1. A site Theme is set, “Bricks Theme V1” and is applied site-wide.
2. “Fluid typography” custom CSS is set in Settings, Bricks, Settings, Custom Code (tab), Custom CSS
   This is Dave Foy’s “fluid typography” where he’s used the calcs from: https://www.fluid-type-scale.com – which leverage the CSS Clamp function to scale typography according to the viewport (essentially the width of a screen).
   Visit the Download page to download the zip file.
3. Ontop of the fluid typography CSS, we set a default font-family in the site Theme – and set as little else as possible.
   So one thing we don’t do is set sizes of fonts in the Theme.  We let the custom CSS fluid typography handle all that.
4. Theme Style, Element-Heading, default Heading (for new headings) changed to H2.
5. Theme Style, Element – Nav Menu, Active border (bottom only) set to 2px, Solid, semi-trans black
6. On the Bricks, Settings, General tab we set…
   1. Code Execution is enabled for Administrators only (but could include Editors if you wish).
   2. SVG uploads are enabled for Administrators only.
   3. Smooth scroll CSS is enabled.
7. On the Bricks, Settings, Templates tab we set…
   1. Disable default templates is set ON so that we can have multiple Headers, Footers and other templates as required throughout the site. (This could be disabled for small sites that will only ever have one of any of the templates).
8. On the Bricks, Settings, Builder tab we set…
   1. Autosave toggled to OFF (don’t forget to save your work often!)
9. Several ‘base’ Plugins are installed that I consider essential.  They are (as pictured on the Homepage):
   1. Duplicator
   2. Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses
   3. FluentSMTP
   4. JetFormBuilder
   5. JetFormBuilder Address Autocomplete (we use this addon to add our JetFormBuilder licence so that we have JetFormBuilder Pro)
   6. JetStyleManager
   7. SEOPress (NB: Bricks does have it’s own SEO)
   8. WP-Sweep (used at least just on this site to keep the database as small as possible; delete revisions, transient options and optimise db).
   9. WPvivid Backup Plugin
10. Basic Header and Footer created and applied site-wide.
11. Bricks ‘Back to Top’ Element – Bricks V1.11 now supports a “To top” feature – so I’ve added that to the Footer, on the right – where you’d normally want it to be.  (Needs a bit more styling methinks – aiming for an oblong (rounded corners) button).

Other plugins could be added to this list

• Database collation is set to: utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
• If phpMyAdmin is not able to execute a collation change, run this SQL in it: set global sql_mode = ‘ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY,STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION’;

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