Divi 5 Official 🎉 (Beta Ends Today)

After over a year of public testing and improvement, Divi 5 is officially exiting the beta phase today. This isn’t the finish line; it’s a fresh start for Divi, and you can expect even faster development moving forward.

It’s going to be an exciting year!

I cover everything in the video below, including how to upgrade to Divi 5 and migrate your websites. 👇

Getting To Know Divi 5

Firstly, we know that Divi 5 is a significant change, and that you may need more time to adapt, especially if your third-party plugins are not ready. For that reason, we will continue to support Divi 4 for at least the next 12 months, and longer if practical, while continuing to fix security and compatibility issues with new WordPress versions.

There’s no rush. The release of Divi 5 should be exciting, not stressful. Take it at your own pace.

If you don’t opt in to Divi 5 updates, you’ll stay on the Divi 4 update path.

First Things First: Explore Divi 5’s New Features

If you are brand new to Divi 5, we suggest familiarizing yourself with its many new features; there’s much to explore.

• The Divi 5 page provides a good overview of some of its most exciting changes.
• Our help center has nearly 200 articles focused on Divi 5.
• On the blog, the Divi Resources category features hundreds of long-form tutorials that explore every aspect in depth.
• On YouTube, we have many videos that walk you through each new update.
• Plus, our Fin chatbot is trained on everything and can answer questions instantly! Behind the chatbot is our support team, ready to chat with you and help you through the transition.

Next, Take Divi 5 For A Spin On A Staging Site

When you’re ready, upgrade to Divi 5 on a staging site, run the migrator, and poke around for a bit to make sure everything looks good. If you run into any issues, let us know; we’ll focus on fixing any newly identified migration issues in the immediate future.

Here’s how to upgrade and migrate. 👇

Upgrading Websites From Divi 4 to Divi 5

I cover everything, step by step, in this YouTube video. Check it out if you prefer a visual walkthrough.

⚠️ Note: Always make a backup of your website before upgrading, or upgrade on a staging site.

Enabling Divi 5 Updates

Switching to the Divi 5 upgrade path is optional. To opt in to Divi 5 updates, navigate to the Divi > Dashboard page in your WordPress admin.

Click the “Enable Divi 5 Updates” button to switch to the Divi 5 upgrade path. You will instantly see a Divi 5.0.0 update notification.

Upgrade to Divi 5 via the Dashboard > Updates page in the WordPress admin.

Backward Compatibility Mode

As soon as the update finishes, your website will be using Divi 5. However, it has not yet migrated and is running in backward compatibility mode.

Backward compatibility mode is a bridge between Divi 4 and Divi 5. It allows unconverted Divi 4 modules to run on the front end before migration. If you visit the front end of your website, you will see an orange notice in the admin bar indicating that the page has not yet been converted.

Any page that contains a legacy Divi 4 module will run in backward compatibility mode. In this mode, everything will function on the front end, but you won’t be able to use all of Divi 5’s new features or benefit from Divi 5’s performance improvements.

To access those, you need to migrate your website.

Migrating Your Websites

Migrating your website will convert all Divi 4 modules on your entire website. It takes one click to migrate, and less than a minute to complete on most websites.

Navigate to the Divi > Divi 5 Migrator page.

As soon as you open the page, it will scan your website and look for Divi 4 modules. Then it will generate a report of all modules ready for conversion.

If your websites contain third-party modules that haven’t been updated for Divi 5 yet, the migrator will warn you that some modules won’t be converted. These modules will continue to run in backward compatibility mode.

If/when the developer of those modules creates a Divi 5 upgrade path, you can revisit the migrator and rerun it to migrate those modules. In the meantime, pages using incompatible modules will continue to function in backward compatibility mode.

Click “Migrate This Website To Divi 5” to run the migrator. It will go through all pages that contain Divi 4 modules and convert them. Once complete, your website is ready to go!

What If Something Goes Wrong?

After the migrator runs, visit your website on the front end and poke around. If you spot anything that looks off, let our team know, and we will address the issue.

There may be cases where custom CSS used with Divi 4 modules may need to be tweaked slightly to work with Divi 5.

If anything goes wrong, don’t worry. Restore your backup or unstage the changes from your staging site.

What if you didn’t make a backup?

You should really make a backup, but if you forgot, the Divi 5 Migrator has your back. When it runs the conversion, it stores a backup copy of the Divi 4 post content.

If you made the mistake of migrating a live website to Divi 5, and you want to switch back to Divi 4, return to the migrator and click the “Restore Divi 4 Content” button. Doing so will restore your website’s migrated post content to its state before conversion.

WordPress also stores post revisions, which you can use to restore your unconverted content.

Next, visit the Divi > Theme Options > Updates page and roll back to Divi 4.

Consider Sticking With Divi 4 Temporarily

There are legitimate reasons to stay on Divi 4; namely, if you are using third-party plugins that don’t support Divi 5.

If that’s the case, stick with Divi 4 for now, and let the developers know that Divi 5 compatibility is important to you. In the meantime, you can continue using Divi 4 while building new websites with Divi 5.

What About The Divi Builder Plugin?

We will be bringing the Divi 5 builder to the Divi Builder plugin next, and it will not require a lengthy beta phase. We will be updating each Divi-powered product one at a time. Everything starts with Divi.

The Future Of Divi Starts Today

Divi 5 has been a long time coming, but it was worth the wait.

We are now in a unique position, having freed ourselves of a decade of technical debt, completely re-envisioned the product on a modern architecture, and implemented all the features you have been requesting.

Divi 5 is fast, development is nimble, and we’re going to leave the competition in the dust; that’s my promise for 2026.

If you are enjoying Divi 5, do us a huge favor and let us know by liking this video and leaving a comment. It means a lot to us to see you cheering Divi on, and it’s essential to feed the algorithm and spread the word.

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