Over in the Divi Theme Users Group – we have seen phenomenal growth for what is essentially a bunch of people that help out a bunch of people to develop, fix and give critiques on design challenges, supply helpful resources from css tips and tricks right through to SEO, online marketing and client relationship advice.
We are not going to say it hasn’t been a challenge! As an admin of such a large group and as co founder of Elegant Marketplace we have had some criticism about the way the group is run, how much advertising goes on for individuals and indeed ourselves here at EMP. The over riding thoughts though, are very positive;
‘The most helpful, friendliest approachable, safest place to be’
‘I love this group’
‘I don’t know what I would do without all you people helping me’ and so on.
We have clients, ‘Noobs’, High End Developers and SEO experts aplenty and we love having all of you here.
When Eileen started the group, we are sure she did not have an inkling of how that would effect so many people and how indeed that one day a Marketplace would be born. That idea has been a blessing for so many. Not least of all the developers who now have their own products selling in their own stores – a real kick start to this fantastic theme marketplace.
Thousands and I mean thousands of people have benefited from the skills of dedicated entrepreneurs who have contributed to the Divi Nation. We even have a community podcast developed by Elegant Themes and hosted by the affable Nathan B Weller – a skilled Developer himself, a plethora of Divi Developers with their own shops and even another Divi specific Marketplace spawned by a developer who we helped sell their first plugin on EMP.
We have free layouts from our own developer partnerships and of course People like Craig Longmuir who uses his site to show off the various talents of individuals and businesses in the Divi Nation and supports the site by having plenty of affiliate links on it in the hope that a user will use his affiliate ID to purchase a product or service. Michelle Nunan of Divi Soup who has plenty of recipes for fixes in her Kitchen and many many more.
We have experienced a massive growth in the need and the supply of child themes, layouts and plugins for the community and of course, the need to be able to fix some issues on a premium level when the free resources simply cannot cover the issue – hence the birth of Divi Fixr which has helped lots of people since its inception and gets lots of enquiries every single day.
The development of our own learning platform was complete and then we get notification that Divi 2.7 is on its way – we took the decision to delay the launch and make sure we include as much as possible in the ongoing education of users both new and experienced.
When we officially launched on the 15th of February 2015, we had a good idea of what laid ahead of us, hard work, investment in time and money and of course praise and criticism in pretty much equal measure.
Our friends over at Elegant Themes have also pitched in to help the celebrations by offering 3 – yes, THREE LIFETIME UPGRADES to 3 lucky people – That’s a massive giveaway and we are thankful to Nick and his team for giving us this opportunity of thanking our community in this brilliant way. To apply for this giveaway you will need to comment in the page below and we will choose a random winner in one weeks time – The winner will be announced on this page and our social media outlets and advertising outlets too.
We would also take this opportunity to thank all our customers, developers and of course the helpful, caring community that we have over on Divi Theme Users.
Here’s to the future success of EMP and you!
Here’s a special thanks to all the developers that have helped Elegant Marketplace become the go to place for Divi Help and Solutions.
See who they are by visiting our store!
Eileen Lonergan and Andrew Palmer – Co Founders – Elegant Marketplace
This is really great! I love what you are doing and obviously, I’m not alone. Keep up the great work!
Love Elegant Themes and Elegant Marketplace. Thanks for all that you do for us!
Congrats! Such a useful site–it’s popularity is no surprise!
Happy to be part of the 11k!
Congrats! Looks like you got great stuff over here. I now know what I’ll be doing the next half an hour 😀
Congratulations team!
11000 members is a great achievement and you manage it so very, very well.
I am grateful every day for the Divi Theme Users group. 🙂
Thanks for all that you offer. The group is a huge asset and so welcomed. Hope to win – I know I will be using Elegant Themes for a long time.
A new user of the DIVI Theme.
Congratulations and thanks for the great resource
Being involved with DIVI and this group, has helped me to grow and be happy to develop my site. Instead of it being a dreaded frustration, I see it as creating an art form. Thank you for being there for me and this gracious group.
Here’s my lucky comment!
The website I listed is my last Divi website — not my website (It’s on the list) !
Learning goes both ways, despite how many questions I know the answer to.
Awesome Theme, awesome support group, awesome members. What more can I say? And a lifetime upgrade – an awesome prize. Divi Rocks!!
This group has been amazing for me. So many experts willing to help Colin even spent hours backing up a site for me. Awesome group of people!
I feel so blessed I found and bought into Divi. Truly the Best on the Internet
This is great! Fingers crossed…
Congrats to Elegant Themes and Elegant Marketplace! I luv u guys for what you have done and for your generosity!
More power and success to all of you!
Even as a relative newbie, the group is so welcoming and positive. I really appreciate the opportunity to learn from all of you. Thanks!
