the default fault size because it’s very small (it’s recommended to leave Editor Styles enabled though so the Editor better matches your live site).
- UpdatedThe List Item and Icon Box elements now add the new “wpex-icon–w” classname to the icon to ensure all icons are the same width when adding multiple list items with different icons one after another.
- UpdatedThe “Quote” post format now uses a blockquote element for the design for design consistency.
- UpdatedAll close icons (mobile menu, header search replace, search overlay and cart overlay) so they now use an SVG icon to slim down the CSS used to target the elements, allow easier modification and consistency.
- UpdatedThe next and previous links that display by default at the bottom of posts now use a single arrow icon.
- UpdatedThe overlay search will now close when clicking anywhere outside of the search form.
- UpdatedWhen using the staff user relationship if the user description is empty the theme will automatically display the staff member “excerpt” for the author bio description.
- UpdatedThe WPBakery Tab and Accordion elements will no longer animate by default. A new setting was added under Customize > WPBakery so you can re-enable the animation if you want, but it’s recommended to keep them disabled.
- UpdatedThe Image Carousel element will now display the video icon for images with videos when lightbox is enabled to be consistent with the Image Grid element.
- UpdatedThe Social Links element horizontal and vertical padding options now accept custom values.
- UpdatedBetter keyboard support and instructions for the carousel element for improved accessibility.
- UpdatedWhen using the dropdown mobile menu style with the “Inline With Content” setting enabled; clicking on a local scroll link inside the mobile menu will instantly scroll to section rather then closing the mobile menu first and waiting.
- UpdatedThe theme now enables support for the newer WooCommerce block notices design.
- UpdatedThe main header menu dropdowns now have a max-width of 320px to prevent very long dropdowns (does not apply to mega menus).
- UpdatedClosing the mobile menu will no longer close sub menu items that were opened.
- UpdatedThe Lightbox gallery thumbnails now display on the bottom instead of the right side.
- UpdatedThe Raw HTML WPBakery element is now available for use inside custom cards.
- UpdatedThe WPBakery tab, tour and accordion animations will be disabled by default in new installs.
- UpdatedThe Favicons panel is now disabled by default on new installations. It’s best to use the “new” core function at “Settings > General > Site Icon”.
- UpdatedWhen the “Classic Styles” setting is disabled in the Theme Panel (aka new installations) the WPBakery Row “Inner Column Gap” and “Remove Bottom Margin” options will only apply to that specific row and not it’s inner rows. This edit was done in this way to prevent issues with customers updating their theme.
- UpdatedThe WPBakery backend view for the Custom Field element so it’s easier to see the selected field.
- UpdatedWhen using the Image Swap element and the source set to “Featured & Secondary Images” if only one of the images is set, the element will still display the one image.
- UpdatedThe related posts heading for singular custom post types now uses the format “Related {Post Type Name Label}” instead of “Related Items”.
- UpdatedThe text in the TGMPA activation script used for bundled plugins to use the word “optional” for SliderRevolution, WPBakery and Templatera.
- UpdatedThe List (bullets) element to add the role=”list” attribute to the UL tag for better accessibility.
- UpdatedOptimized WPBakery patterns to work with the new dark mode functionality, use only theme icons, use global font sizes, avoid custom hex colors where possible, use slimmer code and have higher quality screenshots.
- FixedCustomizer icons in the latest version of WordPress.
- FixedThe Recent News date element was using fixed pixel font sizes so it wouldn’t get bigger/smaller based on your site’s font size. It’s been updated to use preset font sizes instead for better responsiveness and full control.
- FixedThe theme will now automatically flip menu drop-downs if they don’t fit in the viewport.
- FixedThe Header Two Aside search form was not using the Customizer input font sizes and styles or adjusting to your body font size.
- FixedIssue where the Post Excerpt element was not correctly returning a trimmed excerpt.
- FixedMissing structured data on single WooCommerce products when using a dynamic template.
