Paul Charlton recently made a video showing how to use the Core Framework with Bricks. He has released a follow up companion video showing some more steps you can take to get the most of using the two together, such as adding custom classes and variables in the Core Framework UI instead of in the Bricks settings. The advantage of doing this is that you create your own set of styles that you can easily reuse on other sites rather than manually adding the settings to Bricks each time.

Here is a nice demo from Paul Charlton using the Core Framework with Bricks. It is a good overview of what is involved in setting it up and the benefits of using a framework.

Here is a great tutorial by Paul Charlton showing how to use the Bricksforge Pro Forms feature to create front-end post submission forms. Incredible leverage of Bricks dynamic data features with a powerful Bricks addon.

Bricks 1.9.4 has been released. It includes a new Maintenance Mode feature, the ability to have more than one external template library URL, extensions to the popup feature, and more.

Bricks is the most advanced builder available for WordPress, has a great team behind it, and they listen to their users in guiding future development . Beginning January 15, 2024 there will be significant pricing changes. If you’ve been on the fence about purchasing Bricks, then now is the time. It is an advance builder with a learning curve, but is also the most powerful option available for WordPress. The new pricing and other information is available in the official announcement.

Wondering what Paul Charlton picked up this Black Friday? Hint, his purchases were all Bricks related and he provides a short preview of each one.

Jamie Marsland shared a video on Twitter where he did an experiment. He tried to use Bricks without doing any training first. It was a bit painful to watch because I would have expected Jamie to have noticed the “Templates” menu, which is a common feature with the Site Editor, and the Border styling for rounded corners, which is common with the Gutenberg block options. However, when everything is unfamiliar it is easy to missing things.

I think the video highlights some of the pain points for new users of tools like Bricks. Bricks, Oxygen, and Cwicly allow you to create all of the templates for your site. They don’t just allow it, but require you to do so. This is a large connotative disconnect for new users. It would be better, I think, to provide a very basic set of templates, like wire frames, for people to get started. I actually thought Bricks did that, but perhaps that is in the child theme(?). Cwicly doesn’t.

Here is a good discussion between Dave Foy and Josh Hall. Talking about page builders and Bricks.

Here is a tutorial from the Meta Box team showing how to create reusable banners using Bricks and Meta Box.