Let me show you something cool I’ve been working on—a Bricks site I launched on 12 November 2024. The goal? To see if I could dynamically serve content from an externally hosted database via REST API, because, well, why not?
Check it out:
To make this happen, I went full geek-mode: building custom plugins, adding a ton of functions to the Bricks child theme’s functions.php, and whipping up five custom PHP page templates to pull data from the external database. The result? Pages that technically don’t exist—they’re not static—but they’re fully crawlable by Google. Because, of course, if Google can’t find you, do you even exist?
I set up a dynamic sitemap script in the root directory that feeds directly into Google Search Console. The result? Almost 300k pages indexed. Not bad for a couple of weeks of tinkering and a lot of coffee.
Fast forward two weeks and a bit, here’s where we’re at:
(Search Console stats, served fresh via Google Sitekit on the site)
Now, with this kind of growth, I’ve got to figure out how to actually monetize it. Any brilliant suggestions? (P.S. Ads aren’t my vibe, so Adsense is out.)