Total Theme v 2.0.0

Release Date: March 12, 2015

Added Full support for the latest version of WooCommerce
Added New “Under Construction” addon. Simply choose a page from a dropdown and the theme will 302 redirect all non-logged in traffic to it.
Added New $wpex_theme object class to hold global settings rather then calling various functions throughout the theme to optimize things even more and make it easier to tweak things in the future
Added Ability to choose the “gap” between columns for the various Total grid modules and “wpex_column_gaps” filter so you can add more “gap” options to the dropdown via a child theme
Added Edit page links at the bottom of pages
Added New class “VCEX_Inline_Style” for returning inline CSS for Total visual composer modules. Slims down the output files significantly and makes it easier for users to add new styling params via child themes.
Added New function wpex_theme_hooks() that returns an array of all theme hooks
Added Custom Javascript to highlight local scrolling links in the menu when you scroll down the page 😉
Added New Configuration files for custom post types (staff, portfolio, testimonials) that helps slim down core functions and makes things a whole lot easier to manage
Added localScrollSpeed parameter to theme localizations so you can alter the local scroll speed via a child theme
Added Bottom border to header style 2 if page header is disabled
Added Styling options for background and border of the little dropdowns “pointer”
Added Extra check in the javascript so if you aren’t using the default menu area in the header the functions that create the mobile menus won’t run
Added Option to the image grid so you can display the images in random order
Added Unique classes to each entry in the image grid
Added New filter “wpex_custom_widgets” so you can easily unregister custom widgets if you don’t want them
Added “Phone Number” option to staff links. It automatically will add “tel” to your link
Added Spans around navigation links for some advanced styles
Added Some transition animations throughout the site to various elements to modernize things a bit
Added Support for all the new custom toggle styles in the Visual Composer toggle
Added superfishSpeed and superfishSpeedOut to the theme’s wp_localize_script function so you can alter the main menu dropdown animation speed via a child theme
Added Custom widget areas now display the widget area ID in the box so its easier to locate
Added CSS classes to multiple Total Visual Composer modules, such as the portfolio grid which targets the actual entries
Added Javascript to position the search and WooCommerce dropdowns correctly for header style 3 relative to the last li item in the menu
Added Support for the Visual Composer separator module which was previously disabled
Added Image width and height cropping options to the Post Grid custom widget
Added New Class “VCEX_Inline_JS” for easier loading of inline js for Total visual composer extensions
Added Support for the Lightbox in the front-end editor when editing modules
Added Filter ‘wpex_excerpt_output’ so you can alter the wpex_excerpt function output via a child theme
Added Typography options for the footer callout content
Added Ability to redirect the 404 pages to any page you want
Added Customizer options for the footer and footer bottom paddings
Added Customizer text-align option for the footer copyright
Added Customizer styling options for page forms (text, tel, password, textarea inputs)
Added Ability to choose your lightbox skin and thumbnails position for various composer modules
Added Design options to the Total callout module
Added Support to remove/order elements for the left-thumbnail style blog
Added Support for the sticky header on the overlay style header (not for boxed layout though)
Added Ability to have the top bar enabled along with the overlay header
Added Support for related portfolio and related staff items on single posts if their layout is set to full-screen
Added New template parts for single portfolio and staff layouts (partials/portfolio/portfolio-single-layout.php)
Added Content layout class to body tag for styling left/right/no-sidebar/full-screen layouts instead of having duplicated function across template files
Added New function ‘wpex_header_menu_classes’ to return header menu classes to keep the menu partial template file cleaner
Added New php class “WPEX_Tribe_Events_Config” to configure various aspects of the Tribe Events Calendar plugin
Added New wpex-tribe-events.css file with some tweaks for the Tribe Events Calendar design
Added Custom sidebar if you enable The Events Calendar plugin
Added New partials template file at partials/password-protection-form.php for tweaking the default WordPress password protection form
Added New conditional function wpex_has_post_slider() which checks if any current page/post has a custom slider defined
Added New hooks wpex_hook_topbar_before and wpex_hook_topbar_after
Added New template parts to split up sections into smaller parts for quicker child theming
Added Staff position to staff entries for archives and related staff
ADDED Opacity option to the Image hover options in various Visual Composer modules
Added “Hidden” to the page title/header styles so you can disable it globally.