- FixedMissing required attribute on header 2 search form and dropdown mobile menu searchform.
- FixedYou could not select or enter a custom field for the Icon element when choosing a custom field link type.
- FixedThe Sticky topbar when enabled on mobile, was not using the mobile menu breakpoint value so it was inconsistent with other sticky elements.
- FixedThe “wpex-sticky” utility class was not working with WPBakery sections and rows.
- FixedThe browser would potentially scroll down a bit when opening the toggle style mobile menu.
- FixedThe toggle bar element had an aria-hidden attribute and was missing screen reader text.
- FixedThe WooCommerce Entry Title typography setting in the Customizer was not targeting product entries added with the Post Cards element.
- FixedThe Customizer was still showing the “Mega Menu” and “Menu Dropdown” tabs in the Customizer when using a custom header via the Header Builder.
- FixedPost Meta icon placement when an item wrapped onto the next line.
- FixedWhen inserting the Post Content element in a dynamic template using Elementor it would display other elements that were previously added to the page instead of the dummy placeholder.
- FixedThe horizontal social share button border radius did not match the defined button border radius.
- FixedMissing aria-labels for the header search and header cart shortcodes.
- FixedThe term custom card style setting was not working with the Post Cards element and dynamic taxonomy templates.
- FixedPotential issue with extra spacing between post entries and the pagination element.
- FixedWhen logged in with the WP admin toolbar enabled the Lightbox toolbar was being placed underneath the WP toolbar so it couldn’t be accessed.
- FixedThe Toggle Group element didn’t have any default spacing between toggles when setting the style to “none”.
- FixedThe Min/Max Font Size not working correctly with the WPBakery Text Block element causing the max font size to be added to the container resulting in very large space above and below the text.
- FixedWhen using the “Stack at Breakpoint” option for the Icon Box, the icon was centered on mobile instead of being on the left.
- FixedWPBakery display issues in the front-end editor when in RTL mode.
- FixedIssues with the Post Card block not displaying/updating correctly in the Gutenberg editor.
- FixedUsing the keyboard spacebar was not opening the mobile menu or header search elements.
- FixedIssue where you couldn’t use global Elementor colors with theme elements.
- FixedAlignment not working with the “Side Border” theme heading style (it would always be on the left).
- FixedThe WooCommerce product entry titles were not taking on heading styles as defined in the Customizer (font-family, font weight, letter spacing, text transform…etc) – this change will only affect new installs or if Classic Styles is disabled in the Theme Panel.
- FixedTheme element icons not displaying in WPBakery when logged in as non-admin.
- FixedThe Next/Previous Post Links element wouldn’t display anything in the front-end builder (WPBakery or Elementor) – it now uses “dummy” posts so you can see both items for easier editing.
- FixedWhen using the left/right alignments in various theme elements it was not automatically switching direction in RTL.
- FixedMissing p tag around custom excerpts.
- FixedThe theme was loading the wpex-mobile-menu-breakpoint-max and wpex-mobile-menu-breakpoint-min CSS files when the header builder was enabled even though the files aren’t needed then.
- FixedThe theme will no longer display the “Hidden/Show at Mobile Menu breakpoint” visibility settings when the header builder is enabled to prevent confusion.
- FixedImage alt attributes not translating when using WPML.
- RemovedNo longer needed JS polyfills from core js.
- RemovedUnnecessary link title attributes from social links.
- RemovedThe opacity on the breadcrumbs element separator has been removed because it causes issues when choosing custom colors.
- RemovedTitle from breadcrumbs by default (for new installations).
- RemovedThe theme’s meta generator tag.
Total Theme v5.8.0
Release Date: May 28, 2023
There is a new Theme Panel option named "WPBakery Slim Mode" which can be enabled to remove redundant or what we consider to be "useless" elements from WPBakery, hide dynamic elements when editing standard posts/pages and remove the WPBakery Grid Builder post type. When enabled the theme will also remove the default WPBakery js_composer.min.css file and load a custom CSS file with only the core CSS needed (about 94% smaller).
