How to Create a Bricks 'Blueprint' Site for Rapid Development (Every WP & Plugin Setting Revealed!)

If you're a freelancer or agency owner, what's your process for deploying a new Bricks development site?

Do you manually install Bricks and all your plugins? Do you manually put in all your plugin license keys? Do you manually configure all your plugin settings? What about your preferred WP settings? What about your preferred Bricks settings?

How do you handle common custom post types? A header template? Footer? Contact form? SEO settings? Optimization settings?

Do you do all or most of this manually for every new project?

Stop doing that! It's a massive waste of time and money. It's not fun. In fact, it's what chumps do!

In this video, I will show you how to create a Bricks "blueprint" site with Bricks Builder, all plugins, and all WP settings pre-configured to deploy new development sites in seconds whenever you have a new project to work on.

I will go plugin by plugin, setting by setting, showing you the entire setup. And I'll show you an easy process that allows you to deploy your blueprint site to any domain in seconds.

If you don't use my exact plugins, it's okay. You'll still learn a good process. If you use the plugins I use, you'll get to see exactly how I set everything up.

*** ADDITIONAL STEPS YOU MAY WANT TO TAKE ***

→ Create some dummy policy pages in the policies CPT
→ Create some dummy team members in the team CPT
→ Create some dummy services in the services CPT
→ Create some dummy reviews in the reviews CPT
→ Create a 404 error template

*** PLUGINS USED ***

Migration Plugin: All in One Migration

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*** CHAPTERS ***

0:00 Intro
03:13 WP Install (Local Not Required)
06:06 WP Dashboard Changes
07:08 WordPress Settings
11:00 Users Setup
12:14 Theme Install (Bricks & Child Theme)
13:38 Plugins Installation
16:47 Quick Plugins Overview
18:44 Dummy Posts
21:38 Default Pages Setup
23:10 Menu Creation
23:46 Media Library Setup
24:33 Custom Post Type Setup
31:24 Bricks Main Settings
41:41 Custom Fonts
50:19 Bricks Builder Settings
51:46 Default Templates
52:55 RankMath Settings
56:06 WSForm Setup
57:04 WPCodeBox Setup
1:00:32 ShortPixel Settings
1:01:58 Perfmatters Settings
1:05:56 Deploying the Blueprint
1:08:41 Wrap-Up

[kevinroberts]

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"

[nmgnmg]

We are still waiting for that Perfmatter and Shortpixel optimization settings walktroughs :D

[mubindidit]

This guy is on another level. How every video is packed with too much value ❤️🙌🏽

[AutomatedFunnelSystems]

This is absolutely awesome! Thank you Kevin for continuing to educate and help us all grow.

[chamika]

Thank you so much Kevin. This content is so valuable. I am watching your videos one by one when i have time.

[dahunsi]

Very good video Kevin. Picked up a few new nuggets. Bravo!

[california_ray]

What a refresher course this was. Bravo!

[richardbohn]

Kevin, thanks for your inciteful advice! Your generous video is helping to spawn an amazing Bricks community!

[MrHale]

Thank you! This is what I've waited for. Love the videos!

[kareem]

Thank you Kevin Geary for this well-done hard work/tutorial. You are much appreciated. 🙏

[jackmitts]

Awesome, awesome video Kevin! Fantastic content and insight into your thought processes. Thanks for sharing!

[tonycosentino]

Thank you so much for the level of details, I feel like I know about Bricks a lot more now, greatly appreciated.

[ChrisPisar]

Another valuable resource for Solopreneurs and Agencies alike! Thanks for all your hard work.

[TammyButcherPlus]

Excellent and valuable content, as always. Thank you, Kevin.

[atomicpx]

One of the best Kevin Geary tutorials yet. Learned a ton it's really great.

[webmistress]

Kevin once again you hit it out of the park. Thank you!

[AvalancheDesignIE]

Just insane detail - brilliantly informative video Kevin.

[dariengibson]

Wow. This is exactly what I needed! Just bought Bricks and am ready to get serious about my site set up. Thank you sir!

[ZhiWeiTan]

Great video and content! Just finished your page building 101 and this blueprint video is essential! Thanks again Kevin!!!

[ranplan]

I needed this 15 years ago. Haha. Thanks from one web designer to another!