DiviLife – Divi Bars

It is claimed that Divi Bars provides users the ability to make slide-in promo bars, notification bars, opt-in bars, and other types of bars by leveraging the capabilities of the Divi Builder.

What is Divi Bars and what can you do with it?

Tim Strifler runs the independently owned and maintained website known as Divi Life, which is responsible for the production of Divi Bars.

Therefore, it is not an official component of the Divi theme; however, it intends to offer Divi-specific tutorials and goods with the purpose of providing you with even more alternatives with the Divi Builder.

This also means that it is only applicable to you if you are using the Divi theme or the Extra Theme, both of which are produced by Elegant Themes and make use of the Divi Builder. Having either of these themes is required. If you are using one of these themes, the Divi Bars plugin will not be available to you.

My own website, OnlineZeroToHero.com, is built with Divi, and I spent a considerable amount of time hunting for a reliable notification bar.

In the end, I decided to go with Divi Bars because it is designed to work exclusively with Divi. When I first started using this plugin, I ran into a lot of problems, but it also has a lot of pretty nice options. Let me just say right off the bat that it has some really good options.

If you feel that Divi Bars is the correct choice for you, I hope that this review can help you gain a thorough grasp of what to expect and how to avoid spending as much time as I did if you do decide to purchase it.

So let’s begin by discussing the various options available to you with the Divi Bars plugin.

Features

Create notification bars, promo bars, and more

The most important reason to purchase Divi Bars for your website is if you need notification bars, marketing bars, or any other kind of bar like that.

These can come in very helpful and are a fantastic method for promoting unique material, deals, and other types of content.

You can see that I advertise a piece of content on my website by placing a bar at the top of the screen that links to it. In this material, I describe how I make a living by working online.

There are a great number of plugins available for use in situations like this, but if you have Divi, the Divi Bars plugin is most likely going to be the most versatile answer you can find. It makes use of the adaptability of the Divi Builder, allowing you to construct notification bars and other elements more or less according to your whims.

To a large extent, you are able to design the bars that you want, which is, in my opinion, a fairly cool feature. However, this does mean that there is a bit of a learning curve when compared to plugins that are easier to use, but I will talk more about how to utilize Divi Bars in the next paragraphs.

You can personalize not only the appearance but also the functionality of the app, as well as a significant number of its settings.

For instance, you can determine exactly when and where your Divi Bars will be displayed by using triggers. (page load, timed delay, scroll delay, or exit intent).

You have the ability to position it at the top or bottom of the screen, hide it on specific devices, alter its appearance so that it is consistent with the device, choose the amount of time cookies are kept, choose whether or not a close button is displayed, and more.

In conclusion, I would say that, all things considered, it is unquestionably one of the most adaptable plugins for notification bars that I have come across.

However, this does not necessarily indicate that it is the best answer for you because it also has certain drawbacks, which I will discuss in more detail later.

Divi Bars templates

When I initially started using Divi Bars, I’ll be honest and say that I was a little bit puzzled about how to get started and how to make a bar to appear like the samples I had seen. But now that I’ve used Divi Bars for a while, I’ve gotten the hang of it.

You are in luck because Divi Bars comes with various different templates that you may employ. You can import them and get started quickly using this method, and you can then change the bars as necessary.

Once you have the plugin, these Divi Bars templates may be downloaded for free. Be mindful, however, that even after the plugin has been active, they will not immediately become accessible within WordPress on their own.

Before you can upload each template to WordPress, you must first download it from the members area of the Divi Life website, where you can find all of the available templates.

They offer a teaching video that demonstrates where to obtain these templates; however, the location of these templates has now been moved, and I have to spend a significant amount of time locating them.

I’ll simply briefly describe where you can get the templates so that you don’t have to waste time trying to figure things out on your own.

After you have successfully entered into your Divi Life account, the first thing you need to do is click the option labeled “purchase history.”

Once you are aware of how to do it, locating the templates in this location, which in my opinion is not the most intuitive place to look, is simple to accomplish. I just finished something that took me a considerable amount of time to figure out because I did not really believe that would be the spot to find them:-)

Anyway, once you are there, you will be able to examine an overview of all of your previous purchases. In addition to that, there is a bar that serves a variety of drinks.

You will need to select “Plugin Layout Templates” from this menu.

When you click on one of the templates, it will begin downloading to your computer as a zip file, which you can then upload to WordPress in accordance with the tutorial that is included within the platform. (more about this tutorial later).

It is not too difficult once you have determined where to look for them.

The only drawback is that you won’t be able to preview a sample of the template before you decide to download it. You just see a name.

On the Divi Life website (the image I provided before), you will be able to view a demo of each of the distinct templates; but, you will not be able to determine for certain what each template’s name is.

This isn’t exactly the easiest thing to use. But, fortunately, you can get a general sense about what the templates are by looking at the titles. However, it is possible that you will need to try a few times before you locate the specific one that you are searching for.

Email integration

A built-in email opt-in module is included with Divi, and this module is also utilized by Divi Bars.

Because of this, you now have the ability to seamlessly link your Divi Bars with about 20 of the most well-known email platforms.

If you plan on utilizing a notification bar for opt-ins, this can undoubtedly come in helpful for you.

You can learn more about how Divi Life describes the alternatives that Divi Bars have by watching the official video that they have produced on Divi Bars, which can be found below.

How to use Divi Bars?

As was just discussed, Divi Bars comes with quite a few customization possibilities; however, this also means that there is a learning curve associated with using the plugin.

But if you’re familiar with the Divi Builder, the design and the way things are set up will be extremely familiar to you.

Nevertheless, there are a few aspects of the various settings and the process of uploading the templates that might not be that obvious to some people (at least, that was not the case for me).

As a result, I strongly suggest that you watch the official Divi Bars tutorial, which will provide you with a step-by-step walkthrough of how to get started using the plugin.

It won’t take more than approximately 16 minutes of your time, but it will provide you with a wealth of information regarding how to make use of it and how to get started with it.

Be warned, however, that the lesson has not been fully updated. For instance, it does not show you the exact location to access the templates, despite the fact that I have already discussed this step in the previous section.

However, if you are familiar with Divi and you watch the lesson, it is probable that you will be able to figure out how to make additional adjustments on your own. Although it is more complicated to use than other notification bars, it offers a great deal of customization in terms of both features and settings.

You have the option of watching the tutorial within the members-only area or watching it right here on this page.