Category: Tips and Tricks

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

How to Add Particle Backgrounds in Oxygen with Particles.js

By Alec Gall on September 26, 2020

Hey everyone! Today I'm going to walk you through adding a particle background like the one on my home page to a div in Oxygen Builder with one of my favorite open-source JavaScript libraries, particles.js. 1. Create your particle config First lets head to particles.js to create our config. Vincent Garraeu lets you configure just […]

My Favorite Design Tools and Generators

By Alec Gall on September 25, 2020

Hey everyone! I've been building up a small bookmark folder of tools and generators for web design. I thought I'd go ahead and list them all for others. If you know of some more little tools like this please share! I'd love to add more to my list. This list is in no particular order […]