I was looking at a few features on YouTube that Cwicly offers for Woocommerce filters and mini cart building and I’m really astonished how they’ve broken down every little element to the maximum allowing you to customise every possible aspect. I’m feeling a bit down to see bricks so behind when it comes to WooCommerce and I don’t want to use other plugins to keep things working as I would like to… And I’ve invested too much learning time on Bricks to now start using Cwicly now just because of woocommerce. Is bricks going to support WooCommerce better in the future natively?
A few things that are basic and I’m really sad that they don’t exist natively.
- Having Increase/decrease quantity ajax buttons in the minicart element.
- Checkout experience using shortcode should at least move the email field at the top!
- Woocommerce spinner loading should be replaced with skeleton and content placeholders.
There are lot of improvements that could be made but at least adding small things like the above can go a long way.
Bricks is awesome and I love it, but I cannot see myself how I can continue using it moving forward for woocommerce with lucking a modern approach to woocommerce customization.
Is anything being planned for the future? I really hope so…
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Would be interesting to know if bricks plans something like that…
While I don’t disagree that things can always improve, I would ask just how important those little touches are. Nothing like that would ever stop me from finishing an order. Those are low level, low priority “nice to haves” if you ask me.
Second, it’s hard to consider Cwicly for anything serious after what they did. I know they are trying to make a comeback and I want to be nice, but that’s just a big no. I’m not changing my entire builder and plugin stack for an ajax quantity button. This could be added with a little JS if really needed.
I would simply make use of everything Bricks can do right now, and make sure to look at any hooks and filters available where you could inject your own improvements if needed. Then update it as Bricks improves. Put in feature requests, etc.
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As you say, they are nice touches. I’m not claiming they are must have features. But I truly wish they existed natively. It would make a lot of users happy to have something ready and sleek out of the box.
These features can be found in many themes out there. It would help if bricks had them also. Bricks is a theme afterall.
I mentioned Cwicly not because I’m considering to switch (although truly I was nagging a bit to make it more dramatic 
), but because honestly it’s admirable how they allow you to edit down to fine details woocommerce elements.
I love bricks and I want it also to shine in the woocommerce sector as well. That’s all.
No harm 
I haven’t used Bricks and Woo yet so not sure how powerful it is.
I see that BricksUltimate and BricksLibrary both have minicart features that seem to include the quantity adjuster:
Moving the email field to the top could be done with a pinch of jQuery or vanilla JS to grab the element and it elsewhere.
Spinners tend to just be a CSS class being added and removed to some element. You could perhaps overwrite that class to turn it into your own thing.
Just spitballing!
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