Divi 5‘s newest feature, Extend Attributes, is here, and it helps you make significant changes to your page design with just a few clicks.
Let’s explore what it is, how it works, and why it’s a must-have for Divi 5 users. Whether building a personal blog or managing a complex client website, this feature promises to streamline your process and elevate your designs.
Your design looks almost right, but something feels off. The spacing seems awkward. The proportions don’t work. You adjust margins and padding, but that nagging sense of imbalance remains. The missing piece might be the golden ratio.
This mathematical principle has guided great design for centuries. And, our eyes naturally prefer these specific ratios. Most designers skip the golden ratios or misapply them because of how hard it is to crack. However, with a page builder like Divi 5, you can apply perfect proportions without complex calculations.
If you’ve ever tried making your site look good on both phones and giant monitors, you’ve seen how spacing breaks, fonts shrink drastically or scale excessively, and elements either overwhelm or disappear. To fix all that, you end up writing a long list of media queries for one layout. That’s where clamp() can help.
It’s a CSS function that simplifies setting sizes. Instead of defining multiple values at fixed breakpoints, it lets you set a minimum, a preferred, and a maximum so that your elements scale fluidly as the screen changes. The best part is that they stay within your defined limits, so there are no layout inconsistencies.
In this post, we’ll explain how clamp() works, why it can often be more efficient than media queries, and how Divi 5 lets you use it without writing a single line of code!
Divi built its reputation as a friendly and innovative page builder that is affordable and accessible to millions. But like all lasting software, it faced the inevitable challenge of technical debt.
Other companies started fresh, unencumbered by years of legacy code, without committing to backward compatibility. They launched new builders that took full advantage of modern web technology from day one.
We chose a different path that honored our community and their investments. It took time (don’t we know it?) to rebuild Divi from scratch, but we made a firm commitment: every website built on Divi will keep working. There will be 100% backward compatibility, no exceptions.
With over a decade of experience in WordPress theme development and a dedicated, specialized team, we’re well-positioned to deliver new features quickly and consistently. Until now, much of our focus has been on rebuilding the foundation, but once Divi 5 is fully launched, we’re ready to lead innovation in the WordPress space once again.
Creating WordPress websites once meant hours of tedious work. You drew layouts with pen and paper, wrote every word from scratch, and tweaked countless settings just to get basic pages looking decent.
But then AI came and disrupted the industry. New AI-powered approaches cut design time without sacrificing creativity. You can now complete projects faster while controlling the final product.
So, let’s dive into how AI has changed WordPress web design, what areas it is improving, what challenges you need to be aware of, and, more importantly, how to maximize WordPress-specific AI tools like Divi AI (with the Divi Builder) to improve your workflow. Let’s go!