Avada comes with a unique Advanced Options System, and at the heart of that is the Avada Global Options. This options panel allows you to configure virtually every section of your website. The options are organized into logical tabbed sections, and each option has a description of what it will do.
We encourage you to take some time and navigate through each section to familiarize yourself with the options. There are literally hundreds of options here, which give you an incredible amount of choice for customizing your site. Read on for videos, screenshots, and descriptions of each of the Option tabs.
How To Access the Avada Global OptionsFrom The WordPress DashboardGo to Avada > Options from your WordPress Dashboard, or Options > Global Options, from the Avada Dashboard, to access the Avada Global Options panel.
From Avada LiveIf you are working in the Avada Live then there is no need to return to the back-end to access the Avada Options. Simply click the Toggle Sidebar Icon in the Avada Live Toolbar, and the entire Avada Options panel is accessible to you while you build. The Avada Page Options are also available on this sidebar, in their own tab. To save any options you change, just click the large Save Icon in the top right of the Toolbar.
For more info on the front end builder, please see the Avada documentation, starting with Introducing Avada Live, and the Avada Builder documents and videos.
Video OverviewSee the videos below for an introduction to the Avada Global Options in both the back end and front end interface.
Avada Options OverviewIMPORTANT NOTES: Avada Global Options use the Avada Option Network Dependencies, and when this is enabled, it will only show the available options based on your current configurations. All screenshots here are showing ALL options available, so depending on your selections, they may be different. Also, 3rd Party Plugin Options labeled in GREEN are only available when you have the corresponding plugin activated. This eliminates irrelevant options to your current setup if not in use.
Layout Options
Responsive
Colors
Header
Menu
Logo
Page Title Bar
Breadcrumbs
Sliding Bar
Footer
Sidebars
Background
Typography
Blog
Portfolio
Social Media
Slideshows
Elastic Slider
Lightbox
Forms
Contact Template
Search Page
Privacy
Extras
Advanced
Performance
bbPress
WooCommerce
Events Calendar
Custom CSS
Avada Builder Elements
Import / Export
Layout OptionsManage the site layout, site width, padding, and sidebar layouts. View here
Responsive OptionsEnable responsive design on your site, set responsive breakpoints, enable mobile device zoom and responsive heading typography, set typography sensitivity, and set minimum size factor. View here
Color OptionsChoose a predefined theme skin, a predefined color scheme, or set a custom primary color. View here
Header OptionsThese are now legacy settings. Please see the documentation on Avada Layouts to see how to create your own custom header.
Manage the header and sticky header. Choose the position, size, layout, appearance, padding, styling, slider position, and header content.
Header Content – Header position, header layout, slider position, and header content options. View here
Header Background Image – Header background image, 100% and parallax background image, and background repeat options. View here
Header Styling – Header padding, shadow, width, background color, border color, tagline font size and font color options. View here
Sticky Header – Visibility options for desktop, tables, and mobiles, and other styling options. View here
Menu OptionsMenu Options – Manage various aspects of your main menu, flyout menu, secondary top menu, mobile menu, mega menu, and main menu icons.
Main Menu – Main menu height, styling, padding, layout, dropdown styling, search icon, and typography options. View here
Flyout Menu – Styling, font size, and menu direction options. View here
Secondary Top Menu – Styling, layout, and typography options. View here
Mobile Menu – Menu design, styling, and typography options. View here
Mega Menu – Layout options. View here
Main Menu Icons – Main menu icon position, and styling options. View here
Logo OptionsManage a regular, sticky header, mobile logo, retina, logo custom link URL, and a favicon.
Logo – Alignment, margins, custom link URL, default, sticky header, mobile, and retina logo options. View here
Favicon – Regular, Apple iPhone and iPad, and retina favicon options. View here
Page Title Bar OptionsManage the layout, visibility, styling, font size, alignment, a background image, and animation. These options are applied globally to pages and posts, but can be overridden by individual page or post Avada options.
Page Title Bar – Visibility, styling, background image, parallax, and animation options. View here
BreadcrumbsManage breadcrumb prefix, separator. color. categories etc. View here
Sliding Bar OptionsManage visibility, columns, font size, color, and other styling options. View here
Footer OptionsManage widgets, columns, content alignment, special effects, copyright text, background image, and styling. These options are applied globally to pages and posts, but can be overridden by individual page or post Avada options.
