The Avada WordPress Theme Review: Is It Worth It?

If you’ve been shopping for a premium WordPress theme for your site, then you’ve likely come across the Avada theme. It’s the #1 selling theme on Themeforest, a popular theme marketplace.

And it’s not difficult to see why: it’s a multi-purpose theme that looks slick, loads fast and seems to be able to do almost anything. The only question here is: does it do all those things well?

Nothing’s worse than choosing a theme that can do everything, and the one thing you need it to do (let’s say, for example, e-commerce) it doesn’t do very well at all. So we’ve decided to take the WordPress theme through the wringer. We’ll test out the various pre-set templates and report them back to you.

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The Basics:

Overall, Avada is a fast theme. That’s why it ranked #1 in our rundown of the fastest WordPress themes. First off you’ll be asked to choose between ‘wide’ and ‘boxed’ layouts. We tend to prefer the Boxed look on most WordPress themes, since it keeps the pictures and text in straight lines down the page. But the Wide layout on Avada works with most colors. The wide layout looks natural and the whole website is simple, sleek and cool from the top to the bottom.

Testing Out Templates #1: Avada Cafe

We toyed around the with the Avada Cafe template to see how well it would actually work for an actual working coffee shop or bistro restaurant.
The Good First off, the menu … Read the rest