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.

Jamie Marsland hosted Kevin Geary in a discussion about Gutenberg and Page Builders. It is a wide-ranging and very interesting talk.

Bricks 1.8.5 was released. It includes new elements for reading progress bar, reading time, table of contents, image mask, and options for different images per breakpoint, along with other updates and fixes.

Bricks 1.8.4 has been released. One cool new features is the Bricks Elements Conditions API. You can use it to do display condition filtering sever-side so that elements are not included in the frontend output, which is good for membership and other sites where content needs to be restricted.