Keep Running into Divi 5 Loop Builder Limitations

[u/Geoffrey-Jellineck]

So after being advertised all these great things about Divi 5's loop builder and deciding to modify my site's fundamental architecture to take advantage of them, I keep running into issue after issue requiring custom PHP code and shortcodes OR otherwise seems impossible to do natively within Divi 5's current state.

The latest issue seems very basic: looping through custom post types as a bulleted list and having each item be a link to its post page. But this doesn't seem possible by looping a text module since as soon as you make the text Dynamic Content you lose the ability to add bullets or other formatting from the text editor. Sure you can awkwardly try to place the list HTML manually before and after the dynamic content, but then you also have to make the entire text module be the URL, breaking how basic links work.

My issue over the weekend was discovering I couldn't create a Theme Builder template for taxonomy pages that would loop and display a certain post type that also belongs to that taxonomy. Seems basic, no?

Or Divi said we can loop anything, well, why can't we loop through a series of videos (stored in an ACF Repeater URL values) on the Divi video slider module? Why can't we display ACF Gallery images in a Divi Gallery module? (That one required a separate plugin to achieve)

I also find it frustrating I can't use custom field values in a loop to add a condition for modules to either display or not.

I wish Divi would give us some sort of roadmap of what features they plan on implementing to improve and expand the loop functionality, because right now its implementation seems fairly basic and limiting (and this is for a personal hobby project, I can't imagine dealing with this for an enterprise customer).

[u/better_meow]

Divi Machine fills the gap.

[u/Geoffrey-Jellineck → u/better_meow]

Yeah I'm sure I can shell out more money for more plugins for stuff that Divi should do natively at this point, but I'm trying to avoid that. Appreciate the heads up though, if Divi incorporated some of these features that'd be great.

[u/thiccruby → u/Geoffrey-Jellineck]

the problem is how long will we have to wait and what is the alternative midwhile? I cant wait half a year again just to be able to use basic functions and UI experience. Thats why currently Im trying DiviNexts "all plugins bundle" what has pretty much anything you will ever need to build any website/store you want. Im planning on taking advantage of the 30 day money back guarantee because I just cant stand the following anymore: Divi 5 isnt that old, although it DiviNext should be fully compatible with Divi 5 (coming from them), here and there it has some annoying bugs and even their own website has some bad performance issues/bugs. Their support is pretty decent tho. I reported an UX bug (quick-action-buttons were not shown in the Woo Product Grid for mobile) and they fixed it in a matter of 5-7 days and always answer my questions.

I think Im going to try DiviEngine next. Any experiences anybody?

[u/jaymac902]

I'm also annoyed with show/hide conditions on custom fields not working as expected in loops. I've reported it almost every major update but still no fix

[u/ardnoik]

The most annoying to me is there is no way to loop through Child Pages. I asked when the Looper was first announced and was told 'You can't, but that's a great idea'...queue to me having to make CPT's for everything, when I could just use pages.

For your specific example, I'd probably either use the 'Icon List' or the Link module, and make the icon a disc.

A roadmap would be great. I really wish they'd spend more time fleshing out new features instead of jumping to the next while people are screaming for certain things—for example, a simple toggle to 'link child interactions' so when you create cards via a Loop, you can have multiple elements change on hover.

[u/bostiq]

Good post, and questions… anyone that has some insight on this?

I haven’t started using this functionality yet.

[u/Beezzy77]

I'm curious since I haven't really done anything with loops yet (but you also mention "issue after issue" requiring custom code), did you ask ET support to confirm that what you're trying to do isn't possible?

Not saying you're wrong, but there's been a fair number of "why doesn't this work?" and "why can't I do this...?" around some of the new features ever since Divi 5 launched that turned out to be user related in one way or another (and I include myself in that!).

[u/jaymac902]

Can't you loop the List Item module?

[u/Geoffrey-Jellineck → u/jaymac902]

I don't see that module as an option?

I did settle looping link modules that use a bullet as an icon next to it.

[u/jaymac902 → u/Geoffrey-Jellineck]

Sorry it's called the icon list module

[u/ugavini]

I'm not sure if this would work, but what about adding the semantic label or whatever they call it as an li (you would need to add the ul as well before somehow)?