We are happy to announce that our “The Road to Bricks 2.0” guide is now available at https://bricksbuilder.io/the-road-to-bricks-2-0/. 
There’s much more to share about what we have in store for you in 2025. But that’s for another day once we have passed the 2.0 release mark.
Let us know what you think in the comments below.
Happy reading,
Thomas & team
First of all congratulations for this great planning. Everything useful and powerful.
Is this exactly what I mentioned earlier here correct? So we can hide a filter if it has no items?
If yes, is an empty filter element removed from the DOM using interaction or is it still rendered?
thanks
Thank you for your great work! Great news.
The components are a great thing. But the new plans for “Query filters: Phase 2” will be a gamechanger. Especially “Update URL in real-time as filters are applied”. I’ve been looking for a solution for this for a long time. At the moment i have to do it laboriously with PHP script.
Not even the most popular filter plugins provide this (I recently had a discussion with the support of a popular filter plugin).
Filters are basically a simple but effective thing and it has always been a thorn in my side to use an extra plugin for this. In the future I can hopefully do without external plugins.
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I have one more request for an improvement, if that is what you are looking for.
I have a lot of open questions in the “How To” section here in the forum. Unfortunately, I don’t get any help from the Bricks team. This has been the case for several months now. It is clear that the members cannot answer everything and very often I am left out in the rain with my problems. Even when I have flagged up the Bricks team several times, I don’t get any answers.
It’s better in the Facebook group - but you also get a lot of unqualified help there. Chat GPT answers or AI generated code snippets that don’t fit the individual case.
It would be great if the Bricks forum became the #1 place to get Bricks answers from specialists. At the moment it seems like the forum is dying out because you can’t get help anyway.
Great features. It was very happy.
The question I have about Query filters is, do you have any plans to add more controls to customize the style elements? Things like :
Great news. Thank you for the great work. 
cant wait for global components I am tired of interns breaking the pages 
need components like yesterday
Congratulations on your rock steady and cheerful pace of improvements and adjustments. I could wish for a bit more regular communications outside of the updates. Another live stream moderated by Paul? I would love to see a discussion between you and those long term community supporters who actively help others in Facebook and on the Forum.
Who is “b” or “M”?
(Edit: I got an answer to this question when the “b” icon changed. Welcome Matej Mohar.)
Will the “About Us” page ever return to your revised website?
I fully agree, please empower the forum. I am on the internet since the 90s and this thing with Facebook Communities and the demise of forums has diminished the quality of discussions tremendously.
Facebook communities are the best place to let knowledge and in-depth discussions die. I really miss the powerful forums of the past where proper structure and long in-depth discussions could develop properly.
There is no proper search in Facebook, there is no proper structure, all this accordion menus are made for the damn mobiles and you post something meaningful only to see it get lost in a see of unstructured and irrelevant information.
Why? Why when a forum is the proper tool for discussion. We are mostly professionals here not “Karens” seeking out social compassion and cat-related content.
Please empower the forum, Social Media is not appropriate for work.
Regarding Bricks 2.0! I can’t wait for those amazing improvements and added functionality. KUDOS to the team!
I agree with @Jargon - FB is a poor substitute and most importantly, outside the control of the Bricks community. They can, and do (ask me how I know) allow an account to be hijacked and then unilateraly remove an account.
I really like where it looks like things are headed with Bricks.
As someone who builds websites professionally, what I care about is making sure that I can build quality websites quickly, where the content can be appropriately managed by my clients. I believe things like components, querying enhancements, etc. will help get me there.
I hope you are also considering the UI as you go about making these changes. I would personally, like to see more “synergy” between Theme Styles, Class/Variable Manager, Components and Templates. When I say synergy I mean that there is a UI view that makes it obvious that these are related and that helps you work with them to implement a brand’s design in a website globally. While it is great that all of these are accessible from various places in the builder and outside of it, I think it would make for a better user experience to have a place dedicated to setting up and tweaking a design system, if that makes any sense.
Overall, thank you for all of your hard work and for creating such a wonderful tool for all of us.
Please don’t implement the “Back-to-top” element! It is probably the single most mentioned item on the roadmap. What will we talk about if it is gone?
Yes, the filter element still renders with an additional CSS class to hide the element. It’s required as the rendering is updated via JS.
It’s not a dynamic data as Dynamic data is working in backend. This new interaction is for dynamically display a filter element based on current options count. (0 or > 0)
Regards,
Jenn
Just dropping a message here to let you know, @thomas, that when components are ready to be tested, I will test it vigorously!
It’s the single most important missing feature for me!
Welldone to the team!!!
I fully support this remark! 
The Forum should become the primary and central tool for large discussions, and the social networks are secondary.
In social networks, you can post links to the main discussion of the issue on the forum. That’s what they’re for. 
Even if we look at the current version of bricks, bricks is fantastic and lacks nothing for a professional (non WooCommerce) website. With the release of the above, bricks will reach its peak.
I think then WooCommerce features will need more attention.
Features such as :
I completely agree, but I don’t really know how the Bricks team themselves can control this. It’s sort of on us as a community to embrace the forum.
Perhaps questions posted in the FB group could link to posts created here / ask people to come to the forum to share code, etc.?
Two more things about version 2.0
Since we will have Button mode in the checkbox and radio filters in the future, it would be great if the buttons have a horizontal scrolling feature. This is very useful for displaying filters on mobile.
The last one is a question about what is meant by re-group elements in element manager?
thanks
Hi bricks team,
Do you have plans to add a visual filter element that can filter by color and image in 2025?