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Twenty-Five Years Later, We Remember
Today marks twenty-five years since September 11, 2001. It’s one of those days that split time into before and after, for people everywhere, not just in the US. Nearly 3,000 people died that day, and they came from close to 90 countries. This was never only an American tragedy. I’ve lived in Turkey, call Canada home now, work on a team spread across dozens of countries, and count expats and immigrants among my closest friends here. Grief like this doesn’t stop at a border. It changed how the whole world thought about safety, travel, and each other.
Twenty-five years on, we still hold that memory close, and we think about the families everywhere who carry that loss every single day, not just today.
What strikes me every year is how many people turn to writing to process something this big. Grief doesn’t always fit into a conversation. Sometimes it needs a page.
That’s something our community does beautifully. Across WordPress.com, people all over the world have spent years building spaces to remember: personal reflections on where they were that morning, deep dives into the history of the memorials built afterward, quiet tributes to the small moments that don’t make the history books.
A couple from our own community:
The World Will Never Forget 9/11 is exactly what it sounds like, an entire blog dedicated to keeping the memory...
Twenty-five years on, we still hold that memory close, and we think about the families everywhere who carry that loss every single day, not just today.
What strikes me every year is how many people turn to writing to process something this big. Grief doesn’t always fit into a conversation. Sometimes it needs a page.
That’s something our community does beautifully. Across WordPress.com, people all over the world have spent years building spaces to remember: personal reflections on where they were that morning, deep dives into the history of the memorials built afterward, quiet tributes to the small moments that don’t make the history books.
A couple from our own community:
The World Will Never Forget 9/11 is exactly what it sounds like, an entire blog dedicated to keeping the memory...
https://wordpress.com/blog/2026/09/11/
8 Ways to Grow Website Traffic When Google Sends Less of It
If you’re confused about how to grow website traffic now that AI is reshaping search, welcome to the club.With search fragmented and audiences spread across multiple platforms, it’s less straightforward than it used to be — especially for new websites.
But that doesn’t mean organic traffic is dead. It simply means it comes from multiple smaller streams rather than a single large source.
If you’re a small business owner, freelancer, or creator trying to grow your site, this guide covers practical ways to attract visitors through search, AI visibility, newsletters, partnerships, and personal branding.
Step 1: Create content to answer real customer questions
Answering real audience questions clearly helps customers understand what you offer.
It can also give search engines and AI tools a useful page to consider when someone asks a related question — but no format guarantees a citation.
You can find out what questions your audience is asking online through:
Keyword research: Type your keyword into Google and check the “People also ask” section and autocomplete suggestions.
Customer support and sales: Mine your support inbox and sales calls for recurring questions, or ask your customers directly.
Social media listening: Monitor your brand mentions and important keywords in social networks. Browse relevant niche communities on...
But that doesn’t mean organic traffic is dead. It simply means it comes from multiple smaller streams rather than a single large source.
If you’re a small business owner, freelancer, or creator trying to grow your site, this guide covers practical ways to attract visitors through search, AI visibility, newsletters, partnerships, and personal branding.
Step 1: Create content to answer real customer questions
Answering real audience questions clearly helps customers understand what you offer.
It can also give search engines and AI tools a useful page to consider when someone asks a related question — but no format guarantees a citation.
You can find out what questions your audience is asking online through:
Keyword research: Type your keyword into Google and check the “People also ask” section and autocomplete suggestions.
Customer support and sales: Mine your support inbox and sales calls for recurring questions, or ask your customers directly.
Social media listening: Monitor your brand mentions and important keywords in social networks. Browse relevant niche communities on...
https://wordpress.com/blog/2026/09/09/
6 Expressive Google Variable Fonts For Bold Divi 5 Headlines
Open the font dropdown while editing text in almost any project, and you will probably scroll past many of the same reliable choices. That makes sense for body text, where readability across longer passages matters. Hero headings have a different job. With only a few words to communicate, they can afford to be more expressive.