Added Partial template part /partials/scroll-top.php for customizing the scroll to top button
Added Partial template part /partials/togglebar/togglebar-button.php
Added New function wpex_header_search_placeholder to return the header search placeholder text
Added New partial template parts for each header search style at partials/search/
Added New partial template part for the social sharing at partials/social-share.php
Added New function wpex_social_share_heading() and filter “wpex_social_share_heading” to return correct social sharing heading
Added New function wpex_mobile_menu_style() to return correct mobile style and added ‘wpex_mobile_menu_style’ filter
Added New function wpex_ilightbox_skin() to return select iLightbox skin and added ‘wpex_ilightbox_skin’ filter
Added New filter “wpex_related_blog_posts_embeds” to enable/disable embeds for related blog posts. Disabled by default.
Added New filter ‘wpex_blog_grid_style’
Added New filter ‘wpex_blog_style’
Added New function and filter ‘wpex_social_share_position’ so you can easily alter the default social sharing position via a child theme
Added New function ‘wpex_heading’ for returning headings throughout the site for quicker modifications and easier tweaking via child themes.
Added New template part ‘partials/link-pages.php’
Added New blog template parts blog-single-meta.php, blog-single-content.php, blog-single-title.php, blog-single-header.php
Added Classes ‘updated’ and ‘vcard’ classes for blog post meta for Google rich snippets
Added Ability to display the categories or the first category under the title for the Portfolio Grid Visual Composer module
Added itemprop=”url” to breadcrumbs links
Added Support to display videos in the Total slider composer module by defining a video URL for an image attachment
Added New Function and filter ‘wpex_get_lightbox_image_size’ that by default returns lightbox images at the “large” size to prevent massive images from opening in lightbox
Added New function and filter “wpex_header_logo_classes” to clean up the logo template part
Added New function and filter “wpex_header_logo_icon”
Added New function and filter “wpex_header_logo_title”
Added Ability to choose between a post types filter or a taxonomy filter for the Visual Composer Post Types Grid module
Added New VCEX_Query_Builder class for use with custom Total Visual Composer modules for creating the WP queries
Added Unique classnames to the categories displayed on various overlay styles so you can hide or style them via CSS if needed
Added Typography settings to the Customizer for the Mobile Menu
Added New partial template part for 3rd party post types at partials/post-type/post-type-entry.php – replaces old content-other.php file. You can create new files in your child theme now called post-type-entry-[your_post_type_name].php for their custom outputs
Added “Equal Heights” option for the blog entries so it’s not added automatically
Added New filter “wpex_blog_slider_data_atrributes” so you can tweak the blog gallery slider…can be used to tweak the animation, auto-play, shuffle, arrows, loop, auto-play-delay, thumbnails-height…etc
Added “Search Results for” as a subheading for the WooCommerce shop
Added A little bit more top and bottom padding to the “shrink fixed header”
Added New filter “wpex_active_skin” so you can easily alter the theme skin anywhere on the site
Added New helper function “vcex_get_icon_class” to returning correct icon classes for use with the Total Visual Composer modules
Added New function and filter “wpex_has_fixed_header” for checking if the fixed header is enabled
Added New filter “vcex_icon_box_styles” so you can easily remove or add styles for the Total Icon box VC module
Added New option to the Icon Box Total VC module so you can “wrap” the custom link around the entire icon box
Added New Hover animations for various Total VC elements
Added “Design options” to the Total Icon Box module for much more flexibility
Added “Design options” to the “Recent News” Total VC module
Added New filters “wpex_button_styles” and “wpex_button_colors” so you can add more styles and colors via a child theme
Added New Filter “wpex_visibility” so you can include custom visibility options via a child theme
Added New filter “wpex_css_animations” so you can add custom animations via a child theme
Added New Filter “wpex_ilightbox_skins” so its possible to add and remove skins from the lightbox skin selector
Added New Filter “wpex_image_hovers” so you can add new image hover style options via a child theme
Added Styling Options for the “toggle” style mobile menu
Added Active style to the sidebar mobile menu
Added Date and date styling settings to the blog carousel Total VC module
Added New “Visibility” options for targeting tablets in portrait/landscape exclusively.
