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.

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Hi! Were you able to solve this issue? I am going through the same issue.

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I ‘ve been in the same « problem »: I think that you have to choose between edit immediately with bricks or make a template (the result is the same) and use some classes of your own to organize the margins as said macksix. You can’t edit inside a template, unless you want to modify the template.

I tried that to edit the content of some articles but it didn’t worked

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I managed to create a page template that allows me to creat pages in either Wordpress/Gutenberg or Bricks.

It’s super simple. This is what I did and I don’t know if it’s the best practice, but it seems to work well.

In my Pages template (conditions: use on all Pages) I put a section with a container that has a Section, with a container that has a Wordpress Post Content block in it.

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Now if I have a page with content created in Gutenberg, the content shows up on the page, and if I choose “edit in bricks” I can add any bricks elements to it.

If there is no Gutenberg post content on the page, it doesn’t matter. Nothing shows up.

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I’m not sure why, but that previous solution doesn’t seem to work (Did it ever?) but this one does:

  1. Make a template that has two “Post Content” elements.
  2. Set the Data Source to Bricks for one of them, and Wordpress for the other one. (see screenshot)

Then when you create a page or post that uses that template, any content added in either Bricks builder or the regular Gutenberg editor will show up.

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