migrate-wpbakery-to-bricks

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Use when the user says 'migrate wpbakery to bricks', 'convert visual composer to bricks', or wants to modernize a WPBakery site onto Bricks. Parses WPBakery shortcodes, maps elements to their Bricks equivalents, and creates draft duplicates for review.

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# Migrate WPBakery to Bricks **Version:** 2.1.0 **Updated:** 2026-08-04 **Freshly updated:** v2.1.0 adds design-token awareness: conversion writes now register the colors and typography they carry as named design tokens in Bricks' own global styles, and converted pages reference those tokens instead of carrying value copies. Reuse registered tokens instead of re-inlining raw values, and report the registration in the migration summary. Converts WPBakery Page Builder pages to Bricks Builder. Parses WPBakery's shortcode-based content from post_content, maps each element to its Bricks equivalent, generates a migration plan for approval, and writes clean Bricks JSON to the target pages. Use this skill whenever someone wants to move from WPBakery to Bricks, modernize an older WPBakery site with Bricks, or switch page builders from WPBakery/Visual Composer to Bricks. ## What This Skill Does WPBakery is one of the most common legacy page builders — it comes bundled with thousands of ThemeForest themes and millions of sites still use it. Moving to Bricks is a significant modernization: from shortcode-based content in `post_content` to clean JSON in `_bricks_page_content_2`, from heavy frontend CSS/JS to Bricks' lightweight rendering, and from an aging interface to a modern visual editor. This skill handles the format translation — parsing WPBakery's `[vc_*]` shortcodes, decoding its URL encoding and Design Options CSS, and generating proper Bricks JSON with correct element hiera...

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Author
respira-press
Repository
respira-press/agent-skills-wordpress
Created
6 months ago
Last Updated
3 days ago
Language
JavaScript
License
MIT

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