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1. Erik Anderson on February 13, 2015 at 2:42 pm

   Thanks for making this great, plugin. Bought it right away. I have a notepad doc. full of CSS for some of the features listed. Won't be needing to use that as much anymore. I look forward to future updates. One feature i wouldn't mind having is making the Main header transparent. thanks again

   Erik A

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   • dan on February 13, 2015 at 7:39 pm

     Thanks Erik! I'll definitely be adding a transparent main header in a future release.

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2. Cliff on February 13, 2015 at 12:10 am

   Hi Just purchased the plugin – but I am relatively new to Wordpress and Divi so excuse me if this is an obvious point.

   Enabling the page builder for posts – posts include the sidebar by default so which layout should you choose so that the post is built in the correct two thirds ( or is three Quarters?) allocated to it. If you choose a full page layout then it will overlap the sidebar. Is this explained anywhere?

   Thanks for creating this – very helpful to not have custom coding overwritten by the theme updates as has just happened with Divi 2.3 release.

   Cliff

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   • dan on February 17, 2015 at 10:08 pm

     Hey Cliff, with the default sidebar setting, the three quarters layout should work best. Yes, a full width page layout overlaps the sidebar – this is caused by the way pagebuilder works, though I want to come up with a solution that hides this from Divi Booster users. I need to document / explain the current situation better. Keith Davis has done a good job of explaining it over at divitheme.co.uk, but I'll add something here too, until I have a fix in place.

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3. Leif Grytenius on February 12, 2015 at 9:25 am

   Hi Dan,

   Let me begin with a BIG thank you.

   I’m struggling with my rss feed.
   http://mirakelsmedjan.se/feed/

   The number of character is 55 in the tag description. I would like to have it 160.

   Does this plugin fix that?

   Best Regards
   Leif

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   • dan on February 14, 2015 at 10:37 pm

     Hey Leif, it's not currently a feature of the plugin, but I'll try to add it in a future update.

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4. Shirley on February 11, 2015 at 8:44 am

   I'm new to Divi and everyday I learn something new. What is the difference between CSS Hero and Divi Booster?

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   • dan on February 11, 2015 at 10:04 am

     Hi Shirley,

     Excuse the cut and paste answer, but I've been asked this a couple of times already so I have one ready to go…

     The short answer is that CSS Hero and Divi Booster do different things. They can be used together and doing so will give you the most control over how Divi looks and behaves.

     Here’s the slightly longer answer. CSS Hero is a general-purpose tool for changing the look of a site via CSS. It makes it easy to do basic CSS tweaks to your site such as changing text color and alignment, font sizes, background colors. It excels at this and if that is all you need to do, it may be just the tool for you.

     Divi Booster, on the other hand, has grown out of my work helping people solve their trickiest Divi customization problems. Many of these problems have come from smart people who know some CSS and are often already using CSS Hero. As such the problems I’ve been solving are typically ones which require a deeper knowledge of and control over Divi than CSS Hero (or anything else) can offer. Most of the fixes use a combination of CSS, JavaScript and PHP to achieve the desired effect. Divi Booster wraps these complex fixes into one easy-to-use plugin, so anyone can apply these fixes to their site regardless of their coding abilities (or lack of).

     Divi Booster and CSS Hero work well together. Using both plugins will give you the most complete set of configuration options for Divi, letting you both take control of the basic look of your site and take it to the next level.

     Hope that all makes sense!

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     • Shirley on February 11, 2015 at 11:17 am

       Hi Dan,
       Thanks for your swift reply which I really appreciate. Having both will certainly help a newbie like me to get clients and be able to do the site impressively and in short time.

       The Divi User Group in Facebook is awesome but at times, the massive load of information is just so overwhelming and with all the "coding" talk, I just get so lost. I am feeling like just to have the theme Divi coupled with CSS Hero and now your Divi Booster is superb !

       Thanks and I hope you will continue to improve and add more to help people like me earn a decent living out of designing websites.

       Cheers !

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5. Dec on February 10, 2015 at 7:57 pm

   Hi Dan,

   Great idea doing this, but the only problem is if your like me and don't really know what most of the stuff does, as I'm only working with WordPress a couple of months, I don't suppose you've any videos showing what each does? For example Hide the header bottom border! It might seem funny but I've no idea what that is/does – like 90% of the other things your plugin does.

   Regards

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   • dan on February 10, 2015 at 8:08 pm

     Hi Dec,

     You're absolutely right, I need to document the plugin a lot better and plan to do so over the coming weeks. One thing you can do for many of the options is click the blue "i" icon to the right of the option on the Divi Booster settings page. This takes you to the original post I wrote about the option. The level of detail in these does vary, but hopefully it'll explain some of them for you. Like I say, I'll be looking to improve the documentation very soon, and adding video is a great idea.

     By the way, "Hide the header bottom border" removes that thin grey line that separates the Divi header from the rest of the page. I'll add some screenshots when I document it.

