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The Divi Builder includes lots of modules to help you add practically any design elements to your layouts, but what if you wanted to create your own modules? A third-party plugin called Divi Module Builder gives you this ability. In this article I’ll take a look at the plugin and see what it can do […]

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The Divi Builder includes lots of modules to help you add practically any design elements to your layouts, but what if you wanted to create your own modules? A third-party plugin called Divi Module Builder gives you this ability. In this article I’ll take a look at the plugin and see what it can do […]

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Sometimes, the best possible move is to start over from zero, and that holds true even for WordPress websites. In some cases, simply starting from scratch will be much easier than reworking your site. However, the bad news is that WordPress doesn’t include a way to start over by default. Fortunately, there are a few […]

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In today’s Divi tutorial, we’ll be showing you how you can create stunning section chapters for your website. These chapters serve as a guideline for your visitors. It’ll show them when they are entering another section of a page. Usually, chapters are used in combination with one specific background color throughout all of the sections. […]

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There are uncountable WordPress themes out there. Most of them are well-thought-out and offer you one of the most valuable things out there: extra time to personalize the website you’ve had in mind. To find the ideal WordPress theme, you can look around and see what’s for sale (or for free) in big market places […]

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Welcome to part 6 of this 6 part series that will teach you how use Divi’s new Animation options to design awesome page sections. I’m going to be walking you through how to build the different sections of our live demo page in order to show you techniques for adding animations to your website. The […]

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Writing good captions for pictures on the web is an art in itself. We often stress on this blog how important it is to supplement your written content with visuals. Images engage readers, make content more entertaining and also boost SEO. However, there’s more to optimizing images in online content than merely adding them. Especially […]

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Writing good captions for pictures on the web is an art in itself. We often stress on this blog how important it is to supplement your written content with visuals. Images engage readers, make content more entertaining and also boost SEO. However, there’s more to optimizing images in online content than merely adding them. Especially […]

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Our Biggest Font Options Upgrade Ever This is a huge update with so many new font options. You wont believe how much more you can do, and have much easier those things are to achieve. We have an amazing Divi update for you today, filled with so many of the features you have been requesting, […]

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Welcome to part 5 of this 6 part series that will teach you how use Divi’s new Animation options to design awesome page sections. I’m going to be walking you through how to build the different sections of our live demo page in order to show you techniques for adding animations to your website. The […]

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If you are going to be a podcaster, then you have to use iTunes to distribute your podcast. There really is no way around it. Apple’s service not only originated the terminology and technology of podcasting (broadcasting for an iPod), but it has since remained the defacto podcast hub. Around two-thirds of all podcast listeners […]

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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 Kenny and the design team have created a stunning Business Layout Pack with seven different pages that […]

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Blubrry is awesome. Far more than a delicious fruit rich in antioxidants or the name of what I dream Violet Beauregard would call a new tech start-up, Blubrry is the parent company of the scrumdiddlyumptious PowerPress plugin that gives WordPress audiophiles full control of their audio files. Unlike services such as Libsyn and Soundcloud, which […]

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Welcome to part 4 of this 6 part series that will teach you how use Divi’s new Animation options to design awesome page sections. I’m going to be walking you through how to build the different sections of our live demo page in order to show you techniques for adding animations to your website. The […]

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No matter what field you’re working in, you should always keep an eye on the industry to know what people are getting paid. For that reason, and because most of us work with WordPress professionally, we thought it would be helpful to take a look at the average WordPress developer salary for both yearly and […]

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Welcome to part 3 of this 6 part series that will teach you how use Divi’s new Animation options to design awesome page sections. I’m going to be walking you through how to build the different sections of our live demo page in order to show you techniques for adding animations to your website. The […]

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The word wiki has come a long way from when it was best known as the opening lyric to a ‘90s Will Smith song. Outside of the wild, wild west, a wiki is a collaborative knowledge base, an encyclopedia of curated, cited, and cross-referenced information. Obviously, the megasite Wikipedia is the main reason many folks […]

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Hey Divi Nation we’re back this week with our last podcast to appear on this blog! What?! Yes, it’s true. After this week we’ll be transitioning the Divi Nation podcast and video show to a Facebook livestream on Thursday’s at 3pm EST. It will also be available after the livestream on YouTube and iTunes (or […]

