Family News
The month of July was very hot in Pennsylvania. To make it worse, we lost electricity and internet 5 different days due to some local grid issue. One of the times, I announced to the family that we were going for ice cream since there was nothing else to do. The next day, the electricity went off again, and immediately, Abrielle came running over, “Daddy, Daddy, we need to go for ice cream!”
We didn’t do much outside other than some evening walks and a few visits to local parks. The girls enjoyed turning on the hose and sprinkler and getting soaked while jumping on the trampoline! Thankfully, we ended up getting some rain after weeks of drought, but some of our family and friends in the area were missed and still dry.
One new thing we did several days this month was fill coolers with cold Gatorade and Body Armour and deliver them around to jobsites where family and friends were working outside in the heat, which was quite a fun break from regular work.
A highlight for the month was celebrating Abrielle’s fifth birthday with her best friends and their parents. Tashia always has a theme for each birthday, and Abrielle chose a camping theme for the decorations. Otherwise, this month was a bit uneventful.
Divi News
Elegant Themes released Divi version 4.26 on July 2nd with the new Divi Quick Sites feature, including AI website creation and hand-crafted starter sites. They also released version 4.26.1 with several key improvements and fixes. Then on July 17, they released version 4.27 with the new Divi Section AI, along with an option to use Unsplash stock images.
Divi 5
There were no Divi 5.0 Dev Beta versions released during July. To learn more about Divi 5, be sure to check our website for Divi 5 FAQs and submit your questions. We have been updating the page accordingly!
New Tutorials In July
We released a new Divi tutorial every week as usual for a total of 4 during the month of July. These are always written blog posts and YouTube videos.
Product News
Here is all the product news for this month!
Divi Search Helper Feature Update 2.1
One of the most practical plugins we offer is our Divi Search Helper, which adds all the missing features you need to give your users a great experience finding the content they want to see on your site.
This month, we announced a huge feature release, which includes:
- Support For Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) In Search Results
- Disable Input Field History
- Show Button To View All Results
- Link To Search Results Page With Enter Key
- Open Search Results Page In New Tab
- Option To Exclude Search Results Criteria Instead Of Include
- Enter Custom Text For Pagination Links
- Support For WooCommerce Catalog Visibility Options
Creating these features takes a lot of work, and we hope you enjoy using them! Don’t forget to leave a product review, which really helps us a lot! Please take a look at the video and blog post to see everything that is new.
Divi Assistant
I’m excited to share a huge update to our flagship utility plugin, Divi Assistant! This update brings the much requested settings-search feature, language translation support, options to disable the Divi Dashboard, Divi AI features like Divi Quick Sites, a new backend PHP code editor, and (13) important accessibility improvements. Please take a look at the video and blog post to see everything that is new.
New Divi Trail Guides!
Explore the world of Divi and WordPress with our new series of helpful guides! Our trail guides are like courses, arranged in a series of related blog posts and videos. Each trail guide contains a description of the destination you will reach, a progress bar, and a series of linked steps along the way. We are thrilled to have you join us on this adventure as we explore together! This will be an ongoing effort, with new tutorials coming to add content for new trail guides.
New Merch Store
That’s right, we now sell merch! I enjoy design and humor, and had a lot of fun creating these shirts. Let me know if you have ideas for new designs!
Behind The Scenes
We have been working hard to continue adding new features to all our plugins and make valuable improvements. We released a number of updates this month with fixes and new features. We are also continuing to focus a lot on Divi 5. There are still some major hurdles to cross, but we are doing our best. I greatly value your support during this time of extra expenses and a bit of stress. I continue to believe it is going to be amazing when it is all done, but the process is not simple. I’m also trying my best to plan valuable resources each week, and will be releasing new Divi Trial Guides soon.
I’m also working on a new member perk that I teased in the past. This will be the greatest of them all, in my opinion. Good things take time though, and I will keep you updated on the progress.
We onboarded new QA team members and a project manager to help the developers focus more on the actual work for our soon-to-be-released WP SiteLauncher product, so this delayed our official launch! We are on the last stretch now, and I believe we can soon announce this revolutionary collaboration tool to the WordPress world!
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