Grid layouts are great for content that needs to be kept together. Testimonials are an excellent example. Divi’s testimonials are created with a new module for each testimonial, but fortunately, displaying them in a grid is simple. In this article, we’ll see how to...
Web servers are responsible for making your website accessible to browsers and users. You may have heard of NGINX before, but you might not know what it is or how it works. Fortunately, we’ve put together a quick guide to this popular server software. In this post,...
As a web developer, you’ll want to ensure that your code is clean, valid, and accessible. This can also help you boost your Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Fortunately, you can use the W3C validator to make sure that your work is up to standard. In this post, we’ll...
Reaching the top positions in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) can bring an influx of organic traffic to your website. However, climbing the rankings can take a lot of time and effort. With a rank tracker tool, you can track your site’s progress and hone your...
Email forms are an important part of a website’s growth. It’s important to have a well-designed form that fits your website’s needs, and this includes the form’s layout. Divi’s email optin module gives you control over the layout and elements that are included. This...
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques can help your website climb the rankings and display higher in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). However, optimization can be really expensive. Premium SEO tools carry premium price tags. Fortunately, there are plenty...
Hosting your Divi website on a reliable server is crucial for site speed, security, and health. To do that, you need a hosting provider that meets certain requirements. Thankfully, Most hosting companies are familiar with hosting WordPress websites. So, they should...
If you’re in the market for a website, you have probably heard WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Weebly, and a dozen more. But which one should you use? When it comes to selecting WordPress vs other content management systems (CMS) and website platforms, the right choice...
You can’t have a WordPress website (or any website, for that matter) without a host. It’s like trying to build a house when there isn’t any land for it — until it has somewhere to go, it can’t exist. But while website hosting is super important, it’s pretty...
Heading tags are one of the most critical features of your website — and maybe the most misunderstood. Many people see headings as just another way to organize and break up content. It’s true that headings can make your content more easily readable, especially if your...
Divi’s email optin module has several text and content areas that can show additional content. These areas can be styled within the email optin module. Along with the module’s layout options, this provides a solid design for a simple email form. However, this does...
From recovering lost passwords to making new accounts, WordPress uses email for many tasks. However, the Content Management System’s (CMS) included email feature isn’t the most reliable. Therefore, we recommend using an SMTP service to send emails through your...
When content that’s exactly the same or almost exactly the same appears on two or more pages, that’s called duplicate content. The biggest problem with duplicate content is that search engines don’t know which version of the content to index or show in search results....
One of the options inside Divi’s email optin form redirects the user to a new page when they subscribe. This is a simple process and opens lots of possibilities for sales pages, welcome messages, and more. In this post, we’ll look at Divi’s email optin redirect URL...
What happens when visitors subscribe to your email is an important interaction that’s often overlooked. Divi informs the that the subscription was successful by default, but we can customize it even further. Creating and customizing a Divi success message is easy with...
Newsletters are a great way to interact with your audience. Newsletter providers offer plans based on the number of subscribers you have. Unfortunately, some of those subscribers are likely to be spambots. This reduces the number of real subscribers you can have or...
Divi’s email optin module makes it easy to build your email list from any Divi layout. The module has all the familiar Divi tools and it’s easy to use. However, it does require you to connect with your external email service provider before it can work. Fortunately,...
Divi’s video slider module displays videos as slides. This sounds simple, but it’s actually a versatile module with lots of options and uses. Fortunately, there are several tutorials here on the Elegant Themes blog that shows how to style and use it. In this post,...
There’s no shortage of managed WordPress hosting companies on the market. However, features and prices vary significantly from one web host to another. If you haven’t used managed hosting before, it can be hard to determine which companies offer the best services for...
A playlist page is an effective way to present similar content in a way that’s easy for the user to access. Divi Video Slider modules are a great way to build a playlist page with video content, such as courses and tutorials. In this article, we’ll see how to create a...
A video slider is a great way to show lots of video content in a small space. By default, the video slides show a snapshot of the video. There are times when you want to give the video slides a different look. In this article, we’ll see how to add image overlays to...
