Blush. Thanks Kevin. I really appreciate that.

I finally agree with you Kevin

Aww thank you! I'm very excited to be back. Been waaaaaaaay too long.

Good to see you here too, Rip. It's like the old days isn't it? Cheers mate!

Ah thanks Mike! You’re very welcome any time, my friend.

Brilliant! Thanks Daniel. Great to hear. 🙏

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Absolutely this, YES 👆

Oh hi! 👋 🙏

Great to hear from you too, Jim! I hear from a lot of people that they just don't need or want to build from scratch with bare building blocks, and that's totally cool. It's exactly what I was getting at in this video. There's room for everyone, thankfully. :) I had a similar experience when I had a phase of a few years doing SEO as well. It was that, and also working with non-coder designers, that exposed me to page builders in the first place, but I was hand-coding before that. Elementor's definitely had a painful few years, I couldn't use it. But I'm liking a lot of what I'm seeing at the moment, definitely going in the right direction.

@@DaveFoy - I think Elementor has finally grown out of its adolescence and now can play with the more senior crowd. I admire hand-coders but code doesn't click with everyone (like me!). I struggle with creating code but am decent at troubleshooting existing code. It is what it is... I'm delving into CSS more as I occasionally hit brick walls with Elementor widgets and a bit of CSS is quicker than juggling settings back and forth.

Great to hear from you Jennie, and thank you so much! Actually you and your team are a really good example of the kind of Elementor users I have in mind. I'm on it. :)

Thank you my very good friend. 🙏

Awesome, thank you!

Excellent, that's good to hear, Christian. What I'll be covering will be way too basic I'm sure but will be great to have you along. 🙏

@@DaveFoy just watched your beginner mega menu tutorial on it and probably saved me hours. So really grateful for what you’re doing. I can probably make a tutorial on how to code a mega menu, and I guess that’s the beauty of this knowledge exchange, we all just win in the end.

Exactly right. 👆 🙏

John! Good to hear from you again my man. It's been aaaaages. I hope all's well. And thanks for the message. Great stuff. 👍

Aw thanks Schlomoh. Always great to hear from you. I remember your comments on my KZfaq videos when I was just getting started. The NSWP days were good days!

@@DaveFoy NSWP and the Funnel Builder course were two of the most comprehensive and digestible courses I have ever done. I did feel it was a bit of a dark day when you left Elementor after getting me addicted to the page builder - so I can't tell you how delighted I was to hear you may eventually be returning to make some new content on elementor. Just like you cannot drive two cars at once you have to decide on Page Builder and go with it. It is too big of an investment in both money and more importantly - time to develop any real commercial proficiency in it. Bricks and other page builders may still be a "Bridge too Far" for me at this point in time. So to echo the views of one other commenter - KZfaq will be a better place for having Dave Foy back in it - Cheers

@@lenforsyth5748 Wow, Len - great to hear from you after all this time, sir! And that really means a lot to me. Thank you. I'm so glad to be back. I hope you're doing well. 🙏

Merci beaucoup, monsieur! 🙏

@DesignBuildWeb wow, do you speak French, I did not notice that. Where did you learn? Continue ce excellent travail 👏

@@HappyDiaspora Oh I don't know much French. In the UK we're next to France and so we all learn French in school, I've visited many times. :)

@DesignBuildWeb this is great 👍🏾

Great to hear from you too, Joel. It's been a while! I've had the Nighthawk since '95. We've been through a lot. I (accidentally) smashed the headstock off twice, it's an amazing repair job. I'll pretend I hate it so you don't feel bad. ;)

@@DaveFoy Oof, two neck snaps! Sounds like you need to send it to Melbourne where I'll take good care of it for you :P I think I got mine in 97. Tobacco Sunburst, from memory. Looking forward to seeing more content. Cheers!

Because the lack of plugins ended up being a big problem in reality. I hit so many cases where I'd be able to install a (often) free plugin and have the functionality I need. Also, I didn't like where the pricing was going, especially if your site got popular or you needed more dynamic data. In the end, I decided my heart was with open source WP, not a closed solution. But... there are no perfect solutions. Ultimately, you have to decide which compromises you're willing to accept.

Hey Darren! Nice to hear from you too my friend! It's been a while eh? I tried that combo myself and found it a bit lacking. Blocksy Pro is a great theme though. Hope all's well.

Wooo hoooooo!!

Thanks buddy! I feel like you just gotta own it. :)

Uffe Steffensen! Wow. Great to hear from you. Hope you're doing well.

Lol! I'll take that. 😂

Absolutely, Tony! There's room for everyone.

Thanks Rich. I appreciate that. I'm guessing most people won't really care but it gets it all out of the way. :)

I'm currently "stuck" in Elementor as my main builder, and have also been dabbling with other builders, as well as the GutenTurd tools, but like you, I'm not feeling it yet. I picked up Bricks on day one to support the project, and have been waiting for it to mature before I get stuck in. It seems that time might be now.

@@RichardWadeUK In what ways is Elementor not doing it for you? Bricks is superb, but a bit of a learning curve vs Elementor.

@@DaveFoy Elementor does most things, but it went down a bad path for a while, hence your moving away, and it was quite stagnant in enhancements and you need a bunch of different plugins/tools to solve issues and complete projects which should be built in by now (especially for dynamic content - which seems to be gradually resolving). Then there is the annual subscription - I like LTD's to control the overhead. The biggest punch in the face early on was removing my unlimited license and capping to 1000 websites - which in the scheme of things, isn't the end of the world but it's also the principle of being missold a product

Thanks buddy!

Mario! Great to hear from you man. Thank you.

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I've never used it. So there's one page builder I didn't test. :)

I heard someone mention it the other day. Look a lot like the Figma UI if I recall? Have you used it?

@@DaveFoy I downloaded the Beta and played a little with. It has a learning curve to it. The UI is really cool. Yes it can sometimes remind you of Figma. It seems to have an interesting concept behind. It creates a theme (a folder with the php files), and it looks like that theme could be exported.

I think you spelt older wrong. 😂 (but I'll take the compliment, thank you)

Yep. I can’t see the point in using any UI for design and dev if it’s hard work, just because “it’s the future”. The beauty of WP is the open nature of being able to use it however you like. So that’s what I’m choosing to do. Glad you agree!

I'll agree with that. :)

No arguments from me there, Steve. I think it's even worse since I recorded this.

@@DaveFoy I'm very glad you're back online and teaching again. I learned a lot from your Elementor trainings back in the day. I just got your Bricks course as I've decided to retool my dev stack 🙂