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A First Look at Divi, Elegant Themes’ Flagship WordPress Theme

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Divi, Elegant Themes "flagship" WordPress theme, has become extremely popular since its release on December 11, 2013. Since then, Divi 2.0 has hit the interwebs, and WordPress sitebuilders are falling in love with its unique building-block style of page building. Divi's strength and uniqueness comes from the Page Builder. As the name implies, the Page Builder lets you create unique, custom pages. Before we get into the Page Builder, though, let's look at plain vanilla Divi. (Hint: It's not …

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Seven Stunning Magazine-Style WordPress Themes

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Magazine-style WordPress themes have a complex homepage layout. Unlike a blogging theme, which usually has one sidebar and a list of your posts, a magazine theme lets you feature groups of posts and pages arranged by category. Magazines and news outlets use magazine themes to give readers a taste of the most important content on the site. Think CNN.com, for example, where you'll see the most important story at the top. Then as you scroll down the page, you'll come across other topics that …

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Elegant Themes

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"Beautiful Premium WordPress Themes" is how Elegant Themes describes their designs. They don't lie. (Elegant Themes is one of two theme design companies I rely on -- the other is StudioPress. Because I like and trust their themes, I've joined with them as an affiliate. That means, if you purchase a theme from a link on this site, I earn a commission. It allows me offer my WordPress setup services at such low rates.) Currently offering 87 themes, it's obvious that design is very important to …

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8 Sites that should use the WordPress Explorable Theme [Review]

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Recently I had the chance to install the new Explorable Theme by Elegant Themes. It's an excellent choice for travel-related sites, with a giant map on the home page. (Maps are integrated from Google Maps.) To put pins in the map you create Listings. The listings pop up on the home page when a reader clicks a pin on the map. Or they can follow the link on the short description to go to a page with more detail about the location (the theme creates this page for you automatically). You and …

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