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Bricks 2.1 is one of the most significant updates yet, packed with powerful new features designed to streamline your development process and unlock new possibilities for your websites. From seamless integration with the native WordPress block editor to advanced API connections, this release empowers you to build smarter, faster, and with more control than ever before.
The Power of a Unified Workflow: Bricks Components as Blocks
Have you ever faced the challenge of collaborating with a team that uses both the Bricks Builder and the standard WordPress block editor (Gutenberg)? Bricks 2.1 bridges this gap, allowing you to use Bricks components directly as blocks in Gutenberg.
This feature is a game-changer for agencies and freelancers, enabling a perfectly synchronized workflow:
- Seamless Handoff: Designers and developers can create complex, reusable Bricks components, while content editors can simply insert and configure them in Gutenberg. No more worrying about a client accidentally breaking a layout.
- Consistent Design: Ensure your branding and styles are consistent across all editing interfaces. Your design system becomes the single source of truth, reducing errors and saving you countless hours of manual adjustments.
- Improved Collaboration: Empower your clients and team members to manage content safely and efficiently within the familiar block editor, all while maintaining the integrity of your professional layouts.
Accelerate Your Projects with Bricks Templates
Starting a new project from a blank canvas can be a daunting task. Bricks 2.1 introduces Wireframes & Design Sets to kickstart your creativity and productivity.
- Kickstart Your Projects: Get a head start with professional layouts and structural starting points.
- Save Time: Instead of building every page section from scratch, you can focus on the customizations that truly make your site unique.
- Ensure Consistency: Use pre-designed structures that follow best practices, ensuring a polished and professional look and feel from the get-go.
Whether you need a clean structural blueprint or a polished, styled template, these new resources help you move from idea to finished website faster than ever before.
The Ultimate Efficiency Upgrade: Global Queries & the Query Manager
For complex, data-driven websites, managing repeated queries can be a major headache. Bricks 2.1 solves this with Global Queries & the Query Manager, a feature that brings a new level of efficiency to dynamic websites.
- Define Once, Use Everywhere: Create a query once and reuse it across your entire site.
- Reduce Errors & Save Time: Update a query in one central location, and the changes apply automatically everywhere it’s used, eliminating the risk of inconsistencies.
- Stay Consistent: Ensure your content displays uniformly across the site, making maintenance and updates a breeze.
This is a must-have for anyone building large-scale websites with recurring data points.
Query Data from Anywhere: API Integration
Want to display content from external sources without writing a single line of code? The new API Query type in Bricks 2.1 allows you to fetch and display third-party data directly in your query loops.
- Connect Without Coding: Easily fetch JSON data from any REST API.
- Display Data Anywhere: Render API results using Bricks’ powerful dynamic data system.
- Build Advanced Integrations: Combine your WordPress content with data from external APIs to create richer, more dynamic websites.
This feature transforms Bricks from just a site builder into a flexible platform for connecting with the wider web.
Empower Your Clients: Frontend Forms for Post Creation and Updates
Stop giving your clients access to the WordPress admin. The new Create post & Update post form actions in Bricks 2.1 let users publish and edit content directly from the frontend.
- Streamline Publishing: Use new Rich Text and Image fields to map form inputs to post titles, content, featured images, and custom fields.
- Protect Your Site: Maintain strict control with roles and capabilities, moderation flows, and conditional logic.
- Reduce Handoffs: Clients can easily manage their own content (events, listings, case studies), eliminating the need for dashboard training.
This feature turns Bricks forms into a powerful, secure, and user-friendly CMS interface for a wide range of use cases, from directories to job boards.
Effortless Typography & Mobile UX
Bricks 2.1 also brings key improvements to design and user experience:
Fluid Typography Generator
Say goodbye to manual CSS adjustments for responsive text. The new Fluid Typography Generator lets you visually define minimum and maximum sizes, ensuring your headings and body text scale gracefully and consistently across all devices.
Tabs Element: Accordion Layout on Mobile
Improve your mobile user experience with the new Accordion layout setting for the Tabs element. This feature automatically transforms horizontal tabs into vertically stacked panels on mobile devices, ensuring clear, accessible navigation and avoiding layout issues.
Other Notable Features
- Map Element – Leaflet (OpenStreetMap): A lightweight, privacy-friendly, and cost-free alternative to Google Maps.
- User Activation: Enhance security by requiring email verification for all new user registrations, reducing spam and fake accounts.
- Theme Styles: Caption Styles for Image & Image Gallery: Easily define global styling for image captions, ensuring consistent, professional-looking details throughout your site.
With these and many other improvements, Bricks 2.1 is designed to give you the tools you need to build faster, smarter, and with greater confidence. Ready to upgrade your workflow?