Is The Bricks Builder The New Era Of Wordpress Themes and Page Builders?

hey party people my name is daryl wilson and today i'll be doing a review slash walkthrough on the brx wordpress theme now the brx wordpress theme is a little different than other typical wordpress theme it's actually built on a completely different framework yet it's actually a very fast and lightweight wordpress theme yet it carries sort of that same drag and drop interface that most page builders have today so today in this video i'll be giving you guys a kind of like a review walkthrough just talking about it uh things they might want to improve on and then just give you an overall my overall opinion on this wordpress theme now one thing to note is that this wordpress theme has great gt metrics scores in fact now i'm using one of their templates here and you guys can see just by using their templates it's a very fast wordpress theme now again uh this theme works differently than other wordpress themes so it's not your typical page builder slash wordpress theme it's built on a completely different framework so i'll be talking about that in just a bit but uh also i ran it through my pingdom test and again uh it's a very very fast wordpress theme it's very lightweight and uh let me just go ahead and talk about this wordpress theme and i'll just give you guys a quick little overview about it and then i'll explain to you why it's different than ever other wordpress themes like these ones here so for example we first go ahead and we install the wordpress theme called bricks now this is my uh you know this is my website and this is my defaults templates but when you install the wordpress theme you get these options on the left side that says bricks now there are some other various options now one thing to note that this wordpress theme has a built-in theme builder so you can have a custom header you can have a custom footer you can also have a custom single post page and on the right side you can see we have select template type and they do have various templates that you can pick so it does have a theme builder built in it so that's actually really cool you guys can see i just built the header and the footer you know i just have a custom header custom folder i can make a custom 404 page if i want here under settings we do have some additional settings like we have builder access so what person has access to the builder we have templates you can make you know your templates public or disable default templates and just some other various options here for the builder this is actually a really interesting feature so you can actually disable the auto save and you know if you you can change the auto save interval which is very interesting also we have performance you can disable emojis now i do like this feature because other wordpress themes they require plugins for this some themes are starting to do this like bloxy blocks you can actually disable the emojis and other features but some other wordpress themes don't yet have that option here you can enter in your api keys and then also for you devs out there you can insert your custom code now i think devs would actually like this product a little bit more than typical customer but we will go through and talk about it in this video so here you can apply your custom fonts now also what i do like about this wordpress theme is that you can actually have custom sidebars as well now instead of actually installing the plugin that basically lets you have different sidebars on different pages this theme has it built in so i guess they call it dynamic sidebars same thing right it's just a it's just a more i guess you want to say high-tech way of saying sidebars and then you have your system status which you will probably give them for your ticketing system and then your license so that's pretty much all these options over here on a nutshell now let's say for example we have templates let's just start from the basics of just building a header and a footer and then blocks to go to the page builder and then talk about uh you know the actual experience of it so right here under the add new under add tile this will be my main header so let's just say for example you're building a custom header so right here we have header and i will click on publish and most people today use custom headers and footage with page builders that's nothing new i mean every every builder has that so here i'll click on edit with bricks so let's just use a template to get started just to give you an idea of how this works so first i will click on inserted templates and the community templates i will select a header so right here template type we have header now they just kind of give you like the top of the actual um you know you can see the header at the top so they don't actually give you the entire page so just to note that so here i'll just click on insert the templates and there we go now here i will click on save so i made my header now let's say for example i want to apply this header on specific parts of my website under the actual settings section we have page settings sorry we have no no no it's under the other one it's under the template settings conditions and then essentially we can apply this to the entire website we can apply this header to other various pages so you can see here how the theme builder it's pretty self-explanatory it's not too complicated i do like the simplicity of the theme builder i think it's pretty easy to get started i do also like the fact that they put the conditions on the left side instead of you know having this like kind of like one two three four process i like how you can kind of mess with everything on the uh the back end in one kind of like swoop so what i'll do is i will save this all right and then let's go ahead and go back to our wordpress dashboard so here i'll go to edit in wordpress and for the other footer or for the other header i'm going to delete this one so i'll just delete this one because i don't want them to conflict because i have them both on the entire websites and then let's go back and click on visit sites and there we go so now we have our header on the entire websites and there it is so yeah that's that's like a quick little rundown of the theme builder now let's actually talk about the builder so here i will click on the about us page now to be honest my first impressions of this theme i love the speed i love the the simplicity of it but it does need a little bit of work on the ui because um you guys will see you guys will see let's click on edit with bricks i also don't like the fact that they have that uh you can kind of delete your whole site right on the top sidebar or on the top bar because you can actually delete your whole website on accident if you click that and i was like wait that deletes the whole page and it really does so let's now make our about us page from scratch i don't want to use the templates here i'll use the templates throughout this but i just want to create my header from scratch so here i will grab in the heading and i can change this to this is the about us page right the about us page and i can kind of i like the fact that it has that fluid interface like divi so now you can see that we can kind of like change