Divi Reviews

Pros

It's easy to use. You can easily make yout own Wordpress websites without any coding skills. It works as you should expect. Thereby you can easily switch between Divi builder and standard Gutenberg Wordpress builder.

Cons

You never have all features (blocks) you need. So you always need to buy extra blocks from other developers. Would be nice if really everything was all-in.

Alternatives Considered

Elementor

Reasons for Choosing Divi

X theme had a per site license. Divi was easier to use and had a ltd

Reasons for Switching to Divi

Elementor was just on the market (not that mature). Elementor offers no ltd.

Pros

Divi has a great customer support team readily available via chat plus well-documented training videos and blog posts to learn basic and advanced features. Additionally, there is an extensive group of 3rd party developers offering solutions and training for all aspects of the software easily accessible online.

Cons

The learning curve takes a long time but as noted above, everything I needed to become an expert user is available to lean as quicky as you like.

Alternatives Considered

Elementor

Reasons for Switching to Divi

After using other visual builders, I chose Divi as the software to invest in for my growing Web Design business because of its large installed base, features set, and customer support.

Pros

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Cons

Divi's support minus [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] is terrible. I can't tell you how many agents I've talked to at this point who stall me for 2 hours and then log-off to hand me off to somebody else. I had a person today tell me he couldn't access my site (40 minutes wasted). The next agent got in no problem. I think Divi really has got to vet folks and see if they are able to really provide solutions in real-time. The problem is, Divi itself isn't very intuitive; there are very easy things that can be missed or overlooked because it is not a conventional website builder. Sure, you can circumvent certain things by using CSS, but if I were amazing at code I'd have no reason to even use a builder in the first place. I get there's volume and I'm not the only person that needs help, but signing off without saying anything and repeatedly sending me to look at FAQs that don't apply to certain issues isn't helpful.

I think Divi could benefit from having a builder that doesn't hide everything behind drop-down menus that don't always make a ton of sense. I've gotten better because of the agents who have taken the time to really break things down and empowered me to fix things alongside providing instructions, and even videos that I can go back and reference when I need a refresher (agents like [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN]). I think Divi needs to make agents like these two the gold standard.

Alternatives Considered

Elementor

Reasons for Choosing Divi

I wanted to start using WordPress because it seemed like there were more customization options.

Switched From

Weebly

Reasons for Switching to Divi

The lifetime purchase really sold me.

Pros

I choose Divi because it a lightweight theme that does not affect website speed. It has an integrated builder which can save you some costs with different builder plugins. Other plugins like WooCommerce and Rank Math work very well on Divi.

Cons

I did not encounter any problems with Divi.

Pros

The WordPress DIVI (Extra) theme allows me to take advantage of WordPress's innate ability to display categorized content in a much more sophisticated manner - like any major newspaper we read online. I find DIVI (Extra) relatively easy to use, but what really makes the difference is their excellent customer support. Staff at Elegant Themes are super helpful and enabled me to get a solid website up and running far quicker than I could have done by myself. There is a huge psychological benefit for me to know that I can reach out to DIVI staff when I need to and get a response in a timely manner. Sometimes it's a matter of minutes. Very occasionally (when they're really busy) I get an email a few hours later. It does not matter, however. in that they always are able to provide a solution that keeps me moving forward at goodhumanhabitat.org.

Cons

DIVI is so feature rich and has everything I need. There's really nothing that jumps out at me regarding things I like least. In a few cases, I'm surprised I need custom CSS to solve a problem, but it's no big deal because there is always knowledgeable staff available to help.

Alternatives Considered

Elementor

Reasons for Choosing Divi

I moved from Squarespace to the WordPress DIVI (Extra) theme so that I could take advantage of WordPress's innate ability to display categorized content in a much more sophisticated manner - like any major newspaper we read online.

