Family News
I have never been impressed by fireworks until this year. We heard about a local event that had the best fireworks, and went to check it out. It was 20 minutes of incredible fireworks synchronized to music. I had never seen anything like that, timed perfectly. They were set off over a wide view from about 9 different ignition points across the field, making it super immersive. I was very impressed. Overall, it’s been a very hot July here in Pennsylvania, but also lots of rain. Maybe I’m noticing it more, as I have been working outside this month, helping my cousins at their fruit farm. It’s a long story, but I worked there years ago, and am helping them and my uncle while my aunt struggled and ultimately died of cancer. It’s been a blessing being able to help, even though it made for long days away from my girls and lots of catching up with my normal work. Sumaira has been helping extra with product support in my absence, which made it possible. We celebrated Abrielle’s 6th birthday with ice cream, and then a special water-slide birthday party with her friends and their parents. It was a little crazy having 12 children from 1 to 7 years old in one house, but so much fun.Â
Divi News
There have not been any updates to Divi 4 in the past seven months.
Elegant Themes has released some significant updates to the Divi 5 Public Alpha. The new features this month are:
Previous new features include Custom Breakpoints, Option Group Presets, Advanced Units, Design Variables, Nested Rows, Module Groups, Attribute Management, Settings Search and Filtering, Extend Attributes, Interactions, Relative Colors, and Find And Replace.
To stay up to date with the latest Divi 5 news, especially on our own plugin development progress, visit our Divi 5 page, which will always have the most recent information.
Product News
Here is all the product news for this month!Â
Divi Plugins
In July, we continued working on converting our plugins to Divi 5. Most of them are now available for beta testing. We’d love to hear how it’s going! If you encounter any bugs, please report them using the new “Divi 5 Beta Test Bug Report” option in our main support form. We keep the files updated very often, so be sure to download fresh copies from the community when testing.Â
FYI: Make Divi Accessible With Divi Assistant
Accessibility is a hot topic lately, and this is a reminder that our Divi Assistant automatically fixes all known accessibility issues in Divi 4 AND Divi 5. It is very simple to use. You just enable the settings, and you’re done. No hassle with confusing settings and technical features like other plugins. Â
SurelyWP Addons For SureCart
We released several big updates to our popular Toolkit for SureCart addon, with features like Lead Magnets, Advanced FluentCRM Conditions, Dashboard Tabs Visibility, User Switching, Downloads Lists, and Product Visibility Overrides.Â
In the next few weeks, we will be releasing updates to each plugin with a fully revamped plugin settings interface! I’m excited to finally do that, as it needed some attention now that our company and products have matured and gained popularity. We hope you like it!
WP SiteLauncher
Things will get quiet for a few months as far as bigger feature updates for WP SiteLauncher, as we are rebuilding the backend APIs for some huge surprises. I can’t say everything yet, but there will be a new parent brand and new things coming related to the lifecycle of a WordPress site. In the future, we will have something helpful for every stage of a WordPress site, and it will affect every user. What I can say is that anyone who purchases a lifetime plan now will be grandfathered into much bigger things in the future 🙂
WP Inbox Connect
HUGE news for WP Inbox Connect! We have released TWO new inbox integrations, Outlook and Zoho Mail! We didn’t get a chance to write up a blog post yet, but you can test this now using outlook.com and zoho.com on the web with the existing WP Inbox Connect Chrome extension installed. Let me know what you think of this!Â
Behind The Scenes
New License Keys Access In Account
We understand that finding your license keys in your account area on our website can be challenging. Unfortunately, our system has limitations, but we are continually working to improve it with custom solutions. We have some great news! We developed a custom solution to make accessing your license keys much easier. It’s a major upgrade! Now, there is a “License Keys” tab in your account, and from there, you can click on a specific plugin name to manage the keys for that plugin.
Improved Account Speed
An amazing developer that consults with us on the license system found a way to dramatically improve the speed od the WooCommerce account area. We are so grateful for his work! We know that was a problem area, and now it seems much faster.
New Plugin User Interface
We are so excited about our new Pee-Aye Creative Divi plugin interface, which is gradually rolling out to all of our plugins. You can see this in our Divi Assistant Beta 5 version. We’ll post a blog post and video about it once we have it finalized, but I encourage you to check it out now and let me know your feedback. We will be migrating all backend settings from Divi Theme Options to our own settings interface, along with many additional helpful resources.Â
New License Key Activation Page
Along with the new plugin interface, there’s a new, convenient way to add your license keys to our plugins to activate them for updates and support. A new dynamic button also makes it easy to find and manage those keys in your account, saving you time and hassle. We hope you enjoy these improvements as we continue to make the onboarding and use of our products smoother and more intuitive. Â
Divi 5 Progress: ready To Beta Test!
CALLING ALL BETA TESTERS! We are pleased to announce that many of our plugins are available for beta testing with Divi 5! Please be sure to check the new “Divi 5 Compatibility” doc in each plugin documentation area. This is where we will continually update details and share the status and notes about that particular plugin.
Divi 5 Compatibility Guides:
- Divi Assistant
- Divi Contact Form Helper
- Divi Events Calendar
- Divi Taxonomy Helper
- Divi Social Sharing Buttons Maker
- Divi Dynamic Helper
- Divi Responsive Helper
- Divi Table Of Contents Maker
These all have a beta version available to test with Divi 5, but please check the notes in each plugin’s docs before testing. You can also check our dedicated Divi 5 page for general status updates and links to each of those individual plugin docs.
As I said before, we are still waiting on Elegant Themes for several key things before we can move forward with any official and final releases. We are expecting them to provide some way to mark plugins as Divi 4/Divi 5 compatible in their marketplace, but we have not heard anything about it so far. This is also holding us up from releasing our completed new plugin for Divi 5, which is sitting here completed. I’ll release it on our site this month and send out an email about it, so look for that soon!
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