How To Create a Page in Bricks Builder

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I’m confused about one of the core principles of page/post templates in Bricks.

I created a basic template for all WordPress posts and pages. Its only job is to set the margins for Wordpress content. It has a WordPress content element in it.

I set this to be used on all Pages and Posts.

Okay, so far all is fine.

The problem comes when I want to create a page using bricks builder.

When I create a new page in Wordpress and then “Edit In Bricks”, it uses the default page template I created (of course) so I can’t add anything using Bricks because the only element in there is the WordPress content element.

The only way I can get around this is to create a page, then create a template for that page, then assign the template to that particular page in the Template settings under “individual” but that seems absurd.

Surely I don’t have to manually go into the template settings and assign every new Bricks page to that Template before I edit it in Bricks Builder do I?

I am clearly missing something very basic but I can’t find the answer in the tutorials.

How do I create a template that gets used on every post or page except the ones I want to create/edit in Bricks?

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You can exclude post/pages with template conditions in template settings and the template wont be used on that page or post.

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Cheers!

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Right, thank you, but that means that every time I need to create a page using Bricks Builder, I have to:

  1. Create a draft page.
  2. Save draft.
  3. Go into Bricks > Templates.
  4. Open my Pages/Posts default template.
  5. Exclude my new page in the display settings.
  6. Go back to my draft and choose edit in Bricks.

All that just to start creating a new page every time?
That seems absurd. Is that really the only/fastest way to do it?

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You can use Theme Styles to set basic margins for all pages or make a custom class, like .default-section or .default-contanier and set those up and add them to every tempate or page. Then you can add another custom class like .section_mysection or .container_mycontainer with other settings specific for one page or many pages, it’s just a matter of adding the class to a section or page or whatever element you choose. You can add those classes in addition to the default classes. Then you could even add more classes like .section_fu and .container_fu, and add those with the other 2, etc.