When building a WordPress website, Divi and Elementor are easily two of the most popular page builders you'll come across.

While both offer a drag-and-drop interface and share many core features, each builder also has unique features that set it apart. Sometimes, these specific features are exactly what help you decide which builder is the perfect fit for your project.

In this article, we'll explore these features and help you understand what makes Divi and Elementor truly unique beyond their core functionalities.

Divi's Unique Features

Divi has many unique features that aim to improve your workflow, help you make better decisions, and save time.

Let's explore some of these standout features you'll find within the Divi Builder.

1. Wireframe View

While Elementor focuses on offering a live, visual drag-and-drop experience, Divi provides a unique alternative with its Wireframe View. This feature transforms your page into a simplified, block-based structure showing only the outline of your sections, rows, columns, and modules.

This view is incredibly useful for getting a quick overview of your page layout, rearranging sections quickly, or finding specific modules without visual distractions.

Compared to Elementor’s Structure Panel, Divi's Wireframe View offers a more developed and interactive way to understand and manipulate your page's underlying structure.

2. Built-In A/B Testing (Split Testing)

Another unique feature that comes built-in with the Divi Builder is Divi Leads, and it allows you to perform A/B testing directly within the editor.

You can use this feature to test variations of modules like headlines, buttons, or calls-to-action, and set goals like button clicks or form submissions. Divi will show different versions to your visitors and provide detailed analytics to help you see which performs better. This data helps you make informed decisions to improve your site's effectiveness.

3. User Role Permission

When working with clients or in a team, controlling who can make design changes is important. While both builders offer user role editors, Divi goes a step ahead and lets you enable or disable access to specific modules, settings, or even the builder itself based on standard WordPress user roles.

Additionally, it also has a Lock feature. This allows you to manually lock specific modules, while still giving edit access to other modules on a page. To lock a module, just right-click on it and select the Lock option.

Both of these features prevent users with limited permissions from moving, deleting, or modifying the design settings.

4. Contact Form Conditional Logic

While Elementor also includes a form widget, Divi's Contact Form module includes a unique conditional logic feature. This feature allows you to configure how each form field behaves based on the user's input in previous fields.

For example, you could show specific fields only if a user selects a certain option in a dropdown menu. This is incredibly helpful when you want to create dynamic forms that personalize the user experience or gather specific information based on previous answers, making your forms smarter.

5. Module Design Presets

To counter the Global Site Settings feature from Elementor, Divi offers Module Presets that allow you to save custom styles and reuse them across your site.

You can create presets for any module or section and then apply that saved style to other instances with a single click. If you update the preset, all modules using it can be updated automatically.

6. Multi-Select and Bulk Editing

One of the major time-saving features that Divi offers is the Multi-Select and Bulk Editing feature.

If you have multiple modules, rows, or columns on a page that you want to modify in the same way, editing them one by one can be tedious. The Multi-Select and Bulk Editing feature allows you to select several modules, rows, or columns at once and then apply changes to common settings simultaneously.

This dramatically speeds up the process of making consistent adjustments across different parts of your layout.

7. Find & Replace Styles and Extend Styles

This is another time-saving feature that lets you find all instances of specific design settings (like a particular color or font size) on a page and replace them with a new value.

All you have to do is right-click the design option inside the module settings and choose the Find & Replace option. The changes are applied throughout the page in a few clicks, which otherwise would have taken a few hours.

Extend Styles is another time-saving feature that works in a similar way, but instead allows you to take a specific style setting from one module (like a margin value or a border style) and extend it to all modules of the same type on the page, or to all modules within a specific section.

8. Searchable Settings

Divi's settings panels can be extensive, offering deep control for every aspect of the module. To help you find the specific setting you need quickly, Divi includes a nifty search feature.

This allows you to type into the search bar within a module's settings and show only relevant settings to your search term. This saves you from scrolling through long lists of options, making it easier to locate and adjust the setting you're looking for.

Elementor's Unique Features

Elementor is known for its intuitive visual editor, but it includes many features designed to streamline your workflow and give you great control over your design. In fact, some are so useful they can even help you avoid installing extra plugins.

Let's explore some of these unique features that Elementor has to offer.

1. Global Site Settings (Theme Style)

Maintaining design consistency across a large website can be challenging. Elementor addresses this with Global Site Settings, also known as Theme Style. This feature allows you to define site-wide settings for typography, colors, buttons, form fields, and more from one central place.

Once set, these styles automatically apply to widgets used throughout your website. If you need to make a change, you update it in the Site Settings, and it gets reflected everywhere on your site that uses those global settings.

