Though it is still experimental, Bricks made a lot of users happy by releasing new search and front-end filters. In this video Paul Charlton provides a quick overview of the new features so you can get an idea of what’s available, how they work, and what’s missing.

Bricks Builder 1.9.6 was released. It includes sort, fact filters, and live search, among other features and fixes. These features a labeled as experimental.

Meta Box has a Bricks tutorial on how to show an author bio.

Paul Charlton had a nice live interview with Thomas Ehrig about Bricks.

This is an interesting interview by Matt Medeiros with Paul Charlton and Brian Coords. There was not much debate as Paul and Brian really seemed to be on the same page.

Crocoblock has 5 plugins that work with Bricks and they just released a dedicated page highlighting the integration.

Paul Charlton challenges the often repeated notion that you have to be a developer to use Bricks. In this video he highlights similarities between Elementor and Bricks to show that basic concepts are the same while also showing that some of the differences in how they are implemented in Bricks provides flexible and powerful options.

Bricks 1.9.5 just dropped. The major feature of this release is a new Global Class Manager. There is also the ability to run a JavaScript function after an interaction has been triggered, along with some accessibility improves and fixes.

In this article Elvis Krstulović weighs in on the discussion on user friendly builders, no-code options, and whether these are niche or not niche. He shows that UI controls, such as are used for flexblox layouts, are common across professional design tools.