This functionality can also be selectively enabled/disabled via the "totaltheme\integration\wpbakery\slim_mode\is_enabled" filter. For example if there is a specific element you were using but it's only on one or a few pages you can use the filter to disable slim mode on those pages.
Please keep in mind that this is technically a micro-optimization so you don't have to go around and try updating all your sites to use this new setting. But if you do enable it on an existing site you will need to browse around to make sure your site wasn't using any of the removed elements.
- AddedNew WPBakery “Slim Mode” option added to the Theme Panel.
- AddedNew Option added to the Dynamic Templates to select a template type for organization (Part, Header, Footer, Single, Archive, Search Results, Error 404). Tagging your dynamic templates makes it easier when selecting templates in the Customizer, Header Builder, Footer Builder or Post Types Unlimited because the fields will display templates based on the setting instead of all templates, but it’s 100% optional. Support for bulk/quick editing your template type has been added to make the process easier!
- AddedNew “Template Part” element for inserting dynamic templates marked as “Parts” into pages.
- AddedTop bar added to the admin Theme Panel sub pages to make it more obvious when you are on a Total admin page and moved page descriptions into the “help” tab so they aren’t always visible.
- Added“Help” tab to the Theme Panel page with useful links to the docs, changelog, themeforest, etc.
- AddedNew 14 “Overlay” card styles added.
- AddedNew Customizer tab at Global Styles > Preset Font Sizes where you can change the default theme utility font sizes (sm, md, lg, xl, 2xl…etc) which are used in the theme design but can also be applied in the page builder this way if you use the preset font sizes across the site you can control them globally rather then using fixed sizes across your builder elements.
- AddedNew “Steps” element added for use with WPBakery.
- AddedNew “Tribe Events Data” element which can be used to display event data such as start date, end date, formatted date, event cost, location, etc.
- AddedNew Customizer option added under Header > Logo for adding a custom logo link if you want your logo to go somewhere different then the homepage.
- AddedNew Customizer option added to Global Styles > Other to control the default bottom margin for p tags.
- AddedYou can now link to the current post author archive via the Theme Button element.
- AddedNew dynamic variable added – {{card_running_count}} – which can be used to display the current card number.
- AddedCode has been added to fix layout issues with the multisite wp-activate.php and wp-signup.php templates and to fix issues with WPBakery shortcodes not loading on these pages.
- AddedNew “Query Type” options added to the Post Cards element: Related by Taxonomy, Posts by Author or Current Staff Member, Custom Field, WooCommerce Related and WooCommerce Upsells.
- AddedYou can now display posts via the Post Cards element that have been assigned via the ACF Post Object or Relationship fields using the new Custom Field Query Type.
- AddedYou can now display related posts via the Post Cards without having to create your own query string, simply select the Related by Taxonomy Query Type then select the post type and taxonomy to pull related items from.
- AddedThe Bottom Margin option has been added the to the Flex Container and Grid Container elements for consistency.
- AddedOptions added to the Toggle Group element to remove the first top border and last bottom border.
- AddedOptions added to the Icon Box, Teaser Box and Feature Box elements so you can toggle lazy loading on/off for the image as well as select a custom fetch priority.
- AddedNew Blog 22 and Blog List 22 card styles.
- AddedNew “Image Cover” option added to the Image Banner element which can be used to stretch the image when adding a Minimum Height to the Image Banner and enabling the “Use Image Tag” option.
- AddedNew Option added to the “Image Banner” so you can now apply the link to the button only and not the whole element.
- AddedNew Option added to the “Custom Field” element to automatically add P tags to the output.
- AddedNew Customizer options added to the Header > Mobile Menu tab so you can choose between the default angle style icon or a plus/minus icon for the dropdown toggle icon and set a custom size for it.
- AddedNew “Image Hover Speed” option added to the Post Cards element.
- AddedNew “Height” option added to the Image element which can be useful when creating custom cards to set your images to a fixed height regardless of their dimensions/cropping.
