We have exciting news in store for Avada customers. Avada 4.0 is right around the corner and includes an amazing new options panel powered by Redux!
If you use Avada, you know how important a role theme options play. These options allow you to easily customize all the different parts of the site without having to change or modify any of the backend code. Avada theme options have depth, flexibility and power which ultimately provides you with a design tool to create professionally unique websites. With the continued desire to grow Avada’s powerful options for our customer base, there is a need to use a more advanced framework that allows us to continue building for the future.
Needless to say, we are thrilled about adding Redux to Avada. This is the first step in allowing ThemeFusion to fulfill some very exciting long term goals for the future of Avada.
Avada’s New Theme Option Panel
Avada 4.0 theme options is now going to be powered by Redux. Redux is a truly extensible options framework for WordPress themes and plugins.
Our developing team has spent months working on integration. With the sheer number of options Avada offers, it is imperative that the interface is user friendly. We’ve created a custom design for Redux that results in a clean and precise user interface that is amazingly fun to use. Each option is clearly defined, described and logically organized into panels. We’ve taken many steps to make the interface feel like a natural extension of WordPress, even the styling of the panel changes based on the user color profile you choose in WordPress settings.
New Features
Avada 4.0 includes many new features that make theme options more refined and easier to use, which ultimately makes your job easier. We’ll highlight a few of our favorites below.
Combined Options
Our previous theme option panel did not make it easy to combine options, thankfully this changes in 4.0. Combined options are a grouping of similar options in the same area. A great example of this is our new typography control. Previously in Avada there were different areas of theme options to edit the font families, font colors, line-heights, margins and more. This required you to move around to edit all of those options. In Avada 4.0 we’ve combined these similar options into one control, allowing you to edit each field in a fraction of the time.
As you can see above, every aspect of the H1 heading is combined into one typography control for quick and easy editing. We’ve extended this concept into other areas as well, like header paddings.
Unlimited Custom Fonts & Icons
Avada 4.0 brings unlimited custom fonts and social icons at your disposal. In addition, you can now easily assign your custom fonts to any area of the site that has a font-family option! There is a new custom font section on the typography panel that utilizes our own custom repeater field. Each custom font you upload is housed inside a repeater field, and you can add or remove repeater fields as much as you wish. Simply upload your 4 web font files, name the font and save it. Click the “ADD” button to add an additional repeater field for a new custom font.
This same concept is also used for social icon networks. A repeater field is used allowing you to choose any of our included networks, or choose a custom icon and upload your own image.
Enhanced Color Pickers With Opacity Sliders
Avada currently supports rgba values for color settings with opacity. However you have to manually insert the rgba value which is not easy. Avada 4.0 brings an enhanced color picker that has a built in opacity slider, when used it will automatically insert the selected rgba value.
More Intuitive Organization
Being able to quickly find an option you are looking for is very important. Our previous organization of theme options was built a specific way almost 3 years ago before we developed many more options. Over time we realized that organization was not ideal for the number of options we have. In Avada 4.0 the theme options panel has been completely reorganized in a logical way. The concept is simple, if you wish to edit something in the footer, you will navigate to the footer tab and find every option we have available. This includes typography settings and color settings. Every option for a specific area is neatly organized into their own panel.
We understand that many customers are familiar with the previous organization before Avada 4.0. When change comes, it takes some time to get familiar with it. However, the new method is more intuitive and will quickly save you time. In addition to the new organization, there is a search field you can use to find an option which we will get into next.
Quick & Useful Searching
With the sheer number of options we include for easy customization, it’s important to have a search feature to quickly find an option. At the top of theme options is a search field that allows you to search for an option based on the title. When you perform a search, the side navigation panel is grayed out and all the focus is put on the actual search results.
Dependent Options
There are numerous options that are dependent on another option. For example, if you select unboxed social icons, the boxed color and boxed radius options should not show since they do not apply. If you cselect boxed social icons, then the additional boxed options will show. We’ve set up many dependencies for theme options so only the correct options show based on your selections. This setup makes using theme options easier and eliminates the margin of error when selecting an option that will not work based on another setting.
