Today is a day many of us have been waiting for. Today we learned of the release of Divi 4.0, including the brand new Divi Theme Builder. Theme Builder takes the power of Divi Builder and extends it to all areas of the Divi theme, allowing you to create headers, footers, category pages, product templates, blog posting, 404 pages, etc. The Theme Builder brings together some of Divi's most important features, such as dynamic content and modules WooCommerce, along with the amazing design power of the builder itself to give you ultimate control over your entire website.
Introducing the Divi Themes Builder
Divi Theme Builder is a complete website template system that allows you to use Divi Builder to structure your website and modify any part of the Divi theme including headers, footers, templates publication, category templates, etc. Each theme builder template includes a custom header, footer, and body layout. These three areas can be created and customized using Divi Builder and its full set of modules, as well as dynamic content.
Nothing is off limits
When you create a new theme builder template, this custom design can be assigned to specific parts of your website. For example, you can create a template assigned to blog posts and use it to create a new structure and a new design for your blog. Once the template is assigned, every blog post on your website will be updated. You can create a new theme builder template and assign it to your category pages to create a custom blog feed, or create a website template global updating your website header and footer. There are tons of new possibilities.
Finely tuned control
Theme Builder templates can be used to customize each part of your website by assigning or excluding each template from different locations. Using assignments and exclusions gives you fine control over the design of your website. You can target large areas of your website, such as entire post types and archives, or specific locations, such as posts, pages, and categories. Each can have their own custom header, footer, and body layout.
Importing and exporting theme creation packs
Theme Builder templates can also be imported and exported, including all header, footer, and body layouts. Theme Builder exports are essentially “website packs”. Think of them as the Divi layout packs, except for the overall structure of your website instead of individual page designs. Theme Builder packs remove the need for child themes and allow you to create pre-built theme templates that can be used on any website.
Design each part of your website
Using the theme builder, you can create custom headers and footers for any part of your website. You are no longer limited to the standard Divi header, but full control over your website header using the Divi Builder and its many modules. This update also brings improvements to the Divi menu module, giving you more presentation options, more control over its elements and, of course, full control over its design. You can create a global website header that affects your entire website. You can also create custom headers and footers for each individual element of your website. Check out some custom headers we've created to inspire you!
Site-wide publication and product models
The theme builder also lets you create custom body templates that change the default structure of your posts, products, or any other type of post on your website. Instead of editing each post and product individually, you can use the Theme Builder to create a template for the entire site. Dynamic content can be assigned to Divi modules in these templates to showcase current post information such as its title, content, and featured image anywhere in your custom design. You can also use Modules WooCommerce of Divi to create fully customized product templates. Edit them once and see your entire site change instantly.
Custom category pages
Theme builder can also be used to create custom index page designs, including custom category feeds. You now have complete control over the category designs of your website and you can use the Divi blog module and its many design settings to customize these post feeds. The blog module also comes with some upgrades, including new post-filtering and post-filtering options that give you even more control over your category templates.
… And everything else too!
You can do more than just create category templates and publish templates with the Theme Builder. You can create custom templates for absolutely anything. Search results, archives, tags, home pages, 404 pages and more. By using conditional logic, multiple parts of your website can be included or excluded from each theme builder template. You have complete control. The beauty of the theme generator is that you don't have to use the basic structure of the Divi theme, but you can create it yourself.
The increased power of dynamic content
Divi Theme Builder is not only a powerful tool in itself, it also increases some of the most important features of Divi. When modifying Theme Builder templates, Divi's dynamic content feature takes on a whole new meaning. Dynamic content allows site-wide theme builder templates to work, dynamically extracting content from a post and applying it to the template you assigned to that post type. As dynamic content can be used inside the content areas of any module, you are free to use the full set of Divi modules to design your publication templates.
For example, you can create a blog post template and use the Full Width Header module at the top of the post. The article title can be used as dynamic content in the module title and the selected article image can be used as the module background. Once this theme generator template is applied to your blog posts, all of your posts would assume this new structure and the post content would be displayed automatically!
The usefulness of dynamic content goes beyond publication models. You can use dynamic content to display your website title or logo in a header template, to display a category title on a category page, etc. When you create a dynamic theme generator template, it works!
WooCommerce modules have also been redesigned
When used in a Theme Builder template, modules WooCommerce take on a whole new meaning. Instead of designing your product pages one by one, you can now create a product template for the entire site. A single product template controls the design of all your product pages at once!
When you create a site-wide product template using the Theme Builder, there is no need to customize your individual product pages. Simply enter the product information, such as its price, description, and images, into the appropriate WooCommerce entries and your product template will be automatically populated.
When paired with Global Defaults, Divi Theme Builder creates the perfect combination of site-wide design editing and site-wide template structuring. Using the theme builder, you can customize your website structure all at once. When editing Theme Builder templates, you can also go to the Global Defaults editor to customize your website design as well. It is amazing how effective website building becomes when you take full advantage of these two features.
A new era of Divi websites has begun!
Divi 4.0 is a monumental change for Divi. Divi Builder is thus freed from post-content design and extends its functionality to your entire website using a brand new Theme Builder interface, which we believe to be the best in the business. Divi isn't just a page builder anymore, it's a theme builder, and we can't wait to see all the amazing new websites you build with.
