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I am building a highly dynamic location driven directory in Bricks/wp and need to make long term decisions before I even begin. I will need forms and maps and memberships, self uploads and advertising. It gets quite complex at its fullest expression. I am evaluating using crocoblock /jet engine vs the old standards of ACF, etc., or Meta Box + others.

I would rather learn one integrated system even if it's a little complex, rather than all thoses that would be required for the old standard plugins. I also believe it might be a little more secure.

Do any of you have experience with the products and what are your thoughts about it? Do you think it is a stable company with good support and can be there long term? (I certainly hope so considering their prices for LTDs!) Thank you in advance for your assistance.

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I have many pages that will have the same format but will have different photos and text. Should I just have a template that I update the global variables on? And on each individual page I just update custom photos and text not on the global variable?

I'm the developer and the business owner so I don't know if it makes sense to set up CPT for these pages.

Thanks everyone!

Curious to hear how designers here interpret the mobile-first philosophy. Till now I’ve agreed with the sentiment—mobile layouts should be the priority when it comes to how a page is conceptualized and executed—but I still wireframe and build out desktop layouts first, keeping in mind as I go the implications for responsive layouts (e.g., “this text + image section will be stacked with the image on top”).

But I’m wondering if for my next project whether I should start from a mobile screen, and move up the min-width breakpoint ladder. It’s a very different approach for me and my mental library of containers are in wide layout form, so it’ll be a big change for my workflow.

What do you all do?

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Not looking to design from vibes. Wanting following image mock ups. Long story short, was given a 200 page mock up. Design needs to be exact.

I could do this myself... But now is a good time to try a new workflow. Shits + giggles and open to be pleasantly surprised.

I found these Bricks Pilot and Bricks Fusion Studio. Any one try these?

Any good at building blocks from an image mockup, keeping a consistent class system throughout the site?

How is mobile?

Did it really save time from start to data entry?

If not exact, did it at least provide an effective starting point?

I have one of those clients that wants to point a finger at a theme / template, and not wait for a developer to make it. Not even "I want one like this", because he would not pay for the development, just adaptation of an exiting theme.

I want to steer him away from Envato/Theme Forest, and towards Bricks, as it is my main tool, but it is hard to find good looking Bricks marketplaces (he likes those portfolio like, animation heavy themes).

I don't like editing these themes, but they do come fully developed as a stand alone site (home page, pages templates, cpt-s..) - and I cannot find a Brick theme that is offering the same thing.

Any ideas?

For years I built almost everything in Elementor Pro. It was fast, clients could edit content themselves, and it covered 90% of what most projects needed. But over the last year I've been quietly moving away from it and I'm curious if others are doing the same.

The reasons piled up slowly. Sites got heavier even with optimization. Clients would "edit" something and accidentally break a layout. Updates occasionally introduced regressions that I had to fix on multiple sites at once. And the database bloat on bigger sites became real, especially when clients had been editing pages for a year or two.

What I've been doing instead is building with the block editor and ACF for custom fields, plus a lightweight starter theme. More upfront work, but the sites are faster, the code is cleaner, and clients can still edit text and images without touching layout. When something breaks it's almost always something I can actually debug instead of a builder issue I have to wait for the developer to patch.

The tradeoff is real though. Some clients specifically want the visual drag and drop experience and won't accept anything less. And for very small projects the builder is still faster end to end.

What I'm trying to figure out is whether this is just me getting tired of builder maintenance, or if there's a broader shift happening. Are you still all in on Elementor, Bricks, Breakdance, or has the block editor matured enough that you're moving back to it for serious client work?

Also curious if anyone's gone the opposite direction, started with native blocks and moved to a builder because clients demanded it.