What's New with Astra

Hey everyone 👋

This one’s a quick follow-up to 4.13.5. Two fixes: one restores shortcode output in the Header/Footer Builder HTML element to the way it’s always worked, and one stops body text from disappearing on PHP 8. Small release, worth grabbing.

Let’s get into it.

🐛 Squashed

• Shortcodes in the HTML element behave like they used to. A change in 4.13.5 stripped form elements, style tags, and data attributes from shortcode output in the Header/Footer Builder HTML element. That broke forms and custom markup, so we’ve reverted it.
• Body text no longer renders at 0px on PHP 8. When the stored desktop font size was the integer 0, a loose comparison caused the body font size to come out as 0px/0% on PHP 8.0 and up. PHP 7.x quietly masked the bug. Fixed properly now.

Update when you get a chance.

As always, support is one click away if anything feels off.

— Team Astra

Hey everyone 👋

This one’s all about polish. We tracked down a handful of layout glitches, PHP notices, and menu quirks that have been quietly getting in the way. Nothing flashy, just your site behaving the way it should.

Let’s get into it.

🐛 Squashed

• No more PHP notice when WooCommerce is sitting idle. On WordPress 6.9.1 and up, a notice could fire when the flexslider script was queued up, but WooCommerce wasn’t active yet. Gone.
• WooCommerce shop pages stop jumping around on load. The filter and sort toolbar used to flash over the product grid for a moment before snapping into place. It now lands where it belongs from the start.
• Sticky header submenus stay where they should. When a wide logo pushed the header taller than its configured height, dropdown menus could appear with a negative offset and sit in the wrong spot. Fixed.
• Mega Menu padding actually sticks now. Custom padding set in the editor wasn’t applying when “Open Mega Menu On” was set to Hover. A CSS conflict was letting the default override your settings. Your spacing wins now.
• Infinite Scroll no longer breaks custom archive templates. On Custom Post Type archives using a Site Builder template, Infinite Scroll could throw a JavaScript error because it assumed the #main element was always present. It handles those layouts gracefully now.

Update when you get a chance.

As always, support is one click away if anything feels off.

— Team Astra

Hey everyone 👋

No big new toys this time. Just a solid maintenance release that clears out a stack of annoying edge cases. We tracked down a shortcode bug that’s been lurking since v4.11.11, smoothed out the Customizer, tightened up white-label mode, and made the navigation easier to tap. If you’ve hit any of these, this update is for you.

Let’s get into it.

🔧 Better than before

• Submenu dropdown arrows are easier to tap. We bumped up the touch target size on navigation dropdown arrows, so they’re simpler to hit on phones and tablets — and now WCAG 2.5.5 compliant.

🐛 Squashed

• Shortcodes inside link URLs work again. If you put a shortcode in an href inside a Header/Footer Builder HTML element, it was getting stripped before it could run. A regression that snuck in back in v4.11.11. Fixed.
• White-label sites stay truly white-labeled. The support widget and AI Assistant were still showing up in the dashboard even with white label turned on, leaking Astra branding to your clients. They’re now hidden as expected.
• No more console warnings in the block editor on WordPress 7.0. Editor stylesheets were throwing “added to iframe incorrectly” warnings. Cleaned up.
• The block editor no longer crashes on cross-origin setups. On sites where the editor canvas loads from a different origin, the editor was hitting a SecurityError. We wrapped those iframe accesses safely, so it loads without complaint.
• The page no longer jumps to the top when you close the cart drawer. Closing the cart flyout was bouncing your scroll position back up to the top. It now stays right where you were.
• WooCommerce stops flooding your error log. A related-products call was passing the wrong data type, spamming the log on store pages. Fixed at the source.
• MCP global palette tool reads colors correctly. The astra-update-global-palette tool schema had the wrong types for colors and presets, so AI-driven palette changes could misfire. Corrected.
• Correct plugin icon for Cart Abandonment Recovery. The “Extend Your Website” dashboard section was showing the wrong icon. Fixed.
• The Customizer color picker stays open while you scroll. Dragging the panel scrollbar was snapping the color picker shut mid-edit. It behaves now.
• Social icons are labeled correctly. Vimeo, Twitter, YouTube, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and several other brand icons had mismatched labels in the SVG icon picker. All sorted.

We think you’ll like this one. Update when you’re ready.

As always, support is one click away if anything feels off.

