A Bricks Builder update that broke the layout, and the repair

A German manufacturer’s site was built by another developer on Bricks Builder, with a child theme and a custom slider. It had to move to a new version of Bricks, which renamed its layout elements, so pages could shift. WordPress and the plugins needed updating too, and the design had to stay as it was.

I confirmed the scope with the agency and took a full backup before any change. The update ran without errors, but the layout on the front end drifted. Bricks offers a conversion to its new section and block elements. I tested it, and it didn’t fix the problems. So I compared the old and new code, found the missing styles, rolled the update back and restored the styles by hand.

Then I checked eight pages one by one against the original and reported the status of each. I fixed the slider and the active menu item, and the footer on tablet and phone. One product page had a large gap, which came from an older empty container with a 50vw minimum height and had nothing to do with the update.

I handed over a final backup, and in November 2024 I fixed two PHP warnings in the slider with small checks in the child theme. The site came through the update looking as it did before, page by page, and it runs on Bricks with the same child theme.