Divi Booster is a Divi plugin that just makes your life as a website developer easier. It adds 100’s of configuration options to the already impressive Divi WordPress theme. Want an example? Here’s a video I did showing the long way and the short way to add additional social media pages to your Divi theme (guess which plugin I used to show the short way). But it doesn’t just help with social media, it also allows you to make adjustments to sliders, headers, posts, pages, modules … like I wrote above, it does about 100's of things. $29 lifetime.

Short Pixel is a great way to automatically resize and compress images on your WordPress site. Compressing images will help your site run faster. A lot of us use Photoshop to compress images, but let’s be honest, it doesn’t always do the best job. Short Pixel not only reduces the size of an image, it does it without any loss in quality. It supports JPG, PNG, GIF, PDF, and WebP. Give it a try. Both free and paid versions (although I recommend paid version, as you will go through your free credits much quicker than you expect).

This plugin has a lot of terrific modules that will really help make your Divi website pop. As I noted above, I built these modules using Divi Essential. At the time of this writing, there are more than 60 modules you can use with Divi. Read my review. $49 - $199 depending on license.

This is not a Divi plugin per se, but I have used it a lot. I just had to move 5 clients to new web hosts and was really dreading the process. Guess what? With Duplicator, there was nothing to dread. I installed it, ran through a couple of steps, downloaded the files, uploaded the files, ran through a couple of steps, and voilà, my client sites were up and running as though nothing had changed. It was simple. I like simple. I did a video to show just how simple. Free. Pro Version available (pricing varies, depending on license but starts at only $69).

At only $9 for unlimited use, BAM is one of those must have modules for any website designer who builds sites that show before and after photos. Landscapers, Fitness, Medical, Car Repair, Design, Make-up, the list of sites this can be used on just goes on and on.

BAM is just one of the great products from Superfly, a website full of tutorials, plugins and child themes. Peruse their directory to see if there is anything else that you can use. $9. Or sign up for a membership and get all their plugins free.

Up until recently, I always used a plugin called WP-Maintenance Mode to create maintenance pages (those pages I would have up and running while I worked on a website, or when a client didn’t pay for hosting I would use it to turn off their website until they paid). Not anymore. I now use the FREE (at least for now) Divi Coming Soon plugin from the good people at Divi Life. This allows you to build a coming soon (or any type of page you want) and have it displayed to your visitors while you work on your website. And if you don’t want to bother building your own page, they even offer some custom built pages for a nominal fee. And while you’re there, check out their other plugins and layouts. You might find some stuff that’ll make your Divi Life easier … see what I did there? Free.

Before Divi easily added drop shadows, borders and the ability to round borders in their module settings, one of my favorite ways to do this was via shortcode from Drop Shadow Boxes, mostly when I was inserting one into a text box. Otherwise, I would just use CSS. However, I no longer need the plugin. When I stopped using the plugin because of Divi’s improvements, I wanted to find all the shortcodes and replace it with a Divi Module. On sites with hundreds of posts, Shortcodes Finder easily located all my Drop Shadows Boxes shortcodes, which allowed me to redo those sections with a Divi Module instead. Free.