Why I Left YouTube for 3 Years... and What's Coming Next
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- čas přidán 7. 08. 2023
- Hey there! You might have noticed I’ve been away from CZcams for over 3 years now, which is crazy.
I get asked all the time where I’ve been, when am I coming back to CZcams, which builder I’m using and teaching now.... all that stuff.
So before I crank up the channel again, I thought I’d very quickly make a more personal video, to answer all those questions in one place.
And you might be surprised by some of the answers.
TAKE MY FREE BRICKS MASTERCLASS:
davefoy.link/bricks-masterclass
LEARN BRICKS BUILDER STEP-BY-STEP:
davefoy.link/bricks-course
ELEMENTOR:
davefoy.link/elementor-003
The WP community is better with Dave Foy in it.
Blush. Thanks Kevin. I really appreciate that.
I finally agree with you Kevin
Am delighted you're back on CZcams. Being 1 of the 350 people who bought and loved your Bricks Builder course it is certainly a treat to have you back teaching on CZcams. 👍
Aww thank you! I'm very excited to be back. Been waaaaaaaay too long.
Good to see you back here Mr Foy. I'm still on Elementor. Tried out Kadence, but not quite polished yet. Looking forward to seeing your future content on the channel, cheers, Rip.
Good to see you here too, Rip. It's like the old days isn't it? Cheers mate!
Welcome back to the Tube :)
Oh hi! 👋 🙏
good to have you back and using Bricksbuilder too 🙂
🙏
Just I've just been getting to know you, thanks to your videos about bricks. I found them very good. I come from Elementor and I definitely switched to Bricks, so it's wonderful to know that you will do more tutorials on Bricks! Welcome back.
Brilliant! Thanks Daniel. Great to hear. 🙏
Great to see you back, looking forward to learning with you again.
Awesome, thank you!
Thanks for sharing so openly here. I kinda want a tour of your energy efficient house next. 😊
Ah thanks Mike! You’re very welcome any time, my friend.
welcome back Dave - I started ages ago with WP and Elementor - I'm happy to see that you are going to get back into Elementor
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. 👍
So glad you're back and healthy Dave!
My team is still loving Elementor. Especially with the new flex box features, it's faster than ever for us to build with it.
If you decided to create an updated version of your Elementor course, I'd buy it in a heart beat. I still train new team members using NSWP because even though Elementor is very different now, the best practices you teach about efficient page building still apply.
That said, an updated flex box course for Elementor would be so amazing. Glad to have you back Dave!
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. :)
Wonderful to see you back, Dave! I always enjoyed your content and your approach to teaching it...somehow, you just clicked with me. I'm sticking with Elementor. I find it works well for my needs and I'm still growing. I can dissect code well, but creating from scratch just frustrates me. In my SEO days, I got exposed to a variety of builders like Beaver Builder, Divi, and Visual Builder...all just gave me the willies. Elementor has matured well over the last couple of years, albeit painfully, but I feel it's still a very strong tool for many. I'm really looking forward to seeing you here again, especially if you are covering Elementor. Cheers!
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 see you again, Dave! I'm very much the same. Dabbled with Breakdance but keep coming back to Elementor. Looking forward to seeing more content.
BTW, I love the Nighthawk in the background. I had one as a teenager and often regret selling it :)
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!
You grumpy old sellout Dave! Lol
Good to have you back in the WP CZcams space - :)
Lol! I'll take that. 😂
First of all, so glad you’ve championed the health challenge. I promise to catch up with bricks builder! Glad too you’ll be back to YT.
Thank you my very good friend. 🙏
Great to see you back again - always enjoyed your videos. Still on Elementor, though - but always interested to learn about other possibilities :)
Uffe Steffensen! Wow. Great to hear from you. Hope you're doing well.
Dave! Glad to see you here again.
Welcome back! I agree with you 100% re: bricks. I also fell in love with it instantly. So much more of a "real" developing tool when you have a coding background. Can't. wait to watch you videos even thou I'm "advanced".
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. 👆 🙏
Welcome back dear teacher ! Still fan of Elementor since your unrivaled NSWP courses. Of course, Elementor's ecosystem has gone along way since. I would be delighted to watch new Elementor teaching material from you.
Aw thanks Schlomoh. Always great to hear from you. I remember your comments on my CZcams 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 - CZcams 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. 🙏
Good to see you back on CZcams Dave! The trouble with Gutenberg is that all the 3rd party block add-ons use different editing methods. The best Gutenberg combo I've found is Blocksy and Stackable, but they're still not fully-featured enough.
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.
Well Said Dave. It gets really frustrating in communities when people start bashing other development environments. Some builders royally do my head in but if others like them, great!
Personally, if those that push a builder suddenly had everyone jump on board, they probably would not like it as variation is where it is at and we all know it (and should let it be).
Absolutely this, YES 👆
Love to see you again. Hope some core wordpress development tutorials like theme and plugin development
Welcome back buddy! We need you mate! Loving the grey.
Thanks buddy! I feel like you just gotta own it. :)
Dave, I truly enjoy watching your content. Looking forward to new videos.
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 👍🏾
I'm interested on "Project Based CPT Design Course" with Bricks and MetaBox (or ACF Pro)
What was the reason why you switched from webflow back to Wordpress? I see a huge advantage in the fact that you don't have any plugin updates or compatibility problems with webflow. What are your thoughts on this?
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.
Great to see you back Dave.
Thanks buddy!
Nice balanced video! Tony P
Absolutely, Tony! There's room for everyone.
Nice insight into your transition mate...
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
Welcome back Dave!
Wooo hoooooo!!
"I despise hearing people bash other people for using something different". ♥♥♥
New phone who dis?
😂
What do you think about Thrive Architect ?
I've never used it. So there's one page builder I didn't test. :)
Good news!
Mario! Great to hear from you man. Thank you.
Have You ever heard of Kraft Builder ?
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.
Finally, an influencer who isn’t inspired by the Gutenberg block editor for designing pages. I only use it for blog posts. Otherwise, it’s just meh.
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!
you look at least 3 years youngers
I think you spelt older wrong. 😂 (but I'll take the compliment, thank you)
Dave Rules 😀👍🏻
I'll agree with that. :)
Gutenberg still sucks 😂
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 🙂