What's New with Astra

Hello everyone!

We’re excited to share the Astra Pro 4.8.3 update with you! This version brings a new, several improvements and fixes to enhance your experience:

New:

• Added option to disable quantity updater from WooCommerce mini cart.

Improvements:

• Site Builder – Added a filter hook ‘astra_exclude_wrapper_hooks’ to allow excluding the wrapper for specific hooks in site builder content.
• Header Builder – Language Switcher – Added Brazilian Portuguese language option.

Fixes:

• Solved image display issue in variation product gallery by matching image URLs more accurately.
• Site Builder: Editor width issue in the backend with Beaver Builder/Elementor for some hooks.
• Search widget incompatibility with Polylang plugin.
• Fatal error ‘”Uncaught Error: json_decode()’ from addon classes files in some rare cases.

Upgrade now to experience these improvements!

As always, if you have questions or need assistance, we’re here for you.

Best,

Team Astra Pro

Hello everyone!

We’re excited to share the Astra 4.8.3 update with you! This version brings a new feature, an improvement, and some important fixes to enhance your experience:

New:

• Added a separate option to set custom page width.

Improvements:

• Implemented the “autocomplete” attribute for the comment form fields in Astra.

Fixes:

• Resolved issue with Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer plugin.
• Off-canvas menu hover color inheriting from Transparent Header menu on the desktop toggle.
• Submenu top offset and top border misplacing the submenu container.

And that’s all for now. Upgrade to the latest Astra version 4.8.3 to access these enhancements and improve your website-building experience.

For more details, check out our docs or contact us! We’re always here to help.

Thanks for your continued support!

Best,

Team Astra

Hello everyone!

We’re excited to share the Astra Pro 4.8.2 update with you! This version brings several improvements and fixes to enhance your experience:

Improvements:

• Accessibility – Improved product quick view modal & close button accessibility.

Fixes:

• Site Builder – Astra Hooks settings do not save when the Custom Fields option is enabled from the preferences.
• Sticky Header – Scrolling down makes menu text gets disappeared on mobile screens.
• Astra modern cart layout styling conflicts with the Elementor cart widget.
• Header Builder – Account Widget’s login popup colors and font customization not working.
• Widget font title not working on customizer and frontend.
• Rendered ‘vcard’ classes for authors only when schema is enabled.
• Ensure compatibility with Thrive Architect by preventing query reset during Thrive Architect layout edits.
• Resolved a console error on mobile devices in the logged-out view when using the Account widget.
• Resolved warnings reported by Woo Marketplace, ensuring compliance with coding standards.

Upgrade now to experience these improvements!

As always, if you have questions or need assistance, we’re here for you.

Best,

Team Astra Pro

Hello everyone!

We’re excited to share the Astra 4.8.2 update with you! This version brings several improvements and fixes to enhance your experience:

Improvements:

• Added configure status on plugin recommendations sections.
• Added ‘Unlock Pro Features’ CTA button in the top right area of dashboard.
• Accessibility improved by adding aria-hidden=”true” to decorative SVG icons in the multistep checkout process.
• Added filter support for button link redirection with subsite path for subdirectory multisite environment.
• Improved HTML markup rendering to prevent unnecessary wrapping of elements in custom content and shortcodes.

Fixes:

• Header Builder – Broken cart page link in Astra Cart Widget when Beaver Builder plugin is active.
• LifterLMS – Compatibility issue with button color.
• RTL stylesheets are not loading when using the ‘Consultant Firm’ template.
• Search Icon does not appear properly in the mobile Off-Canvas section.
• Single Post outside spacing not reflecting on responsive devices.
• Adding LearnDash shortcodes to the header would automatically disable the sidebar on single posts.
• Text doesn’t wrap image when the local font is enabled.
• Updated EDD category display to show only categories relevant to the current product on archive pages.
• Instagram embed breaking the single post layout.
• Discrepancy Between Customizer and Live Preview for “Shop Archive Content Width”
• Resolved a potential null object error when detecting active page builders to prevent warnings.
• Live search shows the products even when the product visibility is set to ‘Hidden’ or ‘Shop only’.
• Issue with undefined CSS variables on the :root selector.
• Rendered ‘vcard’ classes for authors only when schema is enabled.
• SureCart – On SureCart single product page CPTs unnecessary navigation is visible.

And that’s all for now. Upgrade to the latest Astra version 4.8.2 to access these enhancements and improve your website-building experience.

For more details, check out our docs or contact us! We’re always here to help.

Thanks for your continued support!

Best,

Team Astra

Hello everyone!

We’re excited to share the Astra Pro 4.8.1 update with you! This version brings several improvements and fixes to enhance your experience:

Improvements:

• Translation Functionality: You can now translate strings stored in Astra’s settings database.

