FYI (at 27:15), for those using ACF Pro instead of Metabox, the "Exclude From Search" option is at the bottom of "Edit Post Type > Visibility" and "Publicly Queryable" is at the bottom of "Edit Post Type > URLs"
Holy cow! I have never witnessed so much valuable information being delivered from one guy in such a succinct and rapid-fire manner. Amazingly, this seemingly impossible style of delivery seems to somehow optimize my brain's capacity to process every word you say the first time you say it! Mubindid is right. "This guy is on another level."
If you think these lessons are good, you should consider joining his "Inner Circle" As a novice, I cannot tally the value I have received as a member. I think it serves beginners and pros alike. The generous, unfettered sharing of knowledge from the members and Kevin is really remarkable.
Since I’ve been watching your videos, I have been very in tune with activities that are time sucks and how I can use systems, apps etc to save time and energy.
I just discovered Kevin Geary 3-4 days ago... and man... how glad I am. Kevin, you're out of this world... really! The speed you type, interact with Bricks and at the same time talk, explaining, the dos and don'ts with utter emphasis... is only at the reach of the better Professionals, BOW meant with all meaning. WOW!
One question I have is why you don't use Bricks to design the layout of your posts. If you have a video about that, I'd love to be pointed in that direction. Thanks for such a massively valuable walkthrough. Wish I knew this years ago, but better late than never! 🙏
Value on value on value - You've upped my game, and my profit exponential - I made my first blueprint site after watching your "plugin stack 2023" video , but got some of the smaller yet, important things in place after watching this video. Spinning up a new project now takes seconds and not 30 - 60+ minutes !! I'd love to see a video on your basecamp setup - how you use it etc.
thanks for PB101 and the blueprint video. I paid so much for web development crash course of 6months in my country and didn't get close to the comprehension of what you offered. Now im ready to go next level and build better websites. I am definitely going to join the inner circle as well because I want to continue learning more of what you have to offer.
Another great tutorial Kevin, thanks. I added a couple more steps, I set up a 'System' Category and created a couple of posts with reminders and instructions for the 3 month rule, and I set up the User Registration, Login, Lost and Reset Password pages so that they can be customised later.
Talked my dept head into it and now (as of this weekend) I'm rockin Bricks, Frames and ACSS (coming from Oxygen/ACSS). I _always_ setup a boilerplate and this is the video I want to see. Thanks, Kevin!
Last night I started watching this walkthrough and I just couldn't stop. This was something I had to watch all at once. Very relevant and fascinating material, Kevin. The stuffs you provide to your subscribers and viewers are fantastic, and I genuinely appreciate your efforts in doing so. Just one thing: I see you tweak the Automatic.CSS settings quite a bit. Given that you are the plugin's respected developer, why not include a "Set Optimal Settings" button that, when clicked by the user, applies all the "startup" parameters you customized? Afterwards, at the user's convenience, modifications can be made. That seems like a good opportunity to save some time IMHO. Thank you so much again.
Outstanding content, Kevin!! Your channel has been invaluable for someone like me just getting started and wanting to set up processes in the most efficient way - just fantastic!
Always love your videos, Kevin! Super helpful and got some additional ideas on how to tweak my existing Blueprint. You have a lot of premium plugins - would love a version (or doc) with recommended "free" plugins too. While I have many of these plugins, can't afford all of them yet. Keep these videos rockin'! Love it!
Note with regards to setting container width inside bricks: Use "var(--content-width)" instead of manually entering the value to keep it in sync with ACSS
This is absolutely brilliant. I've learned so much from this video (and indeed a lot of your other ones). I joined the Inner Circle recently. Friggin' amazing value for all the shared insights to newbie questions.
Ha! So many shared behaviours. Hierarchy of browser tab position, removing the annoying WordPress screen options on setup, naming conventions. It's these very minute details that shine a light on the mindset for the detail, methodology, efficiency and care that goes into everything to deliver a clean product. That's why ACCS and Frames is the right fit, because I know the invisible steps taken to build a product are 100% inline with my own process and behaviours.