Google Fonts includes several variable fonts that look too unusual for body copy but can work well as display type. The six designs below use expressive Google variable fonts in Divi 5, with each font assigned a specific role.
Why These Fonts Get Skipped
At first glance, it is easy to see why these fonts are often overlooked.
Bitcount constructs its glyphs from repeated, pixel-like elements.
Sixtyfour Convergence layers color and scanline-based elements to create CRT-inspired glyphs.
Handjet builds glyphs from modular elements that can resemble an LED display.
Shantell Sans uses its Bounce and Informality axes to create an irregular, hand-drawn feel.
Kablammo combines a Morph axis with contextual alternates, allowing repeated characters to take different forms.
Honk is a color font with built-in palettes and shadows.
At 16px, the more decorative fonts quickly lose clarity, while even the more readable options can feel too active across a long paragraph. That makes them easy to dismiss as novelty fonts. However, paragraph size is the wrong test for a...
Google Fonts includes several variable fonts that look too unusual for body copy but can work well as display type. The six designs below use expressive Google variable fonts in Divi 5, with each font assigned a specific role.
Why These Fonts Get Skipped
At first glance, it is easy to see why these fonts are often overlooked.
Bitcount constructs its glyphs from repeated, pixel-like elements.
Sixtyfour Convergence layers color and scanline-based elements to create CRT-inspired glyphs.
Handjet builds glyphs from modular elements that can resemble an LED display.
Shantell Sans uses its Bounce and Informality axes to create an irregular, hand-drawn feel.
Kablammo combines a Morph axis with contextual alternates, allowing repeated characters to take different forms.
Honk is a color font with built-in palettes and shadows.
At 16px, the more decorative fonts quickly lose clarity, while even the more readable options can feel too active across a long paragraph. That makes them easy to dismiss as novelty fonts. However, paragraph size is the wrong test for a...
https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/div
Exploring Divi 5’s Instagram Module
The Instagram Feed Module brings Instagram galleries directly into Divi 5. Connect an account, choose how many posts to display, and style the resulting feed directly inside the Visual Builder.
One of the module’s biggest advantages is how deeply it connects with Divi 5’s newer image tools. Instagram feeds naturally mix square, portrait, and landscape media, but Aspect Ratio and Framing let you give those posts a consistent shape without editing the original images. You can define the frame, control how each image fills it, reposition the crop, and reuse that treatment with Image Option Group Presets.
The rest of the feed follows the same principle. Feed and Item controls shape the gallery itself, the Follow button uses Divi’s familiar Button settings, and the module can be styled as part of the same design system as the page around it.
Connecting An Instagram Account
Before the feed can display anything, Divi needs an Instagram Access Token. Open the Instagram Feed Module and go to Content > Account.
On a site without a connected account, you’ll see a Select An Account dropdown and an Add button. Click Add and Divi asks for two values: an Account Name and an Access Token. The Account Name is simply the label Divi uses to identify the connection, which is useful if you work with multiple Instagram accounts. The Access Token is the credential that...
One of the module’s biggest advantages is how deeply it connects with Divi 5’s newer image tools. Instagram feeds naturally mix square, portrait, and landscape media, but Aspect Ratio and Framing let you give those posts a consistent shape without editing the original images. You can define the frame, control how each image fills it, reposition the crop, and reuse that treatment with Image Option Group Presets.
The rest of the feed follows the same principle. Feed and Item controls shape the gallery itself, the Follow button uses Divi’s familiar Button settings, and the module can be styled as part of the same design system as the page around it.
Connecting An Instagram Account
Before the feed can display anything, Divi needs an Instagram Access Token. Open the Instagram Feed Module and go to Content > Account.
