A better way to control and simplify the Divi 5 Builder experience
Divi 5 brings a huge amount of power and flexibility, especially for advanced users. The builder now includes more options, deeper controls, new terminology, and more advanced concepts than ever before. For experienced designers and developers, this is fantastic. For many clients, editors, and everyday users, it can be overwhelming.
Too many menus. Too many options. Too many things that look intimidating.
This is exactly what inspired Divi Builder Experience Helper.
This plugin was built to help you shape and simplify the Divi 5 builder experience so it matches the people using it, without taking away the power that makes Divi great in the first place.
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What Divi Builder Experience Helper Actually Does
Divi Builder Experience Helper lets you control which options are available, which settings are preconfigured by default, how you interact with the available options, what the builder looks like, and how focused and approachable Divi 5 feels when someone opens the builder. This allows you to simplify the builder for specific users, hiding options that many users do not need.
Advanced tools stay available for power users, while clients and editors get a cleaner, more focused workspace that feels less intimidating. This includes early support for light theming options, with more visual controls planned as the plugin evolves.
This is especially important in Divi 5, where the builder now includes more advanced concepts, deeper settings, and new terminology that can overwhelm non-technical users, even though those same features are valuable for power users.
The goal is not to remove functionality, but to control how much of Divi 5 is exposed to each user.
Create Experience-Based Setting Templates
All of these controls are managed through setting templates.
A setting template is a saved configuration that defines everything about how the Divi 5 builder behaves and looks for a user. This includes which interface elements are visible, which settings are defaults, how simplified the workspace is, and which experience level is appropriate for the person using it.
Instead of configuring the builder preferences over and over again, you create these templates once and reuse them wherever needed.
Set Defaults Once And Reuse Them On Each Site
Once you’ve created setting templates, you can reuse them across roles, users, and even sites. This eliminates the repetition that comes with configuring the Divi Builder experience again and again for each project or client.
The setting templates can be exported and imported, making it easy to reuse them across multiple sites, share them within a team, or include them as part of your standard project setup.
This is especially powerful for agencies and freelancers who want consistency without rebuilding everything from scratch.
Simple Role Or User Assignment
User and role management in Divi Builder Experience Helper is designed to be flexible and straightforward. You can assign a setting template to:
- A single role
- Multiple roles at once
- All roles
- Specific users, regardless of their role
Assigning a setting template to a user or users overrides any template assigned to their role. This makes it easy to handle real-world situations where a user needs an experience beyond what their role typically allows.
Please note that, although assigning a setting template to user roles is a core part of the plugin, it should not be mistaken for a user role editor. While it does include role-based controls, that is only one part of a much bigger picture, and takes an entirely different approach, focusing on the overall experience rather than just limited capabilities.
Great For Divi 5 Handoff To Clients, Working With Teams, Or For Your Own Sanity
Divi Builder Experience Helper is great for building sites, but also shines after launch when sites move out of the builder’s hands and into the hands of clients, editors, and teams.
Agencies can standardize the Divi 5 experience across projects. Freelancers can reduce support requests. Teams can onboard users faster with an interface that feels intentional instead of overwhelming.
Divi still feels powerful. It just feels calmer.
Phase One Is The Foundation
Divi Builder Experience Helper launched on December 1, 2025, marking the beginning of phase one. This phase focuses on finalizing the plugin structure, role/user assignment, setting template creation, export/import, and high-level controls in the builder. You can already do a lot, and each update will bring more features and options!
Future phases will continue expanding what it means to customize and refine the Divi 5 builder experience, building on the foundation already in place. We have ideas and plans to introduce theming and more window behavior controls.
Learn More About Divi Builder Experience Helper
Customize and control the Divi Builder UI/UX with the Divi Builder Experience Plugin by showing or hiding interface elements, choosing default preferences, enabling or disabling features and options, and personalizing styles and text, all within configurable, reusable setting templates that can be assigned to any user or role, imported and exported between sites, and used to create a faster, simpler, and personalized Divi editing environment.
- Simplify The Divi 5 Builder For Clients And Non-Technical Users
- Personalize The Divi 5 Builder To Match Your Own Workflow
- Hide Any Module, Option, Setting, Or UI Element In The Divi 5 Builder
- Customize The Divi 5 Builder Interface For Specific Users And Roles
- Add Your Own Custom Help Videos And Written Guides Inside The Divi 5 Builder
- Customize The Divi 5 Builder Interface Colors And Styling
- Save, Export, And Reuse Your Favorite Divi 5 Builder Configurations
- Control Access To Modules, Settings, And Builder Features By User Or Role
This plugin is evolving rapidly, so let us know which feature to add next!
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