Awesome video Kevin! Followed it step-by-step in order to set-up future affiliate websites quickly. As a freelance SEO specialist I'm glad you highlight the importance of a SOP. I've had several clients missing organic results because of the lack of it. (Or even worse: experiencing a huge drop in organic traffic after a website migration. But that's another story.) Sometimes it's simply a result of unintentionally no indexing. That's definitely not necessary. So thank you for educating people in here 🙂
Damn Kevin, this video has GREAT information from start to finish! I never really knew about "blueprint" sites but can definitely see the advantages. I'm going to rewatch this video a few times to really make sure I take notes and understand all of the "default" settings you recommend.
As a developer, blueprints are actually a very slow process. Trust me on this, you want to examine WP-CLI the command-line interface for WordPress. Everything AND MORE done in this video can be done in ONE click.
Another great straight to the point no BS training video. Now if you could just get that postmark training video you referred to live by the weekend that would be great! 🤣🤣🤣
Cheers Kevin, there were some great golden nuggets in there that I didnt do before! I've also set up the transparent header from your previous video which always bummed me out setting it each time, but now its all in one single file! Awesome stuff!
Yup, another level. "Pay attention to who you pay attention to". I'm newer to Wordpress, however after spending hours on other channels, this guy actually proves the WHY behind best practices vs how many other teach, and the difference is just obvious even to someone like me. Newbie Question though: When you set up a Team Members custom post type, I can only assume that would be specifically for team members who don't need front end or dashboard access to the site as opposed to setting them up under the WP built in Users (maybe as a subscriber) or using a role manager plugin to modify the built-in WP roles? Could you set them up under users and just not give them access to dashboard, or is the dynamic functionality only available when you start to use a CPT?
Really good question. I would only use the users role when the person needs actual user functionality. If they don’t, then the person is just reduced to being a piece of content in a database, at which point you use CPT. And keep in mind that many builders can’t query users natively. Bricks can, but many/most can’t.
Greatest, most useful, guide ever 🌺🌺🌺 thanks Kevin 🙂 What about blog site, blog archive and blog section templates, do you make these part of the blueprint as well?
I just worked throgh this video and got a lot of value out of it, thank you Kevin! I have my blueprint version up to speed. Thinking about buying perfmatters and pixelmator now.
@@Gearyco I picked up ACSS, too. I'm really liking it so far. I figured out the right clicking to automatically add variables on accident (haven't gone through the docs yet). Awesome idea ! I'm looking forward to the new cheatsheet.
As Banyan would say in Seinfeld, "That's Gold, Geary! Gold!" Geary/Jerry close enough :) but awesome sauce in this video. I have a few different blueprints that have been a true timesaver, but I still pulled out a few additional helpful tips!
There is a BLUEPRINT feature in LOCAL which is very quick . You would only need the AIOM when you're actually moving your site from local to staging / production.
I prefer not to dev on local installs. Especially since we have a team and allow clients to monitor progress. It’s best to dev in the live environment for us.
@@Gearyco That's because you aren't doing any dev, you are just tweaking the Bricks and settings. So it makes sense that you wouldn't need to "dev" on local. Do you even do any dev like within the child theme?
@@joshpaynedesigns No, Bricks facilitates nearly everything you would need for most projects. "Dev" is an overarching term. Lots of parts of web design fall into "dev." HTML and CSS are "dev."
Very helpful, thanks for sharing! On 59:50 I'm deactivating also the WordPress additional image sizes (medium_large, 1536x1536, and 2048x2048) and I'm thinking even to expand this to all default images, so that there is only on place where I have to change the sizes, if needed (in the PHP script).
So valuable to see this Kevin! Watched every second. I guess you know more time wasters most people do? I'd watch that too. One thing tho, I would not advice to setup accounts in a blueprint using the same password in case of a breach, then all sites reusing the password need to be changed - manually...
First of all, thanks Kevin for these great tutorials. I enjoy watching them very much and the content is really extremely educational and valuable. You mentioned in this video that you are also making a video for an Oxgen Blueprint. I have not found a video for this though. Did I miss it, can you pass me the URL at best?
