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  1. jack dowie Profile Pic

    I’m probably in a small minority but my intended audience is not one that is over-impressed – even impressed – by eye-catching landing pages with huge header graphics, designed to promote clicking through and ultimately ‘selling’. It would be great to have a starter site (or two) with more content-heavy landing pages. News/magazine themes such as hueman and newsus come closest in my searching, but are not there, and I don’t see an Astra one that fits the bill. Just my view!

    1. Jim Profile Pic

      I agree with Jack. I would love to see more content focused designs (even a newspaper/magazine theme) added to the mix. Don’t get me wrong, the site designs are beautiful, but an image-heavy site is tough to work with when the client needs equally impressive photos and pictures in order to maintain the design for their business. I hope that makes sense?

      1. Team Astra Profile Pic

        Thank you for the thoughts, Jack and Jim!

        We appreciate your feedback, and shall surely work on the same in the upcoming future. 🙂

  2. Lee Graham Profile Pic

    hi Sujay
    Happy new year to you and the Astra Team. I am really looking forward to seeing some of the planned features released for us to build awesome websites.
    The Global Color Pallet is music to my ears, do you know how many times I wish I had that already?
    The Header & Footer builder makes the job so much easier
    Gutenberg & Full Site Editing is a must-have, Page Builders are on the way out because they kill page speed which is increasing a very important ranking factor.
    Please, please, please let’s have more Gutenberg Starter sites/

    Hope all our wishes come through in 2021

    Lee

  3. Hari Profile Pic

    I have witnessed some great journey of brainstorm force, and wish you and every team member all the very best, and thanks for the product that is focused on creating groundbreaking on-going improvements.
    Hari

    1. Team Astra Profile Pic

      Hello Jack,

      Thank you for your interest in the form element! We do not have plans for the same as of now, but we will surely consider it moving forward.

  4. Paul Letourneau Profile Pic

    I love Astra and everything you guys do. But if I read another “faster and better coming soon” I might lose my mind. WHEN is it coming! I’m so excited for it but when oh when will we see this new amazing update! Please 🙂

  5. Amber Profile Pic

    Happy New Year guys!

    Looking forward to seeing what Astra’s 2021 updates. Hopefully you guys will finally put compatibility for the BuddyBoss Platform Plugin/BuddyPress/bbPress into your theme like others are doing. The community integration has been something that’s been severely lacking in Astra for quite some time. Why use Astra AND the BuddyBoss theme if we can just use Astra. 🙂

    Speaking of deeper Woo integration… hopefully that will include ways to style the Customer Payment page that they land on when clicking through the “Pay” links sent in email notifications such as “Email Invoice/Order Details To Customer”. That URL typically looks something like /checkout/order-pay/12345/?pay_for_order=true&key=wc_order_abcdefghijk and the styling is just a stripped down version of the cart. Bleck!

    Keep safe and stay healthy!

    1. Team Astra Profile Pic

      Hello Amber,

      Thank you for your feedback and suggestions. We shall surely take it forward to the concerned team and proceed accordingly.

      And thank you again for taking the time for the detailed suggestions. Best wishes for the new year! Cheers. 🙂

  6. Chas Profile Pic

    I throughly enjoyed reading this update. The inside scoop on how you all are challenging each other in health and business was amazing. Seeing what is coming down the road was appreciated as well. Keep up the great work. Looking forward to seeing what 2021 brings to the Astra Community!

  7. George Profile Pic

    New to Astra, our agency is white labelling to create new sites for our clients.

    One feature I would like to see, but not sure it is possible with WordPress in general. Is a way to have custom archive pages where they could be designed slightly differently from each other.

    1. Team Astra Profile Pic

      Hello George,

      Thanks for your thoughts. We shall surely, consider your thoughts and introduce the same if possible in the future. 🙂

  8. Charles Musselwhite Profile Pic
    Charles Musselwhite

    The team at Musselwhite Marketing built our site (musselwhitemarketing.com) on Astra and have been more than happy with all the Astra support and ongoing improvements. We know we made the right investment!

    Keep up the fantastic work folks!

    1. Team Astra Profile Pic

      Hello Charles,

      Glad to hear about your experience! And thank you for your kind words. We really appreciate the same. 🙂

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