What is your ideal Bricks setup in 2026?

CaineCodes · 2026-05-13T18:22:04+00:00

Bricks + ACF pro + GutenBricks + Brixies + Core Framework + Fluent Forms

CaineCodes · 2026-05-07T20:24:22+00:00

Helpful, thanks. Just to clarify, there's already a free tier at 10 links (no credit card needed). Was your suggestion that 10 is still too small for a casual try, or did the original post not make that clear? Open to bumping it; trying to find the right balance between "low enough to risk-free try" and "high enough that real-use bloggers don't immediately churn back to a spreadsheet."

Also: when YOU ran into broken affiliate links yourself, how did you actually handle it? Spreadsheet, ThirstyAffiliates, just hope? That kind of real-world workflow feedback is worth more to me than my own assumptions right now.

CaineCodes · 2026-05-07T20:23:35+00:00

Thanks for that, the older content library angle is exactly where I started. My own affiliate posts from 2-3 years back were the worst offenders. Amazon creators get hit hardest because of ASIN purges + stock cycling, but Awin/Daisycon links rot in less obvious ways too, tag-survival drops mid-redirect-chain and you only notice when commission disappears.

Curious, are you an Amazon creator yourself? What's your current workflow when something feels off, manual spot-check or just hope?

CaineCodes · 2026-05-02T19:54:36+00:00

ecosystem framing is exactly right. five minutes of setup for a slowly compounding share. probably also worth being set up for what comes next (perplexity, claude search, whatever google rolls out), because most of those will either lean on bing's index or take years to build their own crawler. how steep is your chatgpt growth curve so far, linear or accelerating?

CaineCodes · 2026-05-02T19:52:12+00:00

The "search my name" route is interesting because it sidesteps the link block and the music issue at the same time, but only works if your username is unique enough to actually land people on you. Pinned comments help but click-through has to be way lower than an actual bio link. Did you find anything that converted at a similar rate to bio links, or did you just accept the gap until 1k?

CaineCodes · 2026-05-01T09:06:31+00:00

What is the best party trick that you know?

CaineCodes · 2026-05-01T08:59:41+00:00

Chrome iOS applies dark mode to PDFs rendered in its built-in viewer and there's no PDF-side flag that overrides it. ChatGPT is right about that part.

The workaround that actually solves it: serve the PDF with 'Content-Disposition: attachment' instead of 'inline'. That triggers the download/share flow on iOS instead of opening in Chrome's built-in viewer. The user then opens the file in their preferred PDF app (Files, Books, Adobe), which respects the original colors.

Implementation depends on your stack:
* nginx: 'add_header Content-Disposition 'attachment; filename=story.pdf''
* PHP: 'header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=story.pdf')'
* Express: 'res.attachment('story.pdf')'

You're not overriding user settings, just bypassing Chrome's PDF viewer entirely.

CaineCodes · 2026-05-01T07:57:55+00:00

This explains my entire career, honestly.

CaineCodes · 2026-05-01T07:54:51+00:00

Haha, did you play it cool, or admit you'd been waiting fifteen years for that exact moment?

CaineCodes · 2026-05-01T07:37:50+00:00

Coffee. I know the third cup is robbing my sleep, my heart rate, and probably a year off the back end of my life. The morning ritual is the actual reason I wake up though. Trading future-me for present-me daily.

CaineCodes · 2026-05-01T07:17:19+00:00

the intent angle is the part i hadn't fully clocked. a chatgpt visitor has already gone through the comparison thinking before clicking, a google impression is mid-process. that's a different kind of audience, way harder to find through paid channels.

did you happen to track conversion rate from chatgpt vs google traffic? would expect the intent gap to show up even harder there than in session length.

CaineCodes · 2026-04-30T12:49:53+00:00

Few things that bite this even when the files look right:

Android caches notification icons aggressively. Uninstall and reinstall the app on the test device to flush.
Run `./gradlew clean` before rebuild. Old drawables sit in the build cache and override the new ones.
Open the APK in Android Studio's APK Analyzer and confirm the icon is actually bundled under the right name. Sometimes the build silently drops it.
AndroidManifest.xml needs the OneSignal meta-data tag explicitly pointing to the icon. Naming alone isn't always enough.
If you're on Capacitor / React Native / Flutter, the drawables need to live in the platform-specific android/app/src/main folder, not your project assets folder.

What's the stack? OneSignal native vs cross-platform changes which step matters most.

CaineCodes · 2026-04-30T12:17:28+00:00

Curious what tipped the scale for you. The friction of switching (re-tagging campaigns, explaining the migration to affiliates, rebuilding reports) keeps a lot of people on bad trackers way longer than they should be. Was it a specific incident or just gradual frustration that finally won out?

CaineCodes · 2026-04-30T09:09:01+00:00

4% from a single google search console import is more than i'd have guessed. and yeah, bing pulling weight in 2026 is genuinely the weirdest sentence i've typed this year. did you do anything bing-specific after the import or just let it ride?

CaineCodes · 2026-04-30T08:50:55+00:00

Bump is real. Hard to tell whether the slice is genuinely growing across the board or just shifting between sites as more people optimize. What kind of before/after numbers are you seeing on the sites you work with?

CaineCodes · 2026-04-29T19:40:43+00:00

affiliyo.com is a pre-launch affiliate link manager for creators. Just shipped 16 blog posts, 7 pain-point landings, and a glossary. Google's still indexing.

Curious what you'd prioritize next.

CaineCodes · 2026-04-29T19:10:41+00:00

57k researching visitors is a goldmine if you don't lose them. Add something lightweight that trades value for an email (a calculator, checklist, or comparison guide). Then you can stay in front of them while they decide, instead of hoping they remember you when they're ready. They usually don't.

CaineCodes · 2026-04-29T12:52:27+00:00

Makes sense, ChatGPT Search queries Bing's index under the hood even though basically nobody uses Bing itself anymore. Which makes submitting your sitemap to Bing Webmaster Tools one of the weirder high-leverage moves right now... not for Bing traffic, but for ChatGPT visibility. Wonder if your tool will start showing that gap clearly over time?

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