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PHP is the backbone of WordPress (~70% of the source code is in PHP), and that means for aspiring WordPress developers, there’s not much of a choice of what programming language to learn. (JavaScript is really the other major player, making up the other third of the codebase.) So you’re gonna need some good PHP […]

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PHP is the backbone of WordPress (~70% of the source code is in PHP), and that means for aspiring WordPress developers, there’s not much of a choice of what programming language to learn. (JavaScript is really the other major player, making up the other third of the codebase.) So you’re gonna need some good PHP […]

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Apply Awesome Box Shadow EffectsTo Any Divi Element The new Divi Builder box shadow interface makes it easy to create stylish shadows and apply them to any module, row or section. Today we are updating Divi with brand new Box Shadow options that give you the power to easily design wonderful shadow effects and apply […]

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Welcome to part 2 of this 5 part series that will teach you how use Divi’s new Animation options to design awesome page sections. I’m going to be walking you through how to build the different sections of our live demo page in order to show you techniques for adding animations to your website. The […]

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Web design trends change all the time. By the time you find a designer you can work with, decide on a look everyone can agree with, get the work done, and finally go live, what’s cool and fresh and trendy has changed. Enter brutalist websites. What’s that, you ask? It’s when you buck the trends […]

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Welcome to part 1 of this 6 part series that will teach you how use Divi’s new Animation options to design awesome page sections. I’m going to be walking you through how to build the different sections of our live demo page in order to show you techniques for adding animations to your website. The […]

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You cannot escape JavaScript. For years, I felt like JS was the horror-movie villain that just wouldn’t give up. I tried to avoid it. I ran, scrambled, and hid. But, like Jason Voorhees, it found me. Seriously, though, the reality is that if you’re working in web development or design these days, you’re going to […]

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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 Kenny and his team have created a beautiful Restaurant Layout Pack with eight different pages that provide […]

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Starting a website takes a lot of planning. Far too often, the planning stops there. Keeping a blog going and making it successful also takes planning. A blog is just like any business or project. To make a blog successful requires careful blog management. In this article we’ll take a look at blog management and […]

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The Internet is a great tool for job hunting. There are lots of staffing services websites out there to help job seekers in practically any industry. Considering how easy it is to add a job board to a WordPress website, I expect to see even more websites for staffing services. Fortunately, there are lots of […]

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Keeping an updated backup is one of the most important things you can do for your website. Disaster can hit at any time and having that backup can make the difference of getting your site back to running quickly or not at all. Just as crucial is where you store your backups. In this article […]

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The Divi Builder includes a blog module to display posts based on categories in either fullwidth or grid layout. Have you ever wanted more control over your blog layout? You might be interested in a third-party plugin called Content Intense. Content Intense is a plugin from BeSuperfly that adds new layouts and styling features to […]

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Here at Elegant Themes, we might make WordPress themes and plugins, but that doesn’t mean we’re blind to eCommerce trends. Shopify is growing rapidly, with 75% revenue growth year over year. That growth is, obviously, fueled by more and more people turning to Shopify to manage their store. So to stay on top of the […]

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Hey Divi Nation, we’re back with another full length episode. This time around we’re talking about Divi as a side hustle. Something we don’t normally talk about because it’s so easy to make a full time living with Divi. But hey, when that’s the case, why not encourage folks looking for a fun, fulfilling, and […]

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The WordPress community is absurdly large, which should be expected when you consider WP makes up nearly one-third of the internet. It should come as no surprise, then, that there is a worldwide series of conferences called WordCamps that are designed specifically for your networking and professional (and personal!) development. WordCamps range from city-wide gatherings […]

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New Ways To Customize And InteractWith The Visual Builder Today we are introducing brand new ways to interact with your content in the Visual Builder along with new ways to customize your Visual Builder interface. When it comes to building the best website builder on the planet, it’s important that we focus on not only […]

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In today’s Divi tutorial, we’re going to show you how you can use the new row alignment options in Divi to your advantage. We’ll be combining the row alignment options with other built-in design options to give you an idea of what is possible with Divi’s Advanced Design Options. The example that we’ll show you […]

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The terminal and command line prompts are terrifying to a lot of computer users. Instead of double- and/or right-clicking an icon, you type out what you want the computer to do. In theory, using the command line prompts and the terminal is simple. But like I always told my students, simple is not the same […]

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