Divi’s blog module is a powerful module for creating all types of pages with blog feeds. Display single posts, multiple posts, posts for specific pages, assign the pages to archives, and lots more. It’s a simple module, but there are several ways to use it....
The Divi Blog module is a powerful tool when it comes to creating category and archive pages. With a few simple settings, you can assign a template to any category or archive page without having to adjust the Blog module. In this article, we’ll look at how to use a...
Dot navigation is one of the most common forms of navigation found within sliders. This is true regardless of the content of the slider. Dot navigation provides a simple and intuitive way for users to navigate through the slider’s content. Fortunately, Divi’s Video...
We often see blog cards with the author’s name, the post’s category, or the publish date. These are post elements that belong to the post itself. Divi gives you lots of control over post elements inside a Blog Module. However, it can sometimes be difficult to decide...
A blog’s layout offers lots of ways to preset your blog posts. You can use multiple modules to display the feeds in different ways. We often forget that we have lots of ways to control which posts those modules display. Divi’s Post Offset option with the Blog and Post...
One simple and interesting feature of the Divi Blog module is the ability to show blog posts based on categories. This opens lots of design possibilities such as creating custom templates for your categories or showing a specific category on a certain page. In this...
Pagination is a great way to improve your website’s navigation while keeping your page content simple. Rather than displaying dozens of blog posts on a page, you can display a few and provide a link so the user can see more if they want to. Pagination is easy to add...
When we think of the Divi Blog module, we usually think of the blog page. However, Divi’s Blog module includes features that can help you build a variety of pages. Posts for Current Page is an option inside the Blog module dynamically displays posts. In this article,...
Usually, every layout pack that comes out on our blog includes a blog layout, which helps you get your blog ready in no time. But, have you ever wanted to see how to build one of those blog pages yourself? In this article, we’ll use one of those blog layouts to see...
Divi’s blog module provides you with two default layout styles off the bat. Grid and fullwidth. But how do we choose? In this article, we’ll explore this question and compare Divi’s grid and fullwidth blog module layouts to help you decide between them. We’ll share...
Post excerpts provide the reader with a small teaser about the content. They can be automatically generated from the content or manually created for each post. Regardless of how they’re created, it’s important to have control over their length. In this article, we’ll...
Whether you want to pursue a career in online marketing or boost your search engine visibility, acquiring Search Engine Optimization (SEO) skills can be advantageous. However, figuring out how to become an SEO expert – and what SEO expertise entails – is an essential...
Confirmation and feedback are important elements to any eCommerce page. The user wants to know what happened after they clicked a button to purchase a product. They also want an easy way to see what’s in their cart. The Divi Woo Notice module provides these exact...
The website’s header is usually the first thing your visitors will see when they land on your website. It loads first, so it’s your visitor’s first impression of your site. As always, you want the best first impression you can get. This means we should always pay...
Every eCommerce product page needs some basic elements to work properly. Excellent product page design includes both essential and non-essential elements. In this article, we’ll see an overview of the required elements for your Divi product page template to help you...
There are many ways to design and customize your Divi blog post templates. Fortunately, there are lots of Divi blog post template tutorials on the Elegant Themes blog to get you started. In this article, we’ll look at over 15 amazing blog post template tutorials that...
Post Navigation is a set of links, usually at the bottom of a blog post, that can take you to the previous or next post. Fortunately, post navigation is easy to add to your blog post templates in the Divi Theme Builder. In this article, we’ll see how and where to...
Metadata provides your readers with simple but important information about your content. Fortunately, metadata is easy to add to any Divi post template with dynamic content. In this article, we’ll see how to include metadata in your blog post template with Divi. Let’s...
A lot of work goes into building and designing a professional, functional, and accessible website. However, if you want your site to rank well in organic search results, it’s essential to focus on optimizing your site for SEO. Doing so takes time, and you will need to...
Fullscreen hero sections look great on any web page, but they’re especially interesting on blog posts. Even though the featured image is fullscreen, there are lots of design options for placing the title and meta text. This is easy to do with the Divi Theme Builder....