Added New helper functions for returning post videos: wpex_get_post_video, wpex_post_video, wpex_get_post_video_html, wpex_post_video_html
Added The attribute “data-no-retina” to the logo image to prevent conflicts with retina scripts and the built-in theme’s retina logo option
Added Better functions for returning post thumbnails – wpex_get_post_thumbnail and wpex_post_thumbnail. Supports WP image sizes and output as well as custom sizes via width/height parameters
Added New function “wpex_generate_retina_image” for generating retina images
Added New function “wpex_esc_title” to sanitize the post title
Added New functions “wpex_get_post_audio” and “wpex_get_post_audio_html” for returning the post audio as defined in the page settings
Added New function “wpex_get_attachment_data” that returns attachment data (url, src, alt, title ,caption, description, video) simply enter your attachment ID to retrieve the data
Added The captions for the blog gallery format slider (uses the image caption field)
Added Extra check around next/previous functions so if there isn’t any it won’t output any html (removes useless border when there aren’t any next/prev posts)
Added Support for videos in the WordPress gallery lightbox
Added New function “wpex_is_retina_enabled” to check if retina is enabled for the site. It checks both the retina option and make sure image resizing is enabled since it’s required
Added “Image Sizes” via add_image_size for all site thumbnails but also added a filter so if you have on the fly image resizing enabled it will not automatically crop all images uploaded to the site
Added New portfolio helper functions wpex_get_portfolio_entry_thumbnail, wpex_get_portfolio_post_thumbnail, wpex_portfolio_related_heading, wpex_get_portfolio_post_video
Added New meta type “link” to the custom metaboxes for sanitizing URLs
Added The “custom link” Page Settings to all post types for easy post/page redirection and moved into the “Main” tab
Added Simply menu location to the topbar that displays next to the topbar content
Added New template parts for the cart dropdown and overlay – see partials/cart
Added Header style “four” – just like header style 3 but above the logo
Added New sanitization for yotuube and vimeo URLs to return the embed URL for lightbox even when defined as a standard URL
Added New “WPEX_Sanitize_Data” Class for sanitizing all sorts of user inputted data
Added Slight see-through background to the header for the header overlay light style
Added New function and filter “wpex_ilightbox_stylesheet” which returns the correct Lightbox stylesheet, this will allow you to create custom lightbox skins if you want – sweet!
Added New function “vcex_html” for generating HTML for visual composer modules to keep the output a bit cleaner – used for things like link targets, link rels, title attributes…etc
Added New function and filter “wpex_get_post_type_cat_tax” that returns the “Category” taxonomy for a given post type. Used for overlay styles.
Added New option in the customizer to select your “gap” between footer widgets
Added New “font smoothing” option at Customize -> Typography -> General
Added New filter “wpex_post_series_query_args” so you can easily tweak the post series query arguments
Added New stylesheet “wpex-woocommerce-responsive.css” that holds all responsive tweaks for WooCommerce
Added New file at framework/hooks/partials.php which holds all the functions that are called via action hooks.
Added New partial files “header-menu-mobile-icons.php” and “header-menu-mobile-alt.php” located at partials/header/
Added New “checklist” format to the tinymce “Formats” dropdown
Added Options to the total posts widgets so you can query by custom taxonomy and terms
Added Advanced Styling options and hover animations to the “Navbar” total Visual Composer module
Added The “year” to the recent events module next to the month
Added New title+excerpt overlay style
Added The “entry-title” class to entry titles for Google microdata
Added New “Social Links” visual composer module
Added Support for “author” and “page-attributes” for the built-in staff, portfolio and testimonials post types
Removed Blue outline on active inputs – if you want it back the CSS is simple, just ask me. But in most cases it’s not ideal so it was removed
Removed Skins from the default addons enabled. When installing the theme fresh you will have to go to the “Tweaks” section of the theme panel to enable skins. This was done because skins are a bit unnecessary now with all the awesome styling options built-into the customizer
Removed WooCommerce Image cropping settings from the WooCommerce admin panel to avoid confusion (the theme already has options in the Customizer)
Removed Author.php file – theme will now use index.php for author archives
Removed WooCommerce product entry styles – there is now only the default style. This was a crucial update.
