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Glad I watched this video! Thanks Kevin! Just did some testing, and I think I see how centralized taxonomies work. The piece I was missing was -> where in the heck do I create the data that would populate a taxonomy post - like a single service page? I created a dummy taxonomy "services" in ACF and then linked it to my own testimonials. From there I opened up my testimonials cpt to discover the services taxonomy in the dropdown. What you see when you click on "services" in the dropdown was the answer: It's where you can create the data that feeds into whatever archive templates you would create in Bricks -> templates. I clicked "Add new service" which created a new service (similar to creating a new post). But, unlike a CPT, this taxonomy post does not have the big Gutenberg area (that big old white blank canvas where you can enter text). It's very trim. That's where ACF comes into play - Then I created an ACF field group (with dummy fields) and linked it to "taxonomy is equal to service". That gives the taxonomy post more fields and makes it workable. Was also very pleased to find that ACF quick edits works on these taxonomy posts - Now I can show a column that sorts the order of services for example (preferred service first in the loop)

39:00 - Centralized taxonomy architecture :)

Very good on the point!! The most I love in WordPress is, that there are great Page-Builder like BricksBuilder und OxygenBuilder. If I would no longer use WordPress I would massively miss them.

Hi Kevin - your approach just flabbergasted me! That's so kewl - best web dev tutorial I've ever seen. I already know some html/css and also php and java script, but no one I know ever structured and explained it that well. Thank you!

Thanks for your video!

Hy Kevin, her you say of Postmark tutorial. I don't find.

With Bricks Global Class/Variables Manager, do we still need WPCodeBox for anything CSS-wise?

What use case is the most frequent for max function out of your experience, Kevin?

Hello Kevin. Great tutorial! 🌟 The way you explained sections, containers, and divs made everything so much clearer. Loved the examples and practical tips on when to use each element. Thanks for making web development easier to understand! 🙌 Since I'm watching this video 2 years later, when I select the div and type the class owl--, the related classes don't show up in the preview. Have they changed names by any chance?

This is a freaking firehose. Definitely coming back to this again and again and again.

Bento looks cool BUT we use Active Campaign because it goes beyond just a platform that sends emails. Active Campaign allows us to track our deals and sales process. I wasn't able to find this functionality in Bento. Am I missing something? Do you recommend something else for that?

We do need something to change and all the reasons were well articulated here. Looking forward to the Sept live streams!

WordPress is good when it is used as it is meant to be (CMS) I hated Gutenberg on day one and as of today, my feelings haven’t changed. These days, I use WP only as headless CMS for Next JS or Astro sites. I wish they offered a core version of WordPress without any bells and whistles 🤷🏻‍♂️

Looking forward to it!

Nice 👍

Hello! Another great episode! I'm updating some of my sites to utilize custom post types (CPTs), but I need help with an issue. When I enable the 'Blog: Category Articles' CPT, the sections with the dynamic footer disappear. Do you have any ideas on what might be causing this? I could remove the dynamic

Penpot in the future?? Seems that in the hands of your team that it could be a great alternative to Figma. Especially since it operates more like the web does than Figma.

Very helpful! But i wish you enlarged your browser fonts (browser zoom). Very hard to see the text on your screen on my 14" screen. Looks like you had enough white space to enlarge fonts.

What is ETCH again?

This must be te reason why the WordCamp websites are such a pain in the *** 😂

My current project is not using WordPress; instead, I went fully custom. With Claude's help, this is going much faster and better than I could have ever imagined. I’m not sure if there will be a place for any builder in the future, as AI can assist in incredible ways.

I'm moving from Wp to SSG or No code site generators. Wp became, slow and impossible to work without a ton of plugins.

#DearWordPress 1.Re-commit to CMS - I'm glad you felt the need to - there certainly is a lack of direction in recent months. 2. Freeze the Gutenberg features - good move. You've designed it so people can make their own and others have been using it in a much better way than you have. An example - Greenshift which I absolutely love. 3. Fully unify the UI - yes I agree with this too. 4. Ask higher standards and better value content from creators. Yes I can relate to lack of support with themes in the past which is why I decide to take a bespoke build approach for clients. And then again you have creators like Greenshift who come along and blow things out of the park. I was using GSAP before Greenshift arrived but now its here I am loving it. 5. Etch - can't wait to see what's launched in September. Keep up the good work Kevin & co

I thought I was listening to True North 😅

I have a feeling that CPT should be fairly easy to learn, yet i constantly struggle

As a WordPress developer I 100% agree. Block development is such a pain in the ass for us developers, and there is no consistent API, similar to Elementor for example. Sometimes to achieve a basic thing you have to write literally hundreds of lines of code spread across multiple files. Styling of default elements became slightly consistent thanks to the theme.json but it's still far from perfect.

Sounds great, but I'm not very optimistic we'll see any meaningful changes, largely because WordPress has already "won". The network effect is in full effect with WordPress. No one wants to leave WordPress because the rest of the market is seriously fragmented, and lacks the scale and quality of the WordPress community and ecosystem. WordPress leadership is both scared and complacent, since there is so much more to lose. Why try to address any fundamental changes (no matter how needed), when the cost of failure is so high. It happens all the time. Look at Microsoft in the early 2000's. Once they captured a dominant position in the market, their technology began to rot (IE6 anyone?). Or Facebook. They completely own social media, and their user facing tech is hot garbage. But, no reason to change course, it all pays the same. Now we're seeing Google starting to shit themselves in search, and what are we going to do? Run to Bing? Muddling through, churning out low-grade products because there's no competition or threat pushing things ahead. All pays the same.

Does this mean no more Bricks tutorials?

