Always open Advanced Layout Builder

Is there by any chance any other way of accomplishing this? It does work, but it kind of loads the default editor then loads the avia ALB causing a noticeable flicker. IMHO it looks a bit unprofessional.

Very kind of you to chime in Nikko! I’m afraid $(document).ready() is too early since (for me anyway) repeatedly fails to load the ALB.
I did solve my particular issue with a slight modification though:

// make avia default on new posts
// use #postdivrich_wrap for editor only, #post-body for (pretty much) everything
// see https://kriesi.at/support/topic/always-open-advanced-layout-builder/#post-452117
add_action('admin_head-post-new.php', 'trigger_alb_on_load');
function trigger_alb_on_load(){
	echo '<style>#post-body { display: none; }</style>';
	?>
	<script>		
		(function($){
			$(window).load(function() {
				$("#avia-builder-button").trigger('click');
				$("#post-body").css('display', 'inherit');
			});
		})(jQuery);
	</script>
	<?php
}

This seems to work nicely. For me anyway.

Hi there,
I”m using a gravity forms to create new posts. I made my template using ALB and I copied the layout code and put it into the Post Body GF field, If I set that post to publish when the form is submitted, it looks like my site doesn’t recognize that it was built in ALB and page is formatted funny. Can I make it so ALB is set at the default so the page loads correctly without me having to go into the page draft to manually switch it to ABL and publish it?

For reference: I found this article above ^^^ and this one https://kriesi.at/support/topic/avia-layout-builder-by-default/