Removed Current Menu Styles from the search and the store header toggles and replaced with a class named “active” so they can be styled separate from the default menu styles.
Removed Several “active” styling classes from the customizer…these are just bloat, if you need help adding active states to links I can give you the custom CSS
Removed The “wpex_image” function in exchange for a much more powerful “wpex_post_thumbnail” function which integrates with the new Image Sizes functionality and admin panel
Updated Important: Updated the customizer styling options to use a refresh message instead of the theme javascript. This is due to several WordPress bugs. Please let me know your thoughts, when testing live on my server it still is very fast
Updated Important: Various function names for better consistency. I added deprecated notices so you can fix your child themes accordingly if needed
Updated Important: Slimmed down classes and HTML for the icon boxes, please double check your customizations for icon boxes to make sure your CSS still overrides
Updated Awesome: Updated functions throughout the whole theme to make use of new global $wpex_theme object to slim things down and speed things up
Updated Full Support for the latest version of WooCommerce
Updated Complete overhaul of framework/hooks/actions.php (how the theme hooks functions into the theme action hooks)
Updated Main functions.php to be much cleaner and added a lot more commenting
Updated Complete overhaul of theme’s javascript core file to use object oriented methods
Updated Added support for default settings for Typography options and defined “Open Sans” as the default font on theme installation
Updated Merged the site backgrounds and per-page backgrounds into a single class named WPEX_Site_Backgrounds to clean things up
Updated Footer now added via ‘wpex_hook_wrap_bottom’ hook so it can be removed easily
Updated Footer callout now added via ‘wpex_hook_wrap_bottom’ hook instead of ‘wpex_hook_footer_top’ to better support new footer builder
Updated Renamed the global.js file to functions.js in the js folder
Updated Image grid module so you can have pagination for your images
Updated Image grid module so you can choose to use non-responsive columns
Updated The post meta class so you can truly customize the meta options via your child theme and add new meta options if wanted
Updated Renamed WPEX_CSS_DIR_UIR constant to WPEX_CSS_DIR_URI
Updated Core function “wpex_grid_class” so it’s more simplified
Updated Google Analytics output so it only gets added if the current user isn’t logged in
Updated The Centered page header titles so the breadcrumbs is still visible
Updated Breadcrumbs so it shows all the post categories for standard posts
Updated Moved “framework/widgets” folder to “framework/classes/” and updated widget files for better coding standards
Updated Author archive now uses the core theme wpex_page_header and wpex_post_subheading functions for easier modification
Updated Changed padding on Visual Composer filters to use em’s for better support when altering the body font
UPDATED Changed padding on pagination numbers to use em’s for better support when altering the body font
Updated The wpex_portfolio_post_video function to be more efficient, if you edited the portfolio-single-media.php in your child theme, please revise it
Updated Navigation Bar Visual Composer module to support the local-scroll when added to the menu item
Updated Mega menu to use the full header width always for header style one
Updated Header search and WoooCommerce dropdown functions to use CSS for showing/hiding so you can easily alter the transition speed and animation
Updated Scroll to top button to use CSS to display so you can easily alter it’s animation
Updated Coupon button on WooCommerce cart page to be green so it stands out more
Updated Pricing table to use the same button styles as the Total Button
Updated Custom menu widget to work more like an “accordion” rather then toggle.
Updated Image grid so images are centered if they don’t fill up the whole column container
Updated Included Isotope script to latest version
Updated WooCommerce “continue shopping” button to link to the shop instead of the last product
Updated Customizer options to select meta items (date, category, author..etc) to use checkboxes instead of former method
Updated Custom CSS function so custom CSS is added at the end of all inline CSS just incase user has an error it doesn’t break styling options.
Updated The functions for removing the custom post type slugs (they are now in 1 Class) and fixed a couple bugs
Updated Renamed wpex_is_overlay_header_enabled function to wpex_has_header_overlay
Updated Output of the page subheading moved to a template part at partials/page-subheading.php
Updated Function wpex_post_subheading renamed to wpex_display_page_header_subheading
Updated Page Settings so now you can choose between default, enable, disable for multiple options that way if you disable something (such as the Top Bar) in the Customizer you can still enable it for a specific page/post
Updated Renamed wpex_get_post_layout_class function to wpex_post_layout and added new function “wpex_get_post_layout”
Updated Related posts will now display centered on ‘full-screen’ style posts instead of being hidden
Updated Simplified the equal heights function. Used to add rows for each row of items, now the equal height is added to all items in a grid the same rather then per row. Really slims down the code.
