Within the stratified sidebar, you can right-click to create, rename, cut, paste or delete any folder.

Are you a website administrator? A freelancer? Do you have hundreds or thousands of website media files to manage? The answer to the clutter-free organization for your Avada website is FileBird.

To install Contact Form 7, simply head to Plugins > Add New from the WordPress dashboard, search for Contact Form 7. and click the Install Now button. Then activate it.

Once Contact Form 7 is installed, you will find a sample form under Contact > Contact Forms. All settings for the plugin are found in the actual forms themselves.

The first tab is Form. Here, you create the form template with use of form tags. The sample form is a basic contact form with fields for Name, Email, Subject, a Message area, and a Send button. You can add further form fields by clicking on and configuring the corresponding Form Tag Generator button above the form template area.

On the right hand side, you will see links to the Contact Form 7 FAQs, Docs and Support Forums.

Once you have completed your form fields, you can configure the form as a whole in the Mail tab. this tab configures where the form is sent, and the content the mail will have. You can also use mail tags in this template to customize how the mail appears.

The ‘To’ email address can be any email address, but the ‘From’ email address should be one on the same domain as the form. In the Message Body, you can edit the template, and add any of the [your-name] [your-email] [your-subject] [your-message] mail tags to control the content.

The Messages Tab is where you configure the various messages the form can give off in certain situations. There are default values in all of them, but you can, of course, customize these to whatever you like.

There is a final tab called Additional Settings, where you can add customization code snippets. This is for advanced users, and is not at all required for the forms to work. Follow the Additional Settings link on the tab for more information.

At the top of every form, above the tabs, is the specific contact form shortcode. This is the way to add your form into your content. Just use a Code Block or Text Block Element, and paste the shortcode in, or you can use the Contact Form 7 Element.

Contact Form 7 is a popular form plugins for WordPress, and works well with Avada. To style it however, as this is a third party plugin, will require the use of custom CSS. For much more flexibility and integration with Avada Builder, we advise using Avada Forms. See The Avada Form Builder documentation for more information on our integrated form solution.

To install bbPress, simply head to the Avada > Plugins / Add-ons page, mouse over bbPress, and click install. This will install and activate the plugin with one click.

This places the Forum, Topics, and Replies links in the Dashboard Menu, and the Forums tab under Settings. This is where you customize the user settings and forum features, and set things like the forum slugs. If you import a demo that includes bbPress, you will be prompted to install it as part of the import.

Once bbPress is installed, you will find a range of settings to control it, under Settings > Forums. There are some Forum User Settings, and a range of Forum Features, as well as some miscellaneous settings and the Forum Slugs. By default, the Forums parent slug is forums, and the individual forums use a slug of forum, but these can be customised here.

In the Global Options as well, are a couple of specific bbPress option areas. Firstly, you can control the sidebars in your bbPress forums at Sidebars > bbPress/BuddyPress.

Also, further down in the Global Options, there is a bbPress section, which controls the font size, and colors of the forum.

In the sidebar on the WordPress dashboard, you will find the Forums, Topics, and Replies links. Forums is where you can create and manage your individual forums. Forums are like parent containers that hold topics on a specific subject. The individual forum posts will then populate in the Topics section, and replies to the specific topics will populate in Replies.

Generally, all forum pages are dynamically generated from the slug set in the Forum Settings, and the forums, topics and replies created, but if you want, you can add the forums by using a shortcode. See the bbPress codex for a full list of shortcodes if you want to do this sort of thing. The benefit of this approach is that you then have the possibility of designing the forum page to add other elements. See the eSports Forum page for an example of this.

There are other helpful Elements as well when building a forum. Avada Builder Elements, like the User Register, User Login and User Lost Password can be used throughout your layout to assist users to become part of your community.

You can select Forums and Topics in Conditional Layouts using Avada Layouts, so now you have even more control creating specific layouts for particular forums, or even topics. With a combination of the bbpress shortcodes and a conditional Avada Layout, you now have even greater control over the appearance of your forums.

Forums are awesome, and with bbPress and Avada, they are very easy to set up and implement. They can add a whole new dimension to your web presence, so if you have a website that could benefit from a forum, take a look at this fantastic plugin.

Also, make sure to check out the Avada Forum pre-built website, which is a great showcase of using the bbPress plugin, and a fantastic demo to start a forum based community website.

To install Yoast SEO, simply head to the Avada > Plugins page, mouse over Yoast SEO, and click install. This will install and activate the plugin with one click.

This places the SEO link in the Dashboard Menu, and the Yoast SEO panel on all pages, posts and custom post types. Yoast SEO comes in a free and a premium version, and it has a number of other extensions as well. But let’s just look at the free version, which you can use to great effect.

Yoast has a number of settings, all designed to help you configure the plugin to best suit your site and your needs. The best place to start is the General tab.

Here, you will find a Configuration Wizard, as well as Problems and Notifications areas. It’s a good idea to run the Configuration Wizard as a first step, as this eight step process helps you set up the needed technical optimisation of your site for SEO.

