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The blog is one of my favorite features of a website. It can be difficult to design a blog that stands out from the crowd. Because of this we end up seeing a lot of blogs that use the default design. Fortunately, blog layouts and individual blog posts can be designed and styled with Divi. […]

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The way your pages show up in Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) play a significant role in how much organic traffic you get. If you don’t hook viewers in, they’ll ignore your website and move on to the next option without a second thought. Fortunately, there are a lot of ways you can improve your […]

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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 how marketers are preparing …

When you’re including images on your website, you want them to draw attention at first sight. One of the things that can bring your image to life is using patterns that emphasize the colors that are being used within the image itself. Not only will it emphasize your image’s colors, it will also take your […]

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When running a WordPress blog, most of your work will revolve around writing. That means you’ll also need to spend a lot of time editing your WordPress content to ensure the quality of all the content published on your website. After all, first drafts are never perfect. Editing is an essential skill and one you […]

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Want to create an engaged Facebook group? Are you looking for creative ways to develop a loyal community inside a Facebook group? To explore how to develop an engaged and responsive community with Facebook groups, I interview Caitlin Bacher. More About…

Introducing The Latest Visual BuilderInterface Enhancements Divi 3.2 brings various enhancements to the Visual Builder interface that will speed up your design workflow. Today, Divi’s Visual Builder gets even faster and more intuitive thanks to a collection of really awesome interface improvements that will greatly enhance your website building experience. While developing Divi as a […]

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Are you ready to respond if someone pretends to be you on social media? Wondering how to protect your customers and brand from a social phishing attack? From erroneous links to outright brand impersonation, social phishing is becoming more frequent. In…

When designing a website with Divi, you have to make a lot of decisions that have to do with size. This could be the width of a row, the size of a font, or how much padding to add to a module. And to make things more challenging, we must decide on sizes appropriate for […]

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When it comes to protecting your WordPress website, the login screen is an important line of defense. A significant part of this is making sure your password is secure, which makes it far less likely that attackers will be able to crack it and gain access. WordPress uses something called ‘salt’ keys to protect your […]

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Are your YouTube videos ranking in YouTube search? Looking for tools to optimize your titles, keywords, and tags? In this article, you’ll discover a four-step process to reveal high-performing keywords for your YouTube content. #1: Gauge Topic In…

Are your YouTube videos ranking in YouTube search? Looking for tools to optimize your titles, keywords, and tags? In this article, you’ll discover a four-step process to reveal high-performing keywords for your YouTube content. #1: Gauge Topic In…

Every week, we provide you with a new and free Divi layout pack which you can use for your next project. Along with every layout pack, we also share a use case that’ll help you take your website to the next level. This week, as part of our ongoing Divi design initiative, we’re going to […]

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It’s been almost two years since the launch of the Google AMP Project. Its aim from the start was to help foster better web standards, which could result in an improved mobile experience for users. Now, the project is turning a new leaf and expanding towards email, which brings us to how this shift might […]

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Do you use Instagram story highlights? Wondering how to make them more recognizable to your followers? In this article, you’ll discover how to change your Instagram story highlights cover from the default view to a branded cover image. Why Brand …

Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative; where each week, we give away a brand new, free Divi Layout Pack from our design team to you. This week Kenny and his team have created an eye-catching Author  Layout Pack. This layout pack includes 7 different […]

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a complex topic. There are several things you can do to improve your site’s chances of ranking better, but they involve a decent amount of work. It goes to show when it comes to SEO, there are no shortcuts. However, some tools enable you to pawn off a bit of […]

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Do you need to streamline your Facebook marketing activities? Have you explored all of the functions Facebook has for marketers? In this article, you’ll discover 12 overlooked Facebook features that help you better manage your content and communi…

Divi includes lots of styling features for the header, but what if you wanted to build your own header using the Divi Builder? A third-party plugin called Mhmm does exactly that. It lets you create headers with any Divi module or layout and style them with the Divi Builder. Mhmm is short for Mighty Header […]

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Modern Tribe‘s The Events Calendar lives up to its name. It has become the defacto events plugin for many people. That’s saying a lot because there are a lot of fantastic events plugins available to choose from. It’s just that this one in particular does so much in the free version that it’s making a […]

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It’s time again for our monthly Divi Showcase where we take a look at 10 amazing Divi websites made by our community members. Each month we showcase the best Divi websites that were submitted from our community and today we want to share with you the top ten websites for the month of April. Throughout […]

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When you load a WordPress website, a lot of things happen in the background. For one, the platform sends a lot of queries to your database to get specific pieces of information. The problem is, WordPress doesn’t offer you a simple way to keep track of what these queries are or how to monitor them. […]

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When creating a website, we want to showcase our products and services with clear calls to action (CTA’s). If you are going to create a more unique design for your buttons, it also helps to add hover effects to avoid any confusion about whether or not your buttons are clickable. In this tutorial, we’re going […]

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Gutenberg development has come a long way since its announcement in 2017. There are still a lot of mixed feelings concerning the new editor, but that hasn’t slowed down its advance. However, plugin compatibility remains one of – if not the most – significant issue when it comes to the new editor. There are thousands […]

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Want to expand your ad reach on Facebook? Looking for new ways to target potential customers? To explore creative ways to combine Facebook lookalike audiences with custom ad audiences, I interview Rick Mulready. More About This Show The Social Media Ma…

Introducing The Divi Developer API We are proud to announce the Divi Developer API, a new foundation that will allow developers to extend Divi in new and exciting ways. Today we are incredibly excited to announce the release of Divi 3.1, the biggest and most ambitious update that we have tackled since the release of […]

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Want to make sure you serve Facebook and Instagram ads when your followers are online? Have you considered dayparting your ad campaigns? In this article, you’ll discover how to use dayparting to schedule Facebook and Instagram ads to pause and ru…

Have you ever tried experimenting with font families and letter spacing at the same time? Let me tell you that it can bring eye-catching results. It gives an abstract feeling to your design and it also matches design trends in 2018. Not only can you add extra letter spacing to your text, you can also use […]

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Setting up a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificate for your website is easier than ever. However, in some cases, you’ll go through the entire process only to run into a ‘mixed content’ error in WordPress once the certificate is set up. This particular error occurs when there’s a problem with your HTTPS/SSL configuration. More specifically, […]

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Want to create more professional-looking Instagram stories? Wondering how to easily add design elements or music to your stories? In this article, you’ll discover six easy-to-use design tools that will make your Instagram stories more interesting…

Case studies can be an extremely valuable marketing tool. Consumers love a good case study because they love a good story. And it does seem that the companies/brands that tell the best stories are the best marketers, especially if their stories are backed with quality products and services. If you have a lot of great […]

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A lot of changes are coming for WordPress in 2018, and not the least of which is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that the European Union is enacting, beginning May 25, 2018. The TL;DR version is that the GDPR says that users have complete control over their data, and you have to tell them […]

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Want to build more engagement in your Facebook group? Have you heard of a Facebook watch party? Now your group can watch and comment on videos together. In this article, you’ll discover how to run a Facebook watch party inside your Facebook group…

Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative; where each week, we give away a brand new, free Divi Layout Pack from our design team to you. This week Kenny and his team have created a Law Firm Layout Pack which includes 7 pages that will […]

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When you get people together, even to work toward an overtly positive goal, things go haywire. The most organized people are often balanced by the haphazard. Tangents occur, off-topic discussions happen, and before you know it, the allotted meeting time us up, and the only thing that you’ve been able to decide on is whether […]

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Wish you could easily reshare someone else’s Instagram post? Have you heard of Instagram’s Add Post to Your Story feature? In this article, you’ll discover how to add any public post to your Instagram story and how this feature can be…