- AddedMore styling options added to the Contact Form element.
- AddedNew theme.json file added to control Gutenberg styles rather then having to add them via style.css.
- AddedNew option added to define your video “Poster Image” when assigning self hosted video backgrounds.
- AddedNew Customizer option added to enable a “Slide Down” animation for the header search replace.
- AddedWhen Selecting a dynamic template in the customizer the theme will display a notice if the template is blank. Previously the theme would fallback to the default theme template which could cause some confusion.
- AddedNew options added to the Search Bar element for adding an aria label and enabling the role=”search” attribute.
- UpdatedWPBakery Page Builder & Slider Revolution plugins.
- UpdatedVarious code updated to take advantage of newer PHP 8.0 functions and fully qualified function calls.
- UpdatedPHP version requirement to 7.4 to be consistent with WordPress.
- UpdatedThe WPBakery Template widget has been renamed to “Template” as you can now select Dynamic Templates and render Elementor based templates.
- UpdatedYou can now enter a custom font size for the Post Cards title font size option.
- UpdatedImages displayed via the theme’s on-the-fly cropping now include the decoding=”async” attribute to be consistent with WordPress thumbnails to help speed up the site.
- UpdatedYou can now select dynamic templates for the Custom 404 page as well as set the page layout and enable/disable the page header title.
- UpdatedThe Heading element has been updated to include a “Link Type” setting so you have greater control over the heading link.
- UpdatedThe List Item, Font Icon & Heading elements have been updated to include an “Alternative Character” option for the icon in case you want to display a custom character or icon via a shortcode or dymamic variable.
- UpdatedYou can now use the Shortcode element inside the Flex & Grid containers.
- UpdatedYou can now select a link type ACF custom field for the theme button text field.
- UpdatedYou can now select “Custom Field” or “Featured Image” for the Image Source field in the Icon Box element.
- UpdatedWhen using the Icon Box element and showing an image with the “Resize Image” option disabled you can now select the “Image Fit” style (None or Cover).
- UpdatedThe Post Cards element has been updated so when linking to a lightbox image or modal dialog the links added to the cards will include a role=”button” and an aria-label=”” attribute to alert screen readers for better accessibility.
- UpdatedThe Lighbox dialog now includes an aria-label attribute for accessibility reasons.
- UpdatedThe javascript used for the Menu Widget accordion is now loaded in its own file and only if needed.
- UpdatedThe back to top and local scroll links have been updated to change “focus” on click to prevent accessibility issues.
- UpdatedImproved the javascript for the Header Min-Max font size option.
- UpdatedWhen using the Redirection option for terms (categories, tags, custom taxonomies) the theme now hooks into the “term_link” filter to modify the links on the front-end to swap the default url for the redirected one. This way links will go straight to the custom redirection rather than running a 301 redirect.
- UpdatedThe [polylang_switcher] shortcode has been updated to use theme utility classes and now uses flex styles instead of floats.
- UpdatedThe Button element will no longer fallback to a # symbol for the href. If there isn’t a defined link the button will simply not show anymore. This is to prevent issues when using the button with dynamic links.
- UpdatedTheme element “Callback Function” fields now display a select dropdown to select from your whitelisted callback functions so you don’t have to remember them.
- UpdatedUsers with the editor role can now access dynamic templates and custom cards via the “Tools” admin panel tab (these can’t be added under a Theme Panel tab because WordPress will block access to the cpt).
- UpdatedYou can now use min() and max() CSS functions when entering custom font sizes for theme elements.
- UpdatedRenamed the “Section Templates” to “Patterns” to be consistent with WordPress naming convensions.
- UpdatedTweaked the design a bit for the Customizer unit selector so it’s easier to see (the little “px” select that shows up on certain fields).
- UpdatedRenamed the “Font Icon” element to just “Icon” and updated the Custom Size option to allow you to enter responsive sizes.
- UpdatedThe Header Aside fields have been updated to support dynamic variables.
