Summary of dynamic content fields available in Divi

Divi includes several fields of dynamic content at module level that vary by module and location. These dynamic content fields can upload content from your database directly to your Divi site.

The best part is that once you upload dynamic content into a Divi module, you can style it using the design configurations built into Divi Builder. But before we talk about design, here is a list of each dynamic content field available in Divi and how they are used.

Divi Dynamic Content - Text Fields

1. Page title/file- This field dynamically extracts the title of your page or publication. You can use this in any module containing text. In addition, it is useful for creating a template with the Theme Builder for your posts.

2. Excerpt from page- This field will display the excerpt entered in the publication or page. Like the page title/file field, it is useful for building a page template for your site.

3. Date of publication- Displays the date of publication of the page or publication.

4. Number of page comments- Displays the number of comments a post has.

5. Page link- Dynamically extract a link to a specific page. This is useful when your site is in development and you do not want to re-link pages manually when launching the site.

6. Author of the page- Dynamically shows the author of the publication.

7. Automatic biography- Displays the biographical information in an author's profile (if specified).

8. Title of the site- Displays the title of your website.

9. Site motto- Displays the motto of your website.

10. Current date- Displays the current date. You can use this to show the date in your footer to eliminate the need to change it each year.

11. Manual custom field name- Displays a manual text field. You can specify text before and after and the name of the field. We will go deeper into this later.

Divi Dynamic Content - Image Fields

1. Featured image- You can dynamically link the featured image on your page or post to display it in any module containing an image field.

2. Author's profile photo- Displays the profile picture of the author of a publication.

3. Site logo- Displays the logo of your website defined in Divi → Topic Options.

Creating a dynamic content design

There are several ways to create a design with dynamic content within Divi. The first is using Divi Theme Builder. You can create posts, pages, and other types of templates.

Another way is to incorporate dynamic content using Divi Page Builder. This allows you to have static and dynamic content on the same page.

Divi Theme Builder

Getting started with the Theme Builder is easy.

1. Sail toDivi → Theme Builder.

2. Click on the + buttonAdd new templateto create your new template.

Example:When you create a post template, you will see some additional fields of dynamic content available to build your template, including publication content and post title.

As mentioned above, the Title of the publication will dynamically extract the title of the publication for the template. The Content of the publication allows you to extract the content of your post. You can stylize the body text, header text, and text and link colors.

To learn more about Divi's Theme Builder, please read your documentation.

Divi Page Builder

In addition to creating templates in the Theme Builder, you can use Divi Page Builder to use dynamic content.

Example:You can dynamically link pages using the page title dynamic content option in the button module.

Click ondynamic iconin the link field to display the dynamic content options.

1. Click ondynamic content iconin the upper-right corner of the image preview.

2. Select the Featured Image option.

Divi will dynamically extract the Featured Image from your page and insert it into the selected image module.

In addition, you can assign an author's profile picture to an image module. Dynamic Content can also be used in any module that has text options.

This is true for text modules, Blurbs, Accords, Tabs, Calls to Action and more. The possibilities are endless.

For example, the Blurb module has several options for adding dynamic content, including title text, body text, image, link, and background image sections.

Blurb Dynamic Options

Custom fields

First, let's look at some plugins that can help you build a custom Divi site for your needs.

Dynamic Content with Plugins

BothToolsetasAdvanced Custom Fieldsintegrate well with Divi.

You can create custom post types, taxonomies, field groups, and custom fields with both plugins.

One advantage of Toolset is that it allows you to create views to display loop content, similar to a blog roll page.This allows custom data queries defined by custom fields. You can extract them on your Divi pages using the Toolset View module.

This allows you to combine the static content of the page with dynamic content on the same page, using custom fields you create with Toolset.

Advanced Custom Fieldsworks similarly to Toolset, except for creating custom templates.

With ACF, you create groups of fields with custom fields, but instead of using ACF to create a template, you use custom fields directly through the Divi Builder.

Example:you want to build a furniture staging website to show different groups of living rooms. You would start by creating a group of living room fields.

Then, you would create fields within the group to highlight features of your living room. Once the fields were created, you would create publications to showcase the groups of rooms you want to offer for staging.

Finally, you would use the Divi Theme Builder to create a publishing template to display your posts.

Adding Custom Fields Manually

Another way to add custom fields is by entering them manually. By default, WordPress gives you the ability to add custom fields. Having said that, this option is hidden in the publication preferences.

Create a new post and navigate to post preferences to activate the feature.

1. Using the Gutenberg editor, click the three-point menu in the upper-right corner.

2. ClickPreferences.

Dynamic content preferences in Divi publications

3. ClickPanels.

4. Activate custom fields in the options area. WordPress will ask you to reload the page.

5. Click the buttonEnable and recharge.

Enter your data by giving a name and value to your new field.

In this case, we would start withType of sofa. Add as many values as you like, each in a separate line.