There are lots of great Divi tutorials on the Elegant Themes blog. You can learn to do just about anything with Divi with these tutorials. This includes how to design a great footer. In this article, we’ll look at over 20 helpful Divi footer tutorials that you can use...
Related posts are a great way to increase your blog’s traffic. Users on your blog will see posts that they’re already interested in. This keeps them on your site longer and increases their interaction with you and your website. Fortunately, related posts are easy to...
There are times when we want to use a different post template just for a certain blog post. There are many good reasons to do this, and fortunately, it’s easy to do with the Divi Theme Builder. In this article, we’ll see how to assign a different blog post template to...
Using images, videos, and other files can improve the quality of your blog posts and enhance your WordPress website’s appearance. However, including too many “heavy” elements could slow down your site and affect its overall performance. Fortunately, lossless...
One of the advantages of WordPress is the ability to use different post templates for different categories. However, setting them up can be tricky. Fortunately, this is easy to do with the Divi Theme Builder. In this article, we’ll see how to use different blog post...
Fullwidth featured images look great on any blog post. Fortunately, they’re easy to add using the Divi Theme Builder. There are multiple ways to add them, so you can choose the method that works the best for your needs. In this article, we’ll see four ways to add a...
Unless you’ve never been online before, you’re sure to have come across CAPTCHA tests – probably each version of them, too. If you’ve ever had to make out squiggly, blurry text to type in a box or click every image with a fire hydrant (or another basic visual) in a...
One of the best ways to learn to use Divi is by following the many tutorials found on this blog. If you’re interested in learning more about Divi and designing a unique header for your Divi website, this article is for you. In this article, we’ll look at over 30...
A sticky footer is a fantastic way to display important content to your visitors. The footer stays at the bottom of the screen as they scroll so they always have easy access to the content. This is ideal for contact information, special links, and more. Fortunately,...
Adding a disclaimer is a great way to provide important information to your audience. It’s a good first step in protecting yourself and your website against legal liability. Disclaimers include affiliate notifications, showing that the opinions of writers may not be...
The footer is often overlooked when it comes to designing the page. However, it’s also one of the most important locations on the page. It needs to be well-designed and usable just like any part of the page. Fortunately, this is easy to do with Divi. In this article,...
Fullscreen footers are interesting design elements. The fullscreen aspect of the design gives all of the attention to the footer. The tricky part, though, is making the footer fullscreen on different screen sizes. It gets even trickier when you consider that many...
Blurb modules are great choices for Divi footers. They can display images or icons in different layouts and they have lots of customizations. They’re especially ideal for links with icons to create styled bullets. Fortunately, it isn’t difficult to create these types...
The footer is a valuable space on your WordPress website. Utilized correctly, it can help visitors find what they need and stay on your website longer. The WordPress footer shouldn’t include anything and everything. It should be designed well and serve its purpose. In...
The website footer is a popular location to place an email optin form. Since Divi has an email optin module, this is an easy task with the Divi Theme builder. In this article, we’ll see how to add an email optin to the Divi footer. We’ll also see a few settings within...
Website users can be passive and indecisive unless called to take action. That’s why tools like the Divi Theme Builder are so handy. For websites that use multiple categories of content, a single Call-To-Action module (CTA) or optin cannot be optimized for all visitor...
WooCommerce blocks enable you to display the best and hottest products in your store. You can show items on sale, recommended product categories, best-selling items, and much more. Thanks to the Hand-Picked Products WooCommerce block, you can also point visitors to...
With managed WordPress hosting, many of the best options don’t allow for a lot of customization. Their hosting plans are rigid for a reason. They offer a secure, stable environment for your WordPress sites. However, managed WordPress hosting doesn’t have to be...
Featuring a specific product in your online store can be an effective way to increase your sales. For instance, you may want to showcase your newest item on your home page, or promote it in a blog post. Fortunately, the Featured Product WooCommerce block enables you...
