Here is a short video from Paul Charlton on formatting dates in Bricks.

Bricks 1.9.7 was just released. This release focuses on security enhancements. There is a minor security fix, but mostly it focuses on hardening. The announcement gives a full rundown on the changes and how to upgrade, as extra steps may be necessary.

In this video Paul Charlton shares his enthusiasm for GutenBricks, a plugin that lets you create Gutenberg blocks from Bricks Builder templates. It is a way to provide Gutenberg blocks for clients so they can edit the content, without changing the layout and styles.

There was recently a serous vulnerability in the Bricks Builder. The timeline and information about the vulnerability are detailed in this article from Patchstack.

Dave Foy gives a nice walk-through of a new Bricks addon called GutenBricks. It allows you to turn Bricks templates into Gutenberg blocks. GutenBricks is still in its early stages, but very cool.

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.