The Avada Dashboard
Last Update: September 25, 2026
The Avada dashboard is the control center for your entire site — importing pages, editing theme-wide settings, and managing every Plus feature (forms, marketing, sales tools, and more). This article gives you an overview of what’s where, so you can find things quickly instead of hunting through menus.
Getting There
In your WordPress admin sidebar, click Avada. This opens the Avada dashboard, a single app with its own sidebar menu on the left and content in the main panel. Every item under Avada in the WordPress sidebar is a shortcut into this same app — you don’t leave it, the app just jumps to that section.
The Dashboard Home
The first screen you land on (the Dashboard item at the top of the menu) is a welcome and resources page, not a settings screen. It shows:
- A welcome banner. The first time you visit, this offers a Get Started button that launches the setup wizard. After setup is complete, it becomes a “Welcome back” message with a link to What’s New in Avada.
- Avada Resources — cards for managing your subscription and optional hosting/customization offers.
- Avada Integrations — cards introducing optional third-party add-ons (CRM/marketing, multilingual support, events).
At the very top of every screen in the dashboard, you’ll also find:
- Your connection status (whether the site is connected to your My Avada account and which plan is active).
- A Patcher shortcut, which flags when a bug-fix patch is available for your version of Avada.
- A Reset Avada Caches button, for when a change you made isn’t showing up on the front end.
- A Live Builder button, which opens the visual, on-page editor for your site.
How the Menu Is Organized
The left-hand menu is arranged in three groups, top to bottom. There are no group titles in the menu itself, but the grouping is consistent and worth knowing:
Build The Site
| Menu item | What you’ll find there |
|---|---|
| Dashboard | The welcome/resources home screen described above. |
| Websites | A gallery of prebuilt website demos you can import wholesale, filterable by category (Corporate, Shop, Creative, Portfolio, and more) or by search. |
| Studio | A library of ready-made content blocks and page sections you can preview and save straight into your own Library. |
| Options | Global & Builder Options — theme-wide settings for layout, colors, typography, performance, and more. Has its own search box for jumping straight to a specific setting. |
| Maintenance (submenu) | A catch-all for site upkeep: Patcher, Plugins, Maintenance Mode, Performance Wizard, Setup Wizard, Critical CSS, Changelog, Support, System Status, and Data Collection. |
Design content
| Menu item | What you’ll find there |
|---|---|
| Layouts (submenu) | Layouts — build a page layout and assign it to specific conditions (e.g. all blog posts, a category, the homepage). Sections — the reusable content blocks used inside layouts and pages. |
| Off Canvas | Slide-out panels (menus, widget areas) that open over the page. |
| Forms (submenu) | All Forms — build and manage contact/lead forms. Entries — the submissions those forms have collected. |
| Library | Your saved, reusable elements and content blocks — including anything you’ve saved from Studio. |
| Sliders | Image/content sliders you can place on any page. |
| Icons | Manage the icon sets available throughout the builder. |
Grow the site (Plus features)
| Menu item | What you’ll find there |
|---|---|
| Marketing (submenu) | Experiments (A/B testing), Links (tracked/shortened links), Emails, Contacts, Lists, and Campaigns. |
| Sales (submenu) | Wishlists, Product Compare, Abandoned Carts, Price Tracker, and Review Reminders. Only appears on WooCommerce sites, and each tool has its own on/off switch in Global Options. |
| AI | Avada’s AI assistant tools, in their own dedicated screens. |
Marketing, Sales, and AI are part of the Pro plan. On a site without an active Pro subscription, they still appear in the menu with a lock icon rather than disappearing, so you know they exist and can upgrade to unlock them.
Quick Reference: “Where Do I…”
| I want to… | Go to |
|---|---|
| Start a brand-new site from a template | Websites |
| Change site-wide colors, fonts, or layout | Options |
| Build a header, footer, or a layout for a specific page/post type | Layouts |
| Reuse a section I’ve already built | Library, or Layouts › Sections |
| Check for and install a bug-fix patch | Maintenance › Patcher (or the shortcut in the top bar) |
| Speed up my site | Maintenance › Performance Wizard |
| Build or check a contact form | Forms |
| Run an A/B test | Marketing › Experiments |
| See who’s abandoned a cart or track a price drop | Sales |
| See if my Avada connection/subscription is active | Top bar (next to the Avada logo), or Dashboard |
