Divi’s upcoming update marks a major milestone: a real move toward class-based styling, aligning it with forward-thinking builders like Bricks and Oxygen. For web designers who obsess over efficient, scaleable workflows, this change promises new levels of control and consistancy. The introduction of Option Group Presets in Divi 5 finally brings the ability to manage global styles and modular edits in one intuitive system.
Class-based design isn’t just a technical upgrade—it fundamentally changes how you build and maintain websites. By centralizing styles and offering rapid, site-wide edits, designers can ensure branding, UX, and accessibility remain consistent while dramatically reducing repetitive work.
With Divi 5’s Option Group Presets, designers can setup class-like presets for buttons, headings, backgrounds, and other core elements. These presets work across modules and stack together, allowing for highly flexible, powerfull design control.
Other page builders like Bricks and Oxygen have earnt admiration for making class-first design foundational. Divi’s move is a sign of the industry’s shift toward scaleable, efficient workflows that empower designers and teams working on mutiple sites.
Divi’s embrace of class-based architecture is more then just a feature—it’s a strategic shift that reflects what serious web designers need today. Standardizing workflows and centralizing design controls will help agency’s deliver projects faster, maintain higher quality, and support brands as they grow. For those managing WordPress sites at scale, these updates are a welcomed step in the right direction.
