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Divi Builder plugin: the ultimate Page Builder plugin for all WordPress themes
Since its release in December 2013 the Divi theme has become the most popular theme in the Elegant Themes portfolio. In fact it now has more users than all of their other themes combined.
The reason for its success is simple… the Divi Builder.
The Divi Builder is the powerhouse at the centre of the Divi theme and it allows non-coders and web design professionals alike to create stunning feature rich pages and posts using the Builders’ intuitive and easy to use drag and drop interface.
That’s great if you’re a Divi theme user but what if you don’t use Divi, what if you use another WordPress theme?
No problem folks because Elegant Themes have taken all the drag and drop goodness that powers Divi and compressed it into a plugin that can be used on any WordPress theme… the Divi Builder plugin.
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The Divi Builder Plugin – available now and ready for download
If you’ve ever envied the ease and speed with which Divi theme users create stunning feature rich pages and posts using the Divi Builder, but don’t use the Divi theme yourself, then today is the day you’ve been waiting for.
Elegant Themes have just announced that the Divi Builder has been released in the form of a stand-alone plugin. This means you can take the power of the Divi Builder, which was previously only available to Divi Theme users, and use it in any WordPress theme.
The Builder Plugin is the perfect way to build beautiful and advanced layouts inside of themes that don’t provide advanced page builders. You can use the Divi Builder with any of the 87 themes in the Elegant Themes collection or you can use it with any other WordPress theme.
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Divi 2.5: The Divi Role Editor for Total Client Control
The recent release of Divi 2.5 included a host of new and improved features, which I covered in my post Divi 2.5 released – with awesome time saving features.
One of the stand out new features in 2.5 is the Divi Role Editor, a quick and easy way to limit functionality within the Divi Builder for your clients or any other user.
For each WordPress user role, or custom user roles that you define, you can enable/disable features within the Builder, depending on what you want these roles to be able to do. This is a feature that I haven’t seen before in other multi-purpose themes, and believe me, it’s going to become an invaluable tool for WordPress freelancers, small web design agencies or anyone who allows other users to access their Divi based WordPress websites.
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Divi 2.5 released – with awesome time saving features
Divi 2.5 is here and it’s packed with features that will save you time, energy, tedium and a whole lot of grief and aggravation.
Elegant Themes have gone out to the Divi community, asked them what new and improved features they would like to see in Divi and included them in the 2.5 update.
The 2.5 update includes “Right Click Controls” to give you quick access to all the commonly-used functions, “Live Preview” to give you an instant look at the item you’re working on, “Undo & Redo buttons” for those I wish I’d not done that moments and the “Divi Role Editor” which gives web designers the ability to control what types of actions can be taken by their clients within Divi and the Divi Builder.
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Divi 2.4: Colour pickers with semi-transparent colours
Put your hand up if you’ve never heard of RGBa colour values… don’t worry neither had I, until Divi 2.4.
Divi 2.4 comes with new colour pickers with alpha controls, which allow you to select and input RGBa colour values.
And the great thing about RGBa colours is that not only can you pick colours but you can also add transparency to those colours.
With transparency you can create a cohesive colour Palette, make your modules stand out against a background image, create a transparent contact form and add full or semi-transparent background colours to your navigation header.
This is the eighth in a series of posts designed to help you become familiar with the new features of Divi 2.4, to give you ideas on how and where to use them in practical web design situations and to provide you with resources to help build your Divi Library.
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