Nice! I was happy to see that my blueprint matched yours about 90%. I don't add default users, even though one day I hope I'll need to do that, and I do upload woff and woff2 fonts too. Is it unnecessary?
Kevin you rock my friend. Great video as usual. Do you prefer NGINX or Openlitespeed server to host your websites? If Open Litespeed woud you use Perfmatters and LS Chache together? or would you go LS Cache only?
Amazing Video Kevin. Thank you for taking the time to post this. I have just purchased ACSS & Frames. May I ask why you set up the Policy pages as CPT rather than just standard pages?
FYI (at 27:15), for those using ACF Pro instead of Metabox, the "Exclude From Search" option is at the bottom of "Edit Post Type > Visibility" and "Publicly Queryable" is at the bottom of "Edit Post Type > URLs"
This guy is on another level. How every video is packed with too much value ❤️🙌🏽
I appreciate that!
Seriously absolutely the best in the space.
Agreed @@tysonadams6744
That's a fact! How good is this? I'm trying to keep up!!
I needed this 15 years ago. Haha. Thanks from one web designer to another!
We are still waiting for that Perfmatter and Shortpixel optimization settings walktroughs :D
He does it again. For more of the same join the Inner Circle!
Holy cow! I have never witnessed so much valuable information being delivered from one guy in such a succinct and rapid-fire manner. Amazingly, this seemingly impossible style of delivery seems to somehow optimize my brain's capacity to process every word you say the first time you say it! Mubindid is right. "This guy is on another level."
🙌
If you think these lessons are good, you should consider joining his "Inner Circle"
As a novice, I cannot tally the value I have received as a member. I think it serves beginners and pros alike.
The generous, unfettered sharing of knowledge from the members and Kevin is really remarkable.
@@quickend01 I will indeed, and I appreciate your feedback.
@@quickend01 Thanks for this comment
What an absoulute gem of a video. That's the best 1hr 10mins I have spent learning some crucial steps for a blueprint site
Kevin, you are the hardest working TH-camr, developer, and overall the kindest person I know!
Thanks for feeding us, yet another one of your perls 😊
I appreciate that!
The highest level of expertise in WordPress - the free tutorials are outstanding! Don't be a chump!
I am not sure, if I have seen anymore important tech video than this one. This one is time saver, money saver and lifesaver, all in one.
Since I’ve been watching your videos, I have been very in tune with activities that are time sucks and how I can use systems, apps etc to save time and energy.
💪🏻
I just discovered Kevin Geary 3-4 days ago... and man... how glad I am.
Kevin, you're out of this world... really!
The speed you type, interact with Bricks and at the same time talk, explaining, the dos and don'ts with utter emphasis... is only at the reach of the better Professionals, BOW meant with all meaning. WOW!
🙌
Great video and content! Just finished your page building 101 and this blueprint video is essential! Thanks again Kevin!!!
One question I have is why you don't use Bricks to design the layout of your posts. If you have a video about that, I'd love to be pointed in that direction. Thanks for such a massively valuable walkthrough. Wish I knew this years ago, but better late than never! 🙏
Value on value on value - You've upped my game, and my profit exponential - I made my first blueprint site after watching your "plugin stack 2023" video , but got some of the smaller yet, important things in place after watching this video. Spinning up a new project now takes seconds and not 30 - 60+ minutes !! I'd love to see a video on your basecamp setup - how you use it etc.
I have a basecamp video in the inner circle.
COMING LATE TO THE PARTY...I LEARNT SO MUCH!! THANK YOU!!
As I always say on the Inner Circle and on the ACSS group.... GOLD! Thank you, KG.... you are our hero, mentor, leader....
🙏
thanks for PB101 and the blueprint video. I paid so much for web development crash course of 6months in my country and didn't get close to the comprehension of what you offered. Now im ready to go next level and build better websites. I am definitely going to join the inner circle as well because I want to continue learning more of what you have to offer.
I used to be a chump. I am not anymore. Thank you, Kevin!
worked with wordpress since it's inception, and in the first ten minutes of this i saved about 1000 future hours. Thanks Kevin!
💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
You've gone above and beyond Kevin. You deserve all the success in the world for sharing information that benefits everyone. Appreciate it very much!
Appreciate that
Another great tutorial Kevin, thanks. I added a couple more steps, I set up a 'System' Category and created a couple of posts with reminders and instructions for the 3 month rule, and I set up the User Registration, Login, Lost and Reset Password pages so that they can be customised later.
Been refreshing YT for this... Thanks for sharing Kevin ✨
My pleasure!!
Building my blueprint for my new agency now!
I am officially de-chumped now
Talked my dept head into it and now (as of this weekend) I'm rockin Bricks, Frames and ACSS (coming from Oxygen/ACSS). I _always_ setup a boilerplate and this is the video I want to see. Thanks, Kevin!
💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Hi Kevin, great video! Can you create a similar tutorial for Oxygen users? That would be great.
Last night I started watching this walkthrough and I just couldn't stop. This was something I had to watch all at once. Very relevant and fascinating material, Kevin. The stuffs you provide to your subscribers and viewers are fantastic, and I genuinely appreciate your efforts in doing so. Just one thing: I see you tweak the Automatic.CSS settings quite a bit. Given that you are the plugin's respected developer, why not include a "Set Optimal Settings" button that, when clicked by the user, applies all the "startup" parameters you customized? Afterwards, at the user's convenience, modifications can be made. That seems like a good opportunity to save some time IMHO. Thank you so much again.
There’s really no optimal starting point. That’s just the optimal starting point for me, but we already have defaults that work for most users.
@@Gearyco Great. Thank you for your kind response. ❤
Kevin - pls don't forget the video "Optimizing with Perfmatters" - VERY interested.
Favourite new web dev channel, long time elementor and divi user here slowly getting converted to bricks!
brilliant advice - it would be fantastic if you made a Oxygen blueprint too, thanks
Epic! Proud to be apart of the inner circle, best investment I have ever made tbh in my web dev career.
Kevin, thanks for your inciteful advice! Your generous video is helping to spawn an amazing Bricks community!
Perfect, Kevin. You really are a phenominal teacher.
Appreciate it!
Outstanding content, Kevin!! Your channel has been invaluable for someone like me just getting started and wanting to set up processes in the most efficient way - just fantastic!
Always love your videos, Kevin! Super helpful and got some additional ideas on how to tweak my existing Blueprint. You have a lot of premium plugins - would love a version (or doc) with recommended "free" plugins too. While I have many of these plugins, can't afford all of them yet. Keep these videos rockin'! Love it!
Note with regards to setting container width inside bricks: Use "var(--content-width)" instead of manually entering the value to keep it in sync with ACSS
Yep we have updated the official doc since this video was recorded.
Thanks Kevin - No stone left unturned! Appreciation sent >
Why am I not seeing "webfont loading method under bricks > settings > performance?
Neither am I
One of the best Kevin Geary tutorials yet. Learned a ton it's really great.
Wow. This is exactly what I needed! Just bought Bricks and am ready to get serious about my site set up. Thank you sir!
This is absolutely brilliant. I've learned so much from this video (and indeed a lot of your other ones). I joined the Inner Circle recently. Friggin' amazing value for all the shared insights to newbie questions.
Glad it was helpful!
Ha! So many shared behaviours. Hierarchy of browser tab position, removing the annoying WordPress screen options on setup, naming conventions. It's these very minute details that shine a light on the mindset for the detail, methodology, efficiency and care that goes into everything to deliver a clean product. That's why ACCS and Frames is the right fit, because I know the invisible steps taken to build a product are 100% inline with my own process and behaviours.
Kevin, great tutorial with important recommendations on starting settings. Thank you! Keep it up! You're an invaluable asset to the community!
Much appreciated!
Thanks, Kevin! Great video man, without any bs! I‘ve used my blueprint for about a year, and it's a time saver!
I cant live without one!
I do like you trainings very much Kevin - do you have an update on your stack you use in 2024 - Thanks
Awesome video Kevin! Followed it step-by-step in order to set-up future affiliate websites quickly.
