We’ve had an action-packed few weeks, launching three new features (Attribute Management, Settings Search and Filtering, and Extend Attributes), three weeks in a row, with no sneak peeks in between.
So I’m making up for lost time with a triple sneak peek at three new features I’m working on while the rest of the team continues developing projects like Flexbox, WooCommerce modules, and Loop Builder, all of which are almost finished.
We’re gearing up for an action-packed month!
So, what have I been working on in my free time? Let me show you. 👇
Find and Replace
One of my goals has been to fill the gaps and bring over missing features from Divi 4 while improving them. I did that with Attribute Management, Settings Search and Filtering, and Extend Attributes.
Next up is Find and Replace, a super powerful feature that allows you to make sweeping targeted changes to attributes across your page. Right-click on any field, then find and replace its value within a defined scope.
I chose to focus on Find and Replace because it will be instrumental in adopting Divi’s new design system, including variables. One of the best use cases for Find and Replace is to find static values in your Divi 4 websites and replace them with variables.
Element Inspector
I’ve also been working on some new features, my favorite of which is the Inspector. This thing is amazing.
You can click on any element to get a list of all the styles, presets, and content used in that element and its children. Then, you can quickly adjust those values across the entire set of elements at once.
The Inspector will be a unique feature to Divi 5 that you can’t find in other builders. Trust me, once you use it, you won’t want to live without it.
Group Carousel Module
I have also been testing Divi 5’s new module architecture, spinning up new modules, and getting ready for a significant push on module development.
I created simple modules like an Icon List and a Lottie module. Still, the most exciting module I’m working on is the Group Carousel module, which leverages Divi 5’s new group element. You can create a carousel of groups, and then build out the contents of each slide using Divi’s full range of elements to create any type of carousel.
Have You Tried Extend Attributes?
In case you missed it, check out my video from last week announcing the release of Extend Attributes.
Many people have told us they miss the Extend Styles feature from Divi 4, so I dedicated some free time to bringing it to Divi 5 and making it ten times better. This is a seriously powerful surprise feature to add to the list of all the other great things coming to Divi 5. 🤩
Get all the details in this video. 👇
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I hope you enjoyed that little snapshot of my personal Divi 5 side quests, which are far along in development. I wouldn’t be surprised if one of them is ready next week, so make sure you follow and subscribe to never miss an update!
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This is really great, and love the new updates. I’m not using any of them however, until we can use Divi 5 on live sites. Would be great to learn how that’s coming and when we will be able to host live client sites on the Divi 5 platform. Cheers,
It available today for use on live websites. You can choose to use Divi 4 or Divi 5 based on your needs and preferences.
At this time, we can’t get rid of Divi 4 and force everyone to migrate, because there are still a few things to finish, such as Woo modules. Until then, we’re maintaining both versions and letting user’s choose their desired path.
That’s why we only recommend using Divi 5 on new websites at this time, where backward compatibility with Divi 4’s feature set is not applicable.
That said, Woo modules are almost done and we’ll be entering beta soon.
Am I supposed to get this excited about these updates? 😅 Anyway great stuff!
Great! Looking forward to a carousel module!
Loving the updates and have used Divi5 on one of our most recent designs. It’s great however we found to our cost plugins like Rankmath Pro aren’t fully integrated because whilst elegant themes say it’s still in testing as a public alpha can be used for new designs, plugin developers are holding back until it’s reached official release.
My personal view (and would like to hear others point of view ) would prefer that you concentrate on making it live sooner and add features at a later date – at least this would help to ensure plugins will be compatible.
Could you maybe provide a time line – will it be this year? Or Within a few months an actual timescale would be awesome.
Keep up the great work
Hey, Mark! Our aspirational timeline is to ship Divi 5 Beta in a few months from now and the final version of Divi 5 by the end of the year.
We are in the “ninth inning” to use baseball vernacular, making great progress! Thank you for your support! 😊
I’m very much looking for the group carousel module. That’s a great new feature!
I am using “old” DIVI on a site with woocommerce, and for several days, there are issues logging into the backend of my site and my site’s frontend not being visible. It also seems to be impossible to updated pages, I Could this be connected with DIVI?
the site is: http://www.famart.de
Hey, Petra! These issues would require a closer look from our friendly support team.
You can reach us here: https://www.elegantthemes.com/members-area/help/