Total - Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Themes v5.4.5

v5.4.5 - August 14, 2022

• The theme used to target the "current-menu-parent" class for active items in the main menu. However, this would cause issues if your menu was showing categories because the items would become active whenever viewing a post inside the category because of how WP works. The theme has been adjusted to instead target the "current-menu-ancestor". This way if you are visiting a page from a menu dropdown the main dropdown link will be active.
• The Search Bar element has been optimized to use flex styles and utility classes. The element now uses a gap for the spacing between the input and the button. If you've used this element before with custom widths you may need to revise it.
• AddedNew Agency Demo “
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• AddedNew Agency Demo “
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• AddedNew Blog/Magazine Demo “
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• AddedNew Blog/Magazine Demo “
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• 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 (
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• 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 (
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• 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
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  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:
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• UpdatedTotal Theme Core & Slider Revolution Plugins have been updated.
• UpdatedVarious Customizer fields now allow you to click on the “PX” to change the unit (
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  )
• UpdatedVarious Customizer fields now allow you to enter “0” instead of having to use “0px”.
• UpdatedCustomizer “padding” fields to display inputs for each direction (
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  ) – 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
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  function (useful for
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• 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
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  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.

v5.4.2 - May 16, 2022

• AddedNew Card Styles added (
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• AddedThe Post Cards element now allows you to select “Modern CSS Grid” as a Grid Style option.
• UpdatedStaff 3 Card style now properly extends the white background so each entry has the same height.
• UpdatedBlog Entry meta date now uses the time element instead of a span to be consistent with the singular meta.
• UpdatedThe Theme Settings “Overlay Header” fields were renamed to “Transparent Header” to keep consistency with the Customizer.
• UpdatedNewsletter widget to include the “required” attribute when submitting the form.
• FixedFirefox bug not correctly rendering the Theme Panel toggle arrows.
• FixedUndefined “$post” error potentially showing in the admin when editing a post.
• FixedSome fields when editing WPBakery were rendering a bit taller than others.
• FixedThe Transparent Header Offset setting in WPBakery rows was adding a space when using a Flex header style even if the Transparent Header wasn’t enabled on the page.
• FixedJavascript error when the Site Header was disabled, the Mobile menu was set to Full Screen and there was a Mobile Menu alternative defined.
• FixedIt wasn’t possible to edit the Terms Grid element to remove the title and the description.

Dev Notes:

• Added - New "wpex_conditional_logic_callable_whitelist" filter.
• Added - New "wpex_user_access_callable_whitelist" filter.
• Added - New "wpex_sticky_header_breakpoint" filter.
• Added - New "wpex_cpt_single_blocks_choices" filter.
• Added - New "wpex_cpt_entry_blocks_choices" filter.
• Added - New "wpex_meta_block_icon" filter.
• Added - New "wpex_meta_args" filter (new filter makes it easier to modify meta blocks globally, change date format, disable author link, etc).
• Added - New PHP Classes to handle single and entry "blocks" to optimize code a bit.
• Added - New partial files at partials/meta/blocks/ added for use with the post meta element to keep consistency across all post types (make things easier to modify via a child theme) and keep the code DRY.
• Updated - Custom Single/Entry blocks will no longer render if saved in the Customizer but not registered. This way if you had added a custom block via a snippet (
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  ) and then removed the snippet the theme won't try and render the previously added block saved in the Customizer. In other words....only registered blocks will now render on the page.
• Updated - Changed the text domain from "total" to "js_composer" for the Design Options string used in custom settings added by the theme to the WPBakery row, column and section elements to prevent potential issues with double tabs showing up when translated in the plugin but not the theme.
• Updated - The "wpex_get_theme_icon_html" function will not add any html to the page if the icon parameter is an empty string or null.
• Updated - Total Theme Core Domain Path tag has been updated to include trailing forward slash.