— Team Astra

Hey everyone 👋

This one is mostly maintenance. We squashed a few bugs that were quietly causing trouble on specific setups, fixed a WooCommerce pricing edge case, and added license status notices so you’re never caught off guard by an expiring subscription.

Let’s get into it.

🔧 Better than before

• Third-party plugins can now target individual WooCommerce tabs with CSS. Accordion and Distributed tab layouts now output a unique {key}_tab class on each tab wrapper, making it straightforward for plugins like WooCommerce Germanized to show or hide specific tabs.

🐛 Squashed

• WooCommerce sale percentage was off on some products. Locale-formatted price strings weren’t being normalized before the math ran on PHP 8.0+, so percentage discounts could be calculated incorrectly.
• Sticky header hover color now takes priority over the active link color. When a menu item was the current page, its active color was permanently overriding the hover color in the sticky header. They no longer conflict.
• PHP warning on custom post type archives is resolved. get_query_var('post_type') returning an array instead of a string was triggering a warning on CPT archive pages.
• Fatal error on FTP-based file systems is gone. A missing credentials check in the filesystem helpers caused a hard crash for sites running on FTP hosts.
• Customizer no longer crashes when SVG icons haven’t finished loading. A TypeError was thrown when icons were still loading, and a control tried to read them. Squashed.

Update when you get a chance.

As always, support is one click away if anything feels off.

— Team Astra

Hey everyone 👋

This is a focused patch release with one small new option and several fixes that have been causing real issues for specific setups. If you’re on FTP hosting, use Elementor, or noticed odd behavior with the mobile header breakpoint recently — this one’s for you.

Let’s get into it.

✨ What’s new

• Toggle the AI Assistant icon on or off from your Dashboard
  • You can now show or hide the AI Assistant icon directly from Dashboard Settings — no code required.
  • What that means for you:
    • Keep your dashboard tidy if you’re not using the AI Assistant
    • Hand off sites to clients without exposing features they don’t need
    • Flip it back on anytime from the same settings panel

🐛 Squashed

• Dual header showing at mobile/desktop breakpoint on Windows. Two headers were rendering simultaneously at the breakpoint boundary, and the header button was disappearing.
• Accessibility focus outline ignores its own toggle after a settings import. After importing Astra settings, the focus outline could get stuck on (or off) regardless of what the toggle said.
• Elementor button hover color hijacked by :visited styles. Astra’s inline CSS was outputting :visited rules after hover rules, causing the hover color to be overridden in Elementor. The output order is corrected.
• Astra’s admin scripts were globally overriding window.open. This was silently breaking WooCommerce and other third-party plugins that depend on the native window.open. That override is gone.
• PHP fatal on FTP-based hosts. Sites running on FTP filesystems without stored credentials were hitting a fatal error in Astra’s webfont and docs helpers.
• Customizer is crashing with a TypeError when SVG icons haven’t loaded yet. A timing issue caused the Customizer to crash when icon data wasn’t ready.

Update when you get a chance.

As always, support is one click away if anything feels off.

— Team Astra

Hey everyone 👋

WordPress 7.0 brought a refreshed admin design, and a few things in Astra Pro needed to catch up. This release updates the Mega Menu editor, the Theme Builder, and the Custom Layouts admin to look and behave correctly in the new admin UI. We also fixed a PHP warning that could appear when a WooCommerce product gallery image was deleted from the media library.

Let’s get into it.

🔧 Better than before

• Astra Pro is compatible with WordPress 7.0. Admin screens, the Mega Menu editor, Theme Builder buttons, and the Custom Layouts UI all look and behave correctly in the new WordPress admin design. Color accents follow your chosen admin color scheme instead of hardcoded values, and nothing looks out of place.

🐛 Squashed

• WooCommerce product gallery no longer throws a PHP warning when an image is deleted from the media library. When a gallery attachment was removed, accessing an unresolved image source triggered a warning in PHP 8+. A blank slide could also appear in its place. Both are gone.

Update when you get a chance.

As always, support is one click away if anything feels off.

— Team Astra

Hey everyone 👋

This one’s a focused release. We’ve added a quick-access support widget right inside the Astra dashboard, confirmed compatibility with WordPress 7.0, and squashed two bugs that were affecting multilingual sites and WooCommerce stores.

Let’s get into it.

✨ What’s new

• Get help without leaving your dashboard. A new AI support widget is now available directly inside the Astra admin dashboard. Look for the floating Astra icon — click it to get answers without switching tabs or digging through docs.