On a site without a connected account, you’ll see a Select An Account dropdown and an Add button. Click Add and Divi asks for two values: an Account Name and an Access Token. The Account Name is simply the label Divi uses to identify the connection, which is useful if you work with multiple Instagram accounts. The Access Token is the credential that...
https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/div
9 Creative Team Sections For Divi 5 (Free Download!)
Divi 5 makes it easy to introduce the people behind your brand with team sections that feel intentional, polished, and visually distinctive. In this free pack, you’ll get 9 Creative Team Sections for Divi 5 that are perfect for agencies, startups, creative studios, company websites, about pages, leadership teams, departments, and more.
Each design combines team photography, names, roles, typography, color, and structured layouts in a different way, giving you plenty of options for presenting everything from a small creative team to a larger organization. Import a section, replace the team details and photos, customize the styling, and you’re ready to go.
Preview
Here’s a quick look at the 9 Creative Team Sections included in the pack. The download is further down the post.
Download 9 Creative Team Sections For Divi 5
Get all 9 sections for free. Import them into your Divi Library and add them to any page in the Visual Builder.
Download the Files
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Each design combines team photography, names, roles, typography, color, and structured layouts in a different way, giving you plenty of options for presenting everything from a small creative team to a larger organization. Import a section, replace the team details and photos, customize the styling, and you’re ready to go.
Preview
Here’s a quick look at the 9 Creative Team Sections included in the pack. The download is further down the post.
Download 9 Creative Team Sections For Divi 5
Get all 9 sections for free. Import them into your Divi Library and add them to any page in the Visual Builder.
Download the Files
.et_bloom .et_bloom_optin_1 .et_bloom_form_content { background-color: #4843d2 !important; } .et_bloom .et_bloom_optin_1 .et_bloom_form_container .et_bloom_form_header { background-color: #ffffff !important; } .et_bloom .et_bloom_optin_1 .carrot_edge .et_bloom_form_content:before { border-top-color: #ffffff !important; } .et_bloom .et_bloom_optin_1 .carrot_edge.et_bloom_form_right ....
https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/div
Build Fancy Loops With Divi 5’s New CSS Grid Editor
A dynamic blog grid needs two things to work well together: content that can change and a layout that can keep up with it. New posts get published, categories grow, and the number of items returned by a query changes over time. The goal is to build the card and the surrounding structure once, then let the system handle what comes next.
That’s where three Divi 5 features work especially well together. The Loop Builder supplies and repeats the content. CSS Grid controls how those repeated items are arranged. And the new Grid Editor gives you a visual way to shape that Grid, including more advanced repeating patterns with Grid Offset Rules.
In this tutorial, we’ll build one dynamic blog card, turn it into a Loop, place those repeated cards inside a CSS Grid, and then use the Grid Editor to create four more creative Loop layouts.
What Are Loops?
A Loop displays a changing collection of content using one repeated design. Instead of manually creating a card for every blog post, product, Project, author, or other entry, you design one item and let WordPress supply the content that belongs in each repetition.
Divi 5’s Loop Builder brings that workflow into the Visual Builder. You choose the element you want to repeat, configure the query that determines what content should appear, and then connect modules inside the repeated structure to Loop Dynamic Content.
That...
That’s where three Divi 5 features work especially well together. The Loop Builder supplies and repeats the content. CSS Grid controls how those repeated items are arranged. And the new Grid Editor gives you a visual way to shape that Grid, including more advanced repeating patterns with Grid Offset Rules.
In this tutorial, we’ll build one dynamic blog card, turn it into a Loop, place those repeated cards inside a CSS Grid, and then use the Grid Editor to create four more creative Loop layouts.
What Are Loops?
A Loop displays a changing collection of content using one repeated design. Instead of manually creating a card for every blog post, product, Project, author, or other entry, you design one item and let WordPress supply the content that belongs in each repetition.
Divi 5’s Loop Builder brings that workflow into the Visual Builder. You choose the element you want to repeat, configure the query that determines what content should appear, and then connect modules inside the repeated structure to Loop Dynamic Content.
That...
https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/div
Everything You Should Know About The Loop Filter Modules In Divi 5
Divi 5‘s Loop Builder lets you turn Divi elements into dynamic feeds for posts, products, projects, custom post types, and other queried content. You design one repeated item, connect it to Dynamic Content, and let Divi populate the layout from WordPress.
