What Is The Theme Builder
The Divi Theme Builder is a revolutionary tool that allows you to build and customize every area of your website, beyond just standard pages. While this concept was originally introduced in Divi 4.0, Divi 5 has completely elevated the Theme Builder experience.
With Divi 5’s completely rebuilt Visual Builder, editing your templates is vastly faster, more seamless, and highly integrated. For example, Divi 5 introduces editable Theme Builder areas directly within the builder, giving you a much more accurate view of your overall site design. Additionally, the new Visual Builder Page Bar now clearly displays the specific template name and layout type you are currently working on, so you never lose track of your workspace.
We build our templates using these modern practices, so naturally, we take full advantage of the Theme Builder. The cool part is that it allows you to use the familiar, lightning-fast Divi 5 Builder on global areas of your site like the header and footer, as well as to make dynamic templates for blog posts, categories, projects, and so much more!
How To Edit The Templates
The templates are found in the Divi Theme Builder. So all you have to do is go to your WordPress DashBoard to Divi>Theme Builder. There you will see the templates included with the theme. Below is an example image using the Divi Mowing child theme:
From here you can edit the Divi layout of any of the templates. To edit them, simply click on the little pencil icon on the left side of each template. This opens up the familiar Divi Builder. Have fun!
As of Divi version 4.12, you can now access and edit the Divi Theme Builder templates from the frontend.
In Divi 5, this frontend editing experience is even more integrated. Divi 5 introduces editable theme builder areas directly within the builder. Additionally, the Divi 5 Visual Builder features a Page Bar that clearly displays the specific template name and layout type you are currently editing, so you never lose track of which template you are working on
Divi Theme Builder Course
If you are new to Divi or are not famiar with the Divi Theme Builder yet, then you may be interested in our helpful Divi Theme Builder Course!
Keep Learning: Courses & Trail Guides!
If you are new to Divi or are not familiar with the Divi Theme Builder yet, then you may be interested in our helpful Divi Theme Builder Course!
Or, if you want to see exactly how we use these Theme Builder templates in the real world, I’d love for you to come along with me in our free Building A Website With Divi 5 Trail Guide. In this series, I build a real website step-by-step from scratch. My goal is to show you a practical, real-world workflow and help you feel more confident with Divi 5 every step of the way!
Grab your gear and join us on the trail!
