Author: Alec Gall

Web Developer / Designer aspiring to learn new things every day!

Dashboard Switcher Plugin Review

By Alec Gall on October 29, 2020

What is Dashboard Switcher? Dashboard Switcher is a WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly and easily swap out the main dashboard page in the WordPress admin area with a different page that you've created yourself as well as add additional pages to the admin area. Due to the simplicity of how the plugin works […]

OxyMonster CSS Framework For Oxygen Builder Review

By Alec Gall on October 22, 2020

What is OxyMonster? OxyMonster is a plugin for Oxygen Builder that allows you to input part or all of a massive CSS utility class framework based on Tailwind into Oxygen quickly, easily, and modularly. This is similar to what OxyNinja does with its hybrid framework of UIkit and Tailwind. I was fortunate to have the […]

Fixing The Gap Issue in Oxygen Builder

By Alec Gall on October 21, 2020

Hey everyone! This is just a quick one today. You probably know what I'm talking about when I say the "gap issue". It's when you have a sometimes small, sometimes large, space on the side of your page (usually in the smaller viewports) created with Oxygen Builder. The white space is almost always caused by […]

Is Oxygen the Right Builder For Me?

By Alec Gall on October 20, 2020

A lot of people like to say things like "Oxygen is the best", "Elementor is the best", etc. but it just isn't quite that simple. In my opinion, Oxygen is overall the most powerful builder, but that doesn't mean it's the best for you. To decide whether Oxygen or a more conventional page builder is […]

OxyNinja Core Plugin for Oxygen Review

By Alec Gall on October 18, 2020

What is OxyNinja Core? OxyNinja is an importable design set for Oxygen Builder with one major feature that sets it apart from the rest. On top of the usual pre-built sections that you're accustomed to finding in a design-set, you get the "OxyNinja Core Framework", which is a CSS framework that can completely change your […]

Hoverify Review

By Alec Gall on October 15, 2020

What is Hoverify? Hoverify is an extension for Chromium-based browsers that is a sort of upgrade to the standard dev tools. Hoverify has a few different major features so I'll split everything up in a way that makes sense. Features Inspect Tool This is the "bread and butter" of Hoverify. You can enable the inspector […]

My Favorite Cool JavaScript Libraries

By Alec Gall on October 3, 2020

Hey everyone! Today I'm putting together a list of my favorite JavaScript libraries out there. For this post, I'm focusing on cool, small, design-focused libraries, not entire frameworks like React, Node, etc. Similarly to my post about my favorite design tools and generators, this list is in no particular order! Particles.js Particles.js is a library […]

Hydrogen Plugin for Oxygen Builder Review

By Alec Gall on September 30, 2020

What is Hydrogen? Hydrogen Pack by Clean Plugins is a pack of features for Oxygen Builder to improve quality of life and speed up your workflow. These are features to improve your life as the developer/designer, and not something the client or users will ever see. As Hydrogen is a pack of a bunch of […]

Oxygen Builder Review

By Alec Gall on September 29, 2020

Hey everyone! I have been heavily using Oxygen Builder for over a month now and I think it's time to share my opinions. The Basics Oxygen builder is forever tied in with other names like Elementor, Beaver Builder, Divi, etc. but it really isn't the same thing. Oxygen feels a lot more like coding with […]

How to Enqueue Scripts and CSS in Oxygen (The Right Way)

By Alec Gall on September 27, 2020

Hey everyone! Today I'm going to walk you through the "correct" way to import resources in WordPress for sites using Oxygen. Normally we would enqueue our resources in the functions.php file of our theme. As you likely know, Oxygen completely disables the normal WordPress theme system, so we need to be a little more creative. […]

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