Updated on January 22, 2021
Hydrogen (affiliate link) is a must-have 3rd party plugin for Oxygen.
Summary of Hydrogen Pack’s features:
Of these, the most valuable feature for me besides the indispensable Copy and Paste is the customizable keyboard shortcuts.
A simple example of time-saving is when you want to say, add a Section in the Oxygen editor. The normal way is to click the +Add button and in the components panel, clicking on Section. A faster way to do the same is simply by typing s. That’s it. s for Section. And no, it does not add the Section (as you expect) when you are typing inside a Text or Heading component.
S – add Section
D – add Div
T – add Text
and so on..
In this article, I shall share a table of Hydrogen’s keyboard shortcuts that I use in my Oxygen workflow. With these plus Navigator and Editor Tweaks modules of Oxy Toolbox, I fly along in Oxygen builder and WP admin.
NOTE: I use a Mac. If you are a Windows user, read Cmd as Ctrl.
| Add Section | S |
| Add Div | D |
| Add Heading | H |
| Add Text | T |
| Add Image | I |
| Add Code Block | C |
| Add Columns | M |
| Add Shortcode | O |
| Add Button | B |
| Add Easy Posts | E |
| Add Text Link | L |
Note: I could have set R for adding a Repeater but I avoid Repeaters due to duplicate IDs issue.
| Copy element | CMD + C |
| Cut element | CMD + X |
| Paste element | CMD + V |
| Duplicate element | CMD + D |
| Delete element | CMD + BACKSPACE |
| Wrap element with DIV | W |
| Rename element | F2 |
| Change element ID | CMD + F2 |
| Move up | CMD + ⬆️ |
| Move down | CMD + ⬇️ |
| Activate parent | P |
| Edit content (for text-type elements) | CMD + E |
| edit Background | 1 |
| edit Size & Spacing | 2 |
| edit Layout | 3 |
| edit Typography | 4 |
| edit Borders | 5 |
| edit Effects | 6 |
| edit Custom CSS | 7 |
| edit JavaScript | 8 |
| Switch to the previous breakpoint | CMD + ➡️ |
| Switch to the next breakpoint | CMD + ⬅️ |
| Switch to all devices | CMD + 1 |
| Switch to page container | CMD + 2 |
| Switch to tablet | CMD + 3 |
| Switch to phone landscape | CMD + 4 |
| Switch to phone portrait | CMD + 5 |
| + Add | CMD + A |
| Save | CMD + S |
If you would like to import my Hydrogen Pack settings, copy and paste the following at Oxygen > Hydrogen Pack > Manage Settings – Import settings:
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