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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How to Create Good Captions for Pictures on Your WordPress Website

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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How to Create Good Captions for Pictures on Your WordPress Website

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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Divi Feature Update! Huge Font Options Overhaul, Better Heading Controls and Countless More Text Options

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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How to Submit a Podcast to iTunes

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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How to Set Up Blubrry PowerPress to Podcast with WordPress

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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How to Create a Wiki with WordPress

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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Becoming a Divi Powered Digital Nomad with Noëlle Steegs– The Divi Nation Podcast, Episode 64

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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10 PHP Tutorials Aspiring WordPress Developers Should Walk Through

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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10 PHP Tutorials Aspiring WordPress Developers Should Walk Through

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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Divi Feature Update! Introducing Box Shadow Controls For All Modules, Rows And Sections!

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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20 Best Shopify Themes for 2017

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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Establishing a Divi Powered Side Hustle with Jared McDowell – The Divi Nation Podcast, Episode 63

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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How to Make the Most out of your WordCamp Experiences

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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Divi Feature Update! Introducing The New Customizable Visual Builder

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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