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The more familiar you get with Divi, the more you come to realize that it’s a very flexible tool. It allows you to dive straight into a page design without having to go through other design applications first. It also sets the foundation for you to create even more...

Live streaming has become more popular than ever. Many social platforms allow for live streaming, but it’s also possible to live stream from your WordPress website. It sounds complicated, but it’s easier than most realize. In this article, we’ll look at the best...

As the first thing most visitors see, your homepage is one of the most important pages on your website. If your WordPress-set homepage doesn’t look the way you think it should like matching your brand’s style and catering to your audience’s preferences–or it’s not...

Sometimes it is more convenient to navigate page content by clicking buttons rather than scrolling. This is especially true for one-pagers or if you have certain sequential sections on a page that warrant optimal accessibility for users. Adding sticky page navigation...

Categories are integral to WordPress blogs. Organizing your content so readers can easily find the posts they’re most interested in elevates your site’s User Experience (UX). However, as your site grows, you may find that an Ajax category filter WordPress plugin is...

If you’re a realtor, you need a website that can show off your listings in all their glory. On the other hand, if you’re a web developer who works with realtors or agencies, you’ll have to understand how to implement real estate features in websites for your clients....

Reviews are a key component of the online shopping experience. 91 percent of younger consumers (18-34 years old) trust reviews as much as direct recommendations. What’s more, 93 percent of buyers admit that reviews influence their purchasing decisions. If you run an...

At the base of the WordPress system is the theme. Themes not only provide the visual design for a WordPress site, but also much of the base functionality and utility. Fresh installations of WordPress come with a default theme named after the current year, and these...

Divi’s sticky options continue to open doors for new design and functionality. In this tutorial, we are going to design a creative way to lead users through the content of a webpage using sticky headings as anchor links. The sticky headings stick to the top and bottom...

One of the best ways to display information about products or packages is to use a pricing table. The easiest way to create a pricing table is with a WordPress pricing table plugin. Fortunately, there are lots of good choices available. In this article, we’ll look at...

Picking a perfectly on-brand WordPress theme is just the start of creating a customized website. WordPress has a built-in theme customizer, allowing you to make design and style tweaks to your site and preview them (before publishing them live) in real time. Even the...

When it comes to building a header, the possibilities are endless. You can include anything you can imagine inside your Divi header if you use the Divi Theme Builder. Today, we’re adding another highly-requested header design tutorial to your list of resources. We’ll...

Creating and selling online courses can be a valuable business model. An LMS (Learning Management System) plugin can turn your WordPress website into a learning platform. All you must do is create the courses. Fortunately, there are several good LMS plugins to choose...

These days, it’s common to check out restaurant reviews, pictures, and menus before you go out to eat. If you run a restaurant (or manage a website for one) displaying your menu online can be a fantastic way to help customers decide if they want to visit. That’s where...

There are many reasons why WordPress is so popular, including its flexibility. For example, WordPress widgets help you perform easy and effective customizations. Understanding how these modules work can help you optimize and enhance your site – specifically your...

In the current state of the web, pretty much every website needs to work with video in some way. Not only does Google prioritize articles and pages that have videos embedded (especially from YouTube), but users also clamor for video content wherever and whenever they...

When you display clickthrough items on your page, it’s important to make sure people know that they can choose an item and click on it. One of the most obvious ways to do that is by including a button, but if you’re looking for an additional interactive way to...

No matter how you use WordPress – as a business owner, consultant, designer, developer, content writer, researcher, or something else – there’s a blog that’s an exact match for the WordPress information you need the most. In this article we’ve featured twenty-six...

Podcasting is big business. Everyone and their uncle and their uncle’s uncle has a podcast. The best way to succeed is for the right person at the right time to notice you. For a lot of people, that can mean showcasing your podcast on your website in a simple,...

Sticky headers can be effective for keeping your menu and other important CTAs accessible for users. But sometimes sticky headers can become distracting, especially for large headers on smaller screen sizes. Usually, we resort to shrinking the header and/or hiding...

Unless you plan on running a text-only website, you’ll need to handle a variety of media files. That may include images, videos, GIFs, audio files, and even PDFs. Fortunately, WordPress enables you to manage all of these resources using its built-in Media Library. In...

As a business owner, driving traffic and increasing engagement are likely among your top priorities. Doing so can be challenging, however, which is why you might consider running an online giveaway. Thanks to WordPress contest plugins, you can easily use these events...

WordPress Posts and Pages are the two legs on which the platform stands. Without them, you wouldn’t have a canvas to read or write or publish at all. WordPress Posts are the regular, new content that you publish to your site. These are what readers see marked as New!...

Hey Divi Nation! Thank you for joining us for another episode of Divi Creator Showcase, where we interview a Divi Creator from our Marketplace–learning all about their story, products, and ongoing journey as part of the Divi Community. Today I am joined by Divi...

Countdown timers are a great way to inform your visitors of when an event will take place. They’re great for showing when something will be available, go on sale, or when a website will be ready for all to see. They’re also great for adding urgency to a sale, which is...

The internet is always changing. Sites like archive.org are specifically designed to keep track of those changes. In order to facilitate the organic nature of the net, HTTP status codes 301 and 302 were developed to make sure that if you changed sites or needed to...

Every single person on the internet has run into some HTTP error codes at some point. Whether that’s a 404 not found, a 403 forbidden, or a more obscure 504 or 508, these things pop up occasionally for everyone. And everyone needs to know how to deal with them. Some...

Lead generation is your doorway to earning more money. Without a regular (and, hopefully, increasing) flow of customers, your business won’t survive. There’s a lot of competition out there, though — a lot. And to stand up to it, you have to (1) know where to find a...

Instagram has become one of the most popular social media platforms in the world, garnering over 140 million Instagram users in the United States and over a billion users worldwide. With this in mind, it’s likely that savvy website builders will want to leverage some...

Using images on your website is critical to attracting viewers or customers. As important as the visual is, the size of the image file matters too. For the images you choose to compliment your content and not distract from it, you should format them to work with your...

Several laws regulate the way that you track and store user information. Since most WordPress websites track data in one way or another, that means you need to understand how cookie consent works and how to implement it. We’ve talked about cookie consent in the past....

Not everyone has the luxury of sitting down beside their podcast co-host or interviewee when it’s time to record. While it’s fantastic to be in a studio and being able to react to and with them side-by-side, unless you’re one of a very lucky few, you need to find a...

Does your brand have a signature sound? Has your brand developed an original sound effect, song, or jingle that your customers are meant to associate with your product or service? If so, you’ve engaged in sonic branding. Sonic branding isn’t quite as well-known as the...

The Facebook Debugger is a tool that enables you to analyze and troubleshoot OpenGraph tags for any of your pages. Using the Debugger, you can quickly zero in on the source of errors within your social media rich snippets. Since social media, and Facebook itself, are...