As a freelance SEO specialist I'm glad you highlight the importance of a SOP. I've had several clients missing organic results because of the lack of it. (Or even worse: experiencing a huge drop in organic traffic after a website migration. But that's another story.) Sometimes it's simply a result of unintentionally no indexing. That's definitely not necessary. So thank you for educating people in here 🙂
💪🏻
Kevin once again you hit it out of the park. Thank you!
Damn Kevin, this video has GREAT information from start to finish! I never really knew about "blueprint" sites but can definitely see the advantages. I'm going to rewatch this video a few times to really make sure I take notes and understand all of the "default" settings you recommend.
A good blueprint site will change your life 💪🏻
As a developer, blueprints are actually a very slow process. Trust me on this, you want to examine WP-CLI the command-line interface for WordPress. Everything AND MORE done in this video can be done in ONE click.
@@BGdev305 it can’t though.
We need more guys like you.. Learn from this. Offer value!!
Thank you Kevin. I'm an elementor user and I'm now trying to wrap my head around bricks..Gone for the lifetime plan and hoping to adapt to it 😊
Another great straight to the point no BS training video. Now if you could just get that postmark training video you referred to live by the weekend that would be great! 🤣🤣🤣
Ha. Cracking the whip on me!
Cheers Kevin, there were some great golden nuggets in there that I didnt do before! I've also set up the transparent header from your previous video which always bummed me out setting it each time, but now its all in one single file! Awesome stuff!
Fantastic!
Yup, another level. "Pay attention to who you pay attention to". I'm newer to Wordpress, however after spending hours on other channels, this guy actually proves the WHY behind best practices vs how many other teach, and the difference is just obvious even to someone like me.
Newbie Question though: When you set up a Team Members custom post type, I can only assume that would be specifically for team members who don't need front end or dashboard access to the site as opposed to setting them up under the WP built in Users (maybe as a subscriber) or using a role manager plugin to modify the built-in WP roles? Could you set them up under users and just not give them access to dashboard, or is the dynamic functionality only available when you start to use a CPT?
Really good question. I would only use the users role when the person needs actual user functionality. If they don’t, then the person is just reduced to being a piece of content in a database, at which point you use CPT.
And keep in mind that many builders can’t query users natively. Bricks can, but many/most can’t.
Greatest, most useful, guide ever 🌺🌺🌺 thanks Kevin 🙂 What about blog site, blog archive and blog section templates, do you make these part of the blueprint as well?
yeah it's not a bad idea
I just worked throgh this video and got a lot of value out of it, thank you Kevin!
I have my blueprint version up to speed. Thinking about buying perfmatters and pixelmator now.
Thank you so much Kevin. This content is so valuable. I am watching your videos one by one when i have time.
Whoa man!! I didn't even yet use bricks, still I watched the full video....A lot of value packed in......Your presentation skills are lit....👌👌
Thanks a ton!
Another valuable resource for Solopreneurs and Agencies alike! Thanks for all your hard work.
I've just spent a couple of hours watching this and following along. It's 24 carat info but I think I need a lie down now! 😆
It’s a lot!
I've commented even before you delivered the content...(part 1) you had me at Grid Pane
Love it - dont be a chump :-) great video and yet we all know that there is lots of WP chumps out there.
Subscribed and liked.
Thanks for the sub!
Thanks for dechumping me every day a little bit at a time.
Nice video Kevin. I've been stuck in Oxygen land up until now, and I'm now thinking about making the jump. This was a great diving off point.
Glad I could help!
@@Gearyco I picked up ACSS, too. I'm really liking it so far. I figured out the right clicking to automatically add variables on accident (haven't gone through the docs yet). Awesome idea ! I'm looking forward to the new cheatsheet.
Thank you Kevin Geary for this well-done hard work/tutorial. You are much appreciated. 🙏
Thank you so much for the level of details, I feel like I know about Bricks a lot more now, greatly appreciated.
Thank you, I will rebuild this blueprint with bricks and adding CPT inside is the part i never though before! :)
I just bought frames - god that is a so perfect tool to go fast AND to learn the best way to build our own parts. Thank you again!