In addition, we have separate panels now for 3rd party plugin integrations like WooCommerce, bbPress, The Events Calendar. These panels of options for 3rd party plugins will only show if you have WooCommerce installed and activated.
Option Migration When Updating To Avada 4.0
Since we’re using an entirely new options panel, it is necessary for your previous Avada installations to migrate over to Redux. When you update from an older version of Avada, your theme option values will be copied and stored in your database for safe keeping. No data is lost this way. The extra copy of theme options is then migrated over to Redux so you can enjoy the new options panel. Always make sure you backup your current theme folder before you upgrade. Additional information will be ready when version 4.0 is live.
Conclusion
We’re very excited to be bringing you the new Avada 4.0 update. It truly is a major enhancement and helps pave the way for future versions of Avada that bring even more excitement!
We are in beta testing at the moment and estimate a live release within 3-5 weeks of time. Thank you to the many customers who signed up for beta testing! Onwards!
Please note, the current version is Avada 7.8.1
Wow! I cannot wait for 4.0.
Are there new header options coming with this version too?
Hi Nathan! We’re glad you’re excited đ There are no new header options with this version, we had to solely focus on changing frameworks for the options. However, there will be new ones in the future!
No problem, thanks Luke!
Avada is most good and beneficial platform ! I love Avada infect they also release more themes as well … Themefusion Rock !
our whole company appzventure like that theme ! Great work ThemeFusion !
Thank you!
This looks good, and i hope Avada can also come with page transations options to, and not only to trans. hole page but also options to only trans. the inline contents all in one in boxed mode for an example.
It is lots of transation scripts to use for now but not sÄ good transations script.
Keep up the good works and good luck to you with Avada 4.0 đ
Thanks! I’m not sure what you are referring to though, we do have page options already that only affect the single page you change them on, post options as well. But please email support@theme-fusion.com if you have further ideas đ
you guys need to add image resize in the blog section
Hello!
You can already insert a custom size per blog post image through fusion page options. In addition, more options are coming for image sizes for both blog and portfolio.
Thanks!
Luke, great job with the theme progress – looks extremely slick! I’m excited to see what you guys would do with Woocommerce
I would love if you guys could bring the fantastic masonry grid-style to display blogs, to Woocomerce Shop page/Product archives. I have wanted that feature for a long time, and would really do good for Avada’s future success.
Another thing that I would love is Opengraph integration with Woocommerce Products. Currently Facebook thinks Woocommerce products are articles. It could be solved via adding this:
Case in point: Run a debug on a demo product of mine:  https://fresheasel.com/buy-art/installation/untitled-pot/ or even yours http://theme-fusion.com/avada/product/adidas-premium-basics-hoodie/. What you get is meta property: article
Sharing on Twitter gives duplicate links.
I’m really excited to see where Avada is headed. I’ve been one of your biggest cheerleader ever since my very first purchase of Avada 2 years ago, and will continue to support you guys in the future.
Thanks
Sunit
Hi Sunit!
Thanks for the comments, we appreciate hearing that! We do have plans for those things in the future, especially masonry for WooCommerce. Although I could not give an eta for that, but it’s on our list.
Thanks again!
Hi there,
I’m in de process of building a new website for a customer, which I’m probably gonna do in Avada.
Is it better for me to buy the theme, start building and later migrate or to start building after the 4.0 release.
Thank you,
Maurice Poos
Certus.biz
Hi Maurice!
You could do it either way, it’s really up to you!
Thanks!
Yeahy AVADA đ ! Fantastic news as always from the fusion people.
can’t help but to check in on my most wanted feature:
– working with Custom Post Types. and Fusion Builder.
– the ability to create content templates with fusion builder, that is, to be able to change a fusion layout for any number of posts/pages/portfolios in one place. fusion builder is great but it’s like working on a static website where each page/post is a specific design. I want to design a template that can be applied to any amount of posts altogether. it is very limiting to have the content and the design all in ‘body’ field as one code.
great news 4.0 thank you, blessings
Hi Luke.
