In the Dashboard you’ll see Projects listed. Notice Projects and Posts have the same push-pin icon. Also notice they are placed strategically so you don’t accidentally create a post and think it is a project.
Step 1: Creating Categories
When you first create categories, ideally from your written list, create them in the page set aside for Categories. This is a great feature within WordPress, it organizes information in what I call a ‘data information page.’ Make sure you are in the Project Categories data information page which looks like this.
Step 1: Creating Projects
After you’ve created the categories in the main data page, the categories will show up in the right sidebar when you add a new project.
Let’s create a Project so you can see the settings. In the Projects menu find Add New.
Go to projects and click on Add New.
Give your project a title, assign this project to a category, if you don’t have any yet you can create here one and give it a check.
Then set a featured image. This is the image that you will see on the portfolio page.
And click on Use Divi Builder.
Step 3: Enable the Divi 5 Visual Builder
With your new page open in the editor:
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Click Use Divi Builder.
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WordPress reloads the page on the front end with the Divi 5 Visual Builder active.
Divi now shows a three-option modal:
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Build From Scratch
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Choose A Premade Layout
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Build with AI
For this article, click Choose A Premade Layout.
Step 4: Browse the premade layout library
When you choose Choose A Premade Layout, Divi opens the layout library. Here you’ll see:
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A tab for Premade Layouts (by Elegant Themes).
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Tabs for Your Saved Layouts and Your Existing Pages, which you can ignore for now.
Then click on Publish.
Step 5: Save, exit the builder, and publish your page
When you’re happy with the page:
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Click the Publish or Save button in the Divi’s top toolbar.
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Click the Exit button in Divi’s top toolbar to see the page as a regular visitor.