Bring On 2017!
ThemeFusion is now entering it’s 5th year and we’re thrilled to know what 2017 will bring our incredible 500,000+ customers. Avada 5.0 brought you the new Fusion Builder with a promise for a larger vision at work. Avada 5.1 continues that promise with incredible behind the scenes work for our ultimate goal. Yet our customers want something tangible now, and we’ve delivered! Avada 5.1 contains 5 new professionally designed demos, several new menu options, WCAG 2.0 compatibility, several boxed mode creative options, better performance and a whole lot more. We hope you enjoy it! Updates are FREE to anyone who has bought a license so please enjoy!
ThemeFusion’s larger vision for 2017 continues to focus on the popular new Fusion Builder, along with it’s focus on extendability. Avada 5.1 allows us to take the next big step of creating something we know you’ll love. There have been major improvements to the Fusion Builder API and new filters & action hooks. Many amazing Fusion Builder Add-ons have already been created by 3rd party developers. The best is yet to come!
New Professionally
Designed Demos
Avada focuses on quality demos, not quantity. The incredible power of Avada can be seen throughout our demo collection, and we are careful to only add demos of the highest design quality. As always, you can easily import these new demos through our demo importer, or only import individual pages from them through our highly reviewed Fusion Builder.
Avada Charity
Avada Charity is perfect for any organization looking for a professional online presence to help push their passion for a better world.
Avada Creative
Avada Creative stands out from the typical creative agency. It’s modern & clean design style with crisp typography & large imagery is beautiful.
Avada Construction
The Construction industry is booming & highly requested. Avada Construction provides a professional, unique and worthy design
Avada Veterinarian
Beautiful and professional design for Veterinarians and the beloved furry friends they so diligently care for and maintain
Avada Daycare
An original design fitting for any type of daycare or school for children. This design shines and exemplifies this important industry.
TAKE YOUR MENU TO THE NEXT LEVEL
New Creative Menu Options To Liven Up Your Headers
The header and menu of a website is very important, not only does it allow your user to get a sense of your brand and allow them to navigate, it helps set the tone for the overall design. Avada 5.1 brings you several new options that truly liven up your menu to give your header a different look and feel to stand out from the crowd.
Highlight Arrow + Size Control
Avada now offers an arrow highlight option that also reflects in the dropdown and can be any size you desire.
Highlight Boxed Background
The boxed background highlight can be full height of the header or only boxed around the menu item.
Main Menu Icon Option Panel
With all the new icon options for menu items, we’ve added a new theme options panel to organize them.
Icon Position For All Sides
Menu icons can now be positioned on any side of the menu text. This allows for many new creative designs.
Menu Icon Size Option
The menu icons that are used on any menu item have their own dedicated size option for customization.
Icon Color Option & Hover Color
With the new icon options, you need to be able to control the default and hover color. Easily done!
Mega Menu Thumbnail Size
Mega Menu items can have image thumbnails. And now, you can set the exact size you need easily.
Logo Background Color
The logo background color allows you to make your logo/header stand out with new styles.
Menu Descriptions
Avada 5,1 brings you menu descriptions that sit below your main menu item providing additional info.
Avada’s Custom Menu Options
Avada’s custom menu options in appearance > menus are now organized into one single popup window.
MOST ACCESSIBLE CONTENT NOW
Avada Is Now WCAG 2.0 Compatible
This has been a long overdue feature, and while we are disappointed it was not part of early versions, we are thrilled to bring this to you now! Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 aims at making web content more accessible. Being WCAG compliant allows your website to reach a wider range of people and is extremely important in making your Web content more usable!
NEW BOXED LAYOUTS OPTIONS
Boxed Layouts Receive Added
Creativity Options
Avada 5.1 brings incredible new options for boxed mode layout that truly enhance the way your site will look. These new features are simple in thought, yet produce incredible creative possibilities that will make your site stand out from the crowd.