Actually, not all the features in previous versions of Avada had I tried. But maybe later I’ll be busy for fiddling with Avada version 4.0 đ
I had been planning to open an online store and I liked the classic demo shop as well as a modern. Will there be additional features, such as more advanced product filters or other for woocommerce?
Thank you
Moritza Thaher
Thanks for the comments! Eventually we will add more features for WooCommerce, but they are not coming in v4.
Thanks!
Will it be possible to add more easily typekit fonts?
It will be the same in v4, we have not added special integration for type kit yet. Thanks!
Wow, sounds really great! Just installed WordPress and purchased Avada a few weeks ago but haven’t even started working on my first website yet. Seems like the organization of Avada will be completely revamped and that customers familiar with the present one may take some time to adapt to.
Well, I think I’ll better not start my project now to get familiar with something that will change in a few weeks. As I’m not in a hurry, I’ll put on the back-burner (or in the freezer), so please make the live release closer to 3 weeks than 5….
Hope that there will be no delay as my support plan in running empty in the meantime….
Jim
Hello!
Yes we are excited about it, and the organization will be different but it will be easier to follow, especially if you have not used it often. We’re confident it will not be an issue for previous users.
Thanks!
Will it be easy to upgrade and still keep the site I have? What will the cost be to upgrade?
Hello! The cost is free as long as you have purchased a license in the past. The upgrade should also be easy, however we do recommend you being on 3.8+ before you upgrade, preferably the latest 3.9.3.
Thanks!
This sounds very promising, I can’t wait!
I exclusively use the Portfolio theme for my website. I hope that you are considering in a next future to implement a specific search system for it…
Keep up the excellent work!
Hello!
Currently you can include posts in your normal search results, go to theme options > search tab and turn it on there. That will return your portfolio posts in searching.
Hi Luke,
Unless I am missing something, that is not true: my website is a gallery (like Dribble or Behance) only made of Portfolio posts (not posts)… the current search engine browses only Posts and/or Pages but NOT Portfolio posts.
Just like the “Avada: Tabs”: it works (only) for Posts, but does not consider the Portfolio posts…
My point is that I wish you could better develop the Portfolio-related modules in future releases. Thank you!
Yes you can get portfolio posts returned in search results. For example, here is one from our live demo: http://theme-fusion.com/avada/?s=wide+image+post The first result is one of our portfolio demo posts.
But maybe we are talking about two different things!
I found different threads about this issue (here, here or here)… seems that I need to go into the code or to use a third party plugin to achieve that (I have already tried to use Relevanssi but I got some conflict with another plugin and had to remove it).
But that is probably not the place to discuss that… anyway thanks, I appreciate the time you took to reply.
Hmm interesting. Those threads are either inaccurate or from older versions. I can confirm 100% that portfolio posts show in search results without any modifications needed. All of our live demos are not altered in any way, they are the default setup. Our support team will gladly take a look at your site for you to see why that is not working, open up a support ticket for us here: http://theme-fusion.com/support-ticket/
Thanks!
Hey Luke,
I finally figured it out: you were right that it had to do with the Search Page options. I had to select “Post and Page” in the “Search Results Content” field (strangely enough either one or the other actually don’t work…) to have the search function work with the Portfolio items… The cons is that it’s searching among my Page items too…
A more detailed menu where you could select among Pages and/or Posts and/or Portfolio items would be ideal in a future release.
Thank you for your guidance!
P.S.: for those who are also struggling with the search engine for the Portfolio items – you also have to go to the Blog options and match the layout with your portfolio template (for e.g., grid with or without text/post meta, etc.)
Thanks for the feedback, we’ll check into this. They should show if POSTS is selected since it’s a post format. We’re also enhancing the options for this to choose individual post formats and more.
Any plans to fully integrate another ecommerce solution besides woocommerce like Easy Digital Downloads for example?
Yes we do! however there is no ETA for that.
Hi – I have a client I have taken on whose former designers were designing her pages with pure html and coding the UX within the code. I have taken over and have designed new pages with the Fusion design blocks moving forward. So right now she has pages in both styles of design in the theme.
