Divi Chat

Custom post types! What the heck are they anyway?! We go over them in great detail and boy have we gathered some ace resources for you!

Róbey Lawrence of Australian-based WordPress podcast WP Bosses joins us, prepped with slides and all -- a Divi Chat first folks! Check it out and see how using custom post types can really help you get the most out of Divi and WordPress.

Hosts Present:

Róbey Lawrence - Bearded Friend / FB / @robeylawrence

Jerry Simmons - Monterey Premier / FB / @montereypremier

David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler

Geno Quiroz - Monterey Premier / FB / @montereypremier

Awesome CPT Google Doc:

Róbey Lawrence's Slides on how he uses CPT's with Divi

Plugins to help build custom post types:

Custom Post Type UI

Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields

Custom Content Shortcode

Other Resources:

How to Rename Project Post Type to Anything or Create a New Post Type with Divi Page Builder On

How to Create Custom Post Types in WordPress

WebDevStudios CMB2 developer's toolkit for building metaboxes

WordPress Post Type Generator

 

https://youtu.be/BZrhkz9xqQg

We're pretty excited about today's topic on building a business developing Divi plugins. Some of our hosts have done just that and would love to share their experiences in this growing market. As an added bonus Terry Hale of Superfly and creator of Image Intense has kindly offered to share some of his resources and tips on how he got started.

While Divi Plugins are essentially WordPress plugins that extend the functionality of Divi, there are some certain specific things that make them different than traditional WordPress plugins. In this episode, the Divi Chat gang discuss their experiences building businesses around Divi plugin creation plus some ways that you can get started, if you're a developer and are interested in creating Divi Plugins as a business.

While the Divi product market may be a bit overcrowded today, the gang talks about some ways they were able to be successful in the early days of the Divi 3rd party product ecosystem.

From the technical aspects, to the business and marking side, David, Tim, Terry, and SJ share their knowledge in this uncensored (Leslie!) discussion on creating Divi Plugins as a business.

Bonus PDF Download:

Terry's Tips on Getting Started in Divi Plugin Development

Hosts Present:

David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Tim Strifler - Divi Life / Divi Plugins / Divi Layouts

Terry Hale - Mizagorn Ink / FB / @mizagorn

Geno Quiroz - Monterey Premier / FB / @montereypremier

SJ James – divi.space / FB / @sociallysteve

Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac

Resources:

CMB2 is a developer's toolkit for building metaboxes, custom fields, and forms for WordPress that will blow your mind.

Divi Modules

How to Create Custom Post Types in WordPress

The Best Popup Plugin for Divi

 

https://youtu.be/MlhzzVFWEBw

This week is a casual, kickback recap of the awesome time some of us had at WordCamp Orange County 2017. It was the second year in a row for most of us and we came away feeling encouraged, inspired, recharged, and brimming with ideas! We think all WordPress users can benefit from attending WordCamps and WP Meetups as often as possible.

Hosts Present:

David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler

Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac

Olga Summerhayes - Infinite Imagination / FB / @OlgaSummerhayes

Sarah Oates - Endure Web Studios / FB / @endureweb

Geno Quiroz - Monterey Premier / FB / @montereypremier

Tammy Grant - Sunflower Creatives / FB / @yourblogplace

Resources:

Why Meeting The Community In Person Matters – Divi Nation Short

The Divi Nation at WordCamp Orange County 2017

The Divi Nation Meetup Group

WordCamp Central

Some Favorite Talks from WCOC:

Samantha McCoy : How do I collect money and make friends at the same time!?

Alex Vasquez: Can I Get You a Beer? A Story About Community Building

Michelle Schulp : Pixel Imperfect – A Practical Approach To Responsive Design

Karim Marucchi : How Do I Perform Effective Business Development …..On A Budget?

