How to Use the Avada Live Visual Builder Shortcuts

If you’re building pages using the Avada Live Visual Builder and still reaching for your mouse every time you want to save, preview, or undo something, you’re leaving real time on the table. Not a huge amount per click, sure. But multiplied across a build? It adds up fast.

The good news: Avada has a solid set of keyboard shortcuts baked right into the Live Visual Builder. Most people never touch them. You’re about to be one of the ones who does.

Before we get into the shortcuts themselves, here’s the move to use when you inevitably blank on one: In the Avada Live Visual Builder, open the toolbar, go to “Support”, then click “Shortcuts”. The whole list lives there. Bookmark that in your brain. It’s the cheat sheet you don’t have to print.

These are the shortcuts that change what’s on your screen, fast. They’re the gateway to keyboard-driven editing.

If you’re on Avada 7.15.3 or later, you’ve got the Avada Command Palette. And honestly, this one shortcut might be the most powerful tool in the builder. Cmd/Ctrl + K opens it instantly. If that combo is already taken by something else on your machine, F1 also works.

If you haven’t already, check out our dedicated Avada Command Palette post. For now, just know: this is the one to memorize first.

Need more breathing room on your canvas? Hit Shift + T and the sidebar gets out of your way. Hit it again, and it’s back. Great for when you’re zoomed in on a complex layout and want to see the whole thing.

Shift + P flips you into preview mode so you can see what the page actually looks like without all the builder chrome. Hit it again to come back to editing.

These are the ones that do things, save, undo, delete, that kind of stuff.

The single most important shortcut on this list. Use it constantly. Use it after every meaningful change. Your future self will thank you the next time your browser refreshes at the worst possible moment.

Built something you want to reuse on another page? Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + S saves your current content as a template. Way faster than digging through menus.

The classics. Undo with Cmd/Ctrl + Z​. Redo with Cmd/Ctrl + Y. If you’ve ever used a computer, your fingers already know these. Avada just respects what your muscle memory expects.

This one nukes everything on the current layout. Don’t worry, a confirmation dialog pops up first, so you can’t accidentally torch an hour of work. But still: handle with respect.

If you’ve got the Preferences, Shortcuts, or any other modal open, Cmd/Ctrl + Enter closes it. No mouse needed.

If you live in custom CSS, this one will be your best friend. Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + C pops open the page’s CSS panel directly.

Need to jump from Live Visual Builder to the Backend Builder (Wireframe mode) for the same page? Cmd/Ctrl + Q opens it in a new tab. Both views, same page, side by side. Useful when you want to compare or work in whichever mode fits the task.

This is the section that, once you start using it, you’ll wonder how you ever worked without.

Designing responsive layouts means constantly flipping between screen sizes. Instead of clicking those tiny device icons every single time, just tap a number. You’ll cycle through views fast enough to actually catch the bugs you’d otherwise miss.

A few things that’ll save you a frustrated Google search later:

Keyboard shortcuts only work if you actually use them. Reading this post won’t make you faster. Using one shortcut ten times a day, every day, for a week — that will.

So next time you sit down to build a page in Avada Live, pick one shortcut from this list and force yourself to use it instead of clicking. By the end of the week, it’ll be automatic. Then add another.