While Divi does have global color and font features, Elementor's Site Settings gives you more controls and covers a broader range of widget types.

2. Loop Grid

Another unique Elementor feature is the Loop Grid. It is useful for creating dynamic content lists, such as blog posts, products, or custom post types, with complete visual control over their appearance.

Instead of relying on pre-set layouts, the loop grid widget lets you design a template for just one item in your list using any widget. Elementor then uses this template to display all the items from your query.

This gives you flexibility to create unique archive pages, related posts sections, or custom grids that perfectly match your design needs.

3. Built-in Popup Builder

Elementor also includes a unique Popup Builder built-in directly into the editor. This feature lets you design various types of popups, such as modals, slide-ins, or notification bars, right inside the Elementor interface using all your familiar widgets.

What makes it unique are the advanced targeting and trigger options. You get complete control over exactly when, where, and to whom your popups should appear based on user behavior, specific pages, referral sources, and more.

While Divi also offers a popup solution, it is provided through a separate plugin having a different interface and editor.

4. Floating Elements

If you have an online store or a business website, you know how important it is to make it easy for your visitors to take action or find contact information quickly.

Elementor offers a useful feature called Floating Elements for this exact purpose. It allows you to add elements that stay visible on the screen as a user scrolls down your page. These elements come in two types: 

• Floating Buttons
• Floating Bars

One way to use this feature is to create a Floating Contact Button that connects visitors directly to you. 

Elementor offers direct integrations with various communication platforms, and you can fully customize the button design to match your brand. It also lets you display the button only to specific visitors based on their journey history, profile, or other criteria. You also get a built-in tracking dashboard to see how visitors engaged with your buttons and bars.

5. Link In Bio

Apart from building full website pages, Elementor offers dedicated widgets that let you create simple, mobile-optimized pages containing multiple links as buttons. They are incredibly popular for social media profiles like Instagram or TikTok, where you can only have limited clickable links in your bio.

You get seven different layouts that are fully customizable using the Elementor editor. You can easily edit the individual layout to add your profile picture, a brief description, and multiple buttons with links directing visitors to different places on the web.

6. Notes

Collaboration and feedback are important, especially when working on a website with clients or in a team. Elementor includes a built-in Notes feature that lets you add comments and annotations directly onto the page you are designing within the editor.

This creates a clear, visual feedback loop. Team members or clients can leave notes attached to specific elements or areas, making it much easier to communicate design changes without relying on external tools or confusing screenshots. 

7. Copy & Paste Between Sites

When working on multiple websites, you often need to reuse designs from one site on another. While you can easily export and import templates between websites, Elementor's Copy & Paste feature makes this even simpler with just a single click.

To do this, simply right-click on any section, column, or widget within the editor and click the Copy button. Then, open the page on another site that also has Elementor installed. Right-click again and choose the Paste from other site option. This will transfer the entire structure, along with all the widgets, directly to the new page.

Conclusion: Which Builder Has More Unique Features?

As you've seen, both Divi Builder and Elementor are powerful builders, and each brings its own set of unique features to the table.

Divi stands out with unique features designed to make the building process efficient. Features like the Wireframe View, Multi-Select and Bulk Editing, Find & Replace Styles, and Extend Styles are focused on streamlining your design process and helping you save valuable time.

Elementor, on the other hand, shines with several features that help you achieve specific functionalities without needing separate plugins. Things like its built-in Popup Builder, Loop Grid Floating Elements, Notes, and the Link in Bio page creator mean you can build a highly functional site with fewer external add-ons.

What’s Missing from These Two Page Builders?

Listing so many features can create the impression that Elementor and Divi cover every possible need. However, this isn’t true. For example, here are a few key features missing from these page builders that are found in a builder called Breakdance:

• Themeless Design: Breakdance eliminates the need for a theme, giving you complete control over your design.
• Global Styling Efficiency: Breakdance’s global styling controls allow site-wide updates (e.g., typography, WooCommerce, forms) in a few clicks. This is far more convenient and efficient than using Elementor’s Global Site Settings or Divi’s Module Presets.
• Inline Global Blocks and Scroll Animations: Breakdance 2.5 offers even more control through inline editing of global blocks and scroll-based color animations—options not natively available in Elementor or Divi.
• Searchable UI Panels: This feature lets you navigate settings more quickly through a searchable properties panel, significantly enhancing workflow efficiency.
• Element Studio: Visually create and modify custom elements from within the builder, offering unparalleled flexibility for advanced users. This is essentially an element development IDE.
• Code Block: Write and run HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP directly within the builder. By comparison, Elementor and Divi limit custom code integration or require external workarounds.

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