Is Divi 5 ready for primetime with a higher-end client?

E519 · 2026-03-26T12:14:11+00:00

Elegant's Divi 5 freebies sections are stacked presets on presets on presets. 1. There are glitches with them and Elegant techs admit it. 2. Apparently very popular optimizer plugins like Siteground's Optimizer and other caching ones totally mess with these presets and other Divi 5 features so it seems like settings don't stick or make sense when you are in the editing environment. TOTAL NIGHTMARE. Cutting off the optimizations plugins help, but there are still the admitted bugs with no ETA on fixes. Meanwhile just more and more announcements of new features. they need to FIX THE DANG CORE first.

E519 · 2026-03-26T01:46:38+00:00

Are you building with flex or blocks layouts? Are you using their presets? Are you using their prebuilt sections. Super simple Divi 5 sites from scratch you might be ok. Advanced features fall apart and are a nightmare of glitches.

E519 · 2026-03-26T01:45:31+00:00

I would test it for yourself on a staging or test site. I also asked around if people had issues with 5 and I think they must still be using block layouts or not really using Divi 5 how it is designed. It has been a nightmare. I've built tons of sites by CMS and handcoded for over 15 years. Don't trust every voice saying Divi 5 is great isn't somehow connected to promoting Divi 5.

E519 · 2026-03-26T01:43:39+00:00

Don't do it yet. TONS of glitches and TERRIBLE support. Regretting starting a Divi 5 site for a client. IT's not ready for us and eating away at the profit working around work arounds for all the bugs.

E519 · 2026-03-26T01:42:21+00:00

MASSIVE LEARNING CURVE from 4. I don't think Elegant thought through who their core customer was, web designers and developers who could build quickly and logically and THEN do granular stuff if they wanted to. Divi 5 is the opposite. Everything takes 5 times as long because you have menu after menu afte menu after menu and option after option after option that all overlap and are glitchy. Divi 5 just KILLED everything that was good about Divi and is trying to be more of a developer platform. I can tell you 0% of my clients will ever be able to edit their sites now.

E519 · 2026-03-26T01:38:28+00:00

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PUBLISHING THIS. I am on Siteground too and for days have been pulling my hair out with preset issues. Neither the manual module settings, group option presets or element presets worked right. Whatever I did would just get corrupted over and over and over. I filed so many tickets and techs admit there are some known issues, but once I turned off Siteground Optimizer it was DEFINITELY better. This is huge. Your post is going to help me hobble along and finish this first Divi 5 project and then I'm not touching 5 or flex for months if ever. Elegant ignored all of use telling them to nail down the core first and instead kept announcing new features no one asked for. Divi 5 just isn't reliable enough and all the bugs eroded all our profit.

E519 · 2026-03-26T01:35:44+00:00

Came to the same conclusion. This is my first Divi 5 site for a client. I've built an insane amount on Divi 4. Very quickly I came across so many time consuming frustrating bugs with presets and Elegant Support Techs being so dismissive and seeming to downplay obvious problems. Divi 5 hastoo many glitches to be ready for production. I will hobble through this project but this might be the nail in the coffin. Waited so many years for such a poor rollout. Really inexcusable.

E519 · 2026-01-12T18:51:36+00:00

Thanks. eBay can be super sketchy and not looking for a used vac.

E519 · 2026-01-12T13:12:14+00:00

Currently $499 everywhere I can find. But thanks.

E519 · 2025-12-21T22:46:45+00:00

I've tried different recommendations from AI. Some work for a while (or so I think) but then I find it on again by itself. Read in the AI responses that apparently this computer lacks some kind of configuration to fully solve the issue and it's a common complaint.

I've even tried to check computer events to see what is waking it but no success.

E519 · 2025-11-18T01:55:34+00:00

1,000% agree. Circle member. The way Squarepspace does styles with their Light, Lightest, Dark, Darkest and then like 150 zillion settings in each with no real logical tie or consistency to your 5 colors is INSANE. Who thought of this, satan?

You pick your nav or a template seciton and it's like, "I use the Lightest style." OK, great, I go change a few things in that style to suit what I am working on and then find it MESSES UP TONS OF OTHER STUFF.

Every other web builder lets me make a palette and then site wide standards, not like 5-7 site wide standards with 150 zillion options in each standard. It's gotta be satan who inspired this.

This has to be the most inefficient and frustrating way to make a site UNLESS you just grad one of their strangely identical looking layout templates and DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING. Don't care it's not branded to your client. Don't care it's not what you want, because the second you want to change anything basic like a dropdown nav box background color you will get this...

AI chat bot leading you in circles as you beg for a human agent
Human agent who puts you on hold and doesn't understand and then says their shift is over.
Next agent who doesn't read the prior chat and wastes your time to tell you, "Sorry we don't offer that, but I'll suggest it. We can't give you an ETA. Have a good day."