Updated Local Scroll function on mobile so it does not close the sidebar menu when clicking a local scroll item
Updated Sidebar mobile menu will now “displace” the site content but it can be disabled by hooking into the “wpex_localize_array” filter
Updated Theme Heading to use a border positioned absolutely instead of an image for the “through-line”
Updated Blog entry readmore arrow now hidden by default
Updated Disabled the fixed header function when working in the front-end Visual Composer
UPDATED Total “Divider” VC module to use CSS for the dashed, double and solid styles so they can be tweaked easier. When using an icon in the divider you can now use the height and color attributes to tweak the divider for the solid and dashed styles
Updated “Recent News” Total VC module to display event start date instead of post date when using the module to display events from the “tribe_events” post type
Updated Animation on the “Recent News” Total VC module so it’s added to the individual items instead of the wrapper for a better affect
Updated Total VC modules so if image height or widths aren’t defined they return ‘the_post_thumbnail’ rather then running them through the image resizing class
Updated Renamed “wpex_overlay_classname” function to “wpex_overlay_classes” for better consistency and added a fallback
Updated Renamed “vcex-grayscale” class to “image-filter-grayscale”
Updated Mobile “sidebar” menu to work more like an “accordion” so when a dropdown is opened others are closed as well as I animated it a bit
Updated Mobile “sidebar” menu so when it’s closed it closes all open dropdowns
Updated Renamed “wpex_img_animation_classes” to “wpex_entry_image_animation_classes”
Updated Custom field “post_self_hosted_shortcode_redux” renamed to “post_self_hosted_media” to make more sense and added a fallback
Updated Related posts title to use an h5 tag
Updated Next and Previous queries to exclude any posts with the wpex_post_link custom field because these posts redirect to the custom URL
Updated Moved “Custom WordPress Gallery” option from the customer into the “Theme Panel” under addons and fixed some bugs with the output and updated it to use new functions: wpex_get_lightbox_image, wpex_get_post_thumbnail and wpex_get_attachment_data
Updated Improved retina function so it adds the retina image as a data attribute in the source code to limit server requests and prevent 404 errors when trying to locate retina versions for your images
Updated Header Overlay function to work on mobile devices as well
Updated Javascript for the togglebar so you can use the classname “open-togglebar” on any link to open the togglebar
Updated Complete overhaul of the Total “Post Types Slider” module with new settings and better query arguments
Updated Reversed the order of the next/prev posts for post series so it makes more sense
Updated HTML5 Shiv javascript file
Updated Migrate function to prevent strings from being added to the .po files which shouldn’t be there
Updated Function that saves the styling custom css cache so it minifies the CSS prior to saving it in the theme_mods cache
Fixed Issue with default post layout for portfolio, staff, testimonials not working correctly
Fixed Issue where page header wouldn’t disable for the store page
Fixed CSS for Visual Composer Single Image module to prevent extra spacing below image due to CSS bug
Fixed Missing 404 page title
Fixed White style text for rows not working
Fixed Issue with retina.js accidentally being added to total-min.js
Fixed Issue with social sharing on full-screen pages not centering correctly.
Fixed Issue with tablet container widths not clearing their max-width values causing the sidebar and content to not span 100%
Fixed Issue with excerpts not trimming properly for the Recent News Widget
Fixed Issue with pricing table button missing border
Fixed Issue with columns number not working on the standard post category settings
Fixed Issue with breadcrumbs portfolio, staff, testimonials and shop pages breaking when WPML is active
Fixed Custom classes not being added to the “teaser box” VC module
Fixed Issue where if the first post in the blog grid was a link format it would add a _blank target to all subsequent blog entries
Fixed Issue with the readmore tag not working correctly with the blog entries
Fixed Issues with WPML not working correctly with the header search
Fixed Issues with the Header Overlay style not working correctly when header style 2 or 3 are enabled globally
Fixed Issue where blog animations weren’t working for gallery and audio formats
Fixed Some footer reveal issues and also included the footer callout into the reveal

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