The Avada WordPress Theme Review - Is It Worth It? 

Really? Because I've been thinking to change it for elementor pro 3 licences

There are definitely old and new Elements and design Options in Avada. The decisions regarding how to support legacy workflows is always a challenge. (Microsoft gets criticized for keeping too much legacy code and Apple gets criticized for abandoning too much.) They do tend to retire or demote older features over time -- usually when they are refactoring the overall codebase. The Avada Slider is definitely basic, but Avada comes with both Slider Revolution and LayerSlider. I like that there is a simpler option as well. The Setup Wizard is brand new. I expect it will keep tweaked like other major new features have. Regarding the Builder -- I like the idea of colour-coded Containers, Columns and Elements. That's an easy change that would indeed make it easier to keep track of where you are. Moving columns and elements in the builder can definitely be finicky in my experience. You do learn tricks that make it a bit easier, but that's not much help to new users. With each update, the Avada team continues to add padding and margin controls to more and more of it's legacy builder elements. The way you feel about Avada is a bit like how I feel about Divi and Elementor -- not because I think Avada is better, but because I know my way around Avada better. I think Avada is especially a good deal for someone building a site or two given it's lifetime licence (versus annual fee).

Do you have to buy the theme for each website you build or is it a one off purchase which you can use for lots of website builds?

@@MrLockie7 it requires a license for each site you plan to use it on.

Do you find Avada to be slow or bad for seo?

Like how much do you charge (average) for a small site?

Glad it was helpful!

i would ONLY use 1 builder, two builders is a bad idea and you will get code conflict

@@darrelwilson Thank you!

hey soon , good topic !

This is currently on my list of things to do, I’ll take a look at this

@@darrelwilson What do you recommend as a good, intuitive, easy and cost effective WP Theme Page Builder? I see you mentioned Divi, Breeze, Elementor Are there other good ones? and which picks top spot according to the metrics I am inquiring about?

Going to add this to my list yes

i would go with Elementor for sure ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p9jXInqP5j0.html&t

Hey , if you need help feel free to drop your questions in the comments .

hey , Take a look at my top 10 WordPress themes: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MNPKrTu6_dQ.htmlsi=EKoW3W1tix7Isv_G

Hey William, that could be part of it. But also many users might use it on other various websites even though they have one license. But the argument that I’m making is that many users prefer to use it and recommend it or even use it on other websites because they like the product. Whereas with the Avada theme it has more sales than active installs

@@darrelwilson But you can only use an Envato licence on one site -- otherwise it's not a legitimate use. So, roughly 400,000 Flatsome sites are not properly registered. (The complicated issue of open-source licenses aside.) Of course, there would be still be Avada un-registered use. I just wonder about the ratios. I have a bunch of Avada licences/purchases -- more than I am currently using because it goes on sale from time-to-time and I use it with new clients. Obviously, there is a difference between the Avada ratio and the Flatsome ratio. However, Avada implemented a system that makes piracy much harder now. That led to a surge in new purchases. Both Themes have been around for about the same amount of time . So, that's not a difference, but Flatsome has much more recently moved up the sales charts. I THINK that would mean that Avada has many more older purchases and there is a turnover over time as businesses seek folks like me to update their sites. Please understand, I am not even disagreeing with your conclusion. I just think the issue is multi-factored.

@@WilliamPitcher Piracy? I am afraid the "complicated issue of open-source licenses aside" comment was rather misleading. It is not complicated at all. They are all GPL open source. The only thing me, you or any other developer can protect under GPL is our brand names, product names, trademarks and logos. Fortunately there is some good news, generally people understand that "official" websites are safer to download from and install on clients websites. They also understand there is good value in having on going support for a product. Just to confirm, I am aware that certain theme marketplaces attempt to add another licence on to the GPL licence. I will let you work out by re-reading that sentence over a couple of times if you think that itself is lawful or not.

@@darrelwilson you used to be able to use Avada on more than one site they recently changed where if you don’t have a purchased license you can’t use it. I like the theme but being new to all of this it gets frustrating . They should offer more prebuilt themes , it’s been a slow process to get the newer ones they have now. Thanks for this review.

Hahaha. 😅😂🤣

yeah its alright, i wouldnt use it however

its their own builder actually

Genuine question -- what feature / capability / workflow do you feel Avada is missing?

@@WilliamPitcher What's missing? Here you go: multi-step form / poor image hover animations / poor studio library / poor tabs edit possibility / poor possibilities for mobile menu design / only few css animations / see on themeforest "Elegent Elements for Fusion Builder and Avada" - almost 3k users bought a tool to improve Avada's limitation. The idea of Avada is good but still needs to improve A LOT.

@@marcinkodowy6787 any theme you would recommend?

Elementor is very old