by Andras | Jan 24, 2020 | Divi
Phew… There’s been a long silence here. For a reason. I became busy.
In January 2019 I took on the role of Support Manager at Modern Tribe, creators of The Events Calendar and Co. This looked like and still is a very exciting challenge for me. I still get to work with awesome people, and now I also have to care about, guide, mentor, coach a dozen-and-a-half support agents.
The role is super exciting and there is no stopping. 🙂 Which is good on one side. On the other side I don’t have much time any more to dabble in building WordPress sites with Divi, thus the source of Divi tips & tricks is slowing down.
I still work with WordPress, a lot, from the support side. This is my work and source of inspiration at the moment, and I like to share my support experiences with the community. You can catch glimpses of this on my other blog and on occasion you can catch me at a WordCamp as well.
So what now?
Divi Magazine will stay here for a while. Not sure how much time I will have to post things, but I don’t want to shut down the opportunity. I might return to building pages with Divi soon.
Until then, keep creating awesome sites!
by Andras | Dec 8, 2018 | Divi
Everyone is talking about the release of WordPress 5.0 and the Gutenberg block editor. You can read my thoughts and my experiment here:
The Switch
(I have yet to update this site to WP5. Once I do you’ll hear about it.)
by Andras | Nov 19, 2018 | Divi
It has been brought to my attention that none of the items in the store can be purchased, the cart remains empty. I do apologize for this inconvenience.
I’m working on resolving the issue, while the site is being moved to a different host in parallel.
Your patience will be rewarded with a prolonged Black Friday sale. 😉
by Andras | Nov 3, 2018 | Divi
The Font Awesome team is continuously working hard on getting you new icon packs. Now you can have access to the latest ones with FA icons for Divi.
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by Andras | Aug 5, 2018 | Divi, Divi Builder, Font Awesome, plugin
Summer is in full blast, but it looks like the Font Awesome team does not go on vacation. They just delivered 4 new category packs and that also means there is an update for the FA Icons for Divi plugin.
What’s new in FA Icons for Divi 2.8?
Quite a lot, actually.
Obviously it supports the new icon packs. (Check here.)
Beside using the Font Awesome CDN now you also have the option of Self hosting the icons of FA 5 Free. What is self hosting? It means that the icons will be served from the same server as your site, and not from a server that is part of a Content Delivery Network.
In case you use your WordPress dashboard in a different language than English you can now translate the whole plugin, including the labels on the switches through a css file. (If you want your translation to be included in the next version, send it over, and I’ll be happy to add it. You will find my contact on the Help tab.)
I fixed a bug which caused an error when trying to network activate the plugin on a multi-site installation. (Thanks to Stian for reporting this.)
I updated the URLs on the Help tab because they were pointing to already non-existing pages.
The the FA assets were updated in the plugin to make sure you get the latest icons under all circumstances.
I ran some test to make sure that the plugin works with the latest versions of Divi, Extra, and Divi Builder.
New packs in Font Awesome 5.2
Disclaimer
To get all the details of what the plugin does and doesn’t do, please check out the plugin page before making a purchase. This will also help avoid any disappointments and frustrations.
Also the plugin still does not provide a UI for inserting icons into your content, blurbs, etc. To see how you can insert specific icons, please refer to the Examples page of Font Awesome.
![[Update] FA Icons for Divi](https://divi-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/edd/fa-icons-for-divi-2.6-thumb-1024-1024x675.jpg)
by Andras | Jun 22, 2018 | Divi, Divi Builder, Font Awesome, plugin
Without much fireworks, the plugin now supports Font Awesome version 5.1!
What is new in Font Awesome version 5.1?
- Travel category pack
- Design category pack
- Emoji category pack
- Commissions and top requests
- and a bunch of improvements
As for the plugin itself
- Increased supported Font Awesome 5 version number to v5.1.0
- Updated Font Awesome assets
- Updated compatible version numbers
To get all the details of what the plugin does and doesn’t do, please check out the plugin page before making a purchase. This will also help avoid any disappointments and frustrations.
Also the plugin still does not provide a UI for inserting icons into your content, blurbs, etc. To see how you can insert specific icons, please refer to the Examples page of Font Awesome.
