What's New with Astra

Hello everyone,

We’re excited to share the release of Astra v4.11.1 – a maintenance update focused on refining performance, enhancing text rendering, and squashing a few pesky Customizer issues.

This update ensures a smoother experience across the Customizer and front-end preview while optimizing how fonts and controls behave.

What’s Improved?

• Consistent Cart Icon Display – Ensured the cart icon appears consistently across the Customizer selector control and live preview.
• Better Text Visibility on Load – Enhanced visibility of text while webfonts are loading, improving readability and perceived performance.
• Customizer Performance Optimization – Deferred non-critical data loading via AJAX to improve performance and reduce memory usage.

What’s Fixed?

• Customizer Compatibility – Resolved a loading conflict with Astra Pro and Gravity Forms for a smoother experience.
• Font Size Consistency – Fixed inconsistent font rendering for inline semantic elements, ensuring they match the surrounding text.
• Tab Switching Issue – Addressed a rare bug where switching between Customizer tabs could fail in specific scenarios.

We recommend updating to Astra 4.11.1 to take advantage of these refinements and continue building with confidence.

As always, if you run into any issues, our support team is here and happy to help!

Best,
Team Astra

Hello Astra Pro users,

We’re excited to introduce the latest update – Astra Pro v4.11.0 – packed with design improvements, accessibility upgrades, and essential fixes to enhance your site-building experience.

What’s Fixed?

• New: Polished Customizer UI – Introducing a new polished UI for the Astra Customizer, offering an improved user experience and refreshed design.

What’s Improved?

• Accessibility Enhancements – Enhanced accessibility of post filters with keyboard support and screen reader announcements.
• Performance Optimization – Optimised product navigation queries to reduce database load and improve speed.

What’s Fixed?

• Site Builder Condition Fix – Addressed an issue where the Display for Users condition was not applying from the Site Builder overview page.
• Modern Cart & Elementor Pro Conflict – Resolved a conflict between Astra’s Modern Cart Layout and Elementor Pro Cart Widget that was breaking the column layout.

We recommend updating to Astra Pro 4.11.0 to take advantage of these enhancements and ensure a seamless, performant website experience.

As always, if you run into any issues or have questions, our support team is here to help!

Best,
Team Astra

Hello everyone,

We’re back with Astra v4.11.0 – an exciting update that brings a refreshed look and several improvements to ensure your website runs smoother and more accessibly than ever.

This release introduces a brand-new Customizer UI, accessibility enhancements, and important fixes that refine your site-building experience.

What’s New ?

• New: Polished Customizer UI – Introducing a new polished UI for the Astra Customizer, offering an improved user experience and refreshed design. Learn more

What’s Improved?

• Accessibility Enhancements – Enhanced accessibility in post grid and search input markup for better usability.
• Dark Mode Control Filter – Added a filter to control the loading of Dark Mode compatibility CSS.

What’s Fixed?

• Submenu Border Radius on Hover – Resolved an issue where the submenu border radius was not applying correctly for inner menu links on hover.

We recommend updating to Astra 4.11.0 to enjoy the improved UI, better accessibility, and smoother visuals across your website.

As always, if you have any questions, our support team is here to help!

Best,
Team Astra

Hello Astra Pro users,

We’re excited to share the latest update – Astra Pro v4.10.1 – a maintenance release focused on important bug fixes to ensure a smoother and more reliable experience when building and managing your website.

What’s Fixed?

• WooCommerce – Product Gallery Variation Glitch – Resolved image glitches in the product gallery when switching variations on single product pages in WooCommerce v4.8.0 and above.
• Site Builder Exclusion Rules – Fixed an issue where Site Builder exclusions were not correctly applied to specific category archive pages.
• Shop Filter Button Behavior – Addressed an issue where the Shop Filter button failed to trigger the off-canvas flyout panel.

We recommend updating to Astra Pro 4.10.1 to benefit from these important fixes. As always, if you run into any issues or have questions, our support team is here to help!

Best,
Team Astra

Hello everyone,

We’re back with Astra v4.10.1 – a quick but important update focused on resolving a few styling issues to ensure a smoother experience across your sites.