     Thanks!

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6. Prema on February 10, 2015 at 2:50 pm

   Dan!

   Can you make it possible to COPY/PAST a module from one Section to another?

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   • dan on February 10, 2015 at 7:12 pm

     I'll look into adding this to a future version of the plugin, Prema. If I can figure out how to do it, that is!

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7. Theresa on February 10, 2015 at 11:35 am

   Sounds a great plugin! One question – when the Divi theme builders do an update that could erase some of the css changes I've made with your plugin. Do you have a way to export/backup the changes? Thanks.

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   • dan on February 10, 2015 at 11:48 am

     Thanks Theresa! My plugin doesn't actually edit the Divi Theme files and so an update to the Divi Theme won't erase any CSS settings you make with the plugin. There is of course the chance that some of them will stop working, but I'll do my very best to get everything up and running again as quickly as possible. If you're concerned you can always let me know and I'll try and get the plugin updated before you upgrade so that everything is working when you do the Divi Theme upgrade.

     Also, yes, there's an option to export and import all your Divi Booster settings (under "Developer Tools"). But as I say, a Divi Theme upgrade won't actually erase them.

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8. Dave Whittle on February 10, 2015 at 7:28 am

   A few questions / concerns before I buy:
   – What happens when Elegant Themes fixes the bugs you fix with this plug-in? Won't that introduce conflicts between Divi and Divi Booster?
   – If you generate .htaccess rules, what about those of us who are running Nginx which handles .htaccess differently than Apache does?

   Thanks!

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   • dan on February 10, 2015 at 10:48 am

     Hey Dave, great questions!

     It'll depend of course on how Elegant Themes fix the bugs. For many of the fixes it's likely that they would just overwrite or cancel out mine. But there's is always the possibility of a conflict. If this occurs you will be able to resolve it immediately by disabling the corresponding option in Divi Booster (a bit of trial and error might be needed if you don't know exactly which bugs ET have fixed – but their changelog should tell you). And as soon as a new Divi update is out I'll retest all my fixes and update Divi Booster as necessary to remove any conflicts.

     I'm not sure about the .htaccess rules on Nginx. I'll try that out as soon as I get a chance. For now the only option in Divi Booster that modifies the .htaccess rules is the option to change the map module pin icon. While I look into this you may want to avoid using the option (or at least trying it on a test site first).

     I hope that answers your questions!

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     • Dave Whittle on February 11, 2015 at 6:40 am

       Excellent answers, Dan. Always appreciate direct and responsive.

       Bought the plug–in – well done.

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9. Prema on February 10, 2015 at 6:15 am

   Can you make a fix for text that is difficult to read, like Light/Dark Text on Dark/Light Overlay? (See first Slider Image at above URL)?

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   • dan on February 10, 2015 at 10:23 am

     I've had a lot of requests for this one, and will try and come up with a fix for it soon. Thanks!

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10. Prema on February 10, 2015 at 6:11 am

    Do I need to activate or deactivate the Divi Child Theme before I install Divi Booster?

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    • dan on February 10, 2015 at 10:22 am

      Hi Prema, there's no need to activate or deactivate the Divi Child Theme. Divi Booster will work whether it's there or not. It also won't stop the child theme from working. Divi Booster works without making any changes to your theme (Divi or a child), so it should always work in harmony with Divi Child Theme, CSS Hero or any other plugins you install.

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11. Prema on February 10, 2015 at 6:09 am

    In your next upgrade, please consider moving the Acccordion Button to the right, instead the left of each panel.

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    • dan on February 10, 2015 at 10:22 am

      Sure thing, I'll look into adding that, Prema. Thanks.

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      • Prema on February 10, 2015 at 2:48 pm

        Dan,

        My bad. I meant to say: lease consider moving the Acccordion Button to the left, instead the right of each panel.

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        • dan on February 10, 2015 at 7:10 pm

          Okay, got it :)

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12. Lynn on February 10, 2015 at 1:39 am

    Divi seems to have A LOT of limitations that I am not used to using Dreamweaver or Artisteer.

    Just one is the ability to add a simple background image. Currently, when I add a background image, it sits in front of the page that should be white with black text…an example that I am trying to recreate: http://pattyspartytrays.com

    When I try to add the background it either:

    1. Puts the background on front so you can't even read the text because the what should be the background image is there.

    2. It puts it in a little tiny strip at the top.

    Also, if you go to that page, you will see I have a red triangle in front of the sidebar links. I can't seem to do that either.

    I have had a couple of people suggest just put in the background from the page module layout…tried that…did not work. So frustrating.

    Can your plugin do these things? If so let me know.

    Thanks,

    Lynn

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    • dan on February 10, 2015 at 10:16 am

      Hi Lynn, it can't do these yet but they'd certainly be great features to have. I'll look at trying to implement them in a future update of the plugin.

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