I'm Phil, a 60-year-old from Kent in the UK. I've been a web designer for 20 years and have been freelancing on Divi WordPress sites.

I'm currently managing 15 websites running Divi 4 and will soon transition them to Divi 5. Most of these sites are for charity (non-profit) organisations. With half a dozen running WooCommerce and a couple being membership sites.

I am an intermediate user of Divi 4 and a beginner to Divi 5.

The biggest website challenge im facing right now is migrating WooCommerce sites to FluentCart and membership sites from MemberPress to FluentCommunity.

This is Randal, and I am a "retired" illustrator, web designer, and agency owner who now only takes on freelance WordPress/DIVI projects that I can handle myself.

I built my first website using a PowerMac and "PageBuilder" at birkey.com in 1996 to display my illustration portfolio online. We were using 2400-baud modems at that time! It was a big deal when I got my first 56K modem!

I transitioned from illustrator to web-designer when my agency and designer clients started asking me to design & develop their first websites! As the technology advanced, I stayed ahead of the curve and eventually joined a software firm in 1998 to build a web design division.

In 2007, I sold that division and started a new partnership with a technology consulting firm. I repeated the same pattern, building another web agency within that firm, until I retired in 2016.

So, I have over 35 years of full-time experience in the creative illustration and visual design communication field... before retirement. More since then.

I've been using Apple Mac and Adobe software products since they both entered the marketplace. I used some Adobe products before they purchased competitor companies, such as Macromedia, Aldus, and others. Even though I have used many other big-name CMS platforms for clients such as McDonald's, State Farm, and Safelite, I've been a WordPress fan since 2006-2007.

Currently, I take on projects that come to me by word-of-mouth, and that I can complete myself in WordPress using DIVI 4 and now 5. My clients tend to be small businesses and non-profits.

I host all of my client projects (60-70) on the Cloudways platform on two Digital Ocean cloud servers. Another larger association client hosts the sites I build for them (another 50 or so DIVI4-5 sites) on Siteground.

I ran across Mak on YouTube when he was doing videos for Elegant Themes on DIVI 4. As DIVI 5 was approaching, I was intrigued by his design system approach, and the more I dived into DIVI 5, the more it made sense.

Now, I build new sites ONLY in DIVI 5 with the KrafterPro Design System. And, I am currently migrating many of my DIVI 4 client sites to DIVI 5. Mak and this web community have been a huge help!

I am looking forward to meeting more of you, beginners, amateurs, and professionals in this community and sharing experiences, knowledge, tips, fixes, workarounds, etc. I'm happy to help anyone that I can using my experience and knowledge. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions you think I might be able to help you with.

And THANK YOU, Mak, for creating this platform!

I’m Roger from the Netherlands, 64 years old. I’ve been a graphic designer for the last 30 years. Building website since 1996, build my first website with DIVI 4 in 2017.

I’m taking care of prox 20 websites. I’ve changed most of them to DIVI 5. I use a staging site to copy the files to and run the Divi 5 transformation to see what comes up.

Divi 5 is a leap forward. I build new websites using Krafter Pro and there’s a lot of things to discover. Adding variables (i think the Body text is rather big and i asked Chat GPT to come up with a solution) and making new presets is a nice way of feeling in control.

I still wonder why some of the old things have not been taking care of

• Add a button to the Blurb
• A possibiltiy to filter posts like it is possible with projects
• A better way of designing the menu

Love to see what’s next in DIVI.

Roger

Ik ben een 76jarige man die een 10tal jaren geleden de taak op zich heeft genomen om de website van onze klub te maken.

Na van alles uit geprobeerd te hebben ben ik uit gekomen op Divi. Omdat dit volledig nieuw was heb ik het net afgeschuimd en uiteindelijk terecht gekomen op de bij Mak die naar mijn mening de beste cursus toendertijd heeft gemaakt over het opzetten van een website met Divi.

Zo ben ik hier terecht gekomen , ben levenslang lid geworden en druk de hoop uit dat Mak terug een curus maakt over het opzetten van een website met Divi 5.