Switched From

Squarespace

Reasons for Switching to Divi

I initially chose DIVI - or more specifically the "Extra" WordPress theme because it provides me with precisely the functionality that I needed to create a newspaper website that allows me to display categorized content in a myriad of pretty sophisticated ways. In the end my choices were between Elementor and DIVI. Two things really made the decision easy. The first is that DIVI offers a lifetime license. The second thing is that DIVI is reputed to have far better customer service. When I made an inquiry with DIVI, I got a real person on the chat, and got all my questions answered. When I went to the Elementor site, I got a chatbot that did not quickly provide me with the information I needed. That immediately made my decision easier.

Pros

Ease of use is one of the most favored parts of this website builder I've been using now for more than five years. Secondly, the support is far beyond any other service provider I've been using.

Cons

As long as the cons, not much or not any significant worth mentioning.

Alternatives Considered

Elementor

Reasons for Switching to Divi

Great support, continuous improvements, great team behind.

Pros

Everything is drag and drop, love the fact that you can just watch their tutorials on YouTube and you will get your answer. It's that easy
You can personalize your website with the latest features and most advanced design widgets, took me 3 days to design 3 different websites and that's with no design experience.
Multiple widgets, you can even create an animated scrolling design on the home page how good is that.
DIVI gives you the ability to start for free with limited terms and the premium pack is so full of multi-functional design tools.

Cons

More options with the checkout page and the cart would be preferable. But DIVI already has enough for a start

Pros

rounded minimal design language couple with SEO-friendly approach.

Cons

added complexity to implement some native functionality

Pros

Divi makes creating Wordpress websites so easy. My business website is created on it and I've helped some clients get started with it as well. I highly recommend it for ease of use, short learning curve, so many Youtube tutorials by the company and others to make modifications super easy.

Cons

Personally it works for everything I need. I don't think there are any aspects missing or that underperform for my needs.

Pros

Divi really helped me to get my business of the ground and online!

Cons

I least like how bloated the software is and how regularly I have to check for updates, especially around renewal. The end user must be really devoted to the software because switching can be painful.

Alternatives Considered

WordPress

Reasons for Switching to Divi

Simplicity when wanting to get quickly off the ground with a website & SEO

Pros

I would describe my primary skills as a creative designer first, web developer second. I have found that Divi Theme and Divi Builder have been the easiest to implement with some of the best developer features on the market. Their pricing is extremely affordable for what you are investing and the 3rd party support for the product is pretty amazing. They also have tons of thorough how-to videos and support documentation so you can usually figure out how to do what you need to.

Cons

Speed, speed, speed. Divi definitely does not offer a fast loading site unless you have perfect hosting conditions and have studied site speed optimization using trial and error to figure out what works best. There are also some features missing that I commonly need on website builds but I have to implore a 3rd party plugin or special CSS code to implement. So when Elegant themes is working on fancy bells and whistles that typically slow the builder down, it's frustrating that some more commonly used tools require special workarounds.

Alternatives Considered

Wix and Elementor

Reasons for Choosing Divi

Wix is a decent product for beginners but gets pricey if you need more advance features but the primary reason I switched is because it is difficult to resell the Wix product to your client and you have little control over site speed and SEO outcome.

Switched From

Wix

Reasons for Switching to Divi

Ease of implementation and use are the primary draw to Divi Theme.

Pros

It scared me at first. I am not a programmer and so I had serious difficulty figuring out which end of the DIVI ball was up.
Thanks to video tutorials and posts from DIVI itself, I was able to untangle Sections, Menus, Modules and lines of code.
The thing that I have particularly appreciated is the quality of the World Team that is present at any time of day or night.

Cons

Guys, I won't hide the fact that you should simplify the parameters section.

No matter how much goodwill one puts into it, sometimes the configuration menus are only understood by the person who made it.

I know the programmers well.
They don't see beyond their noses.
But if someone comes from outside and tells them that beyond their nose there are millions of customers who can't work with that little gem of his, then the intelligent programmer questions himself and changes the dress of his creature

So my dear programmers, make the configuration panels so simple that even a child can understand them.

