There are many types of menu items that can be added to a menu. Some of these are core WordPress options, such as Pages, Posts, Custom Links & Categories. Others are added with third-party plugins, such as WooCommerce or The Events Calendar. Yet others are added by Avada, such as the Avada Special Menu Items and the Avada Menu Options.

There are also multiple levels of possible menu items; the Parent Level (or the First Level menu items) and any Child Levels (or sub-level menu items below the Parent Level menu item). There can be up to 4 child levels with Avada.

In each Menu item, you will also find the Avada Menu Options button. See the linked doc for a full rundown, but basically, you can use these options to configure your menu item’s appearance in your menu.

There are also five menu positions available with Avada – Main Navigation, Top Navigation, Mobile Navigation, 404 Useful Pages, and Sticky Header Navigation. See the Setting Up A Menu doc for more details on this, and other menu related items.

To read more about Mega Menus, please see our Using The Mega Menu document. Read below for more information on Menu Settings in Avada.

Navigation Label – Illustrated as A. Allows you to add a name to your menu item. In this way, you can change the display name of a menu item.

Title Attribute – Illustrated as B. This will specifies the value for the title attribute of the menu item. This text will only be displayed when a user’s mouse hovers over the menu item.

Link Target – Illustrated as C. Allows you to set the link target to _blank.

Description – Illustrated as D. You can add a description under the Menu item. See the Spa Demo Menu for an example of this.

Avada Options – Illustrated as E. This will open additional menu item settings which are proprietary to Avada. Click the button and you’ll gain access to the additional options listed below, in the next section.

Move – Illustrated as F. Allows you to easily move the menu item to various positions in the Menu Structure.

Original – Illustrated as G. Allows you to view the original page name, which the menu item links to.

Remove – Illustrated as H. Allows you to remove the menu item from the Menu Structure.

Cancel – Illustrated as I. Allows you to cancel or remove the changes made to the menu item and collapse the panel.

Custom Link URL Setting – Illustrated as J. The Custom Link menu item has the additional option of a URL setting. This setting allows you to add a custom link as a menu item.

Under the Screen Options at the top of the screen, there are several options you can turn on or off that will display on the Menu items, such as Link Target & Description.

Page templates are templates that you can use to tailor the page according to your needs. For example, if you’d like a certain page to span the 100% of the browser width, then you would want to use the ‘100% Width’ page template. Learn more about each type of page template available and how to set them by clicking the button below.

Step 1 – Click on the + Icon (Add New) in the Toolbar, and choose Page or Post or other custom post type.

Step 2 – The Sidebar will open to Page Options > Settings, where you can give the page a Title, a Slug, choose the Parent page, choose the page template, and add featured images.

Step 3 – Add content to your page using the Avada Builder Live Editor.

Step 4 – You can set individual options for the page in the Avada Page Options panel on the Sidebar. Settings options here will affect the current page only. If you’d like to set global options for your entire site, then you need to use the Global Options. Learn more about the Avada Options here.

If you are receiving 404 pages when you try to open a blog or portfolio post, or you are being redirected to the home page when editing Layout Sections, you may need to reset your permalinks. To do this, simply follow the steps below.

Step 1 – Navigate to Settings > Permalinks from the WordPress Sidebar.

Step 2 – Choose the Permilinks structure you want (Hint: Post Name), and then scroll to the bottom and click “Save Changes”.

Step 3 – Refresh your page and check that it works. Also, make sure to clear all forms of cache. That could be plugin cache, browser cache and/or server cache. More info on clearing cache can be found here. If that does not fix it, please see additional information below.

It’s common to get fatal error messages about memory; ‘Fatal Error : Memory Size Exhausted’. This can happen when you install themes, plugins or upgrade to the latest WordPress version. Such types of problems arise because the PHP Memory Limit of your Host is less than what the process requires for performing its functions. In such a case you would need to follow these 5 tips to Increase your host’s PHP Memory Limit – these were provided by HubSpot.

You can directly increase the PHP Memory Limit if you’ve access to the PHP.ini file. Most small Shared hosting servers won’t give you access to the PHP.ini file. But some servers allow you to create a duplicate PHP.ini in your respective site Directories whose data/values will override the default PHP.ini values. To do that you just need to create a file with the name ‘php.ini’ in the directory where your WordPress site is installed. In that just add the command memory_limit = 128M in it to increase the Memory Limit to 128 MB.

If you don’t want to mess with the PHP.ini file, then you can go for this method. In this you won’t be needing to create any extra file in your Directory. Just Adding define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘128M’); in your ‘wp-config.php’ file would increase your PHP Memory Limit to 128 MB.

A Default WordPress Installation won’t have a .htaccess file. But in case you already have it for some purposes like ‘301 Redirection’, just add the command php_value memory_limit 128M in your ‘.htaccess’ file and your memory limit will increase to 128 MB.

This method is just an Alternate to the php.ini method. Because the function of the code we use in this method is same as what we put in the php.ini file.You just need to place the code ini_set(‘memory_limit’,’128M’); in the ‘wp-config.php’ file which is placed in the root folder of your WordPress installation.

If you are a person who is new to all these techie sounding things then it’s better to have a Live Chat / a Call with your Host right away. It’s your right to talk to them & get the necessary changes you need as you’re paying for it.

A common issue you might run into when uploading or activating Avada is the “Stylesheet Missing” error message. This does not mean Avada is broken or does not work; it means that Avada has been uploaded incorrectly.

When downloading Avada from your Downloads folder at themeforest.net, ensure that you have downloaded and are uploading the Installable WordPress File, rather than the All Files & Documentation package.

You can also read on Envato’s site about the error.

Step 1 – Login to your WordPress Dashboard and navigate to the Settings > Reading section.
Step 2 – Select the Static Page option.
Step 3 – Choose the page you want as your home page from the Homepage dropdown list.
Step 4 – Once done, click ‘Save Changes‘.