Nelson Terrien recreates a landing page step by step using Bricks builder, Advanced Themer and Automatic CSS.

Obviously the hot topic of the day is Bricks Components. Here is a nice example by Kevin Geary showing an easy use case, buttons, and why components make sense.

Here is a good demo of the new Bricks experimental Components feature by Paul Charlton. The video provides a quick overview of the feature in its current state.

Bricks has released 1.12 beta. The long awaited Components feature is available for creating reusable elements, with an experimental status. You can use dynamic data in the Query Loop for include/exclude settings, there is optimized CSS loading, enhancements to the Query Filters, and more.

Oooh Boi of Elementor fame made lots of videos showing how to achieve layouts and effects with Elementor. He has released a couple of Bricks videos. Here is one showing how to add some text effects with Bricks. He goes step by step to show how to do it for 3 or 4 items, but the idea is pretty straightforward once you see the process.

This release has a number of nice features. You can now password protect your site or particular pages, Masonry layouts are now available for all layout options, query filters now have support for custom fields, a number of new WooCommerce conditions have been added, and more. Another bit of news is that work is going well on components and they anticipate an early preview being ready before the end of the year.

Another video from Paul Charlton in his Mastering Bricks series. If you want to get started with Bricks these are good videos to watch.

Advanced Themer 2.9 released. Incredible update with new features for working with CSS, variables, colors, code, AI, as well as new search and add functionality.

Bricks Builder beta 1.11 was released. It includes phase 2 of Query Filters, a new Back to Top element, a new Rating element, accessibility improvements for accordion and tab elements, and more.