Footer Content – Footer Content – Widget visibility, number of footer columns, content alignment, special effects, copyright bar, and copyright text. View here
Footer Background Image – Background image for footer widget area, 100% background image, background repeat, and background position. View here
Footer Styling – 100% width, padding, typography, border, copyright, background color, footer widgets area styling, and other footer styling options. View here
Sidebar OptionsSidebar Options – Manage the mobile position of the sidebar on mobile devices and sidebar styling, sidebars for pages, portfolio, blog, search page, WooCommerce, Events Calendar, and bbPress. Here you can activate the sidebars globally which will override the Avada options.
Sidebar Styling – Sidebar Responsive Order, Sticky sidebar, padding, background color, widget heading background color and font size, and widget headings color. View here
Pages – Activate global sidebar for pages, choose a sidebar or no sidebar for sidebars 1 and 2, and the sidebar position. View here
Portfolio Posts – Activate global sidebar for portfolio posts, choose a sidebar or no sidebar for sidebars 1 and 2, and the sidebar position. View here
Portfolio Archive – Choose a sidebar or no sidebar for sidebars 1 and 2. View here
Blog Posts – Activate global sidebar for blog posts, choose a sidebar or no sidebar for sidebars 1 and 2, and the sidebar position. View here
Blog Archive – Choose a sidebar or no sidebar for sidebars 1 and 2. View here
Search Page – Choose a sidebar or no sidebar for sidebars 1 and 2, and the sidebar position. View here
WooCommerce Products – Activate global sidebar for WooCommerce products, choose a sidebar or no sidebar for sidebars 1 and 2, and the sidebar position. View here
WooCommerce Archive – Choose a sidebar or no sidebar for sidebars 1 and 2. View here
Events Calendar – Activate global sidebar for Events Calendar posts, choose a sidebar or no sidebar for sidebars 1 and 2, and the sidebar position. View here
bbPress/BuddyPress – Activate global sidebar for bbPress/BuddyPress, choose a sidebar or no sidebar for sidebars 1 and 2, and the sidebar position. View here
Background OptionsBackground Options – Manage background image for page and main content, background color, background pattern, and other styling options.
Page Background – Background image for page, 100% background image, background repeat, background color, and background pattern. View here
Main Content Background – Background color, background image, 100% background image, and background repeat. View here
Typography OptionsManage font family, weight, style, size, line height, letter spacing, font color, link color, and header margins for body, headers, and post titles. Choose either standard fonts, Google fonts or add your own custom fonts.
Body Typography – Font family, weight, style, subsets, size, line height, letter spacing, font color, and link color. View here
Headers Typography – Font family, weight, style, subsets, size, line height, letter spacing, header margins, and font color options for headers H1-H6, post titles, and post title extras. View here
Custom Fonts – Upload as many custom fonts as you wish. Required font files -> .woff, .woff2, .ttf, .svg, .eot. View here
Blog OptionsManage the layout, pagination type, excerpts, featured image, date, single post, and the blog meta.
General Blog – Title bar, layout for WordPress default or archive, pagination type, excerpt, blog archive featured image/video visibility, and the date layout options. View here
* The general blog options only control the assigned blog page in settings > reading, or the blog archives, not the blog element.
Blog Single Post – 100% width page, single blog post featured image/video visibility, pagination, post title, meta data position, author, social sharing, related posts, and comments. View here
Blog Meta – Post meta visibility, meta data font size, date format, and various meta options. View here
* The on/off meta options in this section only control the assigned blog page in settings > reading, or the blog archives, not the blog element.
Portfolio OptionsManage the layout, pagination type, column spacing, excerpts, text layout, slug, featured images size, and various portfolio single post options.
General Portfolio – Items per archive page, archive page layout, featured image size, excerpt, pagination type, text layout, slug, and other general portfolio options. View here
* The options in this section only control the portfolio archives, not the portfolio element.
Portfolio Single Post – Pagination, single post featured image/video visibility, first featured image, featured image column size, 100% width page, project description title and details, comments, author, social sharing, and related posts. View here
Social Media OptionsManage your social media options for the header, footer, social sharing box, and upload as many custom social media links as you wish.
Social Media Icons – Default and custom social media links. View here
* The default and custom social link added here will only display in the header and footer, they will not display in the Avada social widget, social link element, or person element.
Header Social Icons – Social icon font size, tooltip position, color type, color, and boxed options. View here
Footer Social Icons – Icon visibility, social icon font size, tooltip position, color type, color, and boxed options. View here
Social Sharing – Sharing box tagline, text color, background color, sharing box icon size, tooltip position, color type, boxed, boxed radius, boxed padding, and sharing box links. View here
Slideshow OptionsManage the number of post slideshow images, autoplay, smooth height, speed, pagination, and navigation options. View here
Elastic Slider OptionsManage the slider dimensions, animation, autoplay, interval, speed, width, and typography styling options. View here
Lightbox OptionsManage the lightbox visibility, general lightbox behavior, skin, navigation visibility, gallery start/stop button, and other lightbox options. View here
Forms OptionsManage the Forms Styling, Google reCAPTCHA and HubSpot options.
