Divi is also a page builder with its own unique functions. It combines three features in one: it’s a page builder, of course, but also a theme and a theme builder.
Like Elementor, Divi allows you to customize both the body content and the header and footer.
Finally, be aware that you will not find Divi on the official directory. It exists only in premium version. Nearly 900,000 users have already adopted it.
Let’s summarize what it offers.
Ease of use
Divi is a comprehensive page builder with a lot of features. Quite a lot. As a result, it provides you with hundreds of options that take time to learn.
The process itself isn’t that complex, but the sheer number of options means that the learning curve of the page builder is steeper than with Elementor, for example.
On the practical side, there’s nothing too surprising. Divi works on the same principle as many of its competitors. The content you add to your pages takes place on the public interface.
Everything is done by drag and drop and you have a real time overview of your additions and modifications.
Divi Page Builder stands out by not having a side panel constantly on the screen. If you don’t touch anything, you see the page as it will appear on your visitors’ screen. You can start editing by hovering your mouse over an element.
This is generally useful, although there are also some limitations. For example, the button to save the page is somewhat hidden.
Templates and modules
To create the pages you have in mind, Divi offers around a hundred modules (both native and created by third-party developers). All the classics are there (text, image, gallery, video, audio, text + icon, testimonial, button, spacing, etc.).
In addition, you will have more than 300 layouts, i.e. enough site models composed of several pages that you won’t have to start from scratch.
Customization
Like Elementor, Divi gives you almost total control over the design of your page.
It’s impossible to list all the choices, but you can do a lot of customization by adding animations, shadows, gradients, separations between sections, filters, etc.
Divi even allows you to copy and paste the style you’ve applied from one element to another!
On the marketing side, Divi offers, like Elementor, its own form builder. Finally, Divi allows you to create permissions to restrict access to certain users. This is very useful if you want to give access to your customers.
We like:
- The fact that Divi is a theme builder.
- Its ultra-competitive price.
- The number of layouts provided.
- The ability to use Divi to customize WooCommerce: you can create product page templates, customize product categories/tags, etc.
- The Divi ecosystem. You have everything you need to improve on this page builder: groups, training, add-ons, layouts, and child themes.
- A page builder solidly anchored in the WordPress ecosystem.
We don’t like so much:
- Divi’s backend interface is unwelcoming, although you don’t have to use it.
- Divi needs a lot of resources to run and you may encounter slowdowns in your site’s front-end (what your visitors see).
- It leaves a lot of shortcodes behind when you disable it, although plugins like Shortcode Cleaneror Bye Bye Divi fix this.
These shortcode and performance “concerns” should disappear with the arrival of Divi 5.0, a major and long-awaited update that was still under development at the time of writing.