Alternatives Considered

Elementor

Reasons for Switching to Divi

In these years of use I have discovered that basic functions in DIVI had not been contemplated, and even the support staff found it difficult to fulfill these requests many times because the platform did not provide what I was asking for. Other solutions instead presented that functionality. For my future projects, I think I'm not going to start with DIVI, but with ELEMENTOR, because I don't want to spend weeks interacting with DIVI's support staff in order to patch basic functions that should be native in DIVI. Although I write this, I do not mean to say that DIVI is not a good product. Every product may be good for one project and not for another. You just have to recognize it and adjust accordingly

Pros

I am Not a Coder and was not sure what Page Builders to use. Google Search led me to Divi and I looked at YouTube Videos of Divi and thought of using it. Initially I was not a Licensed Buyer, but once i got a knack of it, i felt I need to invest on this and went ahead.

The Only challene sometime I face is this.

When I am using a Divi Row and any Module within that row. Sometimes the settings of the rows and the Module overlap with each other which is annoying. So If I am trying to reach for a Row setting I hit a column and vice versa. Divi Please fix this one small issue.

Cons

Mentioned above. One small minor issue, but I am hoping that Divi will fix it.

Alternatives Considered

Elementor

Reasons for Switching to Divi

1. Lifetime Deal sounded a great Opportunity 2. Community of Experts who can help me. 3. Support Turnover time is Phenomenal (You guys dont sleep or what?) I always get it within an hour or two and sometimes much faster than that too. 4. Templates and Plethora of Integrations 5. WooCommerce Support and the list goes on. It will be way too big in my compilation.

Pros

Most theme builders I've used are bulky, boxy. Divi, let's you build on the front end allowing you to see the changes in real time. It's just a very smooth process. You can use the Divi Theme to create just about anything you want without the need for other plugins. It doesn't completely eliminate the need for them. But, unless you're building a store. You can build a very elaborate site using only the builder.

Cons

It's really hard to name any cons that aren't nitpicking. I guess the main thing is in their theme templates. There are plenty to use. I often load a template as starting point and then just customize it from there. However, I would love to some over the top templates with more motion. Divi is capable of so much and it would be great to some templates design that have more of a 'wow' factor. The have created templates for almost any business model from profession to quirky. But I feel they need more quirky fun and 'wow' type themes. That being said, Divi is so popular you can find third party templates and plugins that are just as top notch.

Alternatives Considered

Elementor

Reasons for Switching to Divi

I chose DIvi because it just worked the best with the way I like to build. And, their support has grown. I've had all kinds of issues over the years. Most of them have been due to my lack knowledge on some things. I can leave a chat message with support and someone will get back to me usually with in a few hours. Sometimes it's the next day. 90% of the time it's something I've overlooked and the issue has been resolved quickly. There's just this feeling of knowing that if I can't figure it out, I can ask them and they are always there to help me. It's like having a design specialists at your fingertips. Because having a second pair eyes is so important. And I would be remiss if I didn't mention the community. So many helpful people, plugin developers and more. There just so much help out there. You're never alone.

Pros

I love the ability to save a page, section, or layout, export it and use it all over the website, or export it to other websites and save A LOT of time. The builder is extremely intuitive, and there are a lot of online videos that help you in every situation. I just can't be more thankful to Divi, they are the core of my business.

Cons

Mega menus are very difficult to achieve in Divi.

Alternatives Considered

Elementor

Reasons for Choosing Divi

Elementor has very bad optimization scores, and Divi lets you work faster and save time. Avada is just too complex, and it's very bad for optimization.

Switched From

Elementor

Reasons for Switching to Divi

It lets you save a lot of time when building websites, and it's so much easier to use. You can create very professional websites with Divi, for big companies or big e-commerce stores, with better optimization scores than other builders.

Pros

Easy to use for a graphic designer, visual builder is great, maybe sometimes a little bit slow and refreshing during my work. Presets and styles are awesome. I had to spend a little bit of time to really implement it correctly, but once done, it smoothes work immensely. It's great when you have cohesive website layouts and then presets can function as classes. Nice. I love DIVI library and Theme builder - it allows me to do really incredible things with some additional code.

