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  • Adding Featured Image to the WordPress API

    UPDATE: All this is great, but unnecessary. It turns out that all you need to do is pass a URL parameter in the WP API request _embed=1 and most of…

    By Stephen Walker

    assorted photos on beige wooden table

    27.Sep 2025

  • Floating Images When Using ACSS Content Grid

    I am working on a site that has a lot of old articles where the authors were enamored with alignright or alignleft (float) for images. In order to use float,…

    By Stephen Walker

    person holding compass facing towards green pine trees

    16.Sep 2025

  • New Event Site

    Sharing a new site that was built using the power of the Brick ecosystem.

    By Stephen Walker

    27.Mar 2025

Industry Shorts

  • Menu Builder for Etch

    Nick Arce has released a menu builder for Etch, which to date, is hands down the best menu builder available.

    02.07.2026

    Product Announcement

  • Etch 1.0 is LIVE

    After just over a year of amazing development, Etch version 1 has been officially released.

    01.30.2026

    Product Announcement

  • Page Building 101 (Era 4) is Underway

    In just a few short weeks, you’ll learn my repeatable ‘5S Framework’ for building anything on the web — from complete sites built from scratch to surgical edits of existing patterns and templates.

    01.05.2026

    In the News

  • Check Out Lista Recurring Events

    A relatively new, reasonably priced calendaring solution, Lista Recurring Events is a beautifully designed event management tool that lets you turn any single post type into a calendar event — just add an event start custom field. Not as powerful as Pie Calendar (yet), but the UI/UX are superior in my opinion.

    12.26.2025

    Product Announcement

  • Facets in Etch (3rd Party)

    Zack Pyle wrote documentation explaining how to use WP Grid Builder FacetWP with Etch. Both use a similar approach, but each has its intricacies and pros and cons, so read through the one you’re going to use carefully.

    12.24.2025

    Tutorial

  • Avada 7.14.2 Release

    Fresh on the heels of 7.14.1, the Avada team has released 7.14.2. This is a relatively minor update that includes a few additional fixes to their image optimization feature.

    12.18.2025

    Product Announcement

  • Avada 7.14.1 released

    The Avada team released a significant update. This release includes 19 new features, 11 improvements, 15 bug fixes, and 2 compatibility updates.

    12.15.2025

    Product Announcement

  • Bricks 2.2 Beta

    Bricks has released the beta version of 2.2. This is a significant update to the styling functionality as well as a components update, a new array query capability, and much more.

    12.10.2025

    Product Announcement

  • ACSS v4 Alpha 1 released

    After several months of dev builds and Etch releases, version 4 of Automatic CSS is now in alpha. There are several breaking changes, so make sure to follow the Circle group. WoW: do not use in production.

    11.29.2025

    Product Announcement

  • BricksExtras announces new pricing

    One of the most valuable and reliable add-ons for Bricks Builder has announced an upcoming price change. It has been two years since the last increase. If you have been on the fence, don’t wait!

    11.28.2025

    Product Announcement

  • Equalize Digital announces ArchiveWP

    The WordPress plugin that helps you organize and manage legacy content. This will be a great product for sites with a lot of legacy content or content they are not allowed to remove (federal records management).

    11.17.2025

    Product Announcement

  • Etch Alpha 9 – a change in direction

    According to Kevin, “we tried to make core blocks behave. They wouldn’t. And that might be the best thing that ever happened to our Auto Block Authoring feature.”

    11.12.2025

    Product Announcement

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