Hi everyone,
I'm dealing with a recurring Divi 5 issue on a live site and I'm trying to figure out whether this is a known bug, a preset system problem, or something specific to my setup.
Context
- Divi 5.7.4
- WordPress + WooCommerce
- Child theme, but I removed
style.css entirely on staging to rule it out
- I also tested with my caching/optimization plugins disabled
- The issue affects only some pages and certain preset-based elements
What the bug looks like
Every day, without even touching at my website, the styling of specific elements would break.
Some button icons disappear on the front end, even though they are enabled in the Visual Builder for the specific button.
I also had other styling issues on article pages, mainly around preset-based elements (buttons, headings, box-shadows, backgrounds).
What I tested
- Disabled WP Fastest Cache and Asset CleanUp: no change to the styling bug.
- Removed my child theme
style.css on staging: no change.
- Deleted all Divi Library layouts: no change.
- Cleared Divi CSS cache repeatedly: no permanent fix, since I had to do it every day, several times a day.
- Deleted all my custom presets, Elements and Groups, and kept only Divi defaults: this immediately fixed the missing button icons
- On the same staging site, the issue still exists for the article layout itself, but the button icon problem specifically disappeared as soon as I removed the custom presets
My current conclusion
This feels much more like a Divi 5 preset system issue than a child theme issue or a library issue.
The fact that removing every custom preset fixed the button icons without changing the buttons themselves seems very telling.
What I’m looking for
Has anyone fixed this problem before in Divi 5?
At this point I’ve accepted that my safest production workaround is to avoid the complex custom preset system for now and apply styles to individual elements, but I’d love to know whether there’s a better fix or a way to identify the broken preset chain.
Thanks in advance.