Cons

I would greatly appreciate even more native functions that would allow me to resign from additional plugins. It's always painful for the website's speed. Also, I would love to see a little bit more customization in the menu module. A timer for evergreen products - oh, that would be a good one. And of course... the blog. More blog layouts would be a dream, as I can see that clients are slowly getting tired of social media and want to create content for their websites. Also I'm looking forward to see the possibility of defining one's own breakpoints or even adding more breakpoints to the design. As of now, we have three possible breakpoints, but with a very wide range of screen dimensions it would be nice to have a bigger screen included (1920 px +) and for sure - tablet horizontal view and small screens in general. It is always painful to customize menu, images, fonts to fit this area somewhere between 1200 px and 980 px. I still have some issues when customizing WooCommerce with DIVI. Some things still need to be coded manually.Since I purchased WP rocket, it's easy to speed up DIVI, but it would be great to speed it up just a little more.

Alternatives Considered

Elementor

Reasons for Choosing Divi

I was limited by the themes' options and couldn't implement my own designs. The only option was to code the whole layout manually. Not my favourite option :D

Reasons for Switching to Divi

Somebody recommended DIVI, it seemed very OK, so I didn't dwell on it ;)

Pros

Overall, I really dig the Divi theme and page builder. It has nearly every feature you can imagine. It's also pretty intuitive, especially compared to other builders I've used.If you need to do something that's not built in, every module has a custom CSS area. Divi's parent company, Elegant Themes, offers loads of tutorials as well. And if you still can't make it work, the Divi support team is really helpful and can nearly always help you find a way to achieve what you are trying to do. Seriously, their support is one of the best I've encountered in the I/T industry.There are also lots of loyal Divi users out there. So if you can't find the documentation you're looking for on the Divi site, there are a ton of resources out there created by Divi users and experts.

Cons

As with any software, there are a few things that present problems.When adding CSS in the main Custom CSS area, the page won't always stay focused where I am typing and jumps to a higher place in the CSS code.Elegant Themes makes a theme called Extra, which includes the Divi Builder. Extra is specifically geared toward online magazines, newspapers, and the like. But, they aren't well integrated. You can use Extra's Category Builder (which is how you make the pages that showcase your articles) or you can use the Divi builder. It's tough to use them together.

Alternatives Considered

Elementor

Reasons for Choosing Divi

I was looking for something my clients could more easily engage with, but that would still have all the features they desired.

Switched From

Drupal, JoomlaLMS and WordPress

Reasons for Switching to Divi

They had good documentation and it seemed like it would be able to make sites with all the features my clients usually wanted.

Pros

The Divi visual editor makes it easy to build WordPress websites that are intuitive for clients to edit. The Divi Theme Builder is extremely powerful and enables great

Cons

I have been using Divi for the last 5 years and continue to be impressed with their continuous improvement. Divi has managed to reverse most of what I would have labeled as disadvantages 5 years ago to advantages today. Divi continues to release important features/customizations,release speed and performance enhancements, form key industry partnerships and has significantly improved their support. Portability between themes is the only disadvantage remaining. However, once you go with Divi, would you really ever want to change?

Pros

Definitely the support! The Divi's team are always kind and helpful. Moreover, the time of response is not so long. I like also liek the most option "the LIFETIME ACCESS" It was very important for mu during the purchase.

Cons

I also work with Elementor, and I have a comparisson. Unfortnately the Divi has not so many options like Elementor ( of course you can add by some code CSS or Java but it will be great if you add some simple options) For example: 1) put the buttons side by side or 2) center the text in columns, 3) or more option to choose how the icon f shopping cart in menu can look likes , more customizible design of displaying a count of things in shopping cart 4) why you don't have the option in picture module, when I have diffrent picture in hover effect, to set up the trans duration?

