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The Avada demos do an excellent job selling both the track and the dream of being able to build such a website without requiring a developer or coding skills. Regardless, the reality of using a product can often differ greatly from the promises in your promotional material.
Avada is the number one selling theme on the largest WordPress theme marketplace, ThemeForest. Since its launch in August 2012, Avada has generated more than 500,000 sales, making it one of the most popular premium WordPress themes in the world.
With that in mind, we've taken the Avada on a test drive to see how easy it is to use and if it lives up to expectations.
What kind of theme is Avada?
Before we begin, it should be noted that there are two schools of thought when it comes to WordPress theme design.
The first is that themes must be built for a specific type of website, with a minimal set of customization options and limited additional functionality; The second is that the themes should be multipurpose, and include as many features, page templates, customization settings, and options as possible to allow you to build any type of website with a single package.
With over half a million sales so far, Avada might be the best-selling WordPress theme of all time.
The Avada developers fall in this last field, and have used their skills to create a multipurpose theme that is by no means lacking in features, customization options, pre-designed layouts, or third-party plugin integrations.
If this is not the type of theme you would consider buying, then this review is unlikely to change your mind.
In spite of everything, if the idea of a flexible theme that can be modified to build any type of website without any coding skills you are drawn to, then Avada might be just what you are looking for.
So, without further ado, let's start with a full review of the Avada WordPress theme from ThemeFusion.
The Avada Agency demo is just one of the many predesigned websites in the theme pack.
The characteristics of Avada that helped it become the best-selling song of all time
Avada is packed with an ever-growing list of features, and the theme is regularly updated to ensure it's a competitive option.
The developers have certainly done a great job of expanding the core functionality of WordPress to cover almost all eventualities, making this a true multipurpose theme.
The full feature listing is actually much longer than this, but here are some of the highlights:
- Custom drag-and-drop page creation tool.
- Extensive library of items to insert into your content.
- A growing selection of pre-built websites and individual page templates.
- Support for video backgrounds and video insertion in your content.
- A variety of different header layouts and vertical navigation areas.
- Background image blur, fading effects, and other animations.
- Publishing tools for testimonials, portfolios and skills.
- Support for popular plugins, including WooCommerce and Gravity Forms.
Almost all Avada features and items can be fully customized using the detailed options and settings available, making this theme extremely flexible.
How to get started with the Avada WordPress theme
Once you have installed and activated the theme, you will be prompted to install the necessary Fusion Core and Fusion Builder plugins. At the same time you can activate the other plugins that come with the theme, including the Premium LayerSlider WP and Slider Revolution plugins.
Thanks to the Avada administration area, managing the included plugins is very simple.
You can quickly manage the plugins that come with Avada from within your WordPress dashboard.
If you take a look at the front of your website after activating the theme, you will notice that nothing like the demo version of Avada. Regardless, there are a couple of ways to make things seem a little more interesting.
Your WordPress website will not be very interesting after installing and activating the theme.
When it comes to building your new site, one option is to import one of Avada's demo websites while the other is to use the Fusion Builder to create your own custom content.
As demos are one of the highlights of this topic, it is highly recommended that you explore them to see the full range of websites that you can quickly create with Avada.
Avada includes predesigned website demos for almost all types of projects.
At the time of writing, there are 49 demos to choose from, covering business, lifestyle, agency, and portfolio websites, to name just a few.
Avada at the same time is absolutely e-commerce ready, and there are some online store demos in the package.
As Avada is regularly updated, new demos are often added to the theme.
Once you've chosen a demo, importing it into your WordPress website is extremely easy.
Unlike other WordPress themes, you get good control over what gets imported to your website, including whether you want to import the entire demo, or just certain items from it, such as content, settings, or sliders.
Thanks to this, if you need to mix and match some of the different items from multiple demos, you should be able to do it.
Avada enables you to choose which parts of the demo websites you want to import.
During the testing of this review, the Avada demos were imported and applied to our WordPress website without any issues.
The Fusion Builder content editor
Avada comes equipped with its own page creation tool - Fusion Builder - which can be used to create custom layouts for your WordPress website posts and pages.
Unlike some of the latest page builders available for WordPress, the work takes place in the WordPress Dashboard, rather than the front-end of your website, via a WYSIWYG editor.
Regardless, despite this, the user interface is easy to understand and makes it possible to edit Avada's predefined content and create your own custom layouts from scratch.
Although not as modern as other page builders, Fusion Builder is still easy to use.
When starting work on a new page, you can import one of the pre-built templates from any of the Avada demos.
Regardless of which Avada demo you have chosen, you can still easily import pages from other demos.
Alternatively, if you want to start with a blank page, the first step is to choose a column layout for the section you are working on.
Each page can be made up of multiple containers, each with its own column structure.
After adding a container to your page, you can insert any of the Fusion Builder items into it. Each of these items can be customized, giving you a lot of control over the appearance of your page.
Fusion Builder includes a large library of customizable items that can be added to your pages.
Due to the way Fusion Builder works, your designs can be as advanced as you need. By adding multiple containers to your page, each with its own column layout, and then filling them with a series of items, you can free yourself from the restrictions of the default WordPress editor.
Fusion Builder enables you to create advanced layouts for your posts and pages.
Although you won't get a live preview of your work while using the builder, you can easily preview the post or page, just like a regular WordPress content piece.
