More than just a WordPress theme, Divi is a website building platform that replaces the standard WordPress post editor with a new visual editor. The vendor states it can be enjoyed by design professionals and newcomers alike, and is designed to give users the ability to create spectacular designs with ease and efficiency.
$89
per year
Movable Type
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Movable Type is a Perl-based content management system from Six Apart, featuring the capability to host multiple weblogs and standalone content pages, manage files and user roles, templates, tags, categories, and trackback links.
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Divi
Movable Type
Editions & Modules
Divi
$89
per year
Divi Pro
$277
per year
Divi Lifetime + Pro Services
$297
today + 212 each following year
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Divi
Movable Type
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Free/Freemium Version
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Lifetime subscriptions are also available for a one time fee.
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Divi
Movable Type
Features
Divi
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Security
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Divi
8.7
8 Ratings
6% above category average
Movable Type
5.0
1 Ratings
49% below category average
Role-based user permissions
8.78 Ratings
5.01 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
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Divi
6.5
8 Ratings
18% below category average
Movable Type
6.0
1 Ratings
25% below category average
API
9.37 Ratings
6.01 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language
3.76 Ratings
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Web Content Creation
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Divi
8.7
10 Ratings
11% above category average
Movable Type
6.4
1 Ratings
20% below category average
WYSIWYG editor
10.09 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness
8.27 Ratings
6.01 Ratings
Admin section
9.210 Ratings
8.01 Ratings
Page templates
8.610 Ratings
5.01 Ratings
Library of website themes
8.110 Ratings
3.01 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design
9.310 Ratings
8.01 Ratings
Publishing workflow
9.98 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
Form generator
6.710 Ratings
3.01 Ratings
Web Content Management
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Is your business an enterprise level business that has more than a half dozen different content types? If so, then you might want to use a dedicated CMS rather than Movable Type. Movable Type is best used on small / medium sized businesses and is not the best solution for a full-fledged CMS. If you're using your content for something other than just displaying a website, then it's probably not for you. Movable Type works great for news/blogging sites. In fact, Daring Fireball, one of the most popular Apple-centric blogs is using Movable Type as its publishing platform.
Easy to use straight out of the box, very user friendly with an intuitive interface.
Great for team use where there are multiple editors and writers fixing and editing each other's works. It's easy to track who last made the latest edits.
Stellar support team and system. I've found that Moveable Type's support system is generally more responsive and helpful than WordPress.
The load time of the builder could be faster. On some websites it takes a long time to load, and may crash the page. (I believe they've said they're working on this stability issue.)
Warnings on updates if they're difficult for some sites to run. I have one website that has crashed more than once from Divi's theme updates. I always back it up before the update so I restore the site, but this is still a bit of an inconvenience.
Integrated (or more clearly marked) tutorials within the builder. I migrate site maintenance and ownership to clients after the site is complete and some could use refreshers within the builder on what happens where i.e. the difference between a section, row, module.
Especially on the older versions, the limited number of well-developed third-party plugins is problematic for efficiently developing a well-functioning website.
Versions of movable type which didn't allow pages to be constructed were difficult to create continuity in design and easily editable pages for our editors.
The installation process could be simplified to make it easier for those new to a CMS to install.
I think there are still improvements to be made. I haven't tapped in to the full functionality of the CMS yet but the rating I give it now is only based on what I've been able to use it for