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Divi Assistant Plugin Feature Update 1.3

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I'm excited to announce a new update to version 1.3 of our Divi Assistant plugin with many improvements and new features!

▶️ Please watch the video above to get all the exciting details! 👆

Divi Assistant plugin settings screenshot

Divi Assistant Settings Search Feature

As we continually add new settings and features, we’ve noticed that one of the most requested features is the ability to search within Divi Assistant to find the setting you need quickly. Implementing this feature was more challenging than it might seem, but we’re excited to announce that you can now search for settings within Divi Assistant! Simply click the search icon in the header to bring up the search bar. Enter any keyword, such as “hide,” and a list of all settings containing that keyword will appear. You can then click on any of the result cards to navigate directly to the relevant setting within Divi Assistant.

Screenshot of Divi Assistant user interface in Spanish.

Added Language Translation Support

This was a huge task! Everything that has text through our our settings had to be rewrittne to account for text strings to be used in different languages. Now when you change the Site Lanuage in WordPress General Settings, the language of the Divi Assistant interface will change accordiongly. Note this only works if your language is already supported. For this first release, we included Spanish as an example. We invite users of other languages to complete the translations by copying the English language files and translating them in a tool like Poedit or Loco Translate, and then share the file with us to be included in the next update for other to benefit.

Added Checkbox To Include Divi Assistant Settings In Export/Import

If you missed the huge 1.2 Divi Assistant version update, please be sure to check the blog post and video about that! We introduced a tremendously helpful feature to export and import not only the Divi Assistant settings, but also things like the Theme Options, Customizer settings, Theme builder templates, and more. 

We then realized it would make sense to have the Divi Assistant settings as an option rather than having them included by default. This allows you to export and import exactly what you want each time! 

Divi theme import and export settings dialog box
Divi Assistant dashboard interface with various settings highlighted.

Rearranged Settings And Added New Divi Upsells Subtab

When Divi released their new AI Quick Sites update, which included the new Divi Dashboard area, we knew we needed to add more features to Divi Assistant to help control what items are displayed. It made sense to me to organize the settings related to the extra Divi products like AI, Marketplace, and Cloud into their own settings tab. Now you can find settings related to those things in the Divi Upsells subtab.

Screenshot of Divi theme interface with red 'X' marks

Hide Divi Dashboard

Elegant Themes recently added a new Dashboard screen under the Divi menu, which appears by default when you click the Divi menu. This screen includes helpful prompts and upsells, but you may prefer not to use it or have your clients access it. With Divi Assistant, we now offer various features to hide upsells, and are pleased to also provide this related option to completely hide the Dashboard. By enabling this setting, you can remove the Divi Dashboard menu item from the Divi menu entirely.

Colorful grid of Divi platform feature advertisements

Hide All Upsells In The Divi Dashboard

Over the years, Elegant Themes has created a robust ecosystem of optional products designed to enhance your Divi website-building experience. These products include Premade Layouts, Divi Cloud, Divi AI, Divi Teams, and the Divi Marketplace. All these tools are displayed on the Divi Dashboard screen for you you to consider using. However, you may have various reasons for wanting to hide these features, especially from clients. Since Divi does not offer a native option to manage this, we have added this option in Divi Assistant to completely hide the Divi upsells section from the Divi Dashboard screen.

Screenshot of Divi WordPress theme management dashboard

Disable Divi Quick Sites

Elegant Themes recently released a new “Divi Quick Sites” feature. This is related to the Divi AI feature, so now that you can disable each Divi AI feature independently, this means you can disable this Divi Quick Sites card from showing in the Divi Dashboard.

Web interface showing options to disable Divi AI features

Disable Each Divi AI Feature Independently

In the past, we had a setting to completely Disable the Divi AI feature. This worked great, but some customers asked if there was a way to disable each of the Divi AI features individually, like if they were okay with the Text AI but didn’t want the Image AI for example. This was not easy to achieve, but after much work we have changed the existing setting to a series of settings for each feature. 

Please note, if you had the previous “Disable Divi AI” feature enabled, it will be reset when you update to version 1.3 and you will need to enable each of the new settings. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it was unavoidable.

Screenshot of Divi Assistant PHP Code Editor interface

Added PHP Code Editor In The Backend In The Code Helper Tab

Many situations require you to modify the core structure of your Divi website or add some additional functionality. Many tutorials on our blog and other WordPress functions require pasting PHP code into your website, but unfortunately, there is no option in Divi to paste the snippet or extend the theme with PHP code.

We have solved this issue by creating two new convenient ways to add PHP code to your Divi website. The first is with our custom code editor window in the Divi Visual Builder, and the second is with our custom PHP code editor located in the Code Helper tab. Any code added here will sync with the code added in our Visual Builder code editor, the only difference is where it is accessed.

Improved Accessibility Features

We have been hard at work adding more and more missing accessibility features to Divi. Our last update included many new features, and this update also has quite a number of files and new features, and more are coming in future updates. Here are the improvements in this update:

  • Added Feature To Set The User Scalable Value For Pinch And Zoom On Mobile
Browser setting interface with Maximum Scale option highlighted
  • Added Feature To Set The User Scalable Value For Pinch And Zoom On Mobile
  • Fixed An Issue With The Accessibility Helper Focus Outlines Not Showing On The Accordion Module
  • Fixed An Issue With The Accessibility Helper Focus Outlines Not Showing For Menus With Multiple Levels Of Submenus
  • Fixed The Setting To Exclude Underlines In Headings With Links For The Fullwidth Slider
  • Fixed Underlines Showing In Footer Social Icons
  • Fixed Underlines Showing On Slider Navigation Arrows
  • Fixed Tab Order Related To Accordion Modules
  • Fixed An Issue Excluding Underlines In Heading Links
  • Fixed An Issue With The Focus Outline Not Showing Unless Skip Navigation Link Was Enabled
  • Added Missing Labels To The Contact Form Module
  • Added Missing Labels And ARIA Attributes To The Comments Module
  • Added Missing Labels And Descriptions To The Email Optin Module

New Video And Blog Post!

We recently published a video and blog post about improving accessibility in Divi, so be sure to check that out!

Man presenting guide on enhancing Divi theme accessibility.
Graphic showcasing Divi Assistant features and toolset.

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