As Banyan would say in Seinfeld, "That's Gold, Geary! Gold!" Geary/Jerry close enough :) but awesome sauce in this video. I have a few different blueprints that have been a true timesaver, but I still pulled out a few additional helpful tips!
Thank you, sir! Just create a bricks blueprint for my agency. Using Server Avatar so very quick site clone. Thanks so much for your wisdom!
You're very welcome!
There is a BLUEPRINT feature in LOCAL which is very quick . You would only need the AIOM when you're actually moving your site from local to staging / production.
I prefer not to dev on local installs. Especially since we have a team and allow clients to monitor progress. It’s best to dev in the live environment for us.
@@Gearyco That's because you aren't doing any dev, you are just tweaking the Bricks and settings. So it makes sense that you wouldn't need to "dev" on local. Do you even do any dev like within the child theme?
@@joshpaynedesigns No, Bricks facilitates nearly everything you would need for most projects.
"Dev" is an overarching term. Lots of parts of web design fall into "dev." HTML and CSS are "dev."
Awesome, awesome video Kevin! Fantastic content and insight into your thought processes. Thanks for sharing!
Very helpful, thanks for sharing!
On 59:50 I'm deactivating also the WordPress additional image sizes (medium_large, 1536x1536, and 2048x2048) and I'm thinking even to expand this to all default images, so that there is only on place where I have to change the sizes, if needed (in the PHP script).
Great tutorial! I learned a few things as always. Kevin, is there a reason you don’t setup a settings page or custom fields for the CPT?
Thanks a lot, this is just great. Love watching your tutorials. One about Perfmatters would be awesome.
This is absolutely awesome! Thank you Kevin for continuing to educate and help us all grow.
This dropped right on time, I was just building a SOLID one
Amazing! helping me appreciate wordpress again
So valuable to see this Kevin! Watched every second. I guess you know more time wasters most people do? I'd watch that too.
One thing tho, I would not advice to setup accounts in a blueprint using the same password in case of a breach, then all sites reusing the password need to be changed - manually...
We reset passwords when we first login.
Very interesting.. thanx! I get first errors when try to install a wordpress on local :( I can't find a solution in the community from local...
What a fantastic reference
Just insane detail - brilliantly informative video Kevin.
Awesome video with a lot of valuable information. Tnank you very much!!! Nicolás from Argentina
What a refresher course this was. Bravo!
Very good video Kevin. Picked up a few new nuggets. Bravo!
Thank you! This is what I've waited for. Love the videos!
First of all, thanks Kevin for these great tutorials. I enjoy watching them very much and the content is really extremely educational and valuable.
You mentioned in this video that you are also making a video for an Oxgen Blueprint. I have not found a video for this though. Did I miss it, can you pass me the URL at best?
No, I decided not to. Oxygen does not have a bright future. It’s not worth doing the work.
Awesome, thank you, Kevin, for your input! Love it. You are next level 🙌 ❤️
I appreciate that!
All of your videos are so helpful. Thanks for the great content!
My pleasure!
Nice! I was happy to see that my blueprint matched yours about 90%. I don't add default users, even though one day I hope I'll need to do that, and I do upload woff and woff2 fonts too. Is it unnecessary?
Kevin you rock my friend. Great video as usual. Do you prefer NGINX or Openlitespeed server to host your websites? If Open Litespeed woud you use Perfmatters and LS Chache together? or would you go LS Cache only?
Nginx for sure
Amazing Video Kevin. Thank you for taking the time to post this. I have just purchased ACSS & Frames. May I ask why you set up the Policy pages as CPT rather than just standard pages?
Organizes them better. Can template them easier.
I came to make a payment...with a like & a comment. Thanks m8!
Thanks for this, Kevin. You always ago above and beyond
I try!
Once again a lot of valuable information! Thank you Kevin! 🙏
Excellent and valuable content, as always. Thank you, Kevin.
Waiting for 2024, acss 3 version!
Thanks, Kevin! Great stuff as always.
Amazing Stuff! Massive value here. Keep them coming, appreciate you! Thanks ❤🙌🏽
More to come!
Amazing tutorial!
Great tutorial. Picked up a few things