Form Styling – Height, border and color options for Avada Forms. View here
Google reCAPTCHA – Configuration options for your Google reCAPTCHA account. View here
HubSpot – Connect your Avada Forms to your HubSpot account. View hereMailchimp – Connect your Avada Forms to your Mailchimp account. View hereContact Template OptionsManage the email address, comment area position, data privacy confirmation box, ReCaptcha, Google map options, and Google map styling.
Contact Template – Email address, comment area position, data privacy confirmation box, and data privacy checkbox label settings. View here
* The options on this tab are only for the contact form that displays on the 『Contact』 page template.
Google Map – Google Maps API Key, map address, type, dimensions, top margin, zoom level, pin visibility, pin animation, popup, scrollwheel, scale, and zoom and pan control icons. View here
* The options on this tab are only for the google map that displays on the 『Contact』 page template, they do not control the google map element except for the Google Maps API Key option.
Google Map Styling – Map styling type, overlay color, info box styling, info box content, background color, text color, and custom marker icon. View here
* The options on this tab are only for the google map that displays on the 『Contact』 page template, they do not control the google map element.
Search OptionsManage the Search form, live search, and the Search page configuration options.
Search Form – Search Results Content, Search Form Design & Live Search Options. View here
Search Page – Search Results Layout, Number of Search Results Per Page, Pagination Type, Search Content Display, Excerpt Length etc. View here
Privacy OptionsManage the Google fonts mode, privacy consent, and privacy bar. View here
Extras OptionsManage miscellaneous options for your site including options for related posts/projects, featured image rollovers, pagination, forms styling and grid/masonry styling.
Miscellaneous – Side navigation behavior, image placeholders, excerpt type, excerpt link method, comments visibility on pages, feature image visibility on pages, add 「nofollow」 to social links, and open social icons in a new window. View here
Related Posts / Projects – Layout, number of related posts/projects, maximum columns, column spacing, image size, autoplay, speed, navigation, mouse scroll, and scroll items. View here
Featured Image Rollover – Image rollover visibility, direction, icon font size, link behavior, and rollover styling options. View here
Pagination – Padding, previous/next text visibility, and font size. View here
* The options on this tab apply to all pagination throughout the site, including the 3rd party plugins that Avada has design integration with.
Grid / Masonry – Grid box and element color, grid separator style and color, and masonry ratio level and 2×2 width. View here
* The options on this tab apply to grid boxes throughout the site; blog grid and timeline, portfolio boxed layout and WooCommerce boxes and under masonry section, the options apply to the Blog / Portfolio / Gallery elements in addition to Blog and Portfolio archives.
Advanced OptionsManage tracking code, Javascript and HTML added before or before , plus various theme features.
Features – Avada』s option network dependencies, WordPress jpeg quality, smooth scrolling, code block encoding, enable/disable Avada』s mega menu, various scripts, sliders, rich snippets, and much more. View here
Code Fields – Tracking code (ie. Google Analytics), Javascript code wrapped in Script tags, and HTML markup. View here
Post Types – Enable or disable various post types in Avada – Avada Slider, Avada Forms, Avada Portfolio, and Avada FAQ. View herePerformanceGeneral performance options, Dynamic CSS & JS, and the new Progressive Web App options. View here
bbPress OptionsManage the forum base font size, header background color, header font color, and border color. View here
WooCommerce OptionsManage general WooCommerce configuration options and styling.
General WooCommerce – Products per page, columns, one page checkout, order notes, my account menu link, cart icon, social icons, product grid/list view, and account area messages. View here
WooCommerce Styling – Product box design, 100% width page, equal heights, tab design, various color options, and icon font size. View here
Events Calendar OptionsManage general calendar styling and single calendar post options.
General Events Calendar – General styling options, feature image hover type, and image background size for list view. View here
Events Single Posts – Social sharing box visibility, single and dual sidebar layout, sidebar background color, padding, widget sidebar styling, font sizes, and color options. View here
Custom CSS OptionsAdd your own custom CSS which will override the theme CSS. In some cases the !important tag may be needed. View here
Avada Builder Elements OptionsThese options affect the Avada Builder Elements globally, which can be overridden by each element』s individual settings. View here
Import / Export OptionsBackup, restore, or transfer Avada Global Options data when you migrate your installation. View here