My question is, if I update when 4.0 is first rolled out, and we still have pages with html code instead of the blocks….will that have a negative impact on those pages? This is a live site.
Erica
3S Design
Hi Erica!
We would need to see this live as well as the content to fully determine that. Please feel free to submit a support ticket with these questions: http://theme-fusion.com/support-ticket/
Love Avada, can’t wait to see version 4.0. Wil there be any upgrades with WooCommerce?
Hello!
We have made some minor changes with WooCommerce, but nothing that is a major type feature, more minor improvements to the codebase. This update focuses purely on our new theme options panel and setup.
Thanks for the comments!
Luke my man!
I first learned about Word Press six years ago and that you could build your own website/blog. I tried to learn WP several times and I can’t stress enough how stressful the process was, I mean pull your hair out GRRRRRRR! I hated WP and everything web design for many years… then I recently found AVADA and my website problems were solved!
Your theme, builder tool elements and tutorials have been a blessing! Now, I’m about to launch my first website and it feels sooooo good đ
Thanks AVADA
Ps. I’m super stoked for 4.0, Â Theme Options organization – YEAH!!!
Hello!
Wow that is AWESOME to hear! That is what it’s all about for our team, and why we work so hard on these updates. I’ll be sure to share that with them, they will be please to hear it đ
Thanks again, keep it up!
cant wait for it, i have new site to launch, i think i am going purchase a license by then. will you guys increase the price after 4.0?
Hello!
Unfortunately we do not control the price on our end since we sell exclusively on Themeforest. Envato controls it. In theory they could increase it but we do not expect that to happen.
Thanks!
Will a child theme make in the old theme work with the new redux framework? Or will I have to set up at new child theme?
Hey Nick! Yes child themes will still work as long as you have not modified anything about the theme options panel, in which case it would depend on what exactly was done. THe only thing critical is that our previous theme options panel be as we built it so the options can migrate over to Redux.
I saw one question regarding “custom post types within Fusion Builder” in the comments but no reply. So, I will +1 that question – Will there be support for custom post types in Fusion Builder in v4?
Hey Dave! It will not come in v4.0, however it will come in the one after that. We’re releasing FB as it’s own plugin with many enhanced features, coming soon đ
Loving everything about Avada and you’re making it better???
I’d say the new theme options look sick but my miss 15 would tell me I’m too old sooooo… it looks great & can’t wait đ
… no image tiling available in the title bar currently… just saying.
Thanks for the comments!
Yes! This look amazing! Super excited for the combined options. Great work!
Thanks!
I can’t wait for the update, sounds more solid with new exciting features.
Thanks!
sounds good! I’ve really been impressed with Avada so far (using it since a month or so); so much options and still it remains fast too. Keep it up đ
Thank you!
Excellent platform! I use it for the second month.
Hi Luke – where can one resize blog post images as mentioned in your comment above – the grid setting for blog posts is overwhelming my home page due to the fact it uses full size images:
Cheers
The custom size is only for single post pages, or large or medium layouts. Grid does use the original image size ratio which gives it the grid effect. Just make sure your images are fully optimized. Our support team can help you out with any further questions about this or the theme through a support ticket. Thanks!
I decided to rebuild the news feed using the medium posts layout and some custom flex CSS. Works quite well and I can keep a 3 column grid of posts that resize responsively. If anyone’s interested it’s here: http://britishbutlerinstitute.com
Been Loving Your Theme For Years! We purchased the first one way back when and have purchased it a few more  times since.
We would love some more header options, that would make this theme even more awesome! This is the one thing holding us back from using Avada on all our projects.
Awesome news.
Ha! The man himself, Mr Dovy Paukstys, the Redux master đ
Awesome the new features, thanks to the team for listen the users!!!
I look forward to this version!
Hi,
the options panel of the new Avada 4.0 looks great.
Did you guys also improve Avadas performance in Avada 4.0? Because in the last months I often ran into big perfomance problems on sites with Avada.
