How to Install the Avada Theme
To install the Avada theme for WordPress, go to the WordPress dashboard and do the following
- Hover over appearance and click on themes
- Click on add new
- Click on upload theme
- Click on the install button
- Find the Avada.zip file you should have downloaded (if you need the theme, you can get the Avada theme here)
- Then Install
- Then Activate
How to Activate the Avada Theme
To activate the Avada theme and choose a template for the WordPress website you can do the following
- After you install the Avada theme
- You can go to the Avada theme tab on the dashboard
- Add the purchase and license code in the box on the Avada pop up
- Click save and now the Avada theme license should be linked to the website
If you need more help with the Avada theme and linking the website, you can check out this tutorial that we typed up (it’s pretty quick and easy).
To Get Started With the Avada Theme
- Click the get started button after activating and connecting the Avada theme to your WordPress website
- Now activate all the plugins
After you’re active the plugins, the next page will let you choose whether you want to start from scratch or use a prebuilt template.
This tutorial will be going through different sections of the website to build, so we’ll choose a template and then show how to make those different sections on your own so you can learn how to use the Avada page builder for WordPress.
- At the bottom of the page you can change the name of your website title if you wish.
You can also change the name of the website if you ever go into the general settings
- Hover over settings on the wordpress website dashboard
- Click on settings
After you select the type of website that you want to make and edit the name of the site, you can click the button that says Next Step.
How to Choose Avada Theme Website Template
Now that you have clicked the next step button, you should see all the templates that you can choose from to use for the WordPress website that you are learning how to make with the Avada theme
You can also come to this page after you install the Avada theme and activate the license and the plugin by going to the Avada tab
- On the Avada theme tab, click on websites
- This is where you can come to this page to choose the website template for the Avada theme
For our video tutorial, even though there are some really great options for the Avada theme to use for the template for the website, we are going to use the classic option in order to really learn how to use the avada them.
- We are using the classic template option
- Hover over it and click on select
- Click on the complete set up button to install and import all the content needed for the website
You are more than welcome to choose another template now or come back and change the template for the website for the Avada theme later if you wish. This tutorial will cover how to use the avada theme so you can know how to customize and make your wordpress website however you want.
How to Change the Avada Theme Options Styles Colors and Layouts
In this section, we discuss how to choose the theme options for the Avada theme. If you want to change them or review them you can do the following:
- Go to Avada -> click on options
- Here is a tab of all the options to update your layout colors font styles and header and footer
- Just know that the header and footer and some of the layout options are now a part of the layout tab on the avada theme dashboard
- There is a tab for layouts where you can create sections or layouts for the website with avada theme and set them as rules for where they show up
- We’ll discuss the layout options for the avada theme in more detail in the next section
- Just go through the tabs here and change what you want
- Or revisit this options page for the avada theme for the wordpress website after you start making the website