it change the the width and the padding without having to click like elementor which can be a little tedious at times now one thing i am still a little confused about this is i don't really know how to align this without using that actual menu right here i've looked at the options and i just really couldn't find it so that was something that uh i needed help with now let's say for example i want to add a background color i can right click and or not not the heading but what i want to do is under the blue section edit column we can add a background to that so there we go we can add a background color to that and yeah you guys can you know kind of get the idea and then below that maybe we can add in more elements now uh to add more elements you'll need to go on this section and on the bottom right here you can see we have insert template below or we can add a section so now i added a section below that and let's say for example i want a three column row this time i don't wanna keep doing it like one by one under the and column you can see now we have two columns and i do like the fact that this wordpress theme is very fast it's a very very fast uh wordpress theme and i'll explain why a little bit later in this video but now we can drag and drop elements again so let's go ahead and get our little menu up there here we go so we have our let's see what we can use here let's use a different one animated typing now let's check out that one huh oh that's actually pretty cool i do like that here let's add in another element here we go wait there he goes uh let's see we can add in an image and below that we can add in some text maybe some text below that and then just a general button just something like a general call to action and within all these elements you can customize them and design them so for example we can click on this button here now they do have global colors as well so you guys can actually have a global color palette where you can change all of the styles here and then maybe we can add this as a large button button here and i'm sure we can change the border radius in the style so once you guys learn the option styles for one module they're pretty much the same for all of them so for example i did mention the shape divider so i thought was really interesting so you can actually add shapes within these uh within these elements and you know i know this looks messy and looks weird but i'm sure there's a way on how you guys can actually use this for some specific design but um yes but that's that i just thought that was very interesting that they let you do that but i'll get rid of that it's really really ugly here under gradient overlays we can have a specific gradient overlay you can add a color to it so they do have gradients so for those of you who love gradients you can you know have all that's graded on your website and remember gradients are very hard to carry i i'm not a fan of gradients but hey man it's your website so here i will clone this element right and let's see how this drag and drop drag and drop element works here so i do like that element yeah that's actually a really fluid style building so let's do that one more time oh no no no delete that i wanted to clone this elements and i want to drag that there we go i want to drag this there we go can i oh hold on it did it before really well let's see here can i drag this oh move elements there we go move the elements there we go let's see if i can okay good all right now what i'll do here is i'll go ahead and now that i've showed you guys how to do this let's just go ahead and delete everything so to delete stuff delete a section sure and then this section here i believe we have to just there we go so let's see here clear row yes and now over here we have delete section and then delete it so it is somewhat of a learning curve you guys can see how we have to kind of navigate through each little step it's not a bad way to do it it's just different and there's nothing wrong with that now let me go ahead and insert a template here and go to community templates now of course you guys can save templates so after you make a template from scratch you guys can make it and then save it to your library now i do want to go ahead and talk about the actual uh let's see here we'll go ahead and just insert this one here i will import the images and replace the contents and i will insert this templates so now it's importing that whole template here so you guys can see that's um uh this is the templates now and you know the the theme is great you know it's a great thing but the their designers they yeah they're yeah they need some work but that's okay you know it's at least they give us something you know we can't all be spoiled here um one thing i did notice that when i import some templates sometimes the page ruler doesn't pick it up but if i just click on it and then insert it again it comes back so that's that's just something that i saw but uh here we go i will insert this and um what i'll do next is i want to go ahead and test the page speed so i will go ahead and mess around with more settings on the contact page but i do want to demonstrate why i think this theme has massive potential so the ui does need a little bit of work sometimes it can be a little inconvenient to get things started but i really do like the actual uh speed of this wordpress theme so here we go we got our we saved it actually no no no no let's make this a little harder you know let's let's add a lot more content here because i feel like this is not enough to strain the server right i want to add a little bit more so what i'll do is on the bottom section i will insert a template below community templates i want to really push this and i want to kind of demonstrate uh that i think this theme is pretty fast all right so now i imported a second template below that and you guys can see we have a lot of contents a lot of images and let's just push the let's push the envelope here you know i'll duplicate this whole section and i will clone this row so i just want to demonstrate that we have a lot of content on this page right we have a lot of contents and with other page builders you know this might have a loading time of around a few seconds but let's just see what this wordpress theme does oh there goes the odyssey feature so i will click on preview mode all right looks good right so it is under the about us page let's go back view on front end this is what i mean by sometimes i wish it was a little bit more easier to navigate but hey it's okay you know it's it's it's it's new no no problem now the about us page is the page that we got a lot of our content on so we can see we have a lot of content on this page and let's just run it through some gt metrics scores let's see what this um let's see with this builder oh no no no let's see what this can do so i will paste this and i will also run it over here and i'll explain kind of why i i like this theme and i don't think this theme is going to really replace page builders i don't think it's going to replace gutenberg but what i do see here is i see a combination of um like elementor and oxygen and also divi sort of all combine in one because it doesn't necessarily load a lot of the stuff that a lot of page builders