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Avada Builder

by Avadav3.16.4Unlimited sites

Avada Builder is a WordPress plugin made by Avada.

Product facts

Version
3.16.4
Released
27 October 2026
Type
Plugin
Licence
GPL
Included in
Every plan

Overview

Building a WordPress site from scratch often means juggling code, layouts and device sizes. Avada Builder moves that work into a visual editor. You arrange sections on the page, adjust fonts, colors and spacing in a design panel, and watch the result update live as you edit.

The plugin includes a library of pre-designed templates you can customize, plus global elements so headers, footers and sections can be saved and reused across the site. It works inside WordPress alongside your themes and plugins, and it includes layout elements for WooCommerce stores. That makes it a fit for first sites and for designers who build many pages.

Features

  • Drag-and-drop page building: Design pages and layouts visually by placing and arranging elements, so you can customize each part of a page without touching code.
  • Pre-designed templates: Start from a collection of professional templates that you can customize, which helps keep the design consistent from one page to the next.
  • Responsive design controls: Adjust how your pages look on different screens, from desktops to smartphones, so the layout works across devices.
  • Advanced styling options: Use a design panel to change fonts, colors, spacing and more, making detailed visual tweaks without writing CSS by hand.
  • Global elements and layouts: Save headers, footers and sections once and reuse them across your site, so repeated parts stay consistent and quicker to build.
  • Real-time editing: See changes right away with live previews while you work, which makes it easier to try layout ideas and refine them.
  • WooCommerce page elements: Design online store pages with tailored page elements and product layouts that fit into a WooCommerce shop.
  • Widget and module library: Add dynamic content such as sliders, forms and galleries using ready-to-use widgets and modules, and animate navigation with page transitions.

Best for

  • Beginners who want to build pages without code
  • Web designers building many WordPress sites
  • Store owners designing WooCommerce page layouts