Alternatives Considered

Elementor

Reasons for Switching to Divi

When I was wondering about purchasing a Divi or Elementor, despite od technical thing, the costs was very important for me. The Divi is a little bit cheaper, and what is the most important, Divi has the the LIFETIME ACCESS and SUPPORT!

Pros

I have been using this product for over 4 years and I must say.. it has been a minute since i have been disappointed with a feature release. As in I cant recall when I was sad about it. Excellent support, feature rich, and cuts down the average website build from months to weeks... sometimes days (depending on how basic requirements are needed)

Cons

It used to be clunky and slow, but with the proper understanding of image sizing and extra TLC i really have nothing bad to say

Alternatives Considered

Elementor

Reasons for Choosing Divi

tired of clunky builders that rejected custom code often, or just operated poorly

Reasons for Switching to Divi

Elementor was okay, but with Divi bringing out new features and only perfecting their product more as well as support staff... it was a easy decision

Pros

Of all the website builders i have seen Divi is the best.There are a lot of high quality templates, and you can not get that value for money anywhere else.

Cons

Sometimes it is hard to capture the modules and edit them

Alternatives Considered

WordPress

Reasons for Choosing Divi

I did not have the freedom, and it was so expensive, now i can host my own site and create all the webpages and landingpages i need.

Switched From

Wix

Reasons for Switching to Divi

Divi is so amazing, you can create the most beautifull webpages with the product.

Pros

Well, sheesh, where to start!

Basically everything is a pro about Divi, and with a bazillion different plugins and such you can do stuff with Divi that other webdesigners can only dream of. I've been using Divi for over 10 years, and I've never regretted buying that lifetime license. It's so easy to use, and probably the best part is the support - when you need help you can literally live chat with the support team, and they'll actually help fix stuff on your site! This has been a lifesaver more times than I can count. In fact, the reason I'm here writing this is I just got off a chat with support where they fixed a problem in less than an hour that I had been stuck on for two weeks. Anyways, you get the idea. They are so helpful, and the product is so good, affordable, and modern. What else is there to say?

Cons

None, really. Except that it takes them awhile to implement new features from when they are requested. But seriously, nobody is fast with implementing extra/new requested features, so, that's no surprise.

Pros

Divi is amazingly elegant and fluid when it comes to building sites, I feel it is the closest builder to the way Adobe InDesign functions. If you are a classically-trained designer, you will love Divi because there is great attention paid to typography and using global stying.

Cons

The one thing I have issues with is that the theme sometimes has performance issues on the back end, as it is pretty demanding of resources. Used with standard shared hosting like GoDaddy, you can use caching to make your sites fast on the front end, and Divi has recently added some performance improvements that definitely make a difference, but I have noticed that unless you have a fairly substantial hosting account, the builder is sometimes laggy. I have seen a HUGE difference in performance on the back end when using Cloudways, so I really think most of this is host-related.

Pros

the many templates that are available and the simple handling of the pagebuilder - perfect support!

Cons

The picture gallery could be a little better - more styles, and features...

Alternatives Considered

Elementor

Pros

Divi has a real lot of pro’s: it’s powerful, feature packed, has a great library of ready made templates with import / export capabilities, has a great customer service (YMMV but 9/10 has been helpful if not super helpful). Even a novice can get the basic stuff done easily in no time, but on the other hand an expert can benefit of very deep customisation features, ability to add custom code and many other advanced features. The best part is that, being widely used, on the web you can find myriads of tutorials, helpful websites, templates to download, forums and the like. This is of great help for the less experienced users since you can seek or ask for help and be reasonably sure to find an answer since the theme is so widely used.

Cons

Divi is very powerful and feature packed, and that might negatively affect builder and website speed on cheap/ low tier hostings. With a reputable one, however, you can tune your website to be very performant (using third party plugins and custom coding you can easily reach 90-100 in pagespeed scores).
Deep under the hood customisation might be difficult sometimes since it’s very large and convoluted