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Divi 5 not working for Editor user

I'm building a new website with Divi 5 and everything seems great. A real step forward from Divi 4. The trouble is, I want to allow my client to edit content, including adding/editing Divi modules but I am unable to open the Divi Builder as an Editor user. The button "Edit with the Divi Builder appears but when I click it I can't get past the animate Divi 5 loading icon.

Steve Seddon

Paul Hooper I have tested and can confirm an editor can edit using the divi builder. Perhaps a caching issue? When I run into strange issues when editing, I turn off all caching for the website, including litespeed etc and disable CDN if in use.

Paul Hooper

Hi Steve,

Thanks for responding. It's very useful to know that it's not a fundamental issue with the editor user. I can now continue my investigation in the knowledge that this is something to do with my website and not with Wordpress or Divi5 per se.

I thought the same as you, and I have tried disabling all plug-ins, and running the site in a private window, and I'm not using a CDN, so I'm still struggling. But your info has been very helpful, so I will go through all my earlier steps again as it seems I must've missed something. I'll report back with progress.

Paul Hooper

After a couple of days conversing with Elegant Themes support, I got this response: "There is a known issue where an Editor user role cannot edit posts and pages, if the posts and pages use a theme builder template with the post content module in it. This issue is still under investigation, and will be fixed in the future version of the theme."
I was able to get around the problem by enabling Theme Builder for the Editor Role. Not ideal but a reasonable workaround given that Divi 5 is still in Beta.