Boxed Mode Offset
Boxed mode offset allows you to set a value for the top & bottom so the boxed area is set away from the top or bottom of the browser.
Boxed Mode Shadow Type
Boxed shadows have 3 different settings; light, medium, hard. Each are set in rgba so the blend well with backgrounds.
Boxed Mode Scrolling
Scrolling type allows you to choose if the windows scrolls the full height of the browser, or is contained within the framed boxed area.
NEW ZOOM OPTION READY FOR WOOCOMMERCE 3.0
WooCommerce Single Product Zoom Feature
WooCommerce 3.0 will bring a new zoom feature for the main product images on the single product post page. Avada offers it’s own custom design which our customers love, and we’ve worked hard on making sure the new core features work with our custom design implementation also. This new feature really allows your viewers to get a close up look at the product you are selling.
NEW TOGGLE ELEMENT OPTIONS
Fusion Builder Toggle Element Gets A Facelift
Each Fusion Builder Element is designed with various customization options which allow you to quickly and easily change the look of the element. Toggles have received several new options that provide a variety of new design styles.
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Toggle Boxed Mode
Boxed mode puts your entire toggle into a boxed framed area giving it a more defined look.
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Toggle Border Width
With boxed mode on, you can also control the size of the border around the toggle box.
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Toggle Border Color
Control the color of the border when using boxed mode for the Fusion Builder Toggle element.
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Toggle Background & Hover Color
Boxed mode allows you to set a background color & hover color, allowing your toggles to stand out.
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Toggle Active & Inactive Box Color
Each toggle has a box for the +/- icon, new controls allow you to set the inactive and active colors.
UPLOAD MULTIPLE IMAGES AT A TIME
Bulk Media Uploader To Save Precious Time
The Slider and Image Carousel Fusion Builder Elements now have the ability to upload multiple images at one time. Each image you upload will automatically populate the element for you. This saves you precious time instead of uploading one image at a time.
NEW FUSION BUILDER ELEMENT
Fusion Builder Now Allows You To Break Any Page or Post Into Several Pages With Styled Pagination Using The ‘Next Page’ Element!
Fusion Builder has a new ‘Next Page’ Element that can be inserted anywhere on a page or post, and will automatically split your content into more than one page. The styling of pagination is also controlled by our powerful theme option settings. Use as many ‘Next Page’ Elements on a page as you wish.
ONE OF A KIND THEME TOOL
Fusion Patcher Continues To Evolve
Avada 4.0 brought you the Patcher Tool and it has been incredibly helpful for our customer base. It allows you to easily apply a patch that our team releases without having to update the entire theme. All with a single click of a button. Avada 5.1 now evolves this tool into the ‘Fusion Patcher’. Each individual product is listed along with a counter circle to quickly display if any patches are available to apply.
Additional Highlights
Google AMP Plugin Support
Avada has been tested with the most popular Google Amp plugins and is compatible.
Entire Image Rollover Links To Single Post
Now when using the featured image rollover, the entire image will link to the single post page.
Background Images With Color Overlays
Background images used in containers or columns now will display a color overlay with the rgba color sliders.
Performance Improvements
Allowing Multiple Files Instead of One For JS & Adding More External Scripts & Styles To The Compiled CSS & JS.
Fusion Builder & Fusion Core Offloaded
Avada 5.1 now offloads Fusion Builder & Fusion Core plugins which saves precious space in the theme zip.
Latest Layer Slider Plugin
The Layer Slider plugin has been updated to the latest version as of Avada 5.1 release date.
Latest Rev Slider Plugin
The Slider Revolution plugin has been updated to the latest version as of Avada 5.1 release date.
Sermon Manager Compatibility
Sermon Manager plugin has received a big update, and we’ve made necessary changes to ensure compatibility.
