Divi 5 for Affiliate Websites: Better Review Templates With TOC, Breadcrumbs and Dynamic Content

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If you run an affiliate or review site, your review template is your most-used and most-important layout. Divi 5 gives you everything to build a great one without a stack of single-purpose review plugins: the new Table of Contents and Breadcrumbs modules for structure and SEO, plus dynamic content and the Loop Builder to make the whole thing scalable. This guide lays out a review template that ranks, converts, and stays fast to produce.

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Why Divi 5 is a good fit for content and review sites

Affiliate sites live and die on two things: search rankings and reader trust. Divi 5 supports both directly. The Table of Contents and Breadcrumbs modules — two of the five new core modules — add the structural SEO signals review pages need, while dynamic content and the Loop Builder let you build one template that serves hundreds of reviews. That means consistency (every review looks and reads the same way) and speed (you're filling fields, not rebuilding layouts).

The anatomy of a high-performing review page

A review that earns clicks and conversions usually contains, in order:

1. Breadcrumbs — Home → Reviews → Category → Product.
2. Intro — what the product is and who it's for, in two or three sentences.
3. Affiliate disclosure — near the top, plainly stated (a legal and trust requirement).
4. Rating box — a quick verdict with a score.
5. Table of Contents — auto-generated from your headings.
6. Pros and cons — scannable, honest.
7. The detailed review — sections per aspect (features, pricing, support…).
8. Related posts — keep readers on-site.
9. CTA — a single, clear "check the price / try it" button.

Below, the Divi 5 modules that build each part.

Breadcrumbs and TOC: the SEO backbone

Add Breadcrumbs at the top of the content area — per Elegant Themes it renders a hierarchical link tree back to the parent category or homepage, and it's built for Theme Builder post and category templates. Add the Table of Contents module below the intro; it parses the page's headings to build a clickable outline automatically. Together they give crawlers structure and give readers a way to jump straight to "Pricing" or "Verdict". We cover this pairing in depth in our dedicated Breadcrumbs-and-TOC guide linked below — for a review template, treat both as non-negotiable.

The rating box and pros/cons

Build a rating box as a styled section: product name, a score, and a one-line verdict, with the accent colour set via a Design Variable. For pros and cons, use two columns with icon-led lists — green checks and red crosses read instantly. Keep the cons honest; a review with only pros reads as an ad and converts worse.

Dynamic content: build the template once

This is where Divi 5 saves real time. With dynamic content, fields like the product name, rating, price, and featured image pull from each post's data — custom fields (including ACF) per Elegant Themes' dynamic-content support — rather than being typed into every page. Build the review layout once as a Theme Builder template for a "Review" post type, map the dynamic fields, and every new review inherits the structure. You write the prose; the scaffolding builds itself.

Related posts with the Loop Builder

To keep readers moving, end each review with a "Related reviews" strip. The Loop Builder queries your content and repeats a card design for each result — you can scope it to the same category so a VPN review surfaces other VPN reviews. Per Elegant Themes, the Loop Builder pulls content from your database (posts, products, terms) and lets you design each card freely with Loop dynamic-content fields like Loop Post Title and Loop Featured Image. Our Loop Builder vs Blog Module comparison, linked below, helps you decide how much flexibility you actually need here.

A note on the affiliate disclosure

Place a clear affiliate disclosure near the top of every review — it's both an FTC-style requirement in many regions and a trust signal. A short, plain sentence is enough; don't bury it in the footer.

FAQ

Do I need a dedicated review plugin with Divi 5?

For most affiliate sites, no. The Table of Contents and Breadcrumbs modules handle structure and SEO, a styled section handles the rating box, and dynamic content plus the Loop Builder handle scalability — covering what review plugins typically add.

How does dynamic content make reviews faster to produce?

You build the review layout once as a Theme Builder template and map fields (product name, rating, price, image) to dynamic content, including custom fields. New reviews then just fill those fields instead of rebuilding the page.

What's the best way to show related reviews?

Use the Loop Builder to query posts in the same category and repeat a card design with Loop dynamic-content fields. It keeps the related strip on-brand and automatically up to date.

Where should the affiliate disclosure go?

Near the top of the article, in plain language, before the reader acts on any link. It's a trust and compliance requirement, not an afterthought for the footer.

Bottom line

Divi 5 turns the review page into a repeatable system: Breadcrumbs and a Table of Contents for SEO and navigation, a clean rating box and honest pros/cons for trust, dynamic content to build the template once, and the Loop Builder for related posts. Set it up once and your affiliate site scales on content, not layout work.

Sources and further reading

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Read the Breadcrumbs and Table of Contents guide