Changelog

Version 3.16.2 — 30 September 2026

  • Security Fixed possible XSS and injection vulnerability in Avada Forms submissions / notification emails
  • Security Fixed possible reflected XSS vulnerability in a legacy theme upgrade routine
  • Security Fixed possible sensitive information exposure in the Instagram element
  • Security Fixed insufficient validation of the checkout data in the Stripe Button element
  • Security Fixed possible sensitive information exposure in the WooCommerce order elements and dynamic data
  • Security Fixed possible Subscriber+ level stored XSS vulnerability via user profile fields
  • Security Ongoing security hardening across several areas of the product
  • New Added page transitions to Global Options and Page Options, which animate the navigation between the pages with several effects
  • New Added aurora backgrounds to Containers and Columns, an animated gradient of soft color blobs with drift, swirl and pulse animations, incl. up to four colors, speed, size, blur, opacity and blend mode options
  • New Added the Post List element to display a list of posts, pages, or entries of any other post type, based on the architecture of the Categories element and replacing the WordPress pages widget
  • New Added price modes to the Stripe Button element, which can now use a fixed price, a price selected from your Stripe account, or an amount entered by the customer, incl. minimum and maximum limits
  • New Added a text option to the ToTop button, with the icon placed before, after or above the text, incl. support for the scroll progress
  • New Added a backdrop blur option to the Off Canvas overlay, e.g. for frosted glass effects behind popups and sliding bars
  • New Added responsive absolute positioning to Columns, analogous to Containers
  • New Added a Fill Column Height option to the aspect ratio of the Image and Post Card Image elements
  • New Added an option to exclude or include the current post to the Post Cards element
  • New Added the author social profiles from the dynamic data engine to the Social Links element
  • New Added API key options for the Carto and Stamen tile styles, as well as a high-DPI tiles option, to the OpenStreetMap element
  • New Added a Persist Query Cache option to Global Options, to choose if Avada's internal query results are stored in the persistent object cache
  • Improved Improved the Role Manager, incl. a separate capability to manage Avada Forms submissions, and turning off builder access no longer locks a role out of the post edit screen entirely
  • Improved Revamped the .htaccess rules of the compression option, which now also adds browser caching headers, uses Brotli when available, and is no longer hidden on PHP-FPM and FastCGI servers
  • Improved Google Fonts CSS is no longer requested more than once per page generation, and the Google Fonts cache is no longer bypassed on pages without extra fonts
  • Improved Added fetchpriority="high" to the Critical CSS image preload tags
  • Improved The WooCommerce quick view container markup is no longer printed into every page when activated, which also fixes the conflict with Cloudflare's Email Obfuscation
  • Improved The nothing found messages of the Post Cards and archive elements now display in the Live Editor and can be edited with the element generator
  • Improved Global elements that were accidentally wrapped in a Text Block, e.g., through content copying by WPML, are now corrected on save
  • Improved The Instagram element no longer makes a REST loopback request, caches the feed correctly, and falls back to the preview image when a media URL is missing
  • Improved Avada Sliders are now listed in the Edit Live menu of the admin bar
  • Improved Carousel navigation arrows are now always vertically centered on the slides, also when the pagination is placed above or below them, and the gap below carousel images has been reduced
  • Security Improved the accessibility of the special menu items, incl. correct link labels and screen reader announcements of cart count changes
  • Security Added titles to the YouTube and Vimeo background video iframes of Containers for better accessibility
  • Improved Compatibility: Custom Auth Pages no longer take over WordPress authentication actions they don't handle, so that password resets of third-party form plugins work again
  • Improved Compatibility: Support for the different ticket form positions of The Events Calendar Event Tickets plugin
  • Improved Compatibility with WooCommerce 11.1.2
  • Improved Select2 library to version 4.0.13
  • Fixed Single prebuilt website page imports not working
  • Fixed Importing Avada Builder elements and templates creating the original author of the export as a user
  • Fixed Search element not filtering the results by the selected terms on sites where term IDs and term taxonomy IDs differ
  • Fixed WooCommerce Filters element in dropdown mode not working when AJAX filtering is turned off, but AJAX sorting is turned on
  • Fixed Post Cards element ID sorting not working
  • Fixed Title typography options of the Flip Boxes, Recent Posts and Pricing Table elements not being applied for some title tags, e.g., DIV
  • Fixed Scrolling sections only displaying the first section when the effect is disabled on mobile
  • Fixed Elements with explicitly set pointer events breaking out of the pointer event disabling of 100% height scrolling sections
  • Fixed Side header in boxed mode with offset extending beyond the content at the bottom of the page
  • Fixed Facebook sharing on iOS opening the home screen of the Facebook app instead of the share dialog
  • Fixed Icon picker on WooCommerce attributes not rendering custom icon sets
  • Fixed WooCommerce quick view throwing a PHP error for IDs that are not products
  • Fixed PHP 8.4 warnings in the Fusion Slider when slides have no image data
  • Fixed Avada Forms multi upload field removing files when pressing enter in a text input
  • Fixed Avada Forms entries not using the WordPress timezone for the submission time
  • Fixed Live Editor not loading on servers where the PHP default charset is empty
  • Fixed Layout edit links being invalid when using custom permalinks
  • Fixed Context menu options not always being correct for library elements, like Layout Sections, Post Cards and Rollovers
  • Fixed Column size changes not updating in the Navigator until the page was reloaded
  • Fixed Image Carousel picture size changes not enabling the save button in the Live Editor, and hotlinked slides possibly going blank

Earlier versions

  • 3.16.1 (25 August 2026): 9 new, 4 improved, 13 fixed, 1 security
  • 3.16 (4 August 2026): 25 new, 14 improved, 7 fixed, 5 security
  • 3.15.6 (6 July 2026): 8 new, 5 improved, 11 fixed, 1 security

FAQ

Is Avada Builder free?

The code of Avada Builder is licensed under the GPL, so anyone may use, change and share it. Buy GPL is a paid service: a plan gives you the download and its updates. The developer's own support, licence key and online services are not included.

Which version of Avada Builder is this?

Version 3.16.4, released 27 October 2026. New versions appear here when the developer publishes them.

How do I update Avada Builder?

Install Buy GPL Updater on your site and paste your key from My Account. It installs new versions of Avada Builder for you.

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