- UpdatedThe CSS used to target the “pre” tag has been updated so that it does not affect the Gutenberg “Verse” block.
- UpdatedThe Contact Form element has been updated so that the Custom Subject field allows for dynamic variables.
- UpdatedThe “Header Replace” search style has been modified so it now works with the Transparent Header.
- UpdatedWhen enabling animations for your header menu dropdowns the animation will now also be added to the search and cart dropdowns for consistency.
- UpdatedThe “Auto Lightbox” function has been updated to work with webP image formats.
- UpdatedWhen using the UberMenu plugin if a menu is registered to the header menu the theme will automatically disable the theme’s mobile menu so it can display the UberMenu mobile menu and hide the Customizer menu settings.
- UpdatedThe “Header Aside” field in the Customizer now accepts Gutenberg block code.
- UpdatedThe Custom Actions Panel will now parse blocks if you wanted to insert Gutenberg content.
- UpdatedThe Button typography settings now correctly target Gutenberg buttons as well.
- UpdatedItalian translations thanks to Manuele from brainybyte.it
- FixedThe Button element was not parsing dynamic values for the URL field.
- FixedNot being able to change your blog columns when selecting a custom card style in the Customizer for the blog.
- FixedWhen using the centered header logo the logo was showing in the mobile menu when loading the site in a desktop then shrinking the browser width to mobile size.
- FixedThe https://total.wpexplorer.com/docs/changelog/5-8-0/ shortcode was returning the post title instead.
- FixedWhen selecting a custom card on a per category/tag basis for WooCommerce the option wasn’t working.
- FixedThe CSS used for the WPBakery stretched rows was not taking into consideration the site “Frame Border” when enabled via the Customizer.
- FixedThe Product 2 Card style was not property closing the link element and could cause weird layout issues.
- FixedThe “Text Width” option in the Image Banner element was not working correctly when the “Use Image Tag” option was enabled.
- FixedThe Border Color option was not working for the Icon Box element when selecting the “Top Icon with Outline” style.
- FixedVarious theme and total theme core functions were updated for PHP 8.2 to fix deprecated notices.
- FixedThe Custom Field element was not parsing shortcodes inserted in the custom field.
- FixedCustom Access functions were not showing up in the WPBakery page builder when editing sections and rows.
- FixedThere were some layout issues when using the “Inner Column Gap” option on rows and then adding inner rows.
- FixedWhen using preset card styles with a link around the whole card and enabling videos it would cause the card layout to break.
- FixedThe Shortcode element was not parsing dynamic variables.
- FixedThe minimum width option was not working when using Superfish dropdowns for the header menu dropdowns.
- FixedThe Contact Form element was displaying the word “undefined” for the email subject when a custom subject was not added to the element.
- FixedThe CSS stretched rows for WPBakery were not working correctly when used with the Header & Footer Builder when the page had a sidebar.
- FixedWhen enabling “Show in Rest” for the theme’s Portfolio, Staff and Testimonial post types it was not allowing you to set the category or tag when editing a post.
- FixedDisabling the “Enable Single Post?” option under the Testimonials settings was not working.
- FixedDynamic Templates were not rendering property when using Elementor as your page builder.
- FixedWhen adding the Post Cards element to a dynamic template with the “Auto Query” type selected while using Elementor the element was not showing any sample posts.
- FixedWhen selecting a custom template for the Post Cards modal link if the template was created with Elementor it was not rendering correctly.
- FixedWhen using sliders inside Toggle elements the sliders were not properly rendered.
- RemovedThe top bar social links no longer include the title attribute because it causes a “Redundant title text” error when testing for accessibility.
- RemovedThe option under Theme Panel > Custom 404 to redirect all 404 errors to the homepage has been removed. This was a popular thing to do in the past but its no longer recommend and actually a bad idea for SEO reasons.
- RemovedThe “dashes” added to the mobile menu sub-items has been removed for a cleaner more modern look.
