Divi Chat

Affiliate marketing is a great way to make a bit of cash while recommending stellar products. You can also become an affiliate and others can share your products, it’s a win-win. If you’re new to affiliate marketing this is a great episode to help you get your feet wet. Hosts Present: David Blackmon – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tim Strifler – Divi Life / FB /...

Small budgets and short timelines, we’ve all had clients with those parameters 😀 Today we talk about our methods on dealing with these types of projects, and share some great tools to help streamline those methods. Hosts Present: David Blackmon – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tim Strifler – Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Geno Quiroz – Monterey Premier / FB / @mo...

Hosting, hosting, hosting. How do you handle it for your clients? Maybe you don’t yet but are interested in offering it as part of maintenance. In this week’s podcast we share our experiences and how we handle it for our clients. Hosts Present: Tim Strifler – Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Josh Hall – JoshHall.co / FB Olga Summerhayes – Infinite Imagination / FB / @Olg...

Accounting… not something that gets most of our juices flowing LOL, but it is a very necessary topic to cover since we all run our own businesses. We hope to have a future episode on this topic again (or very similar) but with non-US based hosts so we can discuss options for our non-US listeners. Our own Shannon Shaffer has gathered a ton of useful resources for your accounting pleasure 😛 H...

If  you’re handling multiple web projects at the same time you know what a pain it can be to stay organized and on top of every aspect of each project. This week we discuss some of our regular practices as well as tools we use to help us handle multiple jobs at once. Hosts Present: Cory Jenkins – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Olga Summerhayes – Infinite Imagination /...

Yaaaayyy podcasting! Today we have a chat about some of the reasons you might want to get into podcasting as well as why you might want to start listening to them. They’re super helpful and there are podcasts out now on just about any topic. We also touch on some tools and tips, softwares and hardwares, and of course we have to share our favorite podcasts for fun and work! Hosts Present: Dav...

Lead magnets. What are they? Can I have them on my Divi site? What’s so great about ’em anyway? We’ll cover these q’s and more on this week’s podcast! Hosts Present: David Blackmon – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tim Strifler – Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Geno Quiroz – Monterey Premier / FB / @montereypremier Leslie Bernal – A Gir...

In this episode we talk about how to market your Divi site, aka get eyeballs on it! Of course SEO is one way but there’s more you can do to drive traffic. This topic can really be broken down a lot more so we’ll be adding more episodes that go more in depth based on industry, target audience, etc., but this is a good start. Hosts Present: Tammy Grant – Sunflower Creatives / FB  /...

Custom post types! What the heck are they anyway?! We go over them in great detail and boy have we gathered some ace resources for you! Róbey Lawrence of Australian-based WordPress podcast WP Bosses joins us, prepped with slides and all — a Divi Chat first folks! Check it out and see how using custom post types can really help you get the most out of Divi and WordPress. Hosts Present: Róbey...

We’re pretty excited about today’s topic on building a business developing Divi plugins . Some of our hosts have done just that and would love to share their experiences in this growing market. As an added bonus Terry Hale of Superfly and creator of Image Intense has kindly offered to share some of his resources and tips on how he got started. While Divi Plugins are essentially WordPre...

This week is a casual, kickback recap of the awesome time some of us had at WordCamp Orange County 2017 . It was the second year in a row for most of us and we came away feeling encouraged, inspired, recharged, and brimming with ideas! We think all WordPress users can benefit from attending WordCamps and WP Meetups as often as possible. Hosts Present: David Blackmon – Aspen Grove Studios / F...

WooCommerce is the most popular eCommerce platform in the world. It’s not just the most popular eCommerce plugin for WordPress, it’s literally the most popular tool to build eCommerce websites with overall! It’s more popular than Shopify or any other 3rd party system. WooCommerce powers over 30% of all online stores. 🤯 So because WooCommerce is so popular, there are thousands up...

Aaaahh contact forms, a necessary on practically every website these days. We discuss our favorite contact form plugins we use on our Divi sites and some of their best features. Hosts Present: David Blackmon – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Sarah Oates – Endure Web Studios  / FB / @endureweb Tammy Grant – Sunflower Creatives / FB  / @yourblogplace Tim Strifler –...

Is knowing CSS necessary to make a stellar Divi site? We don’t think so but it certainly helps. Maybe you purchased Divi thinking you’d never have to touch a line of code but have found otherwise, or have found that it got you interested in learning and now you’ve been bit by the learning-to-code bug! Today we’ll talk about how each of us get the most out of Divi and if it...

On this week’s chat we had the pleasure of welcoming two newcomers to the show, Melissa Love of The Design Space Co and Michelle Nunan of Divi Soup. As two of the leaders in the training space for the Divi community it was great to have them on along with our regular hosts to discuss Divi ecourses. In this chat we try to cover the ecourses from two perspectives: from the user who may be inte...

Tools! Tools! Tools! We’d be nowhere without them right? Of course we all use Divi and WordPress but we wouldn’t be able to properly run our businesses without so many other great products and services out there. Today we discuss some of our favorite tools, from project management to screencasting and more. We’ll probably revisit this and break it up into specific categories sinc...

We’ve decided to give a little love to the Extra theme even though this is a “Divi” chat podcast. Many in the Elegant Themes community are familiar with it as it is a very robust theme, but we find there’s still a lot of questions surrounding it. Several on the panel have used Extra so today we share a bit about our experience with Divi’s little brother (haha) AND &#8...

Many of us Divi Chat hosts blog ourselves and, of course, on our Divi sites. It’s a great theme to set up a blog on, no matter the size. On today’s podcast we talk a bit about how we got into blogging and share some tips we’ve learned along the way. Resources Mentioned: Default Page Builder Layout (For Blogs) Hosts Present: Geno Quiroz – Monterey Premier / FB / @montereypre...

This week we discuss the Divi library and how awesome it is!! If you’re new to Divi you’ll definitely want to hear how some of our hosts use it in their workflow, and if you’re not new to Divi you may find new ways to use it. As an extra added bonus we’ve got a real treat – A FREE 4 PAGE LAYOUT!! Olga Summerhayes of Infinite Imagination was kind enough to donate her t...

On this week’s chat we discuss building your business around Divi. Some of us on the panel have done exactly this, whether it be through only using Divi to build their client’s sites or by creating Divi products like premium child themes and plugins. Some even do all of the above! So today we share our experiences on why and how this came about for each of us and what steps you can tak...

SEO. It’s a beast. It’s an often overwhelming part of the web development process for many new to the industry, and even the not-so-new. We do our best to cover some basics in this episode to help our viewers get a better understanding of SEO as well as address common questions about improving SEO on a Divi site. Before you watch the episode, let’s answer a couple common question...

Growing your team can be a huge step in your business. How do you when it’s time? Who can you trust to have the same standards as you? We’ll tackle these questions and discuss our experiences in our own companies and share any tips we’ve learned along the way. Also there’s a few live job posts at the end! Hosts Present: David Blackmon – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @asp...

WooCommerce is the leading eCommerce platform used on websites today* and it works pretty seamlessly with Divi. Divi has it’s own shop module in it’s page builder making it super easy to add your products, and even if you’d like to do a bit more customizing there’s plenty of other ways to do that and a near unlimited amount of resources to help you along. Hosts Present: Dav...

Updating Divi, core, or plugins can be very scary and overwhelming, and not just for beginners. On today’s chat we discuss our methods for preparing your site (or your clients’ sites) so that you can be ready for anything. Also included is a PDF with some of our highlighted talking points and an additional PDF freebie on how to restore your previous stable version of Divi using Updraft...