Overall Codebase Cleanup & Continued Refactoring
Avada 5.1 has a tremendous focus on refactoring, many things that you will not notice but are considered behind the scenes. These are done to improve the overall product, codebase and future maintenance, which ultimately allows us to bring you faster, more efficient updates. Our team of incredibly creative and ambitious individuals work as one, with one goal in mind, to make Avada not only the #1 selling theme, but the #1 theme in every aspect that counts.
Avada 5.1 Includes Even More For Our Amazing Customers!
Avada 5.1 is the culmination of a continued goal along with an amazing set of valuable features, functionality and overall improvements that come from our incredible 500,000+ customer base. Check the full list of goodies this update includes below. We hope you enjoy it!
5 New Professionally Designed Demos
- WCAG 2.0 Accessibility Compatibility
New Menu Highlight Arrow Option
- New Menu Highlight Boxed Background Option
- New Main Menu Icon Theme Option Panel
New Main Menu Icon Size Option
New Main Menu Icon Color Option
New Main Menu Icon Hover Color Option
New Mega Menu Thumbnail Size For Images
Fusion Builder UI Change For Visibility
It’s Now Easier To Override Fusion Builder Elements
- Each Demo Has Been Re-Exported For Option Setup
Filter Added To Allow WOFF2 Upload Automatically
- New Main Menu Icon Position Option (Top/Right/Bottom/Left)
New Bulk Media Upload For Slider And Image Carousel
Performance Improvement By Allowing Multiple Files Instead of One For JS
Compatibility With The New Sermon Manager Plugin
Major Improvements For The Fusion Builder API Via New Filters & Action Hooks
Fusion Builder Single Demo Page Imports Will Auto Update When We Update Demos
Avada’s Options In Appearance > Menu Are Better Organized With A Single Button That Opens A Window
New Boxed Mode Top/Bottom Offset
New Boxed Mode Left/Right Inside Padding
- New Boxed Mode Shadow Type (light/medium/hard)
- New Toggle Boxed Mode Option
- New Toggle Border Width Option
- New Toggle Border Color Option
- New Toggle Background Color Option
New Toggle Background Hover Color Option
New Toggle Inactive Box Color Option
New Toggle Active Box Color
New Fusion Builder Builder < !–nextpage– > Element
Google AMP Plugin Support
- New Layer Slider Plugin
New Rev Slider Plugin
- Performance Improvement By Adding More External Scripts & Styles To The Compiled CSS & JS
Fusion Patcher Now Displays A Counter Circle For Available Patches
- Fusion Builder Single Demo Page Imports Are Now Alphabetized
- Several Other Improvements & Fixes To The Codebase For Overall Enhancements
New Zoom Capability For WooCommerce when WooCommerce 3.0 is relased in April. This will work for both WooCommerce’s default gallery and Avada’s custom gallery.
Avada Patcher is now called Fusion Patcher
Fusion Patcher Now Displays Patches For Each Individual Product
New Fusion Page Option Filters & Action Hooks
Spaces Are Now Allowed In Custom Font Names
Organizational Improvements To Avada Welcome Screen
Avada Menus Now Support Menu Descriptions
New FAQ Tab For Avada Welcome Screen
Demo Imports Are Now Compatible With PHP 5.2
Added Avada Rules For Facebook Instant Articles
New Fusion Library Framework For Shared Scripts
New Logo Background Color Option for some Header Layouts
Updated Styling For Options That Are Set To Off for Clarity
Fusion Builder & Fusion Core Plugins Are Now Offloaded
Improved The Location After Fusion Builder Cloning Is Used
Now The Entire Featured Image Rollover Links To Single Post
Columns & Containers Background Images Now Have Color Overlays
Better Organization For Avada & Fusion Builder Menus In WP Admin
Detailed Information In System Status About Conversions For Older Avada Versions
Container Options Will Always Show Even If Container Is Closed
Blog Element Now Combines All Pagination Options Into One Set
COMPLETE FREEDOM TO CREATE ANYTHING