Divi footers are versatile. You can place a variety of elements within them to help visitors navigate through your website. Although Divi is full of modules you can place inside your footer off the bat, you can also include plugin shortcodes in your Divi footer. In...
In many online stores, there’s one category of products that sells better than anything else. If this is true for your e-commerce shop, the Featured Category WooCommerce block can help you introduce those top items to an even broader audience. In this article, we’ll...
A yearly copyright notice is one of the most popular elements to add to a website’s footer. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to remember to change the year from one year to the next. The solution is to make the year dynamic. It would pull the date from the server,...
Divi footer WordPress menus are an important part of any footer. Menus can be created with text links, menu modules, or widgets. The Divi menu module places the links on a horizontal line. However, footers often utilize menus with links that stack vertically....
There are broken links everywhere on the web. As your content library grows and posts become outdated, it’s all too common for some links to “break”. When a user clicks on a broken link, it sends them to a page that doesn’t exist. That’s terrible news for both the...
Core Web Vitals is a set of metrics Google uses to evaluate the quality of your website. Optimizing your site for these metrics is absolutely essential. Not only does optimizing these metrics for a good score give your website a solid user experience (UX), that user...
Privacy policies and terms and conditions are two important pages that should be easy to access. The footer is perhaps the most popular place to add links to these pages. These links are easy to add to your footer with Divi. In this article, we’ll see two methods on...
Anyone who’s familiar with browsing the web has run across a 403 Forbidden error, or other HTTP status error, at some point. These errors are incredibly frustrating, especially when they appear on a WordPress website that you own and run. When you’ve gone to the...
Pop-up optin forms are simultaneously one of the most useful and most annoying elements of web design. Without them, you can hardly grow a list of devoted customers, but first-time visitors are highly unlikely to even pay attention to them. That’s why we want to walk...
Your internet browsing session has just been interrupted by an untimely 504 Gateway Timeout error. Most likely, you’ve seen this error from time to time, since it happens when a browser fails to connect to the website you’re attempting to visit. It’s a nuisance for...
The WordPress maintenance mode page automatically shows to website visitors when you’re updating your site, like when you’re updating core files, plugins or themes. The point of the maintenance mode page is to prevent your site from looking like it’s broken when it’s...
When there’s a 500 internal server error on your website, your focus goes to one thing only: How do you get your website back online as quickly as possible? Every minute – second, even – that your site is down is time that you’re losing traffic and sales. Plus, it’s...
Securing your WordPress site isn’t a one-and-done deal. No matter how much you trust your security plugin or how thorough you were with website hardening, a safe website today does not make for a safe website tomorrow. To keep hackers at bay, you have to regularly...
Having a strong social media presence is crucial for the success of any website. Your audience wants to connect with you on their favorite platforms. One way to make it easy for them is to provide social media links on your website. Fortunately, this is easy to do...
Few plugins add as many features to WordPress as WooCommerce does. With one tool, you can take this Content Management System (CMS) and add all the functionality you need to set up an online store. However, that’s only possible if you know how to configure WooCommerce...
One of the most valuable features of the Divi Theme Builder is the ability to create custom templates and assign them to specific pages or posts. You can create a different template for every page or post, certain post types, tags, categories, products, etc. The Theme...
If you want to set up an online store with WordPress, you’ll probably use WooCommerce. It’s the king of e-commerce plugins, and it makes selling online remarkably simple. However, if you’re about to install WooCommerce, you might need a little help getting started. In...
It should come as no surprise that when something is tailored to your interests and personal habits, then you are far more likely to engage with it. You’re more likely to open a junk email that says, “Jimmy! Open this now!” than simply “Open this now!” You are also...
Optimizing your WooCommerce permalinks can help you drive more traffic to your store. However, trying to understand which URL structure will work best for your needs can be a little challenging. Fortunately, there are some very simple yet effective practices you can...
Running an online store comes with many perks, but having to figure out taxes is not one of them. This task may seem a little daunting, especially if you’ve never done it before. Fortunately, WooCommerce provides a straightforward setup process to help you get the job...
