Would you believe, I was creating masks to do that very thing, when your video popped up on my feed. I haven't been using the transparent effect, but might try that next. I've actually moved away from page builders these days, but it's very easy to apply masks with the Kadence Advanced Image block - my theme and blocks plugin of choice these days.
Ok so I watched the video and thought, get outta here, this cannot be that simple. Fired up affinity photo, put 2 black rectangles on a transparent canvas...exported as SVG...and...YES! IT REALLY IS THAT EASY!!!
I followed this guidance Paul, using Elementor and worked. However the semi transparent outlines didn't work in Elementor. Any ideas whether this a limitation within Elementor?
Hello there! I've been using Elementor Pro until this moment, but now I started considering moving to Bricks for upcoming clients, not only for all good things I'm seeing about Bricks, but specially for their lifetime plan. Would you have any point against doing so/do you have any video covering this topic?
@@phkoon I made the move myself and haven’t looked back. Once you become accustomed to the change in workflow, you’ll find a lot of things can be done natively in Bricks whereas Elementor requires plugins. The class first design methodology alone is worth the switch.
@@WPTuts Thanks for your kind reply, it's awesome to see this sort of feedback. I'm really inclined to, but still diving into knowing more about it before I make a decision, and will test it as soon as I deliver the last project I got into. What do you have to say about the UX/UI for clients? That's the second main reason I'm considering the change... With Elementor I've had a hard time to restrict design edit capabilities with the Role Manager, specially with containers; I had to develop a custom way of letting my client change the container background image/gallery, while keeping everything else restricted for their role and container handles and controls hidden.
@@phkoon IF you give access to clients, you have a couple of options on how to handle this. 1. You can make templates for the pages they can edit that controls the layout and specific WP features (like featured image, excerpt, title, etc., and then let them create the content via core WordPress blocks. There's a video on the channel covering this approach. 2. Use a plugin like Advanced Themer (which I would 100% recommend adding to your Bricks stack) and use the Strict Editor Mode to limit the features for any of the Elements you want the end user to access (again, there's a video on the channel about this). 3. Use a plugin like GutenBricks to give you granular control over custom designed blocks that work inside core WordPress but are designed in Bricks (video on the channel about this plugin too - but, it was the beta version and the full version is now available with more functions). That provides 3 options for handling client access and should cover most bases depending upon your preference.
@@WPTuts Wow, that really feels like a breath of relief to me. I'll certainly make the move, but I've done a little more research and I see I'll have much to learn and much to change in my workflow as it is right now, so it's more likely to happen in a near future rather than now, considering I'm in the middle of the road of getting the grip on business handling, and it's going pretty well, but with A LOT to attend to in order to keep things together and growing. I'll also spare some time to get into your suggested videos. I love your way of teaching and have learnt a lot from you. Thank you very much for your response and help, keep up the good work!