This group is amazing. There are so many talented people willing to help and solve problems, and indulge in a little light hearted banter too. I’m totally hooked and spend too much time here, but I’m afraid I might miss some gem. I’ve only been a member since January, but have already saved close to 800 posts “in case they come in handy” … It also demonstrates that I’m at the noob end of the scale.
You have created a fantastic resource and a great group and should be really proud! Congratulations.
I love the Divi group. I’m not a coder or developer but just a user trying to build my own travel blogging site from scratch. I chose Divi because I could have complete control over what my site did and how it looked. But it would have been nothing without all the help and advice, suggestions and comments of the people in the group. I learn whether I have a question or not. Just reading the questions and comments others make opens my eyes to things I had no idea about. Best of all, the tone and atmosphere is always friendly and helpful, with no egos or nastiness ruining the experience. Congratulations to everyone who has made this happen. It’s made a huge difference to my Divi experience, that’s for sure.
I’ve never had to ask for help from Elegant Themes, because the resources have already been so kindly collated, or talked about on the group, and when search doesn’t come up with anything, I’m confident that when I ask a question, a bunch of friendly helpers will lend a hand. From a complete noob to Divi only 9 months ago, and as a freelancer working from home, it’s so lovely to have such a great community that I already feel part of. Thanks guys!
I just joined the group and absolutely love it so far, haven’t been very active yet but will sure post some of my new work..! Already have gotten lots of tips though, so glad I joined!
What can I say about this group and Divi itself. It has allowed me to generate Extra income that I would not have had without it. So little by little I invest in my sons future and reinvest in more divi products. I have ventured out to build my own site on another theme so broaden my theme Knowledge and where did I end up? Deleting the theme I was messing with and installing Divi AKA “Old Faithful” as I call it now. With all of the help from those within the group`and the relationships I have gained it is truly amazing. I have even created a partnership with another gentlemen from the group and we have been working together now for about 6 months on different projects. Thank you for the theme and for the group and all of the market places made available to us. #Diviforlife 🙂
Congratulations on the growth of this community! It’s humbling to be in a group with so many talented individuals.
A big THANK YOU to all the developers, support crew and the forum members for everything! What I can build in Divi would take 4x the time with other layout builders.
I started using Divi when it was first released and have been building sites with it ever since. While there are other page layout builders out there, I’ve found that my clients adapt to Divi much quicker. As a site developer, one of the main goals is to build a site that your client is comfortable with using when you are done designing it. Divi makes it super easy for clients to edit things after the site is built while allowing sections to be locked from their general editing to protect the overall style of the page. I don’t want bogged down with day to day text/photo edits on their sites, but I do want the work when they need something major done. Its a win-win for both the developer and the client!
Beyond that there are so many great people on the Divi Themes Users Facebook group willing to help with just about everything. That too is amazing because many are developers like myself…competitors, per se…but we all work together like a family to help each other out. Divi really is more just software, it actually created a great family of like-minded friends that can build fantastic websites. The Borg has nothing on the Divi Collective! 😛
Congratulations – Don’t know what I would do without this group – I have lurked for quite a while and learned so much! Thank you!
Bit of a lurker I am afraid, but I know if I need help or advice this is the place to be.
One of my client came up with project on Divi… While defending other themes are better… I personally started working only on Divi… Two things turned me towards divi :
1) Andrew helped me at intial days in fb group and as it has been said “I had never looked back after it ” always believe to give back and share experience we have gone through
2) EMP, it helped me to design my plugin and sell it over on his site
Personal thanks to EMP, divi fb group and Nick roach (for divi)
I guess this success of Fb group couldn’t come at better time. I have never created a divi website. I’m a complete noob at this but I’m also in desperate need of a very flexible theme. I’m a graphic recorder and visual thinking and visual language trainer. What I do for living needs both good corporate side of website with all the about me, services, portfolio and so on for freelance side of graphic recording business. But at the same time it’s impossible for me to make ends meet with only graphic recording. So I’m considering for few months now creating a blog side of business to promote my trainings and workshops and also an online course. Divi’s flexibility seems perfect for this.
The only thing I’m afraid of: will I be able to create good enough site? For sure big community will be helpful! So thanks again for creating it and being warm and welcoming for noobs like me!
You are a winner – Lifetime upgrade for you – please mail us on our support link with your ET user name and I will get ET to upgrade you. https://elegantmarketplace.com/support/
Thanks for all your Support
Andrew & Eileen
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Congrats! ..and hopefully there are many more happy users and years to come 🙂
This group has inspired me and given me so much help! So glad I found you guys!!
I am pretty new to the group but love it. I’m also getting close to my one year elegant anniversary so I need to upgrade soon. I love Divi! It’s like playing with web legos!-)
Knowing more than 11,000 people have our backs makes it much easier to sell and take on jobs! I cant thank you and Eileen enough for this awesome group and support!
Thank you to those that have made contributions. This page has helped me over and over.
