Portfolio Section

I’m having the same problem and the support info I can find shows a process that looks nothing like what my theme’s dashboard looks like. Is this a premium/freemium thing where I have to buy the galleries feature? The description for the free theme does say that it has a gallery feature among other things.

@mnischan, where are you finding any support info? I love this theme but I can’t find any type of instructions, tutorial, or answers. Their demo is wonderful and I’m trying to imitate it.

I found a few places. I think that they are mostly for a paid version though. I haven’t found much in the way of information for the versions that you and I have downloaded. https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/

There seems to be a second component, Visual Composer, that you can purchase that adds all of the functionality that we’re looking for. Here is a link to the paid version that I found: https://themeforest.net/item/total-responsive-multipurpose-wordpress-theme/6339019?ref=wpexplorer

You see the mention of four plugins that you get with the purchase of the theme. Here is a link to Visual Composer https://codecanyon.net/item/visual-composer-page-builder-for-wordpress/242431?_ga=1.156163641.305083188.1486412232

Honestly, the price for the theme isn’t bad considering everything you get with it. However, I’m a little put off that the free version mentions all of these features but not that you have to pay for them, and that they are separate.

I did manage to get a gallery-style section to work, although not the way I want. If you turn on the portfolio section in Appearance > Customize > Home Sections you can pick post types to be automagically assembled into a gallery (only works on a Home page template, but you can have multiple pages use the Home template I believe). I still don’t have it working the way I’d like and it might be worth it to me to just buy the theme instead of wasting anymore time trying to beat it into submission. That may be the marketing angle behind the free version that they offer ?? Hope this helps!

Thank you so much for replying. I think I read on one of the Hashtheme support boards (I found another one with more topics than this one that I have been studying – it’s https://hashthemes.com/support/ and then click on “Total”). Somebody said the same thing and Hashthemes said there are more than one theme named Total – theirs, themeforest’s, and maybe one with Visual Composer or something. Hashthemes said theirs is free, there is no paid version. But even then, I can’t find any help or support so far. The forum has led me to you and another user who have been helpful, though. So that’s why I just started asking questions to people like you who are asking the same questions I am. I plan to spend some time reading every topic in that bigger forum to hopefully find out how to fix about 10 issues I am having.
Thanks for the tip on using the Home template for more than one page – I’ll try that. I have the Portfolio section disabled right now but I’ll try again with post types?? – I had used categories but I’ll look again. Thanks!