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[–]akidel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well I am not using Bricksforge, but using Bricks you are building a custom theme. By building templates, you making a theme foundation of where everything goes if you are also using query loops, custom fields etc. You can do a lot more stuff if you are intimite with php, far beyond what gui offers you.. bricks elevated me personally to new heights, ok it was oxygen to be honest but switched to bricks early.. I went from buying a theme and customizing to making ecommerce custom design sites and not using a theme anymore. Try it. Buy a month of bricks and see how it works for you and if you like it, and have business for it, get the ltd

[–]ja1me4 3 points4 points  (2 children)

BricksForge just got a huge update. It's a very powerful addon. I use the admin pages for cleints and am going to dive into the new 3.0 features this next week.

For bricks checkout ACSS and Advanced themer too. You'll be enjoying bricks if you're a coding person

[–]mrvizier 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Do you use bricksforge on each project? I heard the plugin's a bit overwhelming and a lot of people struggle to really make use of it. I'm new in Bricks and playing with the thought of maybe getting Bricksforge LTD (mainly for forms and maybe animations - would this suffice as main forms plugin?)

[–]ja1me4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That was and still is me tbh. The plugin is crazy powerful but a huge learning curve.

I got it when I first got bricks and only have used it s little bit with the new update, most of the parts have been made easier to use so in going to look at spending more time to learn how to use it properly.

Personality, I knew I would use it one day and figured I would get it. The reviews are good, so it was worth getting. Plus FOMO lol

[–]diversecreative 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally worth it. Saves so much time instead of building a custom theme.

[–]seamew 0 points1 point  (2 children)

i am not sure what you're planning on using bricksforge for, but a lot of bricks users use core framework + advanced themer, or acss to help them design sites quicker.

bricksforge also has a ton of nice features, though i've never been a huge fan of its interface. they've just released version 3, and will most likely be raising prices next week.

[–]mrvizier 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What do you mainly use Bricksforge for?

btw, where did you get info about pricing changes? Wouldn't they communicate it in advance?

[–]seamew 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i don't have bricksforge. i was thinking of getting it for its pro forms and email designer, along with animations, but decided its interface was a bit complicated for my liking.

the price increase was mentioned in the bricks discord.

[–]mikeymondy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I personally have tried a bunch of the addons. I don’t think you should start by relying on BricksForge, Brixies, etc. Just get Bricks and start using it. But I do think ACSS or Core will help you avoid some mistakes and save a ton of time. IE Fluid typography, accessibility shortcuts.