Avada is absolute rubbish

I gave Avada a shot on a clients website. Usually would use Elementor and that has always worked great. The reason I was tempted to try Avada was due to Siteground recommending it, so I had assumed this was a cutting edge builder. Could not have been further from the truth.

I have used all the major WP builders over the years, 10 minutes of tinkering and I am off. It’s always straight forward. Avada is so backwards that I can’t decide if this is a 10 year old beta program or just genuinely rubbish.

Nothing has been intuitive to use, the learning curb is actually incredibly steep. And the bugs come hard and fast, most notably flicking buttons which make it next to impossible to edit a container. Their support suggested that issue could be due to ‘absolute positioning’ enabled. It wasn’t, but even if it was enabled, that would cause buttons to flicker?

There also seems to be an issue with the saving function. Whilst I seem to note an autosave is absent, I did some significant edits to a page today, and despite clicking that save button which seemed to have responded, at some point all my work had reversed. Clicking the history button doesn’t seem to be a history button either, that just took me to the home page.

Honestly, one product, such rubbish results. How are they still in business?

Back to Elementor I go, hopefully with a refund from Themeforest for the Avada crap. I would love to invoice Avada for the time lost navigating their subpar product that Imo meets zero expectations.

1 Comment
  1. I doubt you‘ll be able to get a refund on Envato/Themeforest, as they don‘t refund for stuff you already downloaded, unless you can prove it‘s 100% absolutely broken and unusable. Correct me if I‘m wrong.

 

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