Divi 5.0 Aims to Bring Greater Compatibility with Gutenberg
Divi, the popular commercial WordPress theme and page builder created by Elegant Themes, has announced major changes coming in version 5.0 that constitute a complete rewrite of Divi’s core technologies. The update, which is expected to be released in beta next year, will focus on performance, stability, scalability, and extendability, but it will not introduce any new features. “We are recreating Divi’s backend framework, cleaning up years of technical debt, changing Divi’s storage format and improving its rendering mechanism,” Elegant Themes CEO Nick Roach said. “This new version of Divi will be able to processes design settings much more quickly.” One of the most notable changes coming in 5.0 is that Divi will be migrating away from shortcodes. “This change will bring Divi into alignment with the future of WordPress, which is evolving in a new direction,” Roach said. Divi will migrate to a new JSON format that is similar to the way Gutenberg stores data. The legacy shortcodes will continue to work and for a time Divi will lazy load in the old framework as necessary. “If you are using Divi shortcodes outside of your post content, it will be highly recommended to replace these shortcodes with our new…
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