Thanks đ The performance has been very good in Avada for a long time now, view some of our demos and see. If performance is low it is most likely due to unoptimized content, and/or server. See this post: https://theme-fusion.com/knowledgebase/is-your-site-running-slow/
Our team will gladly take a look for you through a support ticket to help show you what can be done. Our demos that are loaded with content/images all score in high 80’s on Google and mid 90’s on GTMetrix. You should be abel to easily attain the same as long as content is optimized,and you use a cache plugin.
I have a suggestion, In each area of the backend options, write out in the bottom what the css entry is called so that if you want to add additional options in custom css, you know how to add it easily. Also have a button to open the custom css input window right in the options so you don’t have to continuously flip back and forth from options to custom css.
Thanks for the comment!
Its nice to hear you guys are bring a hole lot of new customization power to the theme.
The change that i would love to see from you guys would be save a section of the page / post that is build and use it for other pages /Â posts without having to load the entire page / post template.
Ankit
Your wish is our command ) That feature is not coming in v4, however we already have it planned and worked on for a different version.
Nice to see these new features coming soon.
I would like to make a suggestion; when I’m creating a content box, tabs or similar, and have to enter text for tab 1, tab 2, etc… it would be nice to have a drag and drop option for when the tabs have to be reordered. Currently, I have to add tabs and then copy and paste everything in order to move things around and that is a lot of extra work.
Hello!
We fully agree and here is a little sneak peak at something else we are working on: http://d.pr/i/yv1x As you cans ee, you can easily drag and drop child items as well as a few other bells and whistles đ That is not coming in v4 but should be directly after.
Thanks!
Hi Luke,
That’s exactly what I need! I’m really looking forward to the updates and enhancements! These features can’t come soon enough. Thanks to everyone working on the improvements.
You guys are awesome… can’t wait for 4.0 to be released.
Any thoughts on how long we have to wait for it?
Ron
It should be sometime in March for certain, we’re in beta testing right now. Thanks!
Version 4 looks great. But one thing I would like to see is adjustable length side-bars. I know you can add widgets to adjust the length but it would be convenient if you could just type in the length you require .
Avada 4.0 sounds really good and I’m looking forward to it đ
One question though, will Avada 4.0 solve the WPML hreflang issue as mentioned in this post?
https://wpml.org/forums/topic/hreflang-doesnt-work/
We’re checking into that now, I myself do not recall that but our dev team has probably taken care of it.
hi, it is a great huge update. Otherwise could the value of shortcode be saved when I insert in a post, and next use it will not need to set the value again. thanks!
Really interested in purchasing Avada but I will wait for 4.0 to be released. Do you have a more accurate ETA now March is here?
We do not, sometime towards the end of March most likely
Luke – the sooner, the better. Developing two new sites with Avada and looks like I need the new features now (especially RGBA in all color areas)
Thanks for the comments đ We want to make sure we test as much as possible before release, but it’s coming soon!
Hi
New demos are coming?
We are planning on one new demo, but the majority of this update is all about the new theme options.
If my memory serves, there used to be some discussion that Avada would have its own image gallery when the 4.x series comes alive. This discussion took place over a year ago. Will Avada have its own built in gallery?
Hello!
There was talk about a gallery feature for Avada but not in correlation with v4.0. We are still planning for it, but it will be released separately and there is no current ETA for that. It is something we were working on the side but have had to take time away from it for other important items. But we will get to it and are excited about where it’s heading.
Wondering, is there any update of the portfolio tab, hope that can be changing tab for all pages rather than only for the current page.
It could already be possible but I’m not entirely sure what you are referring to. Submit a ticket to our team and they will gladly answer đ
What will the update process be like when going from 3.9 to 4.0 on an existing build?
Thank you,
Currently we have 130+ beta testers doing just that đ And the process has been very very good. Check out the “Option Migration When Updating To Avada 4.0” section in the above post it explains what will happen. Options are copied in database, then converted to redux.
