This is actually possible to do, however there must be a few things enabled. Follow the steps below in order to edit your custom archive with the Avada Fusion Builder:
1. Go to Toolset -> Settings and scroll to Editing Experience.
2. Select "Show both Legacy and Blocks Interface..."
3. Under Editor to use for WordPress Archives select "Classic Editor"
4. Go to Toolset -> WordPress Archives and create your archive. This will now be in the classic editor.
5. Under the Loop output Editor click on the Loop wizard and populate the archive with the elements you want. This will generate a content template in the archive.
6. Scroll down to the Content template editor and you will see a button "Fusion Builder" just click on this and it will allow you to edit your Custom Archive using the Avada Fusion Builder.
What are the standard elements used by toolset when generating archives automatically? I want to keep that styling, I just want to edit the rest of the archive page so I can add proper SEO texts, etc.
When I follow your instructions I get stuck at step 6. I can only set some Theme Options settings there but not edit with Avada Builder.
Given that you are creating a completely custom archive, you will essentially start with an empty canvas.
What you can do is to use the Loop Wizard to add the items that you want to display on the frontend in the archive.
Based on your screenshot what you want to modify is the Archive template layout and not what the archive displays itself correct? You want to keep the standard way of displaying with your theme ?
Yes. I just want to add text and elements to the current layout. I have 30 categories, so i need to be able to edit the text and elements of each of the category archive.
Ok, essentially in order to achieve this you will need to make a custom archive. This means that you will need to remake your archive elements inside Toolset. Ideally you can use the loop editor to setup your columns but you will need to make use of some html and css to get your layout to be the exact same as your theme's
It should be noted that the Fusion builder can only be used to edit each item in the archive and not the archive layout itself. This is controlled by the Custom archive Loop output editor.
Perhaps you can rethink using the Fusion builder and use the Block editor for the archive as this will allow you to visually setup your items and customize the area around your products.
I have tried to use the block editor, but its quite confusing to work with (for me).
Is it possible to get a wp page act as an archive? I dont mind adding all the items manually to it.
An example of what I mean:
I have my WP page for Apple iPhone category: hidden link
and this is the standard archive page of this category: hidden link
I want the wp page (hidden link) to act as "the category archive page". And I want to be able to edit it with the avada builder. is there a way maybe that the system lets a wp page with the same permalink override the toolset archive page? that's should do the trick
Yes it is possible to get a regular wordpress page as an archive, however you will need to use a view to add the items to the page.
Using the view block you can add the view to the page in order to start listing out the items, or if you prefer you can build your view using the Classic Editor in Toolset -> Views.
Then build your page using the fusion builder and add the view to the fusion builder page wherever you see it most convienient.
I managed to get the image added and link it to the specific post, but am still not quite there.
Here you can see: hidden link
in the top is the current view and below it are the manually added columns. I am trying to create the view output the loop like the columns i added manually.
So based on your response here. I am trying to edit a view in fusion builder: hidden link
but I am getting this as a result: hidden link;
It seems you are creating a 4 column layout in the fusion builder while having your view setup with bootstrap 4 columns. Remember that in the fusion builder you are creating a template for how each item is displayed, this means that you don't need to use the columns option in the fusion builder because what this will do is place 4 columns inside each of the already created bootstrap column.
I just noticed that the content created with views inside Avada builder is not responsive, see: hidden link
How can I make it responsive? Any ideas?
Can you provide me with a link to the page so I can take a look here to see whats up.
