Registration, login & dashboard system with Bricks Forms — Best practices?

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Hi,

I’m building a Service Provider portal with Bricks.
The system includes registration, login, and a
frontend dashboard. Here’s what I have so far and
my questions:

── REGISTRATION ──

  • Custom register form with Bricks Form element
  • Action: User Registration → Role: service_provider
  • Admin receives email notification with link to
    wp-admin/user-edit.php?user_id={id}
  • SP redirects to /pending after register

Q1: Is wp_update_user() in user_register hook
the best way to notify admin with a direct user link?

── LOGIN ──

  • Custom login page with Bricks Form element
  • Redirect to /dashboard after login
  • Using Page Conditions to redirect logged-in users
    away from /login page

Q2: Is Bricks Page Conditions the recommended way
to protect pages and redirect logged-in users?

── DASHBOARD ──

  • /dashboard — Overview
  • /dashboard/profile — Edit Profile

Q3: There’s no native “Update User” action in
Bricks Forms. Is “Custom” action + wp_update_user()
in functions.php the recommended approach for
frontend profile editing?

Q4: What’s the best way to pre-fill form fields
with current user data? Currently using dynamic
tags like {wp_user_first_name} as Default Value.

Running Bricks 2.x
Thanks in advance!