How to Find Your WordPress Page ID and Post ID (And What You Can Do With Them)

If you’ve been using WordPress for any significant amount of time, you’ve probably come across a situation where you need to find a WordPress page ID or post ID. Page and post IDs can come in handy both when you’re using plugins and working with code. But despite their importance, WordPress doesn’t make it especially […]

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10 Inspiring Mobile Ecommerce Website Designs Made with WordPress

When creating an eCommerce website for your business, or when designing one for a client, one of the first things you’ll wonder is which content management system to use. Among all the different options you have, WordPress is highly recommended and frequently used. The reasons behind this are the simplicity of use and the various themes […]

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WordCamp US 2017 Recap – The Divi Nation Rocks Out in Music City

WordCamps are the premiere community events for WordPress. There are local and regional ones, as well as national and continental ones. WordCamp US is the annual event for the United States, and WordCamp US 2017 just wrapped up last weekend. And the Divi Nation showed up in force and made the weekend even more spectacular […]

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How to Set up In-Store Pickups for Online Orders with Divi’s Free Coffee Shop Layout Pack & WooCommerce

If you’re creating a coffee shop website, one of the things you might be looking for is a way to allow in-store pickups for online orders. It just makes it easier to attract a new audience that doesn’t have the time to stand hours in a line waiting to order a coffee. It also helps […]

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Divi Feature Update! Introducing Color Filters, Effects And Blend Modes For All Images, Modules, Rows and Sections

Easily Apply Color Filters, EffectsAnd Blend Modules To Any Element Now you have even more control over the appearance of every element on your page thanks to our new collection of filters, effects and blend modes. We want to provide designers the tools they need to be creative on the web, and that means giving […]

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How to Create Custom Event Listing and Registration Pages with Divi and WooCommerce

If you run or help volunteer at an organization that puts on events, then you’re likely familiar with a wide range of event planning, management, and promotional tools. There’s Facebook, Meetup, and loads of WordPress plugins with slightly different approaches to the task of putting on an event. These tools are great. And for almost […]

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How to Make the Best WordCamp Talk Proposal Possible

Throughout grad school and then my near-decade as a college instructor, I learned that most students (myself included) were woefully unprepared for the professional development that came once school was over. Employers and graduate schools looked at more than GPA and final projects to evaluate them. One of the easiest ways to build your CV […]

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What the Most Popular Personal Blogs on the Web Have in Common

Starting a personal blog is one of those things many people have thought of doing. And because it’s so easy to get started, most of those people have actually created one. Some have even managed to create pretty successful personal blogs out of something that started out as just a hobby. But what’s the key to running […]

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How to Add Featured Videos to Your WordPress Posts and Pages

If you’re a WordPress user, you’re probably familiar with its featured image functionality. For each of your posts, you can pick an image that represents it, and helps readers understand what your content is about. However, depending on the topic, video can often be a better choice than images. While WordPress doesn’t support featured videos […]

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How to Use the Exclusive Cyber Monday Bakery Layout Pack to Create a Locations Page for Your Business

Our Biggest Discount Of Of All Time Cyber Monday only comes once a year, and when it does, we like to do something really special. Today we are offering 25% OFF EVERYTHING, the biggest discount we have ever given. This discount has only ever been offered once before (during last year’s Black Friday and Cyber […]

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How Use The Cyber Monday Artist Layout Pack to Create a Multi-Step Form for Quote Requests

Our Biggest Discount Of Of All Time Cyber Monday only comes once a year, and when it does, we like to do something really special. Today we are offering 25% OFF EVERYTHING, the biggest discount we have ever given. This discount has only ever been offered once before (during last year’s Black Friday and Cyber […]

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How to Use the Exclusive Cyber Monday Divi Layout Pack for Online Stores and Bloom to Incentivize New Visitors with a Coupon Code

Our Biggest Discount Of Of All Time Cyber Monday only comes once a year, and when it does, we like to do something really special. Today we are offering 25% OFF EVERYTHING, the biggest discount we have ever given. This discount has only ever been offered once before (during last year’s Black Friday and Cyber […]

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How to Use the Exclusive Cyber Monday Freelance Layout Pack & Calendly to Schedule Client Meetings

Our Biggest Discount Of Of All Time Cyber Monday only comes once a year, and when it does, we like to do something really special. Today we are offering 25% OFF EVERYTHING, the biggest discount we have ever given. This discount has only ever been offered once before (during last year’s Black Friday and Cyber […]

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How to Use the Exclusive Cyber Monday Consultant Layout Pack to Create an Email Opt-in for a Free E-Book

Our Biggest Discount Of Of All Time Cyber Monday only comes once a year, and when it does, we like to do something really special. Today we are offering 25% OFF EVERYTHING, the biggest discount we have ever given. This discount has only ever been offered once before (during last year’s Black Friday and Cyber […]

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Why @Uber Needs a Directional Reset in Customer Service!

