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How To Make A Tabbed Divi Blog Grid By Category

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In this tutorial I will show you how to make a tabbed Divi blog grid to quickly sort and filter posts by category.

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

1. Add And Design Your Divi Blog Module

The first step is something you may already have completed if you have an existing blog archive page on your site. If so, you can proceed to step 2. If you do not have a blog archive page set up yet, you can go ahead and add a Divi blog module to your page and design it however you want. This step is all about getting the design how you want it BEFORE we duplicate it, which you will learn more about later, so take your time and get it perfect. I recommend setting the Blog module to the Grid layout in the Blog module settings>Design tab>Layout toggle.

Be sure to check out all the tutorials in our Divi Blog module series!

2. Select One Specific Category In Your Divi Blog Module

For this tutorial, we will be duplicating the Divi Blog module that you added in step #1 an equal number of times to the number of tabs or categories that you want to show. For the tutorial, we will use 4 tabs/categories as the example. 

For this step, click the “duplicate” icon on the Divi blog module several times. Each of these will continue to have the exact same design, but with one important setting change.

In the first module, select the checkbox for your first blog category as shown.

select a cateogry in the Divi Blog module to show in each tab

Now open the second Blog module and select the checkbox for your second blog category. Repeat this step for as many categories as you intend to show in tabs.

3. Save Each Blog Module To The Divi Library

When you are completely finished adjusting the design and settings of your multiple Divi Blog modules, the next step is to save each one to the Divi Library. Click on the “down” icon that says “Save Module To Library.”

save the blog module to the Divi Library

Give the module a name that matches the name of the category selected in that module, which will make it easy to reference later.

give a name for each cateogry of blog module saved to the Divi Library

Now open the second Blog module and select the checkbox for your second blog category. Repeat this step for as many categories as you intend to show in tabs.

4. Add A Tabs Module

Now you can actually remove all the Divi Blog modules from the page, and replace them with a single Divi Tabs module. In the next step, we will add the Blog modules into each tab. But for this step, focus on the tabs. Take some time and get them set up and styled however you want.

NOTE: Most likely you will find the default Divi Tabs module very limited, so if you want to add hundreds of new functionality and design settings, check out our Divi Tabs Maker module.

add the shortcode to the Divi tab content area to show the blog posts by category

Paid (But Super Simple) Method

If you own one of our plugins, either the Divi Tabs Maker mentioned above, or our Divi Dynamic Helper, you can make things so much easier and just use dynamic content! This feature is available in both plugins and will work very similary!

Divi Dynamic Helper Generic

First, go to the content area of the tab and click the dynamic content icon in the top right corner. 

click the dynamic content icon to add the blog modules to the tab content area

This opens up a window with all the dynamic content options, but most importantly is a new custom section of options which is added by our plugins. Here is a heading called Divi Library and any of the items that are added to it.  Simply select the blog module, and it will now display it inside this tab!

select the blog modules saved in the Divi Library using dyanamic content in the tab module
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  1. Simon <span class="comment-author-role-label"><a href="https://www.peeayecreative.com/product/divi-adventure-club/" class="comment-author-role-link" rel="external nofollow" target="_blank">Divi Adventure Club Member</a></span>

    I love your videos and thank you so much for spending time creating them. I am trying to create a blog on my site and have watched the video and read the post through many times.
    I created my layout and saved the 3 blog modules to the layout library.
    I created the tabs and added the 3 different shortcodes. However each of my three tabs shows the same categories.
    Does this plugin no longer work? or what could I have done wrong.
    Each tab has a different shortcode reference as per your intructions.
    I have tried 4 times each time starting from scratch and still the same result.

    Reply
    • Hemant Gaba <span class="comment-author-role-label"><a href="https://www.peeayecreative.com/product/divi-adventure-club/" class="comment-author-role-link" rel="external nofollow" target="_blank">Divi Adventure Club Member</a></span>

      Hi Simon!

      I have tested the customization again and everything seems fine to us. Please make sure to select the category before saving it to the layout and make sure to use the latest version of the plugin.

      If the issue persists, share the URL of the page.

      Reply

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  1. Ben

    Thanks for the tutorial. Unfortunatly it does not work on my site. You can take a look here: http://archemed.org.dedi5471.your-server.de/projekte/

    I did all the steps in the tutorial. But it only loads the same random posts, not the right categories. I also tried to replace ” with ‘ – does not work better. Do you have any idea? Maybe a new Divi or WordPress-Update?

    Thanks
    Ben

    Reply
    • Hemant Gaba <span class="comment-author-role-label"><a href="https://www.peeayecreative.com/product/divi-adventure-club/" class="comment-author-role-link" rel="external nofollow" target="_blank">Divi Adventure Club Member</a></span>

      Hi Ben!

      I have checked and posts are displaying by categories fine at my end. Can you please clear the cache and check again?

      Reply
  2. Rubén Gil Uceda

    Hi all,

    The Buzás János’ solution works for me too! Thanks for the tip 🙂

    I just replace de symbol ” for the symbol ‘ inside the shortcode, where the ID number is.

    Best for all and thanks to the Pee-Aye team,
    Rubén, from Lima (Perú)

    Reply
  3. Buzás János

    Hi, I did everything as you described, but it does not work properly.
    Only the same category appears on each tab. Everything is set up well. I tried 3 times already

    Reply
      • Buzás János

        Dear friend, I found the error in the meantime…
        I replaced these sins: ” with this: ‘

        And now everything works fine!

        Thanks, for your brilliant tutorials!

  4. Daniel Brown

    Hi, I got everything to work to show the blog posts inside the tab module, except when I click “view older posts”, the module seems to time out. Any suggestions?

    Reply
    • Hemant Gaba <span class="comment-author-role-label"><a href="https://www.peeayecreative.com/product/divi-adventure-club/" class="comment-author-role-link" rel="external nofollow" target="_blank">Divi Adventure Club Member</a></span>

      Hi Daniel!

      Can you please share the URL of the page to investigate further?

      Reply
  5. Joseph

    thank you!
    I’ve been looking for a solution for this. but the problem i keep running into is that if my client ever adds a new category, it won’t work unless we make a new module in the library and add a new tab.
    any solutions?

    Reply
    • Nelson Lee Miller (aka The Divi Teacher) <span class="comment-author-role-label author-label">Author</span>

      What you described is exactly what this tutorial shows you how to do, so that is the solution. There would definitely be no way to do automatically what is done in this tutorial.

      Reply
  6. Neil

    Love it 😁 Thanks again for all of your tutorials. I refer to them often

    Reply

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