Introducing Bricks: True Site Builder For WordPress
After two years in development, I am very excited to announce that the first version of Bricks, a new visual website builder for WordPress, is now online.
Stop The Plugin Madness
Unmatched Performance
A lot of builders claim to have great performance, yet I couldn’t find one builder that outperforms Bricks’ metrics:
- Speed test rating: 98/100 (Pingdom, Nov 4th, 2019)
- Total file requests: 5
- Page size: 159.3KB
- Load time: 178ms
Why Speed Matters
A slow loading site hurts your brand, revenue and user engagement: But don’t take my word for it. Akamai concluded in their performance study from 2017:
- A 0.1s delay in load time can hurt conversion rates by 7%
- A 2s delay in load time increase bounce rates by 103%
- 53% of mobile site visitors will leave a page that takes longer than 3s to load
Design Your Entire Site Visually In Real-Time
Bricks lets you design every aspect of your site from header to footer, search results, archive pages, 404 pages, blog and custom post type layouts.
There are too many design features to explore all of them in detail. But let me give you a brief overview:
- Mobile editing for pixel-perfect mobile layouts
- Adjust the default styling of every aspect and element to your needs with your own presets
- Full control over where to show which template or preset by setting conditions
- CSS filters like blur, brightness, contrast, hue, invert, opacity, saturation, and sepia to tweak your images right within the builder
- Apply unlimited gradients to text, background, and overlays
- Shape divider: Mix and match horizontal & vertical shapes to break up your content in engaging units
- Web-safe and 800+ Google fonts
- Multiple icon fonts (2000+ icons in total)
- SVG support
- One page websites
- Custom dimensions
- Full-width and boxed site layouts
- Fully customizable hover styles and animations
- Custom color palette (save your own colors)
- Parallax background effect
Commercially Free Photos At Your Fingertips
Build Sites Faster Than Ever
As much fun as it is to create sites with Bricks I wanted to make sure that you can create highly customizable sites as fast as possible. Let’s check out some of the builder features:
- Do everything right in the builder (browse and download images, create and switch editing between posts, pages, and templates
- Edit your site like a document via click and type
- Resize columns via drag and drop
- Custom right-click menu to clone, delete, and copy styles of any content block (even between different browser tabs)
- Restore any previously saved version with revisions
- Quick nav to easily switch editing between element, column, row, and section
- Unlimited sidebars (no plugin needed)
- Global & page settings (layout, custom CSS & JavaScript, and lots more)
- Custom CSS for every element, column, row, and section (CSS filters, ID, classes, and transitions)
- Global elements (change one instance automatically updates every other element instance throughout your site)
- Undo every change with a single click
- Hover styles
- Reset styles
- Custom color palette (add common/brand colors for quick reuse)
- Little gems like customizable save messages
So Much More Customizable
Developers Paradise
Ever Growing Template Library
There are currently around 70 pre-made templates, which you can access and insert right in the builder with a single click, and start editing your site from there.