Why @Uber Needs a Directional Reset in Customer Service!

After a recent run in with @Uber and their “cleaning fee” and an unscrupulous driver in Maine, I put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard in this case, and I offer a clear balanced path for the future management of driver – rider relations and...

How to Use the Exclusive Black Friday Product Marketing Layout Pack with HubSpot CRM

Our Biggest Discount Ever Black Friday only comes once a year, and when it does, we like to do something really special. Today we are offering 25% OFF EVERYTHING, the biggest discount we have ever given. This discount has only ever been offered once before (during last year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale), and […]

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Our Biggest, Craziest Black Friday Sale Of All Time Starts Now!

Our Biggest Discount Ever Black Friday only comes once a year, and when it does, we like to do something really special. Today we are offering 25% OFF EVERYTHING, the biggest discount we have ever given. This discount has only ever been offered once before (during last year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale), and […]

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Our Biggest, Craziest Black Friday Sale Of All Time Starts Now!

Our Biggest Discount Ever Black Friday only comes once a year, and when it does, we like to do something really special. Today we are offering 25% OFF EVERYTHING, the biggest discount we have ever given. This discount has only ever been offered once before (during last year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale), and […]

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10 Cool Themes to Check Out Before Creating Your Next WordPress Website

Whatever kind of niche or style you can think of; there’s a WordPress theme for it. People have been using WordPress to build all kinds of websites which makes it no surprise that all sorts of themes are keep being developed, improved and purchased by web enthusiasts all over the world. In this post, we’ll specifically […]

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How to Create a Giving Tuesday Landing Page with Divi and GiveWP

In case you haven’t heard, we’re getting ready to start off a massive Black Friday and Cyber Monday campaign here at Elegant Themes. But there’s another cool thing happening around this time of year. It’s called Giving Tuesday (this year if falls on November 28) and it’s an effort by the non-profits of the world […]

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Free Divi Download: Get Our Fresh Farmers Market Layout Pack Today!

Hey Divi Nation, thanks for joining us for the next installment of our ongoing Divi Design Initiative; where each week we give away a brand new, free Divi Layout Pack (complete with gorgeous high quality images) from our design team to you. This week Kenny and his team have created a delightfully fresh design for […]

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How to Add Dribbble to WordPress

If you are a designer, you probably know about Dribbble (yep, that’s with three B’s). If you don’t know of them, do yourself a favor: go check them out. Their tagline is Show and Tell for Designers, which pretty much sums it up. Unlike sites like DeviantArt, Dribbble is a showcase specifically for graphic designers […]

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A Sneak Peek At The Exclusive Black Friday Divi Layout Packs, Coming Soon

Coming Soon, Our Biggest Black FridaySale Of Of All Time We are planning a Black Friday sale, and it’s going to be crazy awesome! In fact, it’s our biggest sale of all time, filled with huge discounts, free prizes and beautiful Divi layout packs. We only do this kind of thing once per year, but […]

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10 Resume Websites Made With Divi

Resumes are a popular type of personal websites. They’re great for presenting your skills, education, and experience to potential clients and employers. Fortunately there are lots of resume websites made with Divi to help spark your imagination. In this article we’ll take a look at 10 examples of resume websites made with Divi. Regardless of […]

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3 Important Areas of Design to Focus on for Every Website Build

Welcome to part 3, the final post in our mini series “Effective Divi Web Design Principles” where we’re exploring effective design practices to help empower new web designers and those who identify as someone without an “eye for design.” Now that we’ve covered preparing and learning how to have a better eye for design and […]

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Why You Should Add Facebook Messenger to WordPress (And How to Do It)