I am one of those who used WordPress for years and have dumped the entire ecosystem and moved to PayloadCMS + Astro. Would be really difficult for anything from WordPress to beat that stack in my opinion. However, I have always respected Kelvin and his products.

Love your work Kevin. I’ve literally based my entire wordpress journey on everything you teach!

100% Agree. I'm a die hard WP user but for large projects I moved to react and next js. its just more reliable and scalable.

On point video, there is indeed a growing gap between the professional builders and the current state of WordPress. You can sense it on a lot of things: the exitement to contribute, to organize or visit a meetup or WordCamp. For some time, the covid-era was pointed as the cause of this. In my opinion that's not the whole cause. You can't break a whole CMS-workflow and don't expect there's no impact here. The whole FSE is totally misjudge by the leaders of WordPress. To be honest and i guess i'm not the only one: i feel totally estranged from the current WordPress, and i've been building sites for 18 years, with 15 years of WordPress sites. Especially on WooCommerce: i totally frown how FSE-templates will open up Pandora's boxes; and two seperate technologies are going to mismatch like crazy. It's a crazy time to be a WordPress webdesigner. In the long run, we will see. But i can assume that the new generation won't have this much patience....

What happened to your Insight feed, Kevin? I thought it was a good idea.

Dear Wordpress, stop being the slowest to improve company ever. Only because of fav theme companies like Nectar And Blocksy and Greatives is why I’m still on board -The WordPress Ninja

This is a refreshing perspective. I had high hopes for Gutenberg, but now it does feel like we're stuck in a bit of a rut - it feels like using MS Word for desktop publishing. We're all backing multiple horses (builders, block themes etc.), not knowing which one is going to become the dominant player. I've not been this excited about the potential for WordPress in a long time. If nothing else, this will hopefully spark some really good conversations on the future of WP, and who it's for. Fingers crossed...

Thank you

would be lovely if Wordpress builders had a way to transfer the layouts from Figma into the builder environment, like Webflow/Framer do. I know there's still hangups to some of that but it gets you started Cwicly.

Great video, Kevin, thanks. Will Etch (whatever it turns out to be) build on Automatic.css and Frames or will it replace the need for those tools?

WP Fork incoming 👀 *slightly laughing - but in reality hoping xD* (i really love bricks and your work adding onto it with ACSS and Frames, please don't "just" launch your own site-editor - we use bricks + bricksforge for VERY dynamic things and webapps powered by WP.... i know it's gonna be great, no matter whats coming exactly. i love you for upgrading my workflow to its capacity it has become. even if it's a builder... it's gonna be great. but dear god please let it be a "redone" WP Core/UI of some sort...)

This is exactly on point! 100% agreed and hope WP higher ups take note. All the feedback seems to be overwhelmingly positive. I'm curious, has there been any significant negative pushback, or even negative interaction on this yet?

This deserves a like and share. As a Wordpress user since 2008 I couldn’t agree more. Focus on the fundamentals first should always be the core principle.

I completely agree with your statements Kevin! WordPress desperately needs a major update to attract more users. Without it, simpler solutions like Wix and more complex platforms like Storyblok will continue to capture more market share. This approach of trying to please everyone is failing. It’s crucial to rebuild trust with the core WordPress user base, the ‘middle class’ of WordPress, so to speak. In the entrepreneurship community I’m part of, many people still choose WordPress, but alternatives are increasingly being considered. It’s time for a change.

You make some good points, but you also talk completely like a snake-oil salesman. You've got so much theatrics and inflated hype in how you're presenting this. I'm gathering that you're a big name in this community with a lot of fans who clearly hang on your every word, but coming at this while not knowing who you are, you're throwing up a whooooole bunch of red flags right away about your own project, including/especially the way in which you're being secretive about the project. Hope it goes well though. You've clearly got a lot of people believing in you.

Waitlisted! :) Is Bricks Builder still going to be a thing with Etch?

We switched to webflow and framer long ago man…

Yeh I've lost enthusiasm for expanding my developer skillset in wordpress. It's like an uphill battle, constantly having to rationalise and decide which method/plugin/framework/solution to use, in order to achieve a basic requirement. Especially when it comes to e-commerce.

Just for some perspective: I'm a Webflow dev that jumped back into WordPress for a project after a few years of being away. And the FRUSTRATION. Every tutorial on even the simplest thing would eventually devolve into "and then I use this premium plugin" to get (what I had assumed) to be rather basic functionality. Everybody are using different tools and different workflows and different page-builders and taking shortcuts and I can't figure out what's "best practice" or a "hack." There are such fundamental differences between full-site-editing themes and non-fse themes that I get whipash every time I try something different. I honestly don't remember it being this bad when I stopped using WordPress a few years ago. This video hits the nail on the head.

After writing a negative review on Gutenberg, I noticed the team behind it are too proud to accept their mistake. They attempted to downright gaslight me into believing that the majority of people loves Gutenberg. That is a clear sign of delusion. To me, WP needs to be forked and fixed away from these woke nutjobs who are seeking to establish an inclusion classroom type society where all can participate but at the same time none can excel anymore. It's a dangerous collectivist mindset.

Uhh, WordPress is Gutenberg. It will only eat the rest of the cms.

You might be doing a disservice to the products you already have available by keeping this under wraps. It could be a barrier to those who have yet to purchase your tools, as this feels like it could be slotted in and cost another fistful of cash for a very limited amount of activations. Beyond that, you've created a video called "Dear WordPress" and linked it to Etch without really giving a clear reason why, or even what it is. Not trolling, just not sure what the purpose was of throwing the two into the same bowl and mixing them up and then keeping a huge part of it secret.