Family News
April started with a simple party with family and friends to celebrate Reiah’s 1st birthday! She even started riding a balance bike like her sister! We found an incredible playground about 45 minute away and took Abrielle there. We also went to Abrielle’s best friends house for her 4th birthday. Our family and friends and my wife’s family attended a fundraiser concert with Aaron Shust and Joshua Aaron, two of our favorite musicians, so that was a big highlight for us (the photo is from that event). We also had friends over, played disc golf, and got a trampoline 🙂
Divi News
This month Divi released an update to version 4.21 that included several miscellaneous things. This included saving Thing Options to Divi Cloud, bulk layout upload for the Divi Library, and splitting layouts into sections.
Nick also shared a progress update on Divi 5.0 development. If you haven’t seen it yet, this is the new foundation for the future of Divi, and is very exciting. It will require extensive work for us, but we are embracing it for all the opportunities it will bring. At this time they are encouraging us to wait until the developer beta version to start plugin conversions, but we are able to play around with the alpha version, and it is very fast, although very limited in features at this point. We will keep you informed on this!
New Tutorials In April
We released a new Divi tutorial every week as usual for a total of 4 during the month of April. These are always written blog posts and YouTube videos.
Product News
Divi Taxonomy Helper Update 1.3
We have some great new features that will be very useful for anyone using the Taxonomies module in our Divi Taxonomy Helper plugin! Now you can choose to only show the current level of dynamic taxonomies, hide any taxonomy terms if there are no associated posts, and have an option to hide the module or show a custom message if there are no dynamic taxonomies available. Be sure to watch the video and read the blog post to see everything in action, and enjoy the new features!
We Are Moving Systems…Soon?
For the past few months we have been planning and preparing behind the scenes to switch everything on our website from WooCommerce to SureCart for ecommerce. We then ran into a huge obstacle related to a limitation with the SureCart license and update system, and it requires us to custom code the update system to integrate into their license system. Phew! Due to this, we are choosing not to release our two new plugins until we can start them off with SureCart only, rather than deal with the hassle of switching soon after launch. Eventually, this switch may require action on your part, but we don’t know yet, and we will try to minimize that as much as possible.
We are also switching to ThriveDesk for our support desk, but more on that later.
Product Beta Tester Signup
We have several other Divi and WordPress products in development planned to launch this year. If you signed up for product code named PACDA, you should have received an email last week with the plugin file to test. I already received some amazing and valuable feedback from some of you, so thank you!
Keep in mind we now have a permanent page on our website for beta testing signup. There you will see each product has its own signup form. You are welcome to sign up as a beta tester! We have a few FAQs and instructions on the page. Currently, there are (3) products needing input and/or testers.
Thanks for the updates. May I ask why you are switching from WooCommerce to SureCart? Are there issues with WooCommerce that we should be aware of?
I’ll explain everything later, it is because of my specific needs, not WooCommerce in general (my advanced setup with subscriptions, licensing, etc.)