Quick question will we need to worry about any changes to the style sheet seeing we added in custom css in the backend? Last time there was a change.
example…
.fusion-secondary-header {
border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;
min-height: 3px;
}
Are you referring to class name changes that happened ion 3.8? That was a one time change we needed to refactor the css. Basically class names changed a bit with fusion- added to them, that will not be an issue in v4.0 đ
The migration to 3.8 was extremely painful. Our site got broken and the Avada support team was not helpful. They kept saying we just needed to find the new names for each element and update the CSS, even thought the support team was the one that added that CSS to our site in the first place to correct other errors (mostly with LayerSlider).
I know Avada has to keep moving forward, but I just hope that this upgrade is easier than the last one (which they claimed was a “one time only” deal).
Hi Aaron,
Understanding the “what” and “why” makes this much more clear. Why did that happen in 3.8? Because we had to refactor our css classes to continue and expand upon them, and to also remove any conflict with 3rd party plugins. It had to be done for longevity and overall improvement of the product.
What was done? We simply added “fusion-” to our classes. Our support staff is always helpful so I am not sure what you dealt with and I apologize if that is the case, however this was simply a matter of adding fusion- to your custom css.
Also, we do nothing for layer slider in regards to adding special classes so not sure about that. If our support team added CSS for you, that is considered a customization. This is why we limit those because we simply cannot be held responsible for customizations to a users site for future version. Simply trying to track all of that is impossible, we can only concentrate on what we include.
Also, any css given to you for Layer Slider would not of been to fix “errors”, it had to be for something you wanted changed that was not able to be done through an option. Again, a customization.
Version 3.8 was about class changes, and we made spread the news on that as much as we could. Always check important update notes and do not blindly update, that is a good practice to take in any type of software.
This v4 update does not have class name changes, it is a brand new theme options panel.
Yes that’s what I was asking about. Thanks!!!
Any update on the release of Avada 4.0?
Exited to get going!
It will be later in the month of March, we need to make sure we test everything from the ground up per usual đ
By and far the best theme I have used. It’s been the building block for pretty much most of the sites I’ve developed and designed. You guys have done an amazing job and I’m so excited to each and every update. Thank you for making me look good when I submit work to a client đ
Thank you, we’re happy to hear this!
Any live previews yet? Â Â cant wait..lol
How can I be as tester?
Check out our community forum đ
Great news !
Do you have a more precise date for the live release ?
We’re looking at the end of March as an estimated date, unfortunately there is nothing more precise. But it’s coming đ
Will there be any change in the existing class and id name? I afraid it will affect my css customization. Thank you.
Hi Jane đ
No there are no class or id name change
Thanks
Any chance for a beta?
Hello!
We’re nearing the end of the cycle so this one is about closed out, but you can signup for next round here: https://theme-fusion.com/forums/topic/avada-beta-testing/
I have a lot of avada installs, how should I keep my clients websites updated so they get the latest version without harming their existing websites and causing more issues. Is the upgrade seamless? what is the best way to upgrade them?
Hi Jennifer!
Great question, in general this applies to any WP theme or software. Check out this post here: https://theme-fusion.com/wordpress-theme-update-guide/
In theory the update is seamless, however we are talking about software that has many moving parts along with users 3rd party plugins or customizations. That is the nature of software and in general there can be issues. Our team takes weeks and weeks of beta testing each major version and also has a pool of customers beta testers (130+) that also test. Even with that, you should always take precaution when updating. Read that post above for general information on best practice.
Thanks!
Hi,
I am about to buy Avada theme but I would prefer to wait for 4.0. Since the post was published almost weeks ago, can you provide me (us) the expected release date?
Thanks
it supposed to be “almost 5 weeks ago”
Hello! The post date on this article is not in relation to the actual release date. This post was made when we first started getting into beta testing. We are about 2 weeks away from release, however that is estimated and could easily change. Thanks!
However there is no need to wait, any time you buy Avada you receive free future updates.
Any news about relase date?
Hello!
For major updates, we always have to play it week by week and day by day as to the release. Right now my estimation is about 2 weeks out, however that can easily change.
Wow! I’m excited!!!
I would like you to add different progress bars, line and round charts, more animations , banners, more demos, etc … You know how to do it! I love this theme
Thank You
Regards
Hi Team,
Thanks for your great work !