I love-love-love the facebook group 🙂
And I am trying to give back as much as I can
Amazing value and lots of helpful tips on elegant marketplace
A solid product, with a superior network of support available (at all hours!). I appreciate the wisdom and kindness in this group, and the desire to help others succeed. Thanks!
Thank you Andrew, Nick, Eileen, Geno, Eileen and everyone else that makes our “little” group so special. I know j get a tone of value from everything you all do and appreciate it very much.
The FB community is amazing. Every time I have an issue, I search the group and can generally find an answer without even needing to post. Love how supportive everyone is.
Wow! Congrats. I have learned so much from this group. I read every post! Thanks to all of you.
Best support group ever, so many helpful people
Thank you for this group, I have learned a lot!
Congratulations and thanks for all the good advice everyone gives. People are so helpful. Excited about the possibility of winning a lifetime upgrade too of course! Lol
This is by far the best and most helpful group I’ve ever belonged to! I’m new tonDivi but have learned so much from this group. Thanks…as a solopreneur were always told to work smarter not harder…Using DIVI and this group were both the Smarter. Choice! Very grateful!
Congrats to the DiviTheme Users group. What triggered me towards Divi/Extra from ElegantThemes was that the products looked solid and was constantly improved and updated by the company, which is a definite must for a WordPress theme/builder these days. The icing on the cake was when I later found the Divi Theme Users group with a thriving and very helpful community of very talented people. The knowledge and info provided through the community and here on ElegantMarketplace has truly helped me and it has made the Divi/Extra theme/builder solution a complete no-brainer compared to other systems. Congrats to the users group. May it thrive and grow for years to come. Congrats!!!
Congratulations from a Divi newbie who is really loving it!
Congrats on such a good time. Just want to say that your page and some help from Geno has given me some cool stuff on my designings.
Divi is the best theme I have ever used!
Congrats on this major milestone! And what a great community!
I signed up to Elegant Themes after being in the Facebook group for a week. I started to see that there was a community behind ET and I wanted to be a part of it. I’ve never looked back, the group, newsletters and elegant marketplace work together to support its users from a beginner like me to a full on developer. You’re awesome guys, thank you, sally wadhwa 🙂
You are a winner – Lifetime upgrade for you – please mail us on our support link with your ET user name and I will get ET to upgrade you. https://elegantmarketplace.com/support/
Thanks for all your Support
Andrew & Eileen
Well done, your group and Elegant Themes is 11 000 times over, worth it!
Congrats! The group has been my savior many times. Much gratitude.
The child themes, plugins and services found here have saved me so much valuable time.
Thank you!
Just love this community and all the talented people to learn from!
This group has been a tremendous resource for a beginner like me. I don’t comment very often but I always learn something new on a daily basis. The helpful nature of the individuals in this group is lovely to see in a world of “me first”. I am grateful to be a part of it.
Awesome. I’m off to check out the child themes. Amazing that it’s grown so fast in a little over a year.
Now pick me to win! 😀
DIVI is my favorite theme, and this community has really taught me a lot of useful tips and tricks
Definitely a really useful resource.
Congratulations!!!! I LOVE Elegant Themes, not sure how I lived without it before 😀
Congrats! 11,000! Thank you for all you do.
I love this group. Its like a safe zone where “everyone knows your name”! Well done guys!!
My favourite group on Facebook. Endless resources offered by some of the most friendly and generous members I’ve found! Long may it last
I would love to win the divi lifetime membership. This is a great prize.
i have to admit that even though i dont participate actively in the group, i read it reliously, and has helped me out on my project. Keep it up guys!
Thanks for your hard work into making this a very special place online guys!
Don’t know what I would do without this Facebook group. Interesting questions/problems with precise answers that have inspired me on some of my site designs. Brilliant!
I look forward to every post. I’ve learned so much from all of you helpful folks. Hope I can return the favor(s) some day.
It’s a great community from novice to expert each person / developer grows day by day.
It’s a pleasure to offer assistance on what must be one of the friendliest. most helpful groups on Facebook 🙂
You are a winner – Lifetime upgrade for you – please mail us on our support link with your ET user name and I will get ET to upgrade you. https://elegantmarketplace.com/support/
Thanks for all your Support
Andrew & Eileen
Congratulations on this milestone achievement. Having only come into the community recently it is pleasing to see so many people helping each other be better every day. Well Done.
Time flies. It’s been over a year since I found the group on Facebook, there was no Elegant Marketplace at the time and the group was way smaller. But one thing hasn’t changed: people are still willing to help each other.
I remember being helped a lot (for Andrew and Eileen including). And after more than a year I still hasn’t been able to find any similar group on the internet.
I love you guys and I hope we can keep this good vibe for long good years.
Your friend,
Leonidas Yopan
11000 members! Congratulations!
Woohoo.. 11k !!
Love this group! It’s a well of information and has been super useful. Keep up the good work