Good news for Divi web Designers. While the Wider Team finishes major projects like Flexbox, WooCommerce modules, and Loop Builder, Nick Roach, the founder of Elegant Themes, has been quietly working on three side projects for Divi 5. What comes next is as follows:
Find & Replace
Bid farewell to hand-written updates all around your designs! You can now find and replace values—text, CSS attributes, settings—directly within Divi. Want a design variable instead of a stationary color code? You're done just right-click the field, set your search scope. This greatly simplifies consistent style updates across several complicated pages.
Element Inspector
Nick says this is Divi 5's best new feature. Imagine choosing any element and instantly seeing all its styles, presets, and content properties—not just for itself but for its whole child-element tree. Then make general changes all at once over them all. Not another PHP builder provides such strong, detailed control.
Group Carousel Module
Built on Divi's new group element architecture, this next-generation carousel module lets you create slides where each slide is a custom group of any module—text, images, buttons, video, and more. More flexible and completely customizable than conventional carousels. From client success stories to dynamic feature presentations, you will be able to create anything right within native Divi.
Nick from Elegant Themes explains these fascinating new features. Don’t forget to watch it! Additionally, if you haven’t already, follow the Elegant Themes YouTube channel to be informed when new features and tools are released.
Bonus Highlight: Extend Attributes
Check out Extend Attributes, which was released last week, if you missed it. By enabling shared styling across several elements, it revitalizes and transforms Divi 4's "Extend Styles" feature. The community is already praising it as a much-needed update.
Scalable Consistency
Control over design systems, typefaces, and brand colors is made simpler with Find & Replace + Extend Attributes + Inspector.
Effectiveness for Power Users
edits in bulk across pages and elements without having to search through settings.
Freedom of Creativity
The "one item type per slide" convention is broken by the Group Carousel module, which opens up intricate custom layouts.
What Comes Next?
Nick suggests that one of these features might even be released next week, indicating that they are still in the development stage.
The team is still working on finishing Loop Builder, WooCommerce modules, and Flexbox support.
Divi 5 is about to embark on a rapid feature release cycle that will probably end with a public beta later this year and a full launch in late 2025.
What Comes Next?
Nick Roach, the founder and CEO, is personally working on these three upcoming enhancements outside of the main release pipeline because he thinks they will close important gaps from Divi 4 and elevate Divi 5. Nick's hands-on approach is evident in the developer-friendly engineering and meticulous attention to detail.
In Summary
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Find & Replace — Bulk‑update settings with scope-aware search.
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Element Inspector — See and edit styles across element hierarchies.
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Group Carousel Module — Fully custom-ready slide groups.
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Extend Attributes — Shared styling power is back, and better.
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Nick Roach is personally developing these features—expect one or more to drop very soon.
Pay special attention to the Elegant Themes blog and YouTube if you use Divi or intend to use it. These revolutionary updates are influencing Divi 5's future. Remember to subscribe so you can follow along!