Just wanted to know, can we expect the much waiting short code to pull the ‘posts by Tag’, since it is in your priority list from last year.
Thanks-PNRao!
Thanks! That is still on our list. I apologize if you were told it was a priority, I am not sure of that myself. But I do know it;s on our list.
Hi Luke. Just curious why you chose Redux and not to develop theme options using the native WordPress customizer?
Hello Christopher!
Great question and the answer is two fold.
First off, we are already working on customizer integration and have been for a little while. Initially it had performance issues with a large amount of options so it was not acceptable to us. However, recent developments have greatly improved performance and our team has commenced work on it. The customizer is coming in Avada and will contain the full set of theme options plus a few more surprises.
Secondly, we believe that there will always be customers who prefer to use theme
options in the backend because of how deep our options are. At least that will be true for some time, long enough to make it important to use a more advanced panel like Redux. Some surveys we took were specific to this fact.
In the end, we are doing both, and they will be fully in sync with one another. Customers can choose whichever one they prefer to use.
An ETA for customizer integration will be v4.2.
Thanks!
Thanks for your reply Luke! I thinking having both options will be a great way to go about it. The customizer is getting much better in many ways. I’m looking forward to future versions of Avada.
We fully agree, having both is the way to go. We’re excited about the Customizer, we have some good things being done behind the scenes and can’t wait to get it out to everyone :). One step at a time!
Does 4.0 come with any additional demos? Also, how much longer until it is released?
Yes it comes with one new demo that showcases our new header 6 layout. This update is mainly about the new theme options panel though. We cannot guarantee a release date, and we’re often wrong when we estimate, but it looks like about 2 weeks.
Very nice!!!
I can update my currently Avada to 4.0 without any problems?
Hello!
Any update to WP, your theme or plugin should be taken with caution. Developers do their best to avoid any and all issues, but there has never been an update without a bug or two. However we have been beta testing for over 5 weeks now along with 130+ beta members and we’re confident the release will be solid. Always take precautions when updating though, that is just good practice. Also our team recommends being on Avada 3.9 or higher before you update to v4. It is not required, but will be much easier. See this post: https://theme-fusion.com/updating-wordpress-core-themes-plugins/
Last release date was guestimated for two weeks from March 21.
It’s now April 4. Â Any update on the official 4.0 release?
Yeah unfortunately that is why it’s always estimated đ Our top goal is to make sure it is stable and ready to go, regardless of time. But we are very close now, updating our demos and hopefully that will be it. Thanks!
To those who have not made their avada website yet, should they wait for 4.0 or is it not worth waiting?
Every Avada update is worth the wait! đ But I think I know what you mean, you do not have to wait for v4 to start a site, you can update from an older version to v4 and not lose your work. So it’s up to you. We are getting close to release, should be within 7-14 days.
Hi we are currently converting our website to WordPress from static HTML using  Avada 3.9.3 and I was getting ready to train the staff to work with Avada. Should i wait a couple of more weeks before training them to make modifications to the site or will v4 be similar enough to the current version for training?
Hello!
It will be similar enough that waiting will not make a difference. The same concept of our advanced options network is the same, v4.0 brings an updated panel for global theme options, along with other goodies of course đ
Are there an ETA for Avada 4.0?
Early next week đ
Hi Guys,
I can’t wait as well. When will we be able to upgrade?
In the meantime, I would be happy with the BETA đ
Early next week is release date đ Beta testing is closed off for now since we are near release.
Thanks!
So i can stop clicking that check again button in the WordPress update page for now đ Great news! Looking forward to try out that awesome update
I can not wait to see Avada 4.0
I wait patiently
Thank you!
It is early next week now!
It was live yesterday đ Latest version is 4.0.1
Hi – After upgrading to 4.0, my site is very slow. Both on the front end and in the control panel. Anyone else noticing performance issues after upgrading?
Hello!
It could be something server or cache related. 4.0 has had some nice performance enhancements so that should definitely not be a problem, we’ve not had anyone report that. But please do submit a ticket so our team can help you out. http://theme-fusion.com/support-ticket/