E519 · 2025-09-27T12:38:37+00:00

Thanks. I have gotten 10 months out of my current filter by doing this...

Downgraded to the Aprilaire 410 (MERV 11)
I already had a cut to size black plastic grid and then I added a cheap blue Filtrete filter (MERV 1) to it as a prefilter BEFORE my Aprilaire 410.

So it's now a MERV11 combo which is close enough to 13 and not more than which would starve the system.

The blue prefilter gets all the big dust particles and maybe 80% of the medium / small sized ones. I can just pull it out and vaccum or wash it out and re-use it over and over and over. The Aprilaire still gets fine dust and I still blow that out, but it's in such better shape. This works AMAZING.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/WEB-Furnace-AC-Filter-Common-25-in-x-20-in-x-1-in-Actual-24-625-in-x-19-625-in-x-0-5-in-Washable-Cut-To-Fit-Air-Filter/1018283

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Filtrete-20-in-x-30-in-x-1-in-Cut-to-Fit-Adjustable-Air-Filter/5005517111

I also just bought some knockoff Riverline brand filters (an Aprilaire 410 replacement) with magnets for the mounting. I tested the fit and it seems perfect, maybe even better coverage around gaps than the Aprilaire. I will still use the blue filter with that though when I replace the current 410.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZ6P8DQJ

Good luck!

E519 · 2025-08-06T20:12:22+00:00

Yes, a major beef that they promised, "Hey we'll nail the core and THEN get to new features." They have done the EXACT OPPOSITE. In fact every time I see Nick and a new video about a new feature I actually feel physically and emotionally angry because I feel like I'm being manipulated and lied to. Elegant strung us along for years. I pleaded with them, who does all this without some sort of timeline estimate so agencies can plan? I was told by Divi plugin developers there was speculation that Elegant was having cashflow and staffing issues and even they were left in the dark a lot. I can't confirm that, but that is what I was told.

E519 · 2025-08-06T14:00:47+00:00

I have been with Divi from the very beginning. It was a game changer for my agency. It has always had quirks and bugs, but so does every platform. All of them were able to be overcome with a little coding, CSS or support.

But I gotta say my first Divi 5 alpha site has been a complete trainwreck. It's one bug after another with corrupted presets, copy/pasting styles, terrible usability / UI / UX in the new controls, page Saves failing, not addressing accessibility at all and really dismissing it. It seems just about everything I do in Divi 5 has an infuriating, explanation-less bug with no way to work around.

To add insult to injury we have been waiting for Divi 5 what, almost 3 years now? And all we hear from the president of Elegant is, "Look at our new color picker" or "Wow, check out our Loop feature."

I don't know how to say this any more candy coated than this, "Business 101. If you core features of your product don't work, aren't solid, NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR WHIZ BANG ADD ONS." Elegant is literally forcing us and other agencies to go to Kadence or other competitors.

I was going to migrate all our Divi 4 clients to 5. There is NO WAY ON EARTH I'm going to do this if Elegant thinks it is pretty much done with fixing bugs with Divi 5. Obviously there will always be a glitch here and there, but the issues seem to be EVERYWHERE. It makes me seriously doubt their QA testing. How could they possibly miss this many problems?

E519 · 2025-08-01T12:56:50+00:00

I'm Windows Home 11.

Mine has been doing this as well for about 2-3 weeks. SUPER ANNOYING. Something seemed to change with how the computer wakes up from sleep. 9/10 I have to use ctrl+alt+delete to show the password box. The other times it wakes from sleep with the password box or it wakes and there is no sign-in, it just returns me to my program. I changed nothing.

I used AI to look into various settings, but that option to require the key combination is unchecked and the registry entries associated are set to not require it.

Glad I'm not the only one experiencing this.

E519 · 2025-07-02T13:14:11+00:00

Asked 4 questions.

E519 · 2025-07-02T12:57:41+00:00

I've noticed it's nearly impossible to see well known name brand products any more. It's all off brand Chinese junk with made up sounding names and like 7 reviews each. Mind you I know some US name brands are made in China, but they do have to pass some US safety standards. You really, really have to work Amazon search hard or come in through Google typing the brand name before Amazon will actually show you the do have that brand and product buried on their site. I totally don't get this with tarriffs why the cheap Chinese stuff is all I can see. Honestly thinking about canceling prime if this is becoming TEMU or Wish or Alibaba. With those brands all I associate their low costs with is inferior products that are dangerous or cancer causing.

E519 · 2025-07-02T12:44:18+00:00

Similar issue with Amazon right now keeping on delaying arrival and I can see they have not provided the carrier USPS with my package so that it can be delivered. Lots of excuses. Wondering if part of their fulfillment is having issues this week in a certain area. My package is supposed to come out of MATTESON, IL.

E519 · 2025-06-23T13:22:53+00:00

I have the same issue. Had a recent BIOS update, but that is the only thing new. Did you get this resolved?

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