Avada WordPress Theme Review

Avada is one of the best selling WordPress theme in themeforest marketplace. More than 580K people purchased the theme with 4.76 average rating out of 5 from 23K+ users. ThemeFusion is the developer of Avada theme and they sell only this theme. In this article let us check out the genuine review of Avada WordPress theme.

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Price

You can purchase Avada theme for $60 from themeforest. This is the price range for most of the popular commercial WordPress themes like Highend, Uncode and Divi. The price includes life time free updates and six months free support.

The theme also includes free add-on plugins like Slider Revolution, layer slider and convert plus. Note, the bundled plugins will have limited features compared to the independent premium plugin.

Demos and Import

There are 35+ different designs available with Avada theme. The basic theme can be viewed with the classic demo which can be combined with any other demo design. You can directly import the predesigned theme for your specific need like finance, dentist, freelancer, music, university, travel, fashion, lifestyle, etc.

Demos can be imported within WordPress admin panel. After importing, you can simply delete the demo content if you don’t need it. Avada provides full freedom to choose the required demo and customize as per your need.

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Options System

Avada uses options system allowing users to customize the site and individual pages. You can customize the theme in three ways:

Theme options – allow you to control site level settings like width of the layout, styling, sidebar assignment, inserting Analytics code, etc. Using 50+ panels you can create almost any type of design you want.

Page options – allow controlling page level settings like title, background, sidebar for individual page, sliders, etc. The page settings will over write the site level settings.

Fusion Builder – is a drag and drop page builder similar to Visual Composer. This makes it easy to custom layouts using 50+ elements which you can drop and rearrange on the page.

Integration with Plugins

Avada integrates its option system with the popular WooCommerce plugin. There are also predesigned shop demos which you can simply import and build your online store.

Other than WooCommerce, Avada also includes plugins like Contact Form 7, bbPress, Gravity Forms, Elastic Slider, Fusion Slider, Layer Slider and Slider Revolution. Avada also comes with a built-in Fusion Core plugin mandatory for the theme to work. The theme is compatible with other popular plugins like Yoast SEO, W3 Total Cache, Jetpack, etc.

Ease of Use

Avada comes with a packaged theme for multipurpose. So, it will take sometime for you to get along with the different options. Though you don’t need the coding knowledge, vast customizing options need to look at the preview of your site for every change you make.

In our opinion, no single user needs all the available options. Hence import the demo content you like and start customizing with options system. In this fashion you will be focusing on what you need and entire things will become easy.

The theme comes with simple user interface, after few days of use you will get acquainted with it. Also the Fusion Builder allows you to build pages quickly with drag and drop elements.

Other Features

Avada has many other features and below are some of the notable ones:

• Shortcode generator to create blocks for FAQ, blog, buttons, alerts, map, etc.
• Unlimited sidebar assignment.
• Translation ready and support RTL.
• Fully responsive and retina ready.
• Supports mega menu and single parallax page.
• Unlimited colors with dark and light skin options.
• Integrated font awesome icons set.
• Over 60+ PSD files to customize the design.
• Custom widgets like recent works to showcase portfolio items, contact info, horizontal menu, etc.

Support

Avada offers full set of video tutorials and documentation for understating the theme’s usage and components. Before purchasing, go through the tutorials and understand this will suit your needs. Also you can send comments through envato comments page and get any presales questions clarified.

As mentioned, the theme price of $60 includes six months of premium support through themeforest marketplace. You can pay additional $18 and get twelve months extended support. You should register separately in Theme Fusion in order to submit your support ticket.