Facebook is everywhere. You can’t escape it. Open pretty much any website, and you’re bombarded by #3B5998 (that’s the hex code for Facebook’s very specific blue, by the way). Heck, it’s over to the side of this page thanks to Monarch. See? Everywhere. It’s probably on your website, too, somehow (and on your phone and […]

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3 Effective Web Design Principles for the “Non-Designer”

Welcome to part 2 of our mini series “Effective Divi Web Design Principles” where we’re exploring effective design practices to help empower new web designers and those who identify as someone without an “eye for design.” In our previous post, we covered preparing your mindset and went over some ways of learning how to develop […]

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3 Ways to Learn How to Have a Better Eye for Design

Welcome to part 1 of our mini series “Effective Divi Web Design Principles” where we’re exploring effective design practices to help empower new web designers and those who identify as someone without an “eye for design.” In today’s visual age, design is more important than ever. Good design can make or break your business when […]

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What the Best Job Websites Have In Common (And the Tools You Need to Recreate Them)

Job websites, they are one of the most searched kinds of sites out there. People spend hours on them on a regular basis, in the hope to find the perfect job that matches their profile. Most people have their favorite job websites which they always consult, such as indeed and CareerBuilder, Glassdoor and LinkedIn, bookmarked […]

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WordPress 4.9: What You Can Expect in the Next Release

Wondering what’s coming in WordPress 4.9? With all the talk of the Gutenberg Editor, it’s easy to forget that we have one more major release scheduled before Gutenberg is slated to become part of the WordPress core. WordPress 4.9 doesn’t introduce anything nearly as big as Gutenberg, but it will bring some major improvements to […]

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Divi Plugin Highlight: Testify

Testify is a third-party plugin that adds a new module to the Divi Builder to display testimonials that you’ve created within the testimonial editor or those that your visitors have uploaded through a form. Testify works with and without Divi. Testify has other features that work outside of Divi, such as Customizer and upload features, […]

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Divi Feature Update! Advanced Border Options For All Modules, Rows and Sections

New Border Options For All DiviModules, Rows and Sections Divi’s design capabilities have been expanded once again with a new set of border options for all Divi Builder elements. Today we are excited to announce Divi’s brand new border options. Now you can easily add custom borders to every Divi module, row and section and […]

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Using Divi’s Fashion Layout Pack to Create an Online Store with WooCommerce

Divi’s new Fashion Layout Pack has a great setup for any online store. The integration of the shop module and the organization of the page layouts give you a significant headstart. But in order to get this layout up and running as a functional online store, we need the WooCommerce plugin. And, you may be […]

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How to Set up Conversion Split Tests on The New Design Agency Layout Pack with Divi

If you are running a design agency, you’re probably dealing with a lot of pressure while designing your company’s website. That’s most likely because creating websites is going to be one of the services you offer. It’s only logical that you want your design agency website to reflect the results that you can achieve for your […]

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How to Set up Conversion Split Tests on The New Design Agency Layout Pack with Divi

If you are running a design agency, you’re probably dealing with a lot of pressure while designing your company’s website. That’s most likely because creating websites is going to be one of the services you offer. It’s only logical that you want your design agency website to reflect the results that you can achieve for your […]

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How to Personalize WooCommerce for Different Customer Types

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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How to Integrate WhatsApp into Your WordPress Website

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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How to Integrate WhatsApp into Your WordPress Website

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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How to Create a Beautiful Hero Section for Your Personal Website with Divi

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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5 Examples of Editorial Style Section Layouts Created with Divi

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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How to Download WordPress (and Why You’d Want To)

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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12 Alternatives to WordPress (And Why You Might Want to Use One)

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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How to Combine Image Background & Box Shadow Options with Divi

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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How to Combine Image Background & Box Shadow Options with Divi

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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How to Create & Use Textured Backgrounds with Divi’s Design Options

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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Join us for WordCamp US 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee December 1-3

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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Creating a Learning Management (LMS) Website with Divi

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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When and Why to Use the Style Tag Outside of CSS Stylesheets

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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Divi Plugin Highlight: Caldera Forms Style Customizer for Divi and Extra

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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Divi Feature Update! Introducing Brand New Text Shadow Options For All Modules

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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How to Create Irregularly Shaped Section Transitions with Divi

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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How to Create a Library of Post Snippets to Use in Your Posts and Pages

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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How to Create Section Chapters Using Divi’s New Design Options

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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