Avada Builder Options

The Avada Builder has a vast array of options that allow you to configure the Builder to suit your preferences and website environment. These options include activating and deactivating the Avada Builder on custom post types, enabling or disabling any of the Avada Builder Elements to improve performance, and exporting or importing your Avada Builder settings. Continue reading below to learn more about these options.

Before you can access the Avada Builder Options, you must first install and activate the Avada Builder Plugin. Once this is activated, navigate to the Avada Dashboard and head to Options > Builder Options. Here, you will find all of Avada Builder’s available options. Customize these options to your liking, then click ‘Save Settings’ to save your changes.

The Avada Builder Auto Activation option allows you to enable or disable the Avada Builder user interface by default when creating or editing a page, or post. When active, the Avada Builder will automatically load when creating or editing a new page or post. Otherwise, the default WordPress content editor field will be displayed. Simply toggle the option to On to enable, or Off to disable.

Under the Avada Builder Elements section, you’ll find a checklist of all existing Avada Builder Elements, including Design Elements, Layout Elements and Form Elements. If you are not using a particular Element on your website, you can disable it here. Disabling individual Avada Builder Elements can slightly increase performance and load speed. Please be aware though, that disabling an Element will disable it on all existing pages or posts. Any disabled Elements that have been used across the site will render as code snippets, so make sure you haven’t used it anywhere before disabling it. To help with this, the Run Element Scan option was added in Avada 7.3.

The Run Element Scan button does exactly what it says. It scans the website, and finds and disables the Elements which are not in use. You could use this feature when you are finished with a website, to easily find the disable the Elements you are not using. Just note, that this feaure may not fully run on large websites with a lot of content.

Under the ‘Post Types’ section, you’ll find a checklist of all your existing custom post types. What you see here will be depenedant on the plugins you have installed. Using these options, you can activate or deactivate the Avada Builder on any of your custom post types. Simply check the checkbox of the custom post type you’d like to activate the Avada Builder in, or uncheck to disable it.

You can also export your entire Avada Builder settings and content which you can use as a backup, or import to another Avada installation.

To import your Avada Builder content, simply browse to and select the XML file with your saved content and click the ‘Import’ button and wait for it to finish loading.

You can choose to export your entire Avada Builder content (saved containers, columns, or elements), or just your full page templates. Simply click the appropriate button and an XML file containing your saved content will be downloaded to your computer.

If you’d like to customize each Avada Builder Element globally, you can do so by going to the Avada > Options panel, then switching to the Avada Builder Elements tab. On this tab, you can globally customize each element to your liking. If you’d like to customize each Avada Builder Element individually, then you can do so by editing the individual Element while building your page or post.

You can also access these Element Global Options when you are in Avada Live. Simply click the Toggle Sidebar icon on the Toolbar, and choose the Global Options Tab. Scroll down to the penultimate option, called Avada Builder Elements, and here you can also set the global defaults for the Elements.