WordPress TV

 

 

https://youtu.be/zUG09zOr8go

WooCommerce is the most popular eCommerce platform in the world. It's not just the most popular eCommerce plugin for WordPress, it's literally the most popular tool to build eCommerce websites with overall! It's more popular than Shopify or any other 3rd party system. WooCommerce powers over 30% of all online stores. 🤯

So because WooCommerce is so popular, there are thousands upon thousands of tools, extensions, themes, child themes, and so much more, to help you build better WooCommerce websites faster. This ecosystem is both the cause and the result of the popularity of WooCommerce.

Divi has a lot of built in WooCommerce features and integrations that make building WooCommerce websites with Divi super easy. Plus, there are a lot of outstanding Divi WooCommerce child themes in the Divi community too that make using WooCommerce with Divi even easier!

In this episode of Divi Char, we're talking about some of our favorite WooCommerce plugins and extensions that we've used on client sites or on our own. Some are free, some are premium, but all have proven to be useful and worth checking out for your eCommerce website.

Hosts Present:

Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler

Geno Quiroz - Monterey Premier / FB / @montereypremier

Jerry Simmons - Monterey Premier / FB / @pastorjerrys

Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac

Resources Mentioned:

WooCommerce Extension Library

Divi Marketplace

WooCommerce Bookings

WooCommerce Memberships

WooCommerce Subscriptions

WooCommerce Subscription Downloads

WooCommerce API Manager

NS FBA for WooCommerce (Amazon Fulfillment)

WooCommerce Google Analytics

Product Sales Report for WooCommerce

WooCommerce MailChimp

Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce

Stripe for WooCommerce

Divi Overlays

Divi WooCommerce Pro

Divi Side Cart

Gravity Forms Product Add-ons

Elementor WooCommerce

RoyalCommerce Divi Child Theme

WooCommerce Quick View

Divi Changelog

WP Simple Pay Lite for Stripe

Woo EDD Email Domain Blacklist

YITH WooCommerce Best Sellers

WooCommerce Customer / Order CSV Export

Coupon Generator for WooCommerce

 

https://youtu.be/0mGWbVDhJIU

Aaaahh contact forms, a necessary on practically every website these days. We discuss our favorite contact form plugins we use on our Divi sites and some of their best features.

Hosts Present:

David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Sarah Oates - Endure Web Studios / FB / @endureweb

Tammy Grant - Sunflower Creatives / FB / @yourblogplace

Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler

Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac

Adam Inlay – AdamInlay.com / FB / @AdamInlay

Resources Mentioned (and some not mentioned but helpful):

FAVORITE FREE Caldera Forms

PROS: entry database / drag-n-drop style / many available add-ons and integrations / conditional logic / easy to create columns

CONS: needs CSS to add styling

FAVORITE PREMIUM Gravity Forms

PROS: entry database / drag-n-drop style / many available add-ons and integrations / conditional logic

CONS: needs CSS or plugin to add styling / no column selections but they can be added with Gravity ready classes.

Posts by Elegant Themes on various contact form plugins

Formidable Forms

Ninja Forms

WPForms

Contact Form 7 (CF7)

CSS tutorial for styling Gravity

Style like Divi + bonus looks

Surbma plugin for Gravity

CSS tutorial for styling Caldera

Style like Divi + bonus looks

Material design look

Opaque colored background

Transparent background with Font Awesome (says Genesis but can be used on any theme)

Sendgrid

Cleantalk

WP Mail SMTP

Postman SMTP

 

https://youtu.be/rem4sY2y8oQ

Is knowing CSS necessary to make a stellar Divi site? We don't think so but it certainly helps. Maybe you purchased Divi thinking you'd never have to touch a line of code but have found otherwise, or have found that it got you interested in learning and now you've been bit by the learning-to-code bug! Today we'll talk about how each of us get the most out of Divi and if it involves using more than what the modules offer.

Hosts Present:

Adam Inlay – AdamInlay.com / FB / @AdamInlay

Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler

Shannon Shaffer - Purple Finch Studios / FB / @purplefinchfoto

Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac

Sarah Oates - Endure Web Studios / FB / @endureweb

Geno Quiroz - Monterey Premier / FB / @montereypremier

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn_D7Fx7LAM

On this week's chat we had the pleasure of welcoming two newcomers to the show, Melissa Love of The Design Space Co and Michelle Nunan of Divi Soup. As two of the leaders in the training space for the Divi community it was great to have them on along with our regular hosts to discuss Divi ecourses. In this chat we try to cover the ecourses from two perspectives: from the user who may be interested in taking a course but may be unsure of which is right for them, and from the user who may be interested in offering their own courses for others.

