Global elements (bring them back)

Feature Requests / Improvements
1

I’m not sure why you decided to remove global elements. It’s a whole different feature with different purpose.

You use components when:
You want to create a repeatable widget for your site without actually programming this widget.

You use global elements when:
Some text on different parts of your site should be synced - you change it in one place, it changes in all places.

Components can be used as global elements, but in a wacky inconvenient way - you don’t create any properties and then you edit your “synced text” by editing component. But component has more complex editing interface. My content manager will be lost, I’m sure. With global elements he could edit some TOS texts on our site no problem, but now - I’m not sure.

2

The difference is one click.

Then don’t give him Bricks access at all, you can provide an ACF field on an options page. The only inconvenience is the location where you edit text.

3

You can use Template of type “section” to have a UI that can be rendered in multiple places and edited in one single place.

4

I just don’t understand this logic. We have 4 things for container and they are same thing, but not really. I liked this approach in Bricks - it prioritized convenience of your workflow even if there’s gonna be some repeatable things in UI. But now all the sudden there’s no room for global elements in UI? Weird.