The new Loop Filter Modules add the visitor-facing side of that system. Instead of deciding every query condition while building the page, you can create custom filter forms that let visitors search, filter, and reorder the results themselves on the front end.
In this post, we’ll look at how the Loop Filter system fits into Divi 5’s Loop Builder, what each filter type does, how fields connect to taxonomies and custom fields, how to build and style a complete filter form, and several practical ways to use the feature.
What Are The Loop Filter Modules In Divi 5?
Loop Filter Modules let visitors interact with post-based Loop Builder content directly on the front end. A visitor might search a blog by keyword, narrow a portfolio by project category, filter a directory by location, or reorder a product-style catalog without needing a separate page for every combination.
At the center of the system is the Post Filter Module. It acts as the wrapper for the complete filter form and connects that form to a target Loop. Inside it, you add Post Filter Item Modules, with each item providing one control such as a Text...
The new Loop Filter Modules add the visitor-facing side of that system. Instead of deciding every query condition while building the page, you can create custom filter forms that let visitors search, filter, and reorder the results themselves on the front end.
In this post, we’ll look at how the Loop Filter system fits into Divi 5’s Loop Builder, what each filter type does, how fields connect to taxonomies and custom fields, how to build and style a complete filter form, and several practical ways to use the feature.
What Are The Loop Filter Modules In Divi 5?
Loop Filter Modules let visitors interact with post-based Loop Builder content directly on the front end. A visitor might search a blog by keyword, narrow a portfolio by project category, filter a directory by location, or reorder a product-style catalog without needing a separate page for every combination.
At the center of the system is the Post Filter Module. It acts as the wrapper for the complete filter form and connects that form to a target Loop. Inside it, you add Post Filter Item Modules, with each item providing one control such as a Text...
https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/div
Divi Product Highlight: Divi Sensei Icons
Divi 5 includes a native icon system that makes icons easy to add and style throughout the Visual Builder. For projects that need a much larger selection, Divi Sensei Icons by Divi Sensei expands that same workflow with thousands of additional choices.
Built specifically for Divi 5, the extension adds more than 14,000 icons directly to Divi’s native icon picker, with more than 30,000 variations when its thin, regular, and bold line weights are counted. The library combines familiar open icon collections with custom, industry-focused sets designed for more specific business use cases.
In this Product Highlight, we’ll look at what Divi Sensei Icons includes, how its native Divi 5 integration works, how the library stays manageable at this scale, and how to start using the icons inside the Visual Builder.
Why A Larger Icon Library Can Be Useful
Icons are a practical way to add visual cues without adding more copy. They can help visitors scan a service grid, distinguish features, recognize actions, understand navigation, and move through a page more quickly. When the icon style stays consistent across a website, it can also become part of the wider visual system alongside typography, color, spacing, and imagery.
Divi 5 already gives designers a native icon picker and dedicated Icon Module, along with icon controls inside modules such as Blurbs and Buttons. Divi Sensei...
Built specifically for Divi 5, the extension adds more than 14,000 icons directly to Divi’s native icon picker, with more than 30,000 variations when its thin, regular, and bold line weights are counted. The library combines familiar open icon collections with custom, industry-focused sets designed for more specific business use cases.
In this Product Highlight, we’ll look at what Divi Sensei Icons includes, how its native Divi 5 integration works, how the library stays manageable at this scale, and how to start using the icons inside the Visual Builder.
Why A Larger Icon Library Can Be Useful
Icons are a practical way to add visual cues without adding more copy. They can help visitors scan a service grid, distinguish features, recognize actions, understand navigation, and move through a page more quickly. When the icon style stays consistent across a website, it can also become part of the wider visual system alongside typography, color, spacing, and imagery.
Divi 5 already gives designers a native icon picker and dedicated Icon Module, along with icon controls inside modules such as Blurbs and Buttons. Divi Sensei...
https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/div
