Custom Divi designer
Need a custom Divi designer?
I’m your guy, hopefully. I’ve built websites on Divi almost exclusively for more than ten years, and I still love it.
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One layout, tuned for every screen
Is Divi right for you?
WordPress and Divi are a good fit if…
A quick gut check before we talk. If a few of these sound like you, Divi is probably the right tool.
Any size business
I build Divi sites for one-person shops, growing teams and larger companies. The same toolkit scales with you.
Any budget
Projects start around $500 for a simple site and can run $10,000 or more for a big build. You pick the scope and I’ll tell you what it takes.
Room to grow
Pages, sections and features can be added later without starting over, so your site grows with your business.
An online store
WordPress, WooCommerce and Divi work great together, from product pages all the way through checkout.
Bells and whistles
Sliders, galleries, portfolios, pricing tables, forms and animations are all built in. No pile of extra plugins.
Mobile done right
I tune font sizes, spacing and even whole sections separately for phone, tablet and desktop.
Pros and cons
What I love, and what I’d fix
After more than ten years of building with Divi almost every day, here’s my honest list.
What I love
- Responsive editing is built in. I can preview any device and change fonts, spacing or layout for each screen size.
- The visual builder is friendly enough for beginners, so you can make your own updates instead of waiting on a developer.
- Help videos live right inside the builder, next to the setting you’re looking at.
- Dozens of built-in modules: sliders, galleries, toggles, icons, buttons, forms and plenty more.
- The Theme Builder lets me design custom headers, footers, blog posts, archives and WooCommerce pages.
- Presets, global colors and design variables keep every page consistent.
- The Divi Library saves anything from a full page to a single module so I can reuse it anywhere.
- Sticky options and scroll effects work on almost any element.
- Background videos, parallax, gradients and layered effects are a few clicks away.
- Entrance animations for sections, rows and modules, with timing and delay controls.
- Full WooCommerce support out of the box.
- Divi 5 was rebuilt from the ground up and is much faster than Divi 4.
- A huge community and a big market of Divi plugins. I have a short list I use on most builds, and I’m happy to share it.
What I’d fix
- It needs decent hosting. A bargain shared plan will slow it down, which is one reason I offer my own hosting.
- Updates come often, and once in a while one breaks something. I test updates on a staging copy first.
- Some third-party Divi plugins are still catching up to Divi 5.
- The built-in contact form is basic. For anything serious I use Gravity Forms.
- The slider module is quick to build but limited.
- The icon library could use more icons and better categories.
Two of my old complaints, page speed and the stock header and footer, are fixed now thanks to Divi 5 and the Theme Builder.
My take
Ten years of Divi, and I still love it
I’ve used the Divi theme almost exclusively for more than ten years, and I still enjoy it. What sold me at the start was the builder. Most clients want to make their own updates without being held hostage by a developer, and Divi’s interface doesn’t scare them off when I hand the site over.
Divi has become one of the most popular WordPress themes around, and there are good reasons for that. One of my favorites is mobile control. A big headline that looks great on a desktop can be scaled down so it fits a phone. I can even build sections that only show up on mobile, so phone, tablet and desktop each get the version that works best. I do this all the time.
The Theme Builder was a huge step forward. I design custom headers and footers that look exactly how I want, and I build global templates for blog posts, categories and WooCommerce pages like products, cart and checkout.
Divi 5 took it further still. It was rewritten from scratch, it’s faster, and it gave me design variables and better presets. Whole sites now stay consistent with far less effort.
The Divi Library
The feature that saves the most time
Save anything from a full page down to a single module and reuse it anywhere. Mark it global, and one edit updates every copy on the site.
Change a phone number once
Say a call-to-action section with your phone number sits on 25 pages. I make it global, you update it once, and all 25 pages change instantly.
Test a button color
Save a button as a global item, change its color, and every copy across the site follows. Handy for trying ideas without hunting through pages.
Reuse a page layout
Design a page once, save it to the Library as a layout, then load it into new pages and swap the content. Everything stays consistent.
There’s far more to Divi than I can fit on one page. Divi is made by Elegant Themes, and I share tutorials and layouts on DiviGuy.com. Want to talk Divi?