I’m back with another Divi 5 progress update. I am happy to report that we completed all the features slated for the Public Alpha release. Before getting this initial version into your hands, the final step is to perform one more round of testing and bug fixing. We will polish things up and release the Public Alpha with my next update.
It will be an alpha, and there will undoubtedly be many bugs at first, but we want to reduce as much noise as possible so that you can effectively test the alpha without running into problems at every turn.
In the meantime, swing by the demo to check out the latest version of Divi 5, including all the updates I’ll cover in this post.
Get all the details in the video below.
What We Accomplished
This month, we got a lot done, filling in the missing features needed to make the Public Alpha broadly usable. We finished important front-end rendering components like Dynamic Assets and Critical CSS. In Divi 5, we improved Dynamic Assets by further abstracting each module’s JavaScript, significantly reducing page size and the amount of usability-blocking scripts that negatively affect PageSpeed scores.
We finalized the Theme Builder, bringing in the new Visual Builder interface. We wrapped up Responsive Content, allowing you to display different content on different breakpoints. We added Visual Builder history and undo/redo functionality. We finished the Divi 5 Readiness system and the site-wide conversion mechanism to migrate your Divi 4 shortcodes to the new Divi 5 format. We also implemented Divi’s Dynamic Content system into its full suite of modules.
We also began our new bug-fixing mission and fixed 65 bugs.
What’s Left To Finish?
At this point, Divi 5 includes almost all of Divi 4’s most important features. The remaining features are mostly related to UI and UX and are some of Divi’s lesser-used features. These include Find & Replace, Extend Styles, Quick Actions, Split Testing, and a few others.
We will fill in all of these features during the Public Alpha, but you’ll get to test and use Divi 5 in the meantime. I’ll discuss this in more detail in my next update when the Public Alpha is available.
Introducing Divi Dash
In other news, we are super excited to have recently released Divi Dash, a WordPress site manager included for free with your Divi membership.
Divi Dash empowers you to manage all your WordPress websites in one place. You can manage updates, themes, plugins, and users and log in to any website with a single click. It’s a great value add to your membership, and we hope you find it useful.
Log in to your account and visit the Dash tab to try it. Let us know what you think!
Stay Tuned For More Updates
That’s all of this month’s Divi 5 update. It’s been a long road, and waiting so long has been understandably challenging, but we are making steady progress, and I am excited to be soon entering the phase of public testing.
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