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Version: Beaver Builder 2.8

Advanced Settings

The Advanced tab within Beaver Builder's settings provides options to enable or disable settings that typically require custom coding to achieve specific outcomes.

Access Advanced​

  1. Access your site's WordPress Admin Dashboard.
  2. Navigate to Settings > Beaver Builder.
  3. Then click the Advanced tab.

Beaver Builder Advanced settings

Builder UI​

The Builder UI section allows you to enable or disable Beaver Builder user interface features.

Responsive Iframe UI​

Enable or disables the iframe UI for accurate responsive editing. May cause issues with legacy add-ons.

✅ Enabled by default.

Outline Panel​

Enable or disable the Outline Panel in the Beaver Builder user interface.

✅ Enabled by default.

Inline Editing​

Enable or disable the Inline Editing in the Beaver Builder overlay UI.

✅ Enabled by default.

Notification system​

Enable or disable the Notification system in the Beaver Builder user interface. When disabled you will not receive alerts for new posts on the Beaver Builder blog.

Enable or disable the Notification system

✅ Enabled by default.

Remember last used tab​

By default, Beaver Builder remembers the last tab opened in the row, column, or module settings window. Using the Remember last used tab, you can enable or disable this feature.

✅ Enabled by default.

Custom Row Shapes​

Enable or disable the custom row shapes tab from Tools Menu > Global Settings.

Enable or disable Custom Row Shapes

✅ Enabled by default.

Enable Code Settings​

When enabled CSS and JavaScript sections become available in the advanced tab for rows, columns, and modules.

See the Per-Node CSS & JS section in the Custom Code article for more information.

✅ Enabled by default.

Limit WP revisions for layouts​

By default, does not limit the amount of revisions.

Enabling this setting will limit revisions to 10 for Beaver Builder layouts. Set to 0 to completely disable revisions for layouts/pages controlled by Beaver Builder.

❌ Disabled by default.

Limit the amount of undo/redo history in Builder UI​

The default number of changes History tracks is 20.

Enabling this setting will limit Beaver Builder history to 5 items you can undo/redo. Set to 0 to completely disable History for layouts/pages controlled by Beaver Builder.

❌ Disabled by default.

Mod Security fix​

Enable the mod_security fix which prevents 403 errors when using Beaver Builder in shared hosting environments.

❌ Disabled by default.

Small Data Mode​

When enabled, empty/blank options will not be saved to the database, reducing post meta data size by approximately 50%.

❌ Disabled by default.

Node Labels​

When enabled, displays the node label and tooltip when hovering over the node settings icon and in the top right hand corner of the node outline overlay.

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Outline Panel labels are not removed when the Node Labels option is disabled.

Enable or disable node labels

✅ Enabled by default.

Render shortcodes in CSS/JS​

When enabled, allows you to use shortcodes in Layout CSS & JavaScript settings, accessed from the Tools menu. Use this feature to replace a value in custom CSS or JS in a Beaver Builder layout.

See the Use shortcodes in CSS or JS article for more information.

❌ Disabled by default.

ACF Blocks​

Enable or disable ACF Block support in Beaver Builder.

✅ Enabled by default.

Collapse All Settings​

Enable or disable the Collapse All Settings feature, which collapses all tabs in the Settings Window for rows, columns, and modules.

❌ Disabled by default.

Load Theme Colors​

Enable or disable the loading of theme colors in the color picker.

❌ Disabled by default.

Load WordPress Colors​

Enable or disable the loading of WordPress Core colors in the color picker.

❌ Disabled by default.

WP Admin​

The WP Admin section allows you to enable or disable Beaver Builder features from the WordPress user interface.

Allow pages to be sortable​

Enable or disable the Beaver Builder filter link found in the WordPress admin dashboard for pages, posts, and custom post types.

Enable or disable the Beaver Builder filter

✅ Enabled by default.

Enable or disable the Duplicate Page option from the WordPress page, post, and custom post type list.

✅ Enabled by default.

Enable or disable the Duplicate Page link from the WordPress admin bar > Beaver Builder.

✅ Enabled by default.

Show advanced module usage​

Enable or disable advanced module usage. When enabled, this will show which Beaver Builder modules and how many of each type are used on the front end of your website. This information is displayed via WordPress admin dashboard > Settings > Beaver Builder > Modules tab.

❌ Disabled by default.

Assets​

The Assets section allows you to enable or disable asset features from Beaver Builder.

Google Fonts​

Enable or disable Google Fonts. When disabled, Google Fonts will not be enqueued or available for Beaver Builder style options.

✅ Enabled by default.

Font Awesome​

Enable or disable Font Awesome. When disabled, Font Awesome will not be enqueued, even if modules require it.

✅ Enabled by default.

Prefer GD for image cropping​

Enable or disable the PHP GD library. WordPress uses ImageMagick for image processing by default, which is slow and not threaded. Performance is much better with GD, which is native to PHP.

❌ Disabled by default.

Frontend​

The Frontend section allows you to enable or disable Beaver Builder frontend features.

Render css/js assets inline​

Enable or disable rendering of Beaver Builder assets inline. When enabled, instead of loading Beaver Builder CSS and JavaScript as an asset file, you can render the CSS inline in the <head> tag and the JavaScript inline right before the closing <body> tag.

This can be a solution to some rare caching issues, but in most cases you don’t need this enabled.

❌ Disabled by default.