This release addresses visual inconsistencies in dark mode, form related issue fix, and ensures frontend styles behave as expected.

What’s Fixed?

• Dark Mode Styling for <legend> Tags – Corrected a behavior where <legend> elements were globally styled in dark mode, even when dark mode was disabled.
• Toggle Button Styles – Fixed an issue where toggle button styles were not appearing on the frontend.
• Gravity Forms Dropdown Focus – Resolved a visual bug where multiple arrows appeared when focusing on dropdown fields in Gravity Forms.

We recommend updating to Astra 4.10.1 to take advantage of these fixes and maintain a polished, consistent look across your website.

As always, if you have any questions, our support team is here to help!

Best,
Team Astra

Hello Astra Pro users,

We’re excited to introduce Astra Pro v4.10.0 – a feature-rich update that brings a powerful new widget, key accessibility improvements, and essential fixes to refine your website-building experience.

What’s New?

• Color Switcher Widget – The new Color Switcher widget in the Header Builder allows visitors to toggle between two color palettes, including Dark Mode support. Learn more in this help document.

What’s Improved?

• WordPress 6.8 Compatibility – Astra Pro is now compatible with the upcoming WordPress 6.8 release.
• Enhanced Accessibility – Improved keyboard navigation, screen reader announcements, and ARIA attributes for post filters to support all users.
• Smarter Custom Field Handling – Dynamically detects custom fields during add-to-cart requests for better WooCommerce support.
• Refined Layout Styling – Adjusted top margin on the modern My Account layout for better alignment with transparent headers.

What’s Fixed?

• Customizer Divider Widget Error – Fixed an issue where a CSS generation error occurred due to missing object or type checks in the Divider widget.

We recommend updating to Astra Pro 4.10.0 to take advantage of these new features and improvements. As always, our support team is just a message away if you need assistance!

Best,
Team Astra

Hello everyone,

We’re back with Astra v4.10.0 – a focused update that brings improvements to performance, accessibility, and compatibility.

This release fine-tunes the Dark Color Palette for smoother integration with Astra Pro’s new Color Switcher widget and ensures Astra is ready for the WordPress 6.8 release.

What’s Improved?

• Optimized Dark Color Palette – Enhanced implementation for seamless integration with the Color Switcher widget introduced in Astra Pro.
• Cleaner Markup – Removed unnecessary screen reader text from the post navigation template for improved accessibility and cleaner HTML.
• WordPress 6.8 Compatibility – Astra is now compatible with WordPress 6.8.

We recommend updating to Astra 4.10.0 to take advantage of these improvements and ensure continued compatibility with the latest WordPress features.

As always, if you have any questions, our support team is here to help!

Best,
Team Astra

Hello everyone,

We’re happy to roll out Astra v4.9.2 – a focused update that brings accessibility improvements and key fixes for a better, more reliable website experience.

What’s Improved?

• Enhanced Accessibility – Added aria-label with post title to linked featured images for better accessibility.

What’s Fixed?

• Prevented the old Header widget area from displaying after enabling the new Header Builder.
• Resolved a conflict between Astra column setting and Elementor Loop Builder which caused shop archive breakage.

We recommend updating your Astra theme to version 4.9.2 to take advantage of these improvements. Staying up to date ensures you get the best performance, compatibility, and user experience.

As always, if you have any questions or need support, feel free to reach out — we’re here to help!

Best

Team Astra

Hello Astra Pro users,

We’re excited to bring you Astra Pro v4.9.2, introducing improvement to product navigation sorting, and an important bug fix for a better experience.

What’s Improved?

• Alphabetical Sorting for Product Navigation – We’ve added the astra_woo_product_navigation_sort_args filter, allowing custom sorting for next/previous product navigation. Learn more here.

What’s Fixed?

• Fixed an issue where Banner Layout 2 was displaying incorrectly on Single/Archive pages when Site Builder Templates were applied.

To take advantage of the above improvement and fix, we highly recommend updating your Astra Pro plugin to version 4.9.2. Keeping Astra Pro updated ensures that you get the latest features, bug fixes, and full compatibility with the Astra theme.

If you have any questions or need assistance, our support team is always here to help. Feel free to reach out!

Best,
Team Astra