Plugin Installation & Maintenance

It’s important to note the differences between Avada’s required, bundled, and recommended plugins. The two required plugins – Avada Core and Avada Builder, are very important and must be installed and activated at all times for Avada to work properly and fully. See the Avada’s Required Plugins doc for more information on these.

Avada’s bundled plugins are Premium Plugins that are bundled with the theme purchase and do not require additional licensing in order to use them with Avada. Before you can install any of the Premium plugins, including the two required plugins, you have to first register your Avada purchase. See Avada’s Bundled Premium Plugins for more information on these.

Lastly, there’s Avada’s recommended plugins, which are plugins that we use in our demos, and which are fully integrated with Avada. These are all free plugins and it’s completely up to you whether you install them or not. For some prebuilt website imports to work correctly however, some of these plugins must be installed and active.

Avada bundled plugins can be updated independently and outside of an Avada theme update. The plugins can be accessed via the Avada > Plugins/Add-ons page, and an update notification will be visible when there is an update available for any plugin.

These plugins must be installed and activated in order to utilize Avada’s full functionality.

These plugins are premium plugins that are bundled with Avada and do not require additional licensing in order to use with Avada.

These plugins are used in various demos and are fully design integrated with Avada. Installing and activating any of these plugins is optional. Please Note: When importing an Avada Prebuilt Website that uses one or more of these plugins, you will see a notice in the import dialog that you need to install and activate them for the website import to work. This can be done directly from the dialog. More information on importing prebuilt websites can be found here.

When you first install Avada, you will see a notification to install and activate the two required plugins. But regardless of which type of plugins you are wanting to install from the Avada > Plugins – Add-ons page, the process is identical.

Step 1 – From the WordPress admin, navigate to the Avada > Plugins / Add-ons tab. Here you’ll find Avada’s required, included, and recommended plugins.

Step 2 – To install a plugin, hover over the plugin image and click the ‘Install’ button. Wait for it to finish installing and activate, then click the ‘Return to Avada Plugin Page’ link to return to the Plugins page.

Note: When installing Avada’s required plugins, install the Avada Core plugin first, and then follow with the Avada Builder plugin.

Step 4 – Repeat steps 2 – 3 until you’ve installed and activated all your desired plugins.

Step 1 – From the WordPress admin, navigate to the Avada > Plugins / Add-ons tab. Here you’ll find Avada’s required, included, and recommended plugins.

Step 2 – You’ll see an update notification on plugins that have an update available. This notice will be similar to the image on the right.

Step 3 – Click the ‘Update’ button to apply the update.

Note: Bundled premium plugins can be updated independent and outside of an Avada theme update. Before updating premium plugins, please always make sure Avada is on the latest available version.

Step 4 – Repeat steps 2 – 4 until you’ve updated all your desired plugins.

With Avada 7.1 and up, native WordPress auto updates are also supported. It’s important to understand the implications of using this method of updating themes and plugins.

Basically it means that you can enable themes and plugins to auto update, and within 12 hours of a plugin or theme’s release, WordPress will run the update. These “unattended updates” may not cause any issues, but it is not a method we recommend. Ultimately, this is a decision you have to make yourself. Please read this informative post from Wordfence about this topic.

If the ‘Install’ button on the required and bundled Premium plugins (Avada Core, Avada Builder, Avada Custom Branding, Slider Revolution, LayerSlider WP, Advanced Custom Fields PRO, Avada Custom Branding, and Convert Plus) is grayed out, this is because you have to register your purchase first. Once you’ve registered your purchase successfully, you’ll be able to install and activate these plugins.

This may be due to your server’s PHP configuration limits and will require that these configurations limits be increased. For most, these limits can be increased without having to contact your hosting provider. However, in rare cases some hosts can restrict manual intervention and that will require you to contact your hosting provider to increase the limits for you. Here is a detailed help file explaining how to update the PHP configuration limits.

When you update a plugin, it fails, and you see this message onscreen:

“Plugin installation failed. The update procedure could not delete the plugin due to a permissions issue on your server. Please ask your hosting provider to check the permissions level or manually remove the plugin via FTP before attempting to reinstall it.”

This indicates a server folder permissions issue as the removal of old plugin should be automatic on update. Deleting of plugins on a server can be blocked for certain user levels as permissions will be different on each host. Please check here the Permission Scheme for WordPress or contact your hosting provider to fix the permission issue. You can also manually remove the plugin folder under /wp-content/plugins directory via FTP, and then, reinstall the plugin via the Avada > Plugins / Add-ons section.

If you’re experiencing issues with Registration and are certain that you followed the new Registration process fully, please contact your hosting provider and have them check to see if they are blocking our server. (These URL’s must not be blocked :: api.envato.com | https://updates.theme-fusion.com) If your hosting provider confirms that they are not blocking our service, please submit a support ticket to our team so that we can investigate this further.

If Product Registration continues to fail and you can’t install the premium plugins, an alternative is to go to your My Avada account Dashboard, then navigate to the Support > Downloads tab. You will see buttons to download the Avada Core, Avada Builder, Slider Revolution, LayerSlider WP, Advanced Custom Fields PRO, Avada Custom Branding, and Convert Plus plugins along with other resources.

For an alternative method to download and install the Avada Prebuilt Websites, please see our Alternate Prebuilt Website Import Method help file.