I would like to see Bricks be able to show {post_title}, {post_excerpt} and {featured_image} for other “bricks_template” post type data in the frontend.
This currently doesn’t work for
- archive templates
- search results template
- Error Page Template
This does work in the backend (Bricks Editor) but not the frontend and I was told it wasn’t a bug. (see: NO BUG: Search Template Issues - Template Fields like Featured Image getting Overwritten by Query on Page - #17 by itchycode)
This works in other WordPress builders and I would like to make a feature request for this since it makes the website much more maintainable.
It would allow me for example to use a template element and set my hero global section template for any “page” my website displays:
- archive templates
- search results template
- 404 Error page
- single template for posts
- single template for pages
- single template for CPT
and have it pull dynamic data for the page.
In this example my hero would have one source of truth so any changes made to the hero section template would be replicated across the entire website with the proper post title, featured image, etc.
It would also be nice as well to add extra data so support for Metabox Custom Fields on “bricks templates” as well would be handy. These also are not supported in the front end but do appear to work in the backend.
Thanks