The main new features in Oxygen 1.4 are enhanced templating, and visual, point & click styling of plugins, widgets, shortcodes, and code blocks.

Oxygen is now a plugin, not a theme. Therefore, upgrading must be done manually. Follow these instructions to upgrade to Oxygen 1.4.

Templating

We've renamed Views to Templates and functionality has been significantly enhanced.

Instead of putting a reusable header and footer on all of your pages, you can now create a template containing your header and footer, apply it to any or all your pages, and then design the inner content of the pages with Oxygen.

For any content, you can choose or override the template that will be used to display it. A new Inner Content component can be placed inside templates to display the page's inner content. This will either show the contents of the WordPress post content field, or you can design the inner content with Oxygen.

An Oxygen menu has been added to the admin bar so you can open Oxygen in one click from the frontend.

Selector Detector: Point & Click Plugin, Shortcode, Widget, and Code Block Styling

Customize the output of shortcodes, widgets, and code blocks visually. Click on the element you wish to customize, and then style it visually with Oxygen.

A CSS selector will be auto-detected, and you can customize the CSS selector using a simple interface to precisely apply your styles to the exact elements you want.

Other Enhancements

We've fixed a number of bugs and made some minor UI & functionality enhancements.

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Oxygen 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, and 1.3.4 are minor updates with various bug fixes and enhancements. 1.3.1 is the most important release, which fixes an issue with widgets saved in 1.2 not loading in 1.3. We've also tweaked our license verification system to work better on localhost.

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We've created 5 demo sites, with a total of over 50 pages, using the components in the Next Design Set. You can add these pre-built designs to your own site from the Add+ > Design Sets > Next > Pages folder.

Check them out here.

Oxygen 1.3 adds undo, Typekit support, the ability to style Code Blocks and Shortcodes, and includes a number of other interface enhancements and bug fixes.

Undo

Oxygen now has a Gmail-style one step undo for delete actions. Delete a section by accident? Just click undo.

Typekit

Connect Oxygen to Typekit and use Typekit fonts on your site. Just enter your Typekit API key and choose a kit to use with Oxygen.

Code Block & Shortcode Styling

Code Blocks and Shortcodes can now be styled just like any other element in Oxygen. We're also currently working on a way to style the output of Code Blocks and Shortcodes - you'll be able to just point at some plugin output and style it. Stay tuned.

Coming Soon

Here are some of the things we are working on currently:

• Ability to visually style Code Block, Shortcode, & Widget output
• Support for native WP menus
• Reliable DOM tree drag & drop.

Other Enhancements

We've fixed a number of bugs and made some minor UI & functionality enhancements.

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We've added 80 new components to the Next Design Set, bringing the total number of components in the Next Design Set to over 160.

You can access the new components at Add+ -> Design Sets -> Next.

The Next Design Set is free for all existing customers, and currently free for new customers.

Here's a small sample of the available components: