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Wondering if WordPress is the right platform to use for building car sales websites? In this post, I hope to prove to you that the world’s most popular content management system is a great choice for your next car sales website by showing you some real-life examples of car sales websites running on WordPress. These […]

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As a part of Elegant Themes’ Divi Design Initiative, Kenny and the design team have been spoiling us with brand new FREE Divi layout packs every week. The layout packs can be downloaded from the blog post featuring the layout pack every Monday. Many of you have used the layout packs to build brand new […]

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Whether you follow marketing trends or not, it’s hard not to notice the huge swell of personalization in digital experiences. Everyone from Netflix to Amazon is investing in customized experiences for their users. And while you may not be able to match their budgets, if you’re running an eCommerce store on WordPress, there are a […]

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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 our design team breaks into the world of fashion with a fashion layout pack designed to be […]

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In July of 2017, WhatsApp officially announced that over 1 billion people use WhatsApp every single day. Yes, that’s billion with a B. Those users also send over 55 billion messages…every day. With a WhatsApp WordPress integration, you can start making your website a part of those billions of messages. Additionally, WhatsApp is no longer […]

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In July of 2017, WhatsApp officially announced that over 1 billion people use WhatsApp every single day. Yes, that’s billion with a B. Those users also send over 55 billion messages…every day. With a WhatsApp WordPress integration, you can start making your website a part of those billions of messages. Additionally, WhatsApp is no longer […]

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Creating a personal website is both fun and challenging. You want your website to look engaging and personal enough to get your story told. And at the same time, you want to have a beautiful and authentic website that shows that you know what you’re doing. To help you with the creative process of creating such […]

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We all love social media. We may get frustrated at times, and we all probably disconnect and take breaks, but in the end, we return to our chosen networks like puppies who wandered too far into the woods and got lost for a bit. What we don’t love, however, are the annoying pop-ups, overlays, and […]

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The new Divi options offer tons of possibilities. Modules, rows and columns, more than ever, empower one another on the road towards stunning and user-friendly web design. One of the things it can do is create remarkable editorial style sections. And that’s exactly what we’ll be showing you in this post; 5 different editorial style section […]

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Got 5 minutes? Then you’ve got time to download WordPress! Clicky-clicky-typey-typey, and you’ve got another checkmark on your donezo list, right? With that famous 5-minute install, things couldn’t be simpler, right? No. Not quite. Installing WordPress is simple, definitely. Anyone can do it. But I’m a big believer in that when you’re working with any […]

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Hero sections; they serve all kinds of purposes. They’re the first thing visitors see when they visit your website, they immediately show the style of your website and they influence the way your visitors feel and behave on your site. We’re already used to all kinds of hero sections out there, but most of them […]

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Looking for some alternatives to WordPress? While we might be big fans of the world’s most popular content management system, that doesn’t mean there aren’t other perfectly viable tools for you to use to build a website or blog. In this post, I’ll dig into 12 of those WordPress alternatives, divided into three separate categories: […]

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One of the most recent Divi updates was long-awaited; the integration of box shadows into sections, rows and modules. In this post, we’ll be focusing on how row box shadows can improve the overall look and feel of your website. To illustrate the depth box shadows can bring to your website, we’ve created an example that […]

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In most cases, giving people unrestricted access to your dashboard isn’t a good idea. After all, the more people with administrator privileges, the greater the chance of a problem arising that could have serious consequences for your site. One excellent way to limit the number of people with access to your dashboard is to use […]

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In this Divi post, we’ll be showing you how you can combine the background and shadow options of an Image Module. This post is meant to stimulate your imagination and show you how new Divi features can work with existing ones–leading to creative results. To help you with the creative process, we’ve created 4 combinations […]

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In this Divi post, we’ll be showing you how you can combine the background and shadow options of an Image Module. This post is meant to stimulate your imagination and show you how new Divi features can work with existing ones–leading to creative results. To help you with the creative process, we’ve created 4 combinations […]

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Getting your website to look as professional as possible can be a tough journey. One of the obstacles you may face is finding the right images and graphics that match the written content you’re trying to bring to life. Luckily, the internet is full of people who provide great resources that help us work faster, […]

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In today’s Divi tutorial, we’re going to show you how you can create simple textured backgrounds and use them as backgrounds for your sections to make your website look just a little bit more authentic. If you check out our recent free Learning Management Layout, you’ll see that we’ve used a textured background throughout all […]

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Every year WordPress users from all over the United States (and several other countries) descend on the venue for WordCamp US. It’s by far the biggest WordCamp in the United States and aside from having tons of great speakers and sponsors on hand to meet and learn from, it’s the WordCamp where Matt Mullenweg delivers […]

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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. The free layout pack that we’ll be sharing with you today is one that many of you have been […]

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Creating an eCommerce website and figuring out how you’ll approach your eCommerce website design is a process that can take a lot of time. Because, in the end, your eCommerce website design is as important as the products you want to sell. Even more; a good design will help you boost your conversion rates and […]

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I love taking courses online. There is something about starting a well designed, well-organized e-course with some great content. If done well, these e-courses can keep you motivated with a sense of accomplishment. But learning from a great e-course and creating one are two totally different experiences. And in my experience, creating a Learning Managment […]

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Style tags are a pretty interesting part of web development. I mean, they’re fundamental and basic to how the current web works, but most of the time, your site’s actual styling comes from importing and using numerous CSS stylesheets for themes, plugins, and the everyday look your visitors see. But back in the old days […]

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Caldera Forms does a great job of blending in with the styling of your website. What if you wanted to style it using the familiar styling tools of the Divi and Extra Theme Customizer? You can do this with a third-party plugin called Caldera Forms Style Customizer for Divi and Extra. Caldera Forms can be […]

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When you first learn HTML, the only way you know how to insert any kind of interactivity is using script tags in the header or footer of the page to set the type and source of an external JavaScript file. (Or if you’re really just learning, the entire JS function between script tags right there […]

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In this post, we’ll be showing you how you can create a scrolling fashion catalogue. Using this method will help you connect with your audience as you would by handing them a paper catalogue. Creating an online scrolling fashion catalogue may help increase the results you get from the catalogue. By including direct links to […]

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Beauty blogs are one of those kinds of websites that have a lot of relevant content aimed at a specific target audience. The bloggers behind these sites are usually very active and try to keep their visitors as up-to-date as possible with all kinds of tips revolving around beauty; from makeup to skin care, health […]

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Easily Add Stunning Text ShadowsTo Any Module Every Divi module and all text elements have been updated with a full set of text shadow controls and a brand new text shadow interface for the Divi Builder. Today we are excited to add even more design customizability to Divi with our brand new Text Shadow options […]

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One of the best ways to boost the design of your website is by using different section transitions. In a previous post, we’ve shown you how you can do that using the Divi built-in options only. However, if you’re looking to create something a little bit more advanced or personalized, you can create irregularly shaped section […]

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Many WordPress websites use custom code or functions somewhere within their posts and pages. The platform makes it easy to add this code, but if you’re going to reuse snippets throughout your site, it can be a pain to add code manually whenever you need to. Instead of having to insert your code snippets by […]

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In this post, we’ll be showing you how you can easily create a simple yet elegant timeline with Divi’s your Blurb Modules. We’ll be combining the different options that modules and rows provide to achieve the result you can view below. The example we’ll be sharing is based on the built-in Divi options only, which means […]

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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: if you’re a WordPress user, you need to become familiar with JavaScript. That’s just the way of the web. The real issue, then, is the disturbing number of JavaScript libraries you have to sort through. There’s Ember, React, Angular. Vue and Preact. And don’t forget about […]

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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. I must admit, like a lot of you, I look forward to this post every week. The design team […]

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You get updates to iOS or Android on your smartphones. Gamers get new content patches for World of Warcraft or Call of Duty. WordPress plugins and themes get new features. The software that you use every single day gets updated periodically. When it does, a changelog is published that show you exactly what was fixed […]

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It’s time again for our monthly Divi Showcase where we take a look at some amazing Divi websites from 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 this month. Throughout the post I […]

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The world isn’t black and white, so why does your website need to be black and white? Ok – there aren’t many entirely black and white websites. But that doesn’t mean we still can’t make the web more colorful. And to give you the inspiration to do just that, we’ve collected some gorgeous examples of […]

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