Still in the General panel, there is a Features tab, which has a range of features you can enable or disable, with links to the Yoast website explaining each one. There is also a Webmaster Tools tab, where you can connect your site to your preferred Webmaster tools site.

In the Search Appearance panel, there are further tabs with options for Title Separators, Content Types, Media, Taxonomies, Archives, Breadcrumbs and RSS. Some of these options are configured for you when completing the Configuration Wizard.

There is also a Social panel, where you can connect and configure your Social accounts, and a Tools panel, that has a range of tools, including an import and export options, so you can import or export your settings for use on another blog. You can even import settings from other SEO plugins you may have used. Ther’s also a File Editor, a Bulk Editor, and a Text Link Counter.

Finally, there is a Premium panel, which outlines the advantages of the Premium version of Yoast SEO, and also offers Yoast SEO Extensions.

Once you have configured the plugin to your liking, it’s time to start using it. But which content can you use it on, and is all content equal?

Yoast SEO, by default, will be available on all custom post type, taxonomies, and other pages you have, from pages, posts, portfolio items, FAQ items, and even things like WooCommmerce products. You can use the Yoast SEO panel on any of these items to help optimize the content for SEO purposes.

But it will typically be posts that are the easiest to work with, and which will give the biggest cost/benefit ratio. This is largely because their content can be tailored to a specific keyphrase, and as such will be easier to optimise for SEO purposes.

You can blog to a predefined list of desirable keyphrases and customize your content so that the posts are easy to optimize with Yoast SEO, giving your site lots of new entry points in the SERPs.

To use the Yoast SEO panel, you need to be editing the content in the back end. The Panel will be towards the bottom of the page, under the Editor. If it’s not there, check your Screen Options, at the top right of your page, and ensure the Yoast SEO box is ticked.

The panel is empty when you first load your page/post, and the first thing to do to use it, is to add your focus keyword/keyphrase. This is the term you want to be found for when people search in a search engine. For more information on Focus Keyphrases, click the question mark right next to the Focus Keyphrase Title on the Yoast SEO panel.

Once you have added a Focus Keyphrase, the SEO Analysis will populate, showing you the initial Google Preview and analysis of your content, from an SEO perspective. See below for the three main areas of the panel, the Focus Keyphrase section, the Google Preview section, and the SEO analysis section.

From here on in, it’s pretty much up to you. The way you use the plugin is to look at the analysis results, and address the issues listed in the problem and improvement sections. For example, the first one in the Problem section in the screenshot above is Outbound Links. Yoast SEO tells you to go add some. If you do, that item will move to the Good results section, and your page will be one step closer towards that Green light.

Most issues are relatively easy to fix and involve tweaking the content to improve its SEO rankability. You don’t have to address every point, but the more you do, the better the page will rank in the SERPs for your Focus Keyphrase.

At some point, as you make your improvements, the page will rank as Green. You may still have a few items in the Problems and Improvements sections, but the smiley face in the SEO Analysis section will turn Green, and at the top of the page, as can be seen in the inset in the screenshot below, the SEO icon in the Publish Panel will also turn green. Watch the video at the top of the page to see an example of editing a post, so that all items end in the Good Results section, as seen below.

Once your page is green, all you need to do now is wait for the Search engine Bots to reindex the page, and over time, the page should start to rise in the SERPs. Just note that this plugin and process will not guarantee a better result in the SERPs. There are many complex factors at play with SEO, not least of which is the popularity of the Keyword Phrase you are trying to rank for.

SEO is a huge topic and well outside the scope of this document, but hopefully, you can see how easy it is to use Yoast SEO and how it can help you tweak your content so that it has the best chance of being listed higher in the Search Results.

As mentioned before, some Prebuilt Websites require the HubSpot plugin installed to achieve full replication of the online experience. In the Avada Consultant website for example, we have added Live Chat to the site, as you can see in the bottom right corner of the screenshot below.

The HubSpot plugin is added during the Website import, but you will still need to connect your account and configure Live Chat. Please see Setting Up HubSpot in Avada for more info on the initial steps of adding an account.

If you already have an existing site you’d like to add Live Chat to, you need to add the HubSpot plugin to your site, which you can do with one click on the Avada > Plugins / Add-ons page. Then you simply need to register for an account, and then you can add the Live Chat feature. Please see How To Use HubSpot With Avada for more info on HubSpot, installing the plugin, and the initial steps of adding an account.

Once you have installed the HubSpot plugin and connected your account, you are ready to configure your HubSpot account for live chat.

The first thing to do is to edit and configure your default Conversations Inbox. A conversation inbox streamlines and centralizes communication with your contacts. You can connect team emails and/or chat channels to the inbox, and then view, reply, and manage all conversations from each channel in one place. Let’s walk through it.

That’s it. You can now return to your website front end, and refresh, and the live chat box will display according to your settings.

HubSpot has a huge amount of resources, and an in-depth Help Section, found at https://help.hubspot.com/. Please see the following two sections that relate to Accounts and Live Chat.