load and also what i've noticed is that you have a very small amount of requests to servers so you guys can see here that without even any optimization on my ends i just simply uploaded a lot of content and we have an a plus for the g metric score um you can see here that um you know the scores are really good our time to first bytes pretty low now i'll explain this in just a bit and there's there's a there's a reason for this in this wordpress theme and then we have our full loaded time under one seconds we even have our page size at 1.3 you know so we do have a lot of content on here so that's very interesting now let's also take a look at the actual um the tools kingdom now you guys can see that we do have a load time of under one second and the page size is 1.4 yet the request is again 24. so that leaves us with the question of we have a very large website with a lot of content yet the requests are very low and that's why this framework works very differently from react and other frameworks so i did watch this tutorial on this new framework and i understand now why people are preferring it and why people really like it so so typically with other websites like websites that use divi or elementor or just other websites in general usually how this works is the website sends a request to servers and then the server sends the html page back to the actual website now the issue with doing that is the fact that that can cause a lot of http requests so http requests equals slower websites now this wordpress theme works very differently and kind of takes that away so for example we have the typical websites which you've probably worked on before now with this new wordpress theme it actually does it very differently so uh with this with this framework it actually sends back a bare-boned html document and the javascript bundle the actual framework kind of designs everything within the browser instead so instead of actually overloading the server with all this contents it basically has the framework do all the work within the browser and the actual website itself in fact there are other there are other features that make this even faster is the fact that sometimes when you actually use links on your website it has to send that request back to the server however this framework intercepts those requests and uses your browser and sends it back to your website so it doesn't even go to the server when they click on links so that's actually very impressive and again that will drastically reduce the amount of um the server requests leading to a much faster website so that's basically why this theme works very differently it's built on a completely different framework and it's not built on react or other other frameworks it's built on a framework called vue js i believe it's vue.js it's pretty new it came out about a year ago and it's kind of building up momentum so i had to change my shirt i hope you guys don't mind i got some food on it but my overall opinion and verdict about this wordpress theme is i think this is incredible now i like the fact that this theme has the fluidity of divi where you can kind of drag and drop inner like it has that fluidity right here and i love the fact that it's so smooth i mean look at this like with divvy this would be like uh you know it'd be kind of like a messy but it also carries that uh convenience of elementor with these elements on the left side so i really do like how they approached all this and also it's extremely fast and it's lightweight it doesn't load anything and you have definitely zero bloats with this wordpress theme so if you guys are looking to use this for your website i think it's a great choice and um i don't think that's i mean right now we're like in the right now we're like in the heat of page builders where everyone's like oh page builders are dead that is simply not true you know elementor is incredible dv is incredible this new wordpress theme is also really good it really just depends on preference but um that's just my opinion but again i don't think page builders are going anywhere that's for sure but um i do think this theme is very promising and i will follow up on it and see if they have new uh you know new features coming out or whatever and you know it just takes time to kind of get used to the actual interface but when i first used this i was like man this is kind of confusing it's not confusing at all once you kind of mess around with it for about like an hour or two and kind of just see how they design it the interface you know it's you'll get the hang of it pretty quick now they also do have a road map and i'm really interested to see what they do with the woocommerce settings so it looks like the woocommerce builder is on the roadmap and that is their highest uh upvoted feature which is cool and they do also integrate with acf and this does have a few integrations so it's not like a completely like you know loner you know it does have some integrations uh for that uh you know in that regard for performance in seo you guys can just go ahead and read about you know all this stuff on the actual uh you know on their on their websites they do have the actual uh they do actually have the versions and they do show like the speed comparison and you guys can see how again it is extremely fast for a uh for a wordpress theme and now let's talk about the price so how much is this is this 999 dollars is this a thousand dollars let's see let's let's take a look here no no no it's not it's actually really really cheap and they did follow somewhat of the pricing plan that elementor followed so it's 1 000 websites wait for 1 000 website okay they need to say websites but you know what sorry you know i hate people correct me because i stutter a lot you guys can see but for 1 000 websites 150 that is really really good and this is just an upsell they should actually change this plan i don't like that i don't agree with that at all i hate when people do this because it's like obviously they're pushing you to the 150 but if i just want two websites or three websites you know come on accommodate me but the pricing is also incredible so in that regard i do think this is a great deal uh i'm not an affiliate i applied for the affiliate program they just never responded to me if they do give me a coupon code in the future i will go ahead and put it in the description below but that is my review on the brx theme i think it is a fast lightweight a great wordpress theme and if you are looking to substitute another theme or you just want to get away from page builders i think brix is a great alternative so let me know in the description about what you guys think about my review in the comments below my name is darrell wilson and i will see all of you party people in the next video guys take care

Channel: Darrel Wilson

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Keywords: wordpress, wordpress theme, wordpress page builders, blocks wordpress theme, page builder for wordpress, bricks builder theme, bricks theme, wordpress page builder, wordpress tutorial for beginners, wordpress website, wordpress tutorial

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Length: 20min 4sec (1204 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 28 2021