I’m here to give you a sneak peek at a feature coming soon to Divi 5. With Divi 5’s foundation complete, we’re now focused on aggressive feature development, with new features in the works as part of the Divi 5 feature swap.
Every time we finish a feature, we start working on a new one, and every time we start working on a new feature, I’m going to tell you all about it!
Last week, we released Attribute Management, and the team involved is already working on their next project: a native Loop Builder!
Get all the details in this video. 👇
What Is A Loop Builder?
First, you may be wondering what a loop builder is, and to understand that, you must familiarize yourself with the concept of a loop. In WordPress, a loop is a series of posts. The most common loop is your blog feed, where a collection of post content, such as a featured image, title, and excerpt, is repeated for a given query, such as posts in a particular category or posts written by a specific author.
The loop template, which is responsible for constructing and styling the content in each piece of the loop, is typically hard-coded by your theme or plugin. It creates the template for whatever post type you are looping, such as your blog feed, product category, calendar events, etc.
A loop builder lets you create loops, constructing the template, styling its elements, and controlling which posts appear.
You can make all kinds of post-based content, without being restricted to theme templates, or even the limitations of post-based modules like the blog or product modules. Instead, you can use Divi’s full suite of modules and container elements to build and style your looped content.
Loop Anything In Divi 5
In Divi 5, everything will be loopable!
Toggle on the loop option for any element, such as a row or column, and choose which types of posts will fill the loop. You can control what content appears in your loop by adjusting various query options.
For example, you could loop a slide inside the slider module to create a post slider. You could construct your loop template out of multiple Divi modules inside a column, and then loop the column to create a custom blog feed or product list. The possibilities are endless!
Once you create a loop, you can plug dynamic content from the loop into your template. You have unlimited freedom, making Divi’s loop builder particularly useful.
We already have the basics finished and only need to fill in all the advanced query options. The screenshots I shared during this post are just a starting point, so feel free to let us know in the comments which query options you want most, and we’ll be sure to add them!
Have You Tried Attribute Management?
In case you missed it, check out my video from last week announcing the release of Attribute Management.
It’s the most comprehensive attribute system for any builder, allowing you to copy, paste, and reset style, content, and preset attributes across all elements via the right-click menu.
Get all the details in this video. 👇
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Custom tables would be the best news I could imagine.
To understand this better “everything will be loopable” that means that even things that are not part of Divi or WordPress core systems like CPT from third party plugins will be loopable too? does Divi have to be compatible with these plugins? or is it not necessary? will they be compatible by default??
this! We manage a big online magazine where we’re using CPT in a number of ways. I also need to know if the “everything” means also the possibility to convert current CPT from third party plugins (CF and CPT classic plugins). This would be easily the biggest most awaited advance on Divi I’ve been waiting for!
Gawd, I’m so excited for this! This has been one of THE BIGGEST missing pieces.
Could you share more about the various plugins and fields types you’ll support? Obviously, things repeaters/groups would be massive.
Keep up the good work!
Perfect. Is there a tentative release date for the final version of Divi 5?
Good news. Loops are really something important. But I miss a more flexible menu system, with the option to build megamenus, just like building other elements
Loops is great.
Next I want a better Divi Form.
The most basic requirement – I should be able to add my own email subject.
And, any other feature, is bonus!
The possibility to show a random post, image or anything from a certain category would be nice
This is such a big question. The Query object in WordPress encompasses any and all SQL queries. Why limit it? I think this would be foundational. If you are going to do it – do it right. I should have full access to all query options.
I’d love to be able to style sticky elements separately, and exclude sticky elements.
I’d love to be able to include and exclude posts, categories, tags, custom taxonomy, etc. (this is a huge miss in current modules like filterable portfolio).
I should be able to offset by any given number. I should be able to sort any way that I please. I should be able to query the current tag, category, or archive, etc.
I’m sure I missed some, but this is a huge step forward making Divi be able to handle the edge use cases. Decisions like this make Divi the standard option for UX builders. This is a huge leap frog moment.
^^^ This! ^^^
🔥WOW! The loop builder is looking awesome! 🤩
I absolutely love how Divi is breaking the loop builder out of traditional “loop layout” constraints and making as many things as possible loop-able. This will be powerful. 🚀
Don’t forget to continue improving query options as well.
The ability to add custom queries via registered PHP is also useful for advanced query solutions… like relational fields and other complex dynamics.
Keep up the amazing work Elegant Themes!⭐️ You’re doing a stunning job!🏆🎉
Can’t wait to someday use Divi loops in…
Loopable UI/UX Ideas:
List, Grid, Grid Masonry, Table, Slider, Carousel, Gallery, Coverflow, Scrolling Marquee, Ticker, Accordion, Toggle Switches, Tabs, Menus, Navs, Sitemaps, Taxonomy Clouds, Filter Controls, Facet Controls, Search Controls, Pagination, Breadcrumbs, Map with Pins, Context Grid View, Timeline, Calendar View, Image Hotspot, Modal, Lightbox, Cards, Flip Cards, Hover Reveal, Mobile Drawers, Slide Panels
This IS amazing 🤩
I DO wish, however, that we’d get a progress update on WooCommerce modules for Divi 5. Personally, that will soon be a need for me.