Divi eCourses:

SiteSchool by Melissa Love of The Design Space Co

Divi Academy by Michelle Nunan of Divi Soup

Learning Made Easy by Geno Quiroz of Monterey Premier and Quiroz.co

Resources mentioned:

LifterLMS

LearnDash

Thinkific

Teachable

Sensei

Hosts present:

David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler

Melissa Love - The Design Space Co / FB / @designspaceco

Michelle Nunan - Divi Soup / FB

Geno Quiroz - Monterey Premier / FB / @montereypremier

Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac

SJ James – divi.space / FB / @sociallysteve

 

https://youtu.be/E4BBacUBvAM

Tools! Tools! Tools! We'd be nowhere without them right? Of course we all use Divi and WordPress but we wouldn't be able to properly run our businesses without so many other great products and services out there. Today we discuss some of our favorite tools, from project management to screencasting and more. We'll probably revisit this and break it up into specific categories since we realized halfway through the chat that there are just so many great resources out there to cover.

Resources Mentioned:

Project Management

Asana

Redbooth

Basecamp

Slack

Trello

Remote Updates

ManageWP

InfiniteWP

iThemes Sync

Client and/or Team Communication

Mindmeister

Loom

Appear.in

Join.me

Free Conference Call

Video & Screencasting

Camtasia

Snagit

Jing

Screenflow

Screencastify

Screenpresso

Task Management & Workflow

Zapier

IFTTT

Evernote

Scannable

Skitch

Todoist

Workflowy

Financial / Accounting

Wave

17 Hats

Xero

Suite

WPMU DEV

iThemes

Podcasts

The Productivity Show

 

Hosts Present:

Olga Summerhayes - Infinite Imagination / FB / @OlgaSummerhayes

Sarah Oates - Endure Web Studios / FB / @endureweb

Terry Hale - Mizagorn Ink / FB / @mizagorn

Geno Quiroz - Monterey Premier / FB / @montereypremier

David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Josh Hall - In Transit Studios / FB

Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac

 

https://youtu.be/B7PHtZMLUsY

We've decided to give a little love to the Extra theme even though this is a "Divi" chat podcast. Many in the Elegant Themes community are familiar with it as it is a very robust theme, but we find there's still a lot of questions surrounding it. Several on the panel have used Extra so today we share a bit about our experience with Divi's little brother (haha) AND ...

... drumroll pleeeease ... We have an exciting announcement about an upcoming product called Extra Module Mate that brings all of Divi's powerful modules into the Extra category builder (thanks to one of our star developers SJ James!), you can find out more info and sign up to be notified of it's release here!

Resources Mentioned:

Blank Templates for the Extra Theme

Extra Theme Users Facebook Group

Divi & Extra Help and Share Facebook Group

Hosts Present:

Olga Summerhayes - Infinite Imagination / FB / @OlgaSummerhayes

SJ James – divi.space / FB / @sociallysteve

David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler

Geno Quiroz - Monterey Premier / FB / @montereypremier

 

https://youtu.be/TQuGjCHPPTI

Many of us Divi Chat hosts blog ourselves and, of course, on our Divi sites. It's a great theme to set up a blog on, no matter the size. On today's podcast we talk a bit about how we got into blogging and share some tips we've learned along the way.

Resources Mentioned:

Default Page Builder Layout (For Blogs)

Hosts Present:

Geno Quiroz - Monterey Premier / FB / @montereypremier

SJ James – divi.space / FB / @sociallysteve

David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Shannon Shaffer - Purple Finch Studios / FB / @purplefinchfoto

Josh Hall - In Transit Studios / FB

Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac

 

https://youtu.be/WzFNSfVdc2g