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.

This is an often requested tutorial – how to setup Bricks with the Core Framework and Advanced Themer. Another great video from Paul Charlton.

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.