And the offer is still on for a couple of days
If you use the below coupon code at checkout then you can get my other plugin, the Divi Builder UI Pro plugin for only half the price! Let’s say, until end of June. 🙂
50offbup
Enjoy summer! Or winter, if you happen to be living on the Southern hemisphere. 😉
by Andras | Nov 23, 2017 | announcement, Divi, Divi Builder, plugin
Happy to share that the Divi Builder UI plugin has received an update! The Pro version has 4 new settings, plus there are some bugfixes and tweaks.
Head over to the plugin page to check the plugin out, or jump straight to the change log. If you just want to get your hands on it, then click here. 🙂
Oh, and it’s Black Friday at The Divi Magazine as well! 😉 Get 50% off with the code ‘DMBF2017’ until November 30.
by Andras | Oct 14, 2017 | Divi, WordPress
My WordCamp 2017 Presentation
In September I attended WordCamp Switzerland in Bern. This time I wasn’t only attending though, but I also had a presentation on “4 Tips For A Safe WordPress And Plugin Update”. It was super exciting to be there, especially because this was my first WordCamp presentation. Hopefully more will come. 🙂
You can watch the video at wordpress.tv or simply below.
What are you doing to have a safe update process? I would love to hear about your ideas.
by Andras | Sep 26, 2017 | Divi, Divi Builder, plugin, review
First of all I’d like talk about the breadcrumbs a little in general. If you don’t know what website breadcrumbs are, they are links usually located somewhere at the top of the page of a website that show your current location on a certain website. I mean which page you currently are viewing and in which category. For example, if you are viewing an automotive website and you may be viewing particularly the “Opel Corsa” page, the breadcrumbs could be something like this: “Small Cars > German Cars > Opel > Corsa”. As you can see, the breadcrumbs may be useful if you have a website that has many pages. And possibly many categories as well.
“So, when you want to display the breadcrumbs navigation links somewhere on your Divi website, just place there this module and it will do its job.”
The Divi theme (you can read more about Divi on https://wpvivo.com – just note that it’s in Spanish) doesn’t have the breadcrumbs feature by default. Luckily, there is someone who has developed a premium plugin to add this feature to Divi. The plugin is called Divi Breadcrumbs Module and I will briefly review it in this article.
After activating the plugin in your WordPress admin panel, you will see a new module among your Divi modules options in the Divi Builder settings. This module will be called Divi Breadcrumbs and will be highlighted with the pink color. So you will surely notice it because of this color.
So, when you want to display the breadcrumbs navigation links somewhere on your Divi website, just place there this module and it will do its job. Then in the settings of this module you have some options. For example, you can choose to hide the homepage or the current page breadcrumb. Or, you can insert custom text for the home breadcrumb. And you can also change the separator icon “>>” to something different. You have 12 options there. In the design settings of the module you can customize the colors as well as the fonts sizes of the texts.
In overall, I think this is a pretty good plugin that does a really nice job. And if I had a website with a lot of content and many categories, I would most likely buy this plugin.
You can get a copy of this plugin here and I hope this review will help you.
Do you use breadcrumbs? Or only on certain types of sites? Or you try to avoid them as much as possible? Let me know in the comments below.
by Andras | Jul 26, 2017 | admin, announcement, Divi, Divi Builder, Extra, plugin
When it comes to work, I’m all about being effective. As effective as possible with as little scrolling and as few clicks as possible.
The design team at Elegant Themes did a great job in designing and further improving on the Divi Builder user interface. It is well organized and quite intuitive. I like working with it in general. And the Visual Builder on the front end was a nice addition recently, however, in most cases I still use the backend with the Divi Builder, it is simply more effective for me.
After working with it for some time – a couple years back – I realized though that there is too much scrolling involved when I need to adjust one thing in a module. So I started thinking and tinkering and wrote about it … But I wanted more!
And at last, all that tinkering resulted in the Divi Builder UI Light | Divi Builder UI Pro plugins, which I am happily releasing today.
You can visit the plugin page to read and see what it does and what are the differences between Light and Pro.
I am very proud of this plugin and I really hope it will reach to popularity of Font Awesome for Divi, which has been downloaded more than a 1500 times so far.
Go ahead and check it out!
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