I'm back with another Divi 5 update, and this time, I'm eager to give you an early glance at Divi 5's new connection point. It's not got done at this point, yet there's still a lot to investigate. 😁
Divi 5 is getting another look. It works the same way it generally has, so don't stress over the new point of interaction confusing you. Feeling extremely familiar is all going. We haven't changed how you can manage Divi, yet we want to believe that you will appreciate doing what you really do much more with a quicker and less bulky connection point.
Divi 5 addresses crude speed and effectiveness; the UI ought to serve those objectives. The principal thing you'll see about Divi 5 is that it's incredibly quick. There's definitely no postponement as you drift, click, alter, and move things around, and it can deal with broad pages more than ever. We additionally eliminated all movements since we need nothing dialing you back.
We reduced the footprint of the interface to give your designs more room to breathe. You can dock multiple smaller-sized panels to the side of the browser without them overlapping your content or getting in your way.
In the example above, I have my layers panel docked to the left, and my settings panel docked to the right. The settings panel is automatically populated as I click around the page, and when I edit something, the feedback is instantaneous.
Divi 5 gives you substantially more command over the developer's design. You can dock, undock, or join boards into selected windows. Assuming you like to have all windows shut and one drifting settings board like Divi 4, that is a choice as well.
With click-mode as the default interaction mode, a smaller layers panel you can always leave open, and new breadcrumbs in each settings panel, navigating the page is easier than ever. You won’t struggle to find or click on anything you want to edit.
We still need to make improvements and add missing pieces, but this early look should give you a good idea of what to expect when we release the Public Alpha in the coming months.
We got a lot of other stuff done over the past month, too. Building the new interface was relatively simple. All the major work is happening behind the scenes, where we are building a solid foundation that will serve the community for many years, which involves the complete redevelopment of all of Divi’s core features and modules.
We are currently in the Dev Beta phase (which you are welcome to join if you are a developer of Divi modules), which means we have completed the new framework and are now rebuilding everything on that framework.
We fixed more bugs, wrote more developer docs, and converted a bunch of modules, such as the post slider, blog, post navigation, filterable portfolio, fullwidth menu, and fullwidth portfolio.
Every time we finish a new feature or module, we get one step closer to Public Alpha, where we want to have enough of Divi’s most popular features and modules ready to make that first version usable to a broad audience.
Here are the latest Divi 5 changelog entries. 👇
That’s all for this month’s Divi 5 update. In other news, we have a new Divi AI feature coming out soon that I’m excited about. We’ve already created AI tools for text, image, and code generation. Next, we’re putting it all together to enable you to generate entire layouts with AI. Note: layout generation was sped up in the following video.
ust tell Divi AI what kind of page you want, and it will construct the layout, generate the images, write the content, and customize the fonts and colors. In a matter of seconds, you have an entire page ready to go, and you can jump into Divi’s design settings to put on the finishing touches or use Divi’s AI tools to refine the results further.
