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If you’re familiar with image editing software, such as Photoshop, you’re probably familiar with masks as well. Masks help you bring two layers together and create a unique outcome. With Divi, you can get creative and create your own kind of masks inside your pages using gradient backgrounds in combination with background images. In this […]

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Writing is, at its core, communication. If you are unable to communicate your point to your audience, you fail. Regardless of how well-thought out your argument is, how large your vocabulary, or how salient of a point you’re making…if people have no idea what you’re talking about, it’s all for nothing. Luckily, we can quantify that […]

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Need help monitoring your company’s mentions on social media? Looking for tools to simplify the process? In this article, you’ll discover five social media monitoring tools to help you better engage online. #1: Enhance Customer Service: Ago…

Do your customers love your product? Then watch the Journey, Social Media Examiner’s episodic video documentary that shows you what really happens inside a growing business. Watch The Journey This episode of the Journey explores how Social Media …

If you’ve ever tried to add filtered WooCommerce sidebars to pages that you’ve made with page builders, you’ve probably noticed that the filters don’t appear on your pages. It doesn’t matter which page builder you’re using, the filters simply will not display. The reason is those widgets are not compatible with page builders. In this […]

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Many people only think about the WordPress menu at the top of the site. They try to stuff it full of as many links as can fit in the header bar. That does not necessarily give your users the best experience. You can use menus not only to direct your users around your site, but […]

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Want more people to watch your YouTube videos? Wondering how to outrank your competitors in YouTube search? In this article, you’ll learn how to use six tools that can help you get the eyeballs you’ve always wanted. #1: Perform Initial YouT…

This week, as part of our ongoing Divi design initiative, we’re going to show you how to transfer a new design style to another page using Divi’s Furniture Store Layout Pack. With all the new layout packs that are coming out, you might have wanted to change the style of an existing page using the […]

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WordPress 5.0 was released on December 6th, 2018, replacing the classic content editor with the new block editor, also referred to as Gutenberg. The easy-to-learn, user-friendly block editor has a lot of options for people who want more flexibility over their design. Improvements were made on the back end to help ease and streamline design, […]

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Are your Facebook ads underperforming? Are you unsure how to get your ads to work better? In this article, you’ll discover five issues that impact Facebook ad performance and how to fix them. #1: You’re Bidding Against Yourself The way Face…

Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative; where each week, we give away two brand new, free Divi Layout Packs from our design team to you. For the first layout this week, Kenny and his team have created a brand new Investment Company Layout Pack. […]

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Many business websites show a phone number so their customers can contact them. When desktops were the most popular way to access the sites, users would make note of the phone number and call from a separate device. Of course, most users now access the website and make the phone call from the same device. […]

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Do you want to create stronger Instagram story content? Looking for tools to help enhance and edit your stories? In this article, you’ll find five Instagram Stories apps for creating an attractive and engaging story. #1: A Color Story Using eye-c…

We all love new subscribers to our email list. And one of the primary ways to get new subscribers is to provide your visitors with a well designed email opt-in form. That’s why in this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to achieve five different designs with the Divi email opt-in module to help […]

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You’ve poured your time and energy into a blog post. It’s formatted perfectly with links and media. You’ve sent it into the world for everyone to ooh and aah over. Then you do it again with a brand new post. And then another one. Before you know it, that post you spent so much time […]

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For all you Divi bloggers out there looking for fresh ways engage people with your blog posts, the Divi Post Title Module is a great place to start. The Post Title Module allows you to style the post title (and featured image) in a variety of ways for countless stunning designs. This allows you to […]

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Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money online. You can make money several ways with affiliate programs. You can make money from your current traffic by talking about products that you like. You can also create your own affiliate programs to have others sell your products for you. It makes sense […]

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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Social Media Marketing Talk Show, a news show for marketers who want to stay on the leading edge of social media. On this week’s Social Media Marketing Talk Show, we explore insights and research to rev…

Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative where each week, we give away two brand new, free Divi Layout Packs from our design team to you. This time around, Kenny and his team have created a stunning Physical Therapy Layout Pack with high-quality images that […]

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Everywhere you look online, there’s a link to click that leads you somewhere because we’ve been trained by Google to believe that links are necessary to rank our sites in search results. But that’s only partially true. If you really want to have good SEO and get that link juice from Google, you need to […]

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Wondering how storytelling can help you better connect with your fans and customers? Looking for ways to tell more interesting marketing stories? To explore how to weave narrative stories into your marketing, I interview Melissa Cassera. More About Thi…

Social Media Examiner is hiring a Director of Marketing! We are looking for experienced candidates who are willing to work from our home offices in Poway, California. To apply, you must have at least 7 years of experience directing a team of online mar…

The variety of Divi’s column structures allow you to create basically any design you have in mind. And although using the column structures in their original form is the most straightforward thing to do, you can also take it one step further by combining the design elements in a 6-column row with viewport units. One […]

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WordPress runs over 30% of internet, and it shows no sign of slowing. People list it as a job skill on resumes, WordPress Professional is now a job listing, and it’s used by the technical and non-technical to have a quality online presence. Blogs, news sites, ecommerce stores, portfolios, even full web apps are using […]

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Looking for a few powerful tools to improve your social media marketing results? In this article, you’ll discover 10 tools to help with social listening, content creation, and campaign management. Research and Listening Tools Content is nothing w…

Ever been in a situation where none of your marketing seems to work? Then watch the Journey, Social Media Examiner’s episodic video documentary that shows you what really happens inside a growing business. Watch The Journey This episode of the Jo…

The way you show images on your website can really make a difference in the overall design you’re creating. With Divi’s built-in options, you can already apply various design settings that’ll help you display images in a stunning way, think of borders and box shadows, for instance. But if you’re looking to give your images […]

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Contact Form 7 is by far the most popular forms plugin on the WP.org repo. CF7 has more functionality right off the repo than most plugins do overall. More than that, there is a massive selection of extensions for the plugin that let you do pretty much anything you can think of. With that in […]

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Do you use social media to market a local business? Wondering how to measure the effectiveness of your online efforts? In this article, you’ll learn how to track and report on organic and paid social media marketing for a brick-and-mortar busines…

Having a Knowledge base on your website can be an extremely valuable asset both for your customers and your employees. And if done right, a knowledge base can become a long-standing hallmark of quality assurance for your business. They can be a great solution for FAQs, Documentation, Software manuals, Tutorials, and much more. In this […]

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There are lots of reasons why you would want to allow WordPress user registration. Maybe you have a membership site or run a forum community. You may only allow registered users to post comments as a way of moderating discussions. Whatever your reason, we want to show you how to get your users up and […]

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You’re familiar with Instagram Stories, but have you tried YouTube Stories? YouTube is very different than Instagram and requires a different approach. In this article, you’ll discover how to set up and deliver stories on YouTube. What Are YouTube Stor…

Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative; where each week, we give away two brand new, free Divi Layout Packs from our design team to you. For the first layout this week, Kenny and his team have created an inviting Day Spa Layout Pack. This […]

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Running a business comes with a whole host of risks and rewards. Whether you’re making plans to launch your own business in the near future, or already have one up and running, ensuring your financial stability will help improve your chance of success. In this article, we’ll talk about what it means to be financially […]

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Want more engagement for your Facebook lead ads? Have you tried adding a quiz? In this article, you’ll learn how to add a social media quiz to your Facebook ads. Why Use a Quiz in Your Facebook Lead Ads? Facebook lead ads let you run lead generat…

By now, we’ve all gotten used to the section dividers that are included in Divi. In past tutorials, we’ve also shown you how you can make these section dividers apply to modules and rows. But if you want to use module dividers that are only connected to modules and not other design elements, this post […]

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