Divi’s Preset Manager Changes Everything (But It’s Not Ready Yet)
Presets are the future of web design — not manual styling, not one-off tweaks, not “designing as you go”.
Divi’s new Preset Manager is a huge step in the right direction. It finally makes it easier to organise, reuse, and manage design decisions at scale.
But it’s not there yet.
In this video, I walk through:
– Why preset-based design will replace manual styling
– What the new Preset Manager does really well
– The critical features it’s still missing (like visibility of imported presets and bulk management)
– Where I think this is heading long-term for Divi and modern design systems
If you care about speed, consistency, and professional-grade design workflows, this feature matters — even in its current state.
Mak, your analysis of the preset manager is right on point. In my daily work with a software developer, we pay special attention to the user interface, and the suggestions you made for improvements in the preset manager fall right into that design bucket.
The video implies that Krafter presets are automatically incorporated into the preset manager. The big unanswered question that I and several other members have been asking is what is the correct process to follow when updating Krafter. Does the latest version overwrite the older presets, do we uninstall the older version of Krafter before installing the latest version, and if uninstalling is required, does anything that used the old presets lose its formatting in the process? I strongly urge you to make it a priority to provide the answers to these questions before you do anything else. It will make life better for everyone.