Later, if you need to make more changes to the layout, you can go back to the previous tab you were working on.
You can preview your Fusion Builder page layouts in a new browser tab.
Another nice feature of Fusion Builder is that any page layout you create with the tool can be saved in the template library for reuse in other areas of your site.
Post and page options
While using the Fusion Builder, with Avada, you can customize the appearance of your content through an options panel that the theme adds to the WordPress post and page editor screen, below the main editor area.
You get a good level of control over how each individual piece of content will look on your site.
The controls in the options panel on the Fusion page cover a number of options, such as configuring the appearance of the header or whether it is displayed, the sidebars that are displayed next to the message or page, and whether to use a background image or no, at the same time as many more.
Since these options only apply to the post or page you are working on, it really you get a lot of flexibility on the look and feel of each piece of content on your website.
If you are creating a landing page, as an example, you may want to disable distracting items, such as the header and sidebar.
The Avada Theme Options Dashboard
Another way that Avada enables you to customize your website is through the theme options control panel. As you can see from the image below, there are many options and settings available to you as you customize your website.
The menu options on the left will give you a good idea of the aspects of your website that you can customize with Avada.
Regardless, unlike other themes, Avada doesn't have much support for the WordPress Customizer interface.
Because of this, instead of being able to see the effects of your changes to theme options and settings in real time, you will have to save your changes and then load your website to see what your site looks like.
Almost all of Avada's settings and options are not accessible through the WordPress Customizer interface.
To get the most out of Avada, you should probably spend some time reviewing the settings and options.
Regardless, when you're just getting started, a better approach may be to locate whatever settings you want to tweak as needed, rather than getting lost in the back-end of your website.
Other Avada options, settings and features
Along with options for posts and pages, Avada's custom post types such as portfolio and FAQ types each have their own set of options as well as their own custom taxonomies to help you organize them neatly. more efficient.
Some of the Avada demos make use of custom message types, such as portfolios and FAQ types.
Avada at the same time gives you the option of creating multiple sidebar areas for your website, which can be displayed on one or more pages. Creating multiple sidebars gives you total control on the exact widgets that are displayed next to each type of content on your site.
At the same time, at the same time you have access to the Premium LayerSlider WP and Slider Revolution plugins to add attractive and animated slideshows to your website.
The downsides of Avada and multipurpose themes
Having so many features and tools at your disposal has the potential to encourage you to go overboard when creating your website.
Just because you now have the ability to add sliders, animation effects, and a variety of other cool items to your posts and pages, doesn't mean you should, as adding too many features to your website can negatively affect timing. loading and usability of the page.
Sometimes adopting a"less is more" for web design it is actually a better way of doing things (depending on the result you are looking for, anyway).
The same reasoning can at the same time apply to the myriad of customization options on offer. Again, just because Avada makes it easy to choose from a wide range of fonts, background types, and other items and design effects, doesn't mean you should use them all.
Exercising a little restraint can help you avoid the pitfalls of too many options, and help you deliver a low-key website that your visitors will love.
East not a problem that is unique to Avada, anyway - in fact it's something that applies to all feature-rich themes.
Another potential issue that, once again, is not unique to Avada (but worth noting) is the issue of decision fatigue, something that can occur when working through the selection of settings and options that are offered and that occasionally it can limit the ability to make good design decisions.
At the same time, having so many configuration options, layout options, and other possibilities can increase the chance that you will be overwhelmed when building your website, which can hinder your ability to create the caliber of the website that you and this topic are. able to do.
Regardless, if you enter your project with a clear idea of what you intend to achieve (rather than being guided by the features and options on offer) you will get a good chance of success.
Determination of prices
Avada is available on ThemeForest for $60, which makes it possible to use it in a single final product (in other words, on a single website).
Your purchase includes lifetime access to theme updates and six months of support from the theme creators. Regardless, you can pay a supplement to extend this maintenance period to 12 months.
Final thoughts
More of the pre-designed website demos from the Avada theme pack.
hAvada is a very dense theme with settings, options, features, and even high-quality external plugins, such as LayerSlider WP and Slider Revolution. The growing library of pre-built website demos looks very impressive and covers a wide range of projects. If there is a demo that matches the type of website you want to create, Avada should be able to help you quickly launch your new site.
Even if there isn't a demo that fits your project wonderfully, Fusion Builder's page builder tool makes it possible for you to edit pre-built content or create your own layouts from scratch.
Regardless, the lack of front page editing in Fusion Builder means that there are easier-to-use alternatives, including themes like Divi which has its own WYSIWYG editor.
Despite the high-quality demo content, individual page templates, and helpful user documentation, it is important not to underestimate the task of mastering Avada. Sometimes this theme can feel like a piece of software that sits on top of WordPress, updating almost every feature and item, while at the same time adding a large selection of customization settings and options into the mix. !
If you are considering this topic, it is vital that you understand what you are getting into before making the final decision. Nonetheless, if you are ready to get to work To understand all that Avada has to offer, then the restrictions regarding what kind of website you can build are, as the promotional material implies, quite limitless.
To get a better idea of what Avada can do for your website, visit ThemeForest and take a look at the official Avada demo site.
At the same time, if you need a little inspiration on the Avada theme, check out our list of 25+ amazing examples of Avada - ThemeForest's most popular WordPress theme - In Action.
What do you think of Avada? Will you use it for your website?