It’s easy to add your site’s logo to any footer made with the Divi Builder. However, if you only display it as an image, you’d have to edit your footer every time you changed your logo. The solution is to use a dynamic logo. A dynamic logo changes to match the site’s...
WordPress offers a wide variety of user roles and capabilities. You can have Administrators, Authors, Editors, and more on your site. What’s more, if you use WooCommerce you get access to even more options. Understanding what WooCommerce roles and capabilities are...
Divi’s condition options allow you to have complete control over your site’s content like never before. Part of that control comes in decluttering your site from having content that doesn’t apply to all users. Such as a login form. Many times, sites will have a login...
Creating a WooCommerce store is very simple: install the WooCommerce plugin, add a product or two, set prices, and there you go–a WooCommerce shop. But running a successful WooCommerce shop is considerably different. Planning and optimizing an ecommerce website is no...
WooCommerce blocks provide lots of options to showcase your products. There are currently 20 blocks added to the block editor when you install WooCommerce. Even more blocks and new features are available in the WooCommerce blocks plugin, which tests new blocks and...
As ubiquitous as WooCommerce is, many users have never delved terribly deep inside the technology behind it. For good reason, too. You don’t have to. WooCommerce is simple and easy and works incredibly well right out of the box. However, if you want to get the most...
The Divi Theme Builder’s strongest selling point is that you can fully customize your site in just about any way that you can imagine. You can set global designs, use specific layouts and templates for particular post types, and special rules for things such as using...
Running a promotion or sale as a website owner isn’t always the most convenient part of running the site. Sales often don’t begin or end during typical operating hours, many times beginning and ending with the start of a calendar day instead. Using Divi’s condition...
Video editing and recording software can be remarkably complex. You typically need a specialized skill set (or a lot of time) to create and edit videos. If you’re going to use those videos for online marketing purposes, the bar is even higher. Fortunately, VEED.IO...
If you have a WordPress website, there’s a good chance you have WooCommerce installed. If not, then there’s a high likelihood that you have considered or are considering it. We understand the prospect of learning an entire ecommerce platform can be daunting, but...
With Divi’s condition options update, you have more control over how your content displays than ever. You can add conditions to sections, rows, and modules to show your content only when your set criteria are met. Today, we’re going to show you how to add a recurring...
One of the most-used features of the Divi Theme Builder is adding a global header to your website, and then being able to override it with custom headers wherever you need. You can customize each and every page, post type, and visible area of your site to your needs....
Including videos in your WordPress posts can make your content a lot more engaging. However, having too many media files on your site may hurt your page loading times. This is where the VideoPress embed block comes in. This lightweight media player enables you to...
TED Talks are among the most-watched videos on the internet. Years later, people still talk about some of the most iconic ones, including speeches by Bill Gates, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and many more. The video platform that hosts this content is so popular that it...
Tumblr is one of the most popular social media platforms in the world, particularly within the US. This platform offers an easy way to share microblogs and media, and it’s only natural that you might want to publish some of that content on WordPress as well. That’s...
With all of the fine-tuning and specific details you can add to your site using the Divi Theme Builder, few may be as high-impact/low-effort as adding a background image to your Divi header. Using the theme builder, you can add this flourish with very little fuss and...
WordPress.tv is an educational hub for everything related to WordPress. It contains a wealth of videos about development, design, best practices, and more. If your blog or website concerns this popular Content Management System (CMS), you may be looking to share some...
Within WordPress’s Block Editor, there are a variety of tools that make it simple to share embedded media from external websites on your page or blog post. The SlideShare embed block allows users to embed their SlideShare presentation decks directly into a WordPress...
The WordPress Block Editor features multiple embed tools that make it easy to incorporate external media into your WordPress page or blog post. For users who want to share their photography (or feature other photographers’ work, with permission of course) on their...
Adding a button to your Divi header could not be simpler. By using the Divi Theme Builder, you can control placement, design, and specific page assignment. Perhaps a button in your header is necessary on specific landing pages but not on individual blogs. We are going...
