Is The Divi WordPress Theme Dying?

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[PapaStrumfPS]

I watched video of 4 mins and never saw answer to question in the title of the video. Thanks.

[AIContentHacker]

DIVI is going to thrive after the block addon function. I've tried other themes and plugins. But I eventually found out that I love DIVI the most. And I am going to promote and educate people in China about DIVI with WP.

[mariadasgracasspbr]

I use Divi in many client sites, I like It ❤️ I Hope they stay around in the WP scene.

[jackiemasek]

The more Gutenberg is rolled out the more the WP ecosystem of plugins, builders, and themes will be put out of business.

[co]

It makes me happy to know builders will use more core functionality and run faster.

[websiteckron]

I like to use Divi, as I can specify the user roles. The client are able to change just text and images, there is no huge knowledge necessary to work with divi as a client. This is very good.

[vaughanprint]

I guess the race is on for Divi then. It will be interesting to see what they come up with. If they succeed it will be good for both the block editor and Divi. Diversity is good and inevitably necessary.

[barsk]

Jamie; besides the divi subhect, thank you for showing builtwith statistics page. I didn't know Builtwith has this feature. 👌👌

[mikeburke]

Thanks. I am only now looking into Wordpress. Thank you, sir.

[comartse]

I don’t like to work with WordPress themes that highly rely on shortcodes as they are theme specific. To me, that’s a one-way road. I think those themes relying on shortcodes are for experienced users. It’s not fair to recommend newcomers to WordPress to start with Divi or the other themes of the same type. But, to me it seems natural Divi support the solution WordPress offers. Time will tell how they succeed.

[BucurIonNiculae]

Guaranteed not to die. More than likely they had big sales now on black-friday and the number of customers has increased.

[robertallen]

If Divi rebuilt the frontend along with the backend, they'd have Bricks, which is available today. Me, I've moved on to Kadence and Cwicly. Page builders now feel "heavy" and over-complicated to me. Elegant Themes has a tremendous amount of legacy code to refactor. I think they are running out of time to stem the flow to simpler, Gutenberg solutions.

[marcoscandido]

I think the title of this video is too strong and the porpose is just to create buzz and audience. No, the Divi Ecosystem has so many passionate developers involved in it that's impossible to die any soon. There are tons of third party plug-ins that makes Divi a complete web dev suite like Divi Supreme, Divi Engine, DiviFlash etc. I'm a proof that Divi is slow for BEGINNERS who DON’T KNOW how to optimize the tool. I believe that Divi will be as fast as the newbies Breakadence and Zion but of course much more powerful thanks to its Ecosystem and solid foundation. Anyways, the web market is huge and there are options for everyone. One thing is for sure, Divi has millions of supporters, several communities, haters and lovers and entire organizations self-sustainable making money out of it.

[jplsolutions-ca]

We are a Divi shop and slowdowns in growth is a natural business process and to be expected.

[JonBius]

I hope it will die off. As well as the others. I've not had a single client yet move to us that isn't sick of Divi, and frustrated with managing it. My biggest concern is the hoop jumping we may have to do with a Divi upgrade. We have several dozen Divi sites, and it may require some tough conversations with customers. We have several *hundred* sites on the stock Wordpress editing environment, and in a decade of upgrades never had a problem - even going from the old editor to Gutenberg.

Thanks for your work Jamie!

[daveloodts]

No, it won't die. Every builder (plugin/theme) has their own audience. And that will last for quit some time. But Divi needs to step up; but this step is a bit to big, complex and gonna take too long to convert their "bad" reputation. There are so many improvement points that need urgent fixes, all their development time goes into Divi 5. I have a support ticket for months (while issue is internally aware for quit longer), 2 seconds delay because of the way how DIVI loads images. And it's not that giant of issue to solve. In fact, it will instantly make Divi faster for every site. But no, Divi 5 all in. I would rather see them take smaller development steps and embrace their current customers; cause otherwise a part of it will be gone.

[tristanco]

I love Divi too much but now Divi is so slow, to big code in pages. I think i will go try Kadence

[AaronVanNoy]

I purchased the unlimited version a LONG time ago, and hated it from day one! I’m happy that I’ve ditched all “page Builders”. Granted, I’m using Kadence. Divi has been dead to me for years! 😂

[wherezthebeef]

I'll continue to use Divi because I love working with Divi, clients love Divi sites, and I'm just not going to be led around by the nose by Google or any industry 'consensus' telling me I need to use some blocks, Gutenberg, some less capable page builder, theme... or my pages need to have some 99-100 score.. because Google says so... Google.. we're being jerked around by Google.

[alanjerram]

It's a little optimistic to think the Gutenberg experience is going to rival the Divi interface, flexibility and capability any time soon for people who choose the page builder method. Gutenberg still seems very limited and particularly lacking when it comes to front end preview.