Ik ben geen programeur of iets dergelijks, ik kon mijn plan trekken met Divi dank zij Mak , maar Divi 5 is toch weer iets anders.

Ik ben eigenlijk nog altijd niet voor 100% overtuigd dat Krafter voor mij een echte meerwaarde kan en zal zijn. Ondanks het zeer vele werk van Mak dat hij hier ingestoken heeft heb ik de indruk dat hij steeds achterna aan het hollen is. Divi 5 veranderd bijna wekelijks met nieuwe mogelijkheden die aangepast worden of volledig nieuw geintroduceerd worden.

Als ik van Mak was zou ik terug , zoals in het verleden, een cursus maken waarin alle aspecten van Divi 5 aan bod komen . Zo kan hij volgens mij veel vlugger inspelen op de nieuwste onderdelen die toegevoegd worden en ook deze integreren in zijn cursus.

Ik wacht voorlopig af om met krafter aan de slag te gaan en zie en volg hier wel hoe dat alles zijn beloop zal krijgen.

Met vele groeten uit Belgie

Paul Huybrechts

Hoe kan ik me daar voor inschrijven? Kan de cursus nu niet bekijken .

My name is Giovanni and I’m writing to you from Naples.

I’m not the owner of an agency; I’m an author who is now approaching retirement. I’ve chosen to use this precious time to write books and to search for the ideal web solution to bring my communication platform to life, a place where I can share high‑quality content.

I joined this community after carefully studying Mak’s personal story and his long professional journey. I can truly say that I deeply appreciate this way of approaching both real life and work — so authentic and empathetic.

I’m constantly exploring how to build my web platform, and I’ve started working with Divi to weave my digital canvas. My biggest challenge right now is blending technology with my vision, creating a harmonious web space that resonates with the same strength as the words I write.

I’m genuinely happy to be here. I wish all of you the very best and great success with KRAFTERPRO and all its wonderful features!

See you soon, Giovanni

Hi Everyone!

My husband Zach & I run Third Covenant (3C). He leads the ministry side and I lead the holistic side.

I've spent the last 2 years building-out the online theology-based wellness course and plan to launch in about 6 months. I've created multiple websites with Divi 4 but hear Divi 5 is brand new kinda beast.

The 3C website will be home base for the ministry, and I want it to feel like one — warm, and clearly His, not just another business page.

I've followed Mak since his Elegant Themes days and have learned so much from him already. Really glad to finally be in the room with all of you — looking forward to learning, and helping wherever I can!

Hi! I've been migrating sites for a small digital marketing firm for the last 6 months to Divi 5. It is all good as these are tier 3 sites and getting them totally "Divi 5'd" is not necessary. Just getting them migrated and learning about the issues has been a great experience. All sites migrated with little or no rebuild issues (thank goodness).

Time to start moving tier 1 sites to Divi 5 and I think KrafterPRO will be amazing. It will take a great deal of work to get them up to speed, but I have people to help with the process, once I get set with it!

I am super excited about getting sites fully setup in KrafterPRO, thank you Mak for creating this amazing tool.

I'm still working through the entire setup of your community and what to purchase (a bit confused about the offerings), so the actual purchase has not yet been made, but it will be as soon as I understand my options and get into a position to focus on migrations again, it is next on my list. Thank you!

Hello community. I've been a member for not even a year here and really love the community. I've been a website designer for more than 20 years and an exclusive DIVI user for the last 6 years as I've launched my full time business.

My family is everything to me and I do it all for them. I'm slow to DIVI 5 and am redesigning my personal website as a test case to see if it's right to switch from 4.

Glad to be here and learn from you all.

Hey everyone! My name's Matt. I spent 18 years working in a church full time as a music director/pastor. During that time I dabbled with websites because - well, in case you're not aware, many churches operate on tight budgets! lol. In 2019 my wife and I moved on and I started focusing more on web design. Now we're still both involved in ministry, but I'm working at building a business on the side so that eventually we won't have to take a salary from the church.

Currently working solely with Wordpress / Divi but I've been starting to help people with social media, graphics and would love to get into the ad space.

I've followed Mak for years now and love his teaching style. Looking forward to connecting and contributing where I can!