Well David they are certainly working on them. I say the first batch of the WooCommerce modules will be out in June.
Will this work with Custom Post Types and Advanced Custom Fields (ACF Pro)? That would be a game changer.
When we build a loop in theme builder, will the loop be able to display all ACF from posts? I’d like it to do that. I recently wanted to do this and used Divi Engine to achieve it. It would be great if Divi allows us to this natively in Divi alone.
+1 for ACF Content and CPT. Divi Machine (from Divi Engine) does a good job, but it is complicated with the need of the library, often slow and furthermore the generated html is kind of redundant. A Divi native Option where we can use alle possible modules (that support dynamic content) in the loop would be great.
It will be interesting to see the development of this loop module. Having suggested on many occasions that DiviMachine’s use of the library is becoming an increasingly old school way of doing things, using the visual builder directly to build loops, this looper could now potentially wipe out all third party products if development takes on board user feedback and they update it’s capabilities at a sensible pace. Then again, to be honest, updates based on user feedback do not appear to be something ET have, historically, been interested in? Let’s hope things can change.
Integration with plugins like ACF sound like a fairly basic-but-needed element, as well as the ability to connect to Woocommerce product fields & info. Beyond that, the ability to set up specific filters (excluding or including categories, tags, authors, etc) would make this even more exciting. Definitely enjoying working with the new Divi, and happy to see that there is more to come!
I would love to see lot of options for scrollable items… Like carousel etc..
Loving it!
I’m also wondering and hoping for the compatibility and support for ACF and CPT plugins. This is a real game changer if really everything will be loopable. I run an online maganzine website (on Extra theme!) and we have ACF and CPT plugins working and having the possibility to do the same (or migrate) to a native-Divi loopable option would be the glory! I’m so thrilled and eager to test everything you guys are working on. This is huge and indeed a major jump for ET and Divi. Thank you for the amazing work! Companies like yours are the ones that are worth every penny. Thank you! (long time user, since the ol-ye-times pre-Divi).
Wow guys! This update to Divi is going to be huge! I am so exited professionally to start playing around with Divi 5 on production, I feel like a kid at Christmas! WooCommerce support aside, the customizable breakpoints, nested rows, flex/grid support and, perhaps most excitingly, the loop builder are game changers! And the best part is it all comes with performance improvements!
Super keen to see the finished product!
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for all these changes. They’ll make our work so much easier. Divi 5 will be unrivaled.
Integration with ACF and CPT is absolutely essential. Also, we need to be able to completely customize each loop so that the fields we want appear.
I don’t like Elementor at all; I’m a staunch Divi supporter, but when it comes to loops, Elementor has it very well done.
It would also be great if you made changes to the forms so that entries can be saved natively and that they are compatible with cached pages.
This, combined with Nested Rows, Groups and Flexbox is going to provide a versatile and really powerful set of tools. Divi 5 is shaping up nicely!
Suggestions for the Looper
Support for all ACF objects is a must!
Nested Loops
Loop/Query Reset
Custom Query – Select and SQL Variable
Show More & Pagination
It looks like there is some kind of indexing? to tie in with CSS – Conditions – etc
Conditions relevant to the looper, Loop Index
A separate native Divi AJAX Filter
This sounds very promissing and would make extra grid plugins unnessasary. It would be great that the loops will also work for custom post types, so no only pages / posts / projects.
Query types: Between a set of dates / from today and upcomming / until today / Random / category / tag /
It would be great to offer a combination of queries.
From what I see in the visuals, the UX looks very intuitive! It will be very nice to be able to have another layout for posts, other than the Blog module.
This might be the feature I’m most excited about! The ability to add custom queries would be very much appreciated – in addition to standard query options, allowing advanced users to define custom PHP queries would really cover all the basics.
I am excited to start playing around with this feature to find out how it can be used. I can see many uses, but it’s hard to know what’s possible until it’s out there. Can’t wait for Divi 5
First of all, congratulations and good luck.
You know custom post types and custom fields are really important
I hope you will not leave out tools like “pods” when adding custom fields.
And you are doing really well, don’t forget to rest when you have the chance 😉
Hi! I just wanted to ask, where are you on development of this feature? Is it only waiting for push to production? 😉 It seems as a huge deal breaker for my workflow, so I would love to work with it as soon as possible. 😀
Hey, Marcin! The Loop Builder is a significant and important feature and we’re all in on making sure it’s done right. We are in the final stages of development. Thank you for your interest. 😊