Bricks Advanced Themer 2.1 from Maxime Beguin is now available. Advanced Themer is a toolbox focusing on CSS class and variable creation and management, helpers in the Bricks editor focused on theming, and much more. The great thing about it is that the features are modular and can be enabled as you want to use them.

This Saturday morning I caught up on the livestream with Paul Charlton and Dave Foy. It is a good discussion of Bricks and will be of interest to people thinking of giving Bricks a try and for people just getting into Bricks. They talk about how they came to choose Bricks, what its strengths are, and different ways to get started.

Bricks 1.9.2 beta is now available. There are updates to the Form elements with the ability to save submissions into the database, hcaptcha and turnstile integrations, and more. More form related enhancements are planned for the future. Also added is the option to set custom authentication pages for login, registration, lost and password reset.

This tutorial shows how to use Bricks, Meta Box, and the WP Post Views plugin to show the number of times a post was viewed.

Bricks 1.9.1 was released. New features include compatibility with WPML and the ability to write your own WordPress query arguments using PHP. You can also now use hook locations to place Sections, there is support for ACF nested groups, and the “root” placeholder keyword when adding CSS has been replaced with “%root%”.

Advanced Themer 2.0 Beta is available for testing. Here is a video that goes over the updates. There is a new color manager and a new class manager, among other features. Note that the video is long, but there are video jumps in the description.

In this video Paul Charlton asks, which is better when it comes to dynamic content, Elementor or Bricks? Dynamic data is a first class citizen for one of these builders and a neglected afterthought for the other. If you want to see how easy it can be, watch this video.

Bricks 1.9 was released with a new Woo Commerce account builder. Looks like Bricks with 1.9 is finally ready for starting Woo Commerce integration.

Here is a good video from Paul Charlton on how to use ACF Flexible Content fields with Bricks.