I think that we all agree that Divi is one of the best and easiest to manage themes on WordPress. No wonder it’s the most widely-used premium WordPress theme in the world according to stats from BuiltWith.com.
Divi is more than just a theme, it’s a website building framework that allows you to build and design beautiful websites without ever touching a single line of code and without installing and configuring dozens of disjointed plugins. Even an amazing theme like Divi can be improved with plugins – and thanks to its large user base, there are plenty, making this drag-and-drop builder even easier and more convenient to use.
Now let’s have a look at the most popular plugins that can help you extend its functionality:
The Divi Toolbox plugin
This plugin is one of the best Divi plugins that you can use to customize your theme, allowing users to make numerous customizations to their website. You don’t need any coding abilities to use this plugin, allowing you to add amazing effects to your website without having to write a single line of code. It’s so simple to use that you’re not even required to learn Javascript, CSS or PHP. With a few simple clicks, you can make changes to the website’s overall aesthetics and appearance.
The Divi Toolbox plugin allows you to modify the size of your logo to fit your brand or to even create a custom drop-down menu for mobile devices or even a slide-in mobile menu to make navigating your website from smaller screens a pleasing experience. Divi Toolbox is a premium plugin with the Regular license starting at 49 euros.
Another essential plugin is the Fullwidth Header Extended
This plugin is ideal if you are looking to impress your website’s visitors with dynamic text effects, background animations, image effects, and more. The plugin comes with five title text effects built in which include purely typing, rotator, textillate, TextGIF and shuffle effects.
You can also create a unique effect combination to bring your title to life. This module also features the latest background gradient, animated gradient effect, and particles effect that lets you animate your page’s background. Your imagination is the only limit when it comes to this plugin, as it has over 49 animations which you can use on your site’s content, you can apply effects to your titles, buttons, content, subheaders and scroll down button.
Divi Overlays
Divi overlays is a very powerful and crucial plugin that gives users the ability to create a whole new look for their websites using the Divi Builder. Coding your website can be a laborious job, involving hours of work, but using Divi Overlays, you can quickly create a beautiful full-screen website, with overlays, popups, and other modules.
All of this is available for you to use out of the box, an overlay is a great way to showcase your page’s additional content without taking up too much of its valuable space, which also gets rid of the need to wait for the page to finish loading.
Using this extension, you can create unlimited overlays, and then you can just trigger them with just about anything on your page. You can add in any of the standard modules from the Divi Builder, form images to maps, buttons, tabs, and many more.
The Divi Overlays plugin is available in four different versions, and the package includes an automatically generated license key and one year of support updates.
Divi Dashboard Welcome
If you are tired of the standard WordPress dashboard, look no further! You can use the Divi Dashboards Plugin to freshen up the dashboard that you’re using on a daily basis. This plugin gives you complete control over the welcome screen of your website via the Divi Builder.
The plugin grants you the power to personalize your site to fit the niche, your client’s brand, or the target audience. It’s a superb plugin that allows you to create a custom dashboard screen by adding contact forms, images, notes to your client, and a lot more. This means that you will be able to upsell any other service that you are offering and create a client support hub.
Divi icons PRO
With the Divi icons Pro, you will get over 2400 pixel-perfect icons that you can use to improve the overall aesthetics of your website. It integrates 360 brand new custom line icons, more than 1200 Font Awesome, and 800 Google Material icons into the Divi Builder.
It also has a highly intuitive search function that allows you to quickly filter your icons.
The Divi icons Pro can be purchased with a regular license or an extended license. The only difference between the two licenses is that you can use the regular license for only one website, while the extended license allows you to use these amazing icons on multiple websites.