🔧 Better than before

• Astra is fully compatible with WordPress 7.0. Update your WordPress core with confidence — everything works as expected.
• Header Builder schema output is now filter-controlled. Developers can use the astra_schema_enabled and astra_site_navigation_schema_enabled filters to toggle schema markup on Header Builder menus — useful for sites with custom structured data requirements.

🐛 Squashed

• WPML translations no longer fall back to the admin language on the frontend. After the 4.13.1 update, [wpml-string] shortcodes were ignoring the visitor’s language and showing the default instead. Fixed.
• WooCommerce star ratings show all 5 stars again. The Legacy WooCommerce sidebar widget was clipping the rating display at 4 stars. Squashed.

Update when you get a chance.

As always, support is one click away if anything feels off.

— Team Astra

Hey everyone 👋

4.13.2 brings two handy improvements to the Page Headers module and Mega Menu, plus a round of fixes covering Quick View, Infinite Scroll, sticky header logos, mobile menu sync, and more.

Let’s get into it.

🔧 Better than before

• Set a separate mobile menu in Page Headers. The Site Header tab now includes a “Select Mobile Menu” option, so you can assign an independent menu to the Off-Canvas (mobile) menu without it following the primary menu selection.
• Mega Menu design controls are now easier to discover. If you open the Design tab without enabling the related toggle in General, you’ll now see a clear prompt pointing you to it instead of facing a wall of greyed-out options.

🐛 Squashed

• Quick View now opens variable products with their default attributes pre-selected. Before this fix, variant dropdowns were showing blank, unlike the single product page. Now they match.
• Infinite Scroll was showing duplicate posts on the blog and archive pages. Posts were repeating as you scrolled. Gone.
• Sticky header logo size was inconsistent across pages. When a Transparent Header had a separate logo with a custom width set, the sticky logo size varied from page to page. Fixed.
• Mobile menu toggle was getting stuck in the wrong state on sticky headers. With slide or fade animations, the X icon could get stuck, the open/close state could invert, and interactions would visually desync between the original and sticky header. All sorted.
• Beaver Builder Menu module’s mobile submenu was closing immediately in the custom headers. Scripts were being enqueued twice, which caused the submenu to collapse the moment it opened. Fixed.
• PHP 8.2 deprecation warnings cleaned up, and database query safety improved in display condition rules.
• Nav Menu icon picker was showing blank icons after v4.13.0. The icon picker in Astra Menu Settings is back to working correctly.

We think you’ll like this one. Update when you’re ready.

As always, support is one click away if anything feels off.

— Team Astra Pro

Hey everyone 👋

This one covers a lot of ground. Two new features land in 4.13.2 — rem unit support for typography (a real win for accessibility) and WP-CLI commands for the Abilities API. Plus, we’ve fixed a Customizer white screen on WordPress 6.8+, a sticky header bug, and a handful of other rough edges.

Let’s get into it.

✨ What’s new

Typography that respects your users’ font size preferences
Line-height and letter-spacing now support rem units in the Customizer Typography controls.

What that means for you:

• Users who’ve set a larger default font size in their browser will see your spacing scale with it automatically, not stay stuck at a fixed size px value.
• Better out-of-the-box accessibility without extra work on your end.
• Consistent spacing across all viewport sizes for rem-based designs.

Manage Abilities from the command line
New WP-CLI commands let you list, enable, disable, and inspect individual Abilities directly from your terminal. No more clicking through the dashboard to check what’s active.

🔧 Better than before

• The Off-Canvas close icon holds its size. It shrank when a scrollbar appeared or when pop-up padding was applied. Now it stays put.

🐛 Squashed

• Sticky header was leaving the burger icon in the wrong state. The main header’s toggle icon was still showing the close (X) state. Fixed.
• Multi-selector control was clipping long post type labels and showing raw HTML entities. Labels now wrap correctly and render as plain text.
• Customizer white screen on WordPress 6.8+. An unused wp-block-editor script dependency in the customizer controls bundle was causing it. Removed.
• List and quote blocks were bleeding padding in the Separate Container layout. The Block Editor now renders them with the correct spacing.
• Duplicate H1 tags when using the astra_show_site_title_h1_tag filter with Header Builder active. One H1. As it should be.

We think you’ll like this one. Update when you’re ready.

As always, support is one click away if anything feels off.

— Team Astra