Here is an advanced Bricks / Bricksforge tutorial from Brendan O’Connell, showing how Bricksforge makes it easy to consume third party APIs.

Bricks 2.0 Alpha has been released for testing. Instructions for how to download it are at the top of the changelog. There are a good number of new features and updates available. Some of the new features include Nested Components, Builder Capabilities manager, Element Manager, In-Builder Font Manager, In-Builder Icon Manager, Bulk-Edit elements, Visual CSS Grid Builder, Revamped Pseudo Class UI, and Selector Detector, among others.

Interested in getting started with the Core Framework – This video from Paul Charlton walks through setting it up and using it in Bricks. Though he uses it with Bricks, much of the video is about setting up the Core Framework, so is useful if you are using Gutenberg or other builders.

Bricks 1.12.2 was released with some enhancements and fixes. There is a new query results summary element and results per page filter action, honeypot spam protection for forms, and component fixes, among the list. It was mentioned that early testing versions of Bricks 2.0 will start to be available next month.

The Bricks team just announced that they are introducing an Experts Directory. To be listed you must own the Bricks agency or lifetime license and submit at least three sites. Applications are manually reviewed. Details and how to apply are available on the website.

Bricks 1.12 has been released. It includes components (as an experimental feature), enhancements to the Query Loop feature, enhancements to the global class manager, enhancements to the query filters feature, and other changes and fixes.

The Dynamic WordPress Facebook group recently voted for the most innovative WordPress plugin or theme of 2024. This was an opportunity for group members to share their appreciation and recommendations about stand-out WordPress products. 

Tobi Salami explores the difference between Bricks components and components made with JetEngine. It is not as easy to edit JetEngine components on the fly, but once you have your component created they are more flexible.

Here is a nice video from Jeffrey Dalrymple. He shows when it comes to user experience, little things can make a big difference. Here he has a suggestion for the Elementor team. I agree with him that we are lucky to have good tools and our tool-set is going to improve even more this year.