Fixes:

• WooCommerce Quick View: The Astra Pro Quick View feature now displays correctly on browser widths between 922px and 999px.
• Sticky Header – Hide When Scrolling Down: Menu text colors are now properly applied when the “Colors & Background” module is disabled.
• Sticky Header – Primary Menu: The primary menu background color no longer gets affected by extra menus such as Menu 3, Menu 4, etc.
• Sticky Header: Fixed sticky header not functioning with animation even when the Site Builder header layout is disabled.
• Search Widget: The search widget now works correctly on mobile devices for RTL (Right-to-Left) sites.
• WooCommerce Variation Buttons: Variation buttons in Quick View are now functional, even if the product lacks gallery images.
• Mega Menu: Disabling the submenu link no longer causes PHP warnings when Mega Menu is not enabled.
• Padded Site Layout: Left and right padding now show up correctly with the padded site layout.
• WPFunnels Pro PHP Warning: Resolved the ‘Undefined array key “placeholder”‘ PHP warning on the checkout page when the WPFunnels Pro plugin is activated.

Upgrade now to experience these improvements!

As always, if you have questions or need assistance, we’re here for you.

Best,

Team Astra Pro

Hello everyone!

We’re thrilled to bring you the new Astra 4.8.1 update! This release is packed with some great improvements and fixes. Here’s what we have added:

Improvements:

• Translation Functionality: You can now translate strings stored in Astra’s settings database.
• W3C Validator Compliance: We’ve fixed issues by using data attributes instead of custom attributes and corrected the SVG namespace to meet web standards.

Fixes:

• Customizer: Global typography settings are now showing correctly in the preview.
• Site Identity: SVG logos now appear correctly in the customizer preview.
• Block Editor: The Group block now properly inherits the maximum width when set to “Inner blocks use content width.”
• Customizer: The gradient picker color tab input box is now properly aligned.
• Mobile Header: The Add to Cart icon now aligns with other elements on mobile headers.
• Title & Featured Image: Resolved an issue where hiding the title and featured image on posts/pages resulted in unnecessary top padding.
• WooCommerce: The store notice now displays correctly with the “hand over top” option on responsive devices.
• Style Guide: The style guide close icon is now clickable in the responsive device preview.

And that’s all for now. Upgrade to the latest Astra version 4.8.1 to access these enhancements and improve your website-building experience.

For more details, check out our docs or contact us! We’re always here to help.

Thanks for your continued support!

Best,

Team Astra

Hey everyone!

We’re happy to announce the Astra Pro version 4.8.0 release, bringing you improvements and key fixes for a more consistent experience.

Improvements:

• Introduced filter ‘astra_addon_enable_modern_checkout’ to enable/disable the modern checkout feature.
• Made megamenu icon `alt` tags dynamic to ensure unique alt attributes for each image.

Fixes:

• Improvements as per Woo Marketplace coding standards.
• Sticky Header: Resolved an issue where the primary header would break when a custom hook layout was added using the ‘before header’ hook.
• Mega Menu – While selecting the default color multiple circles are visible.
• Resolved issue where Flyout width affected Full Screen layout for Off-Canvas in mobile/tablet views.
• Site Builder – Resolved an issue where the custom header hides the default header.
• Site Builder – Query Loop Block Preview Not Displaying in Block Editor of Site Builder.
• Site Builder – Resolved issue where posts/pages were not displaying under display conditions on the site builder dashboard.

We recommend updating to Astra Pro 4.8.0 to take advantage of these enhancements!

If you have any questions or need assistance, check out our docs or reach out to us anytime!

Cheers,

Team Astra Pro

Hey Astra Users!

We’re back with another update, and this time it’s Astra version 4.8.0. Here’s what’s new and improved:

New:

• Introducing Astra Style Guide for improved navigation and streamlined customization in the customizer.

Improvements:

• WooCommerce – Enhanced block-based cart and checkout page styling for better user experience.
• Header SVG logo is now clickable to redirect to the homepage.
• Added default top spacing for SureCart Shop title for a better visual experience.
• Improved smooth scroll for deeply nested elements.
• Accessibility – Enhanced keyboard navigation for “Quick View” and “Add to Cart” buttons in the Modern Shop layout.

Fixes:

• Block Editor: Uncaught DOMException in the console for cross-origin iframes.
• Updated to use MediaUpload from @wordpress/media-utils to ensure image selection button works when block editor is disabled.
• Resolved breaking desktop header on server with comma as the decimal separator.
• Resolved max-width issues with Spectra heading and several other blocks in both the editor and the frontend.
• Restore the cart icon link redirecting to the cart page in the customizer.
• SVG logo not visible in the transparent header in few cases.

We recommend updating to Astra version 4.8.0 to take advantage of these new features and improvements.

As always, if you have any questions or need help, feel free to reach out.

Best,

Team Astra

Hey Astra Users!

We’re back with another update, and this time it’s Astra version 4.7.3. Here’s what’s new and improved:

New:

• Compatibility with WordPress 6.6 – Ensuring Astra works seamlessly with the latest version of WordPress.
• Social Icons – Added “Telegram” to the social share icons list.

Improvements:

• CSS Cleanup – Fixed redundant semicolons in CSS background properties to ensure cleaner and more efficient CSS output.
• Astra – SureCart – Empowered Astra and SureCart integration default setup.

Fixes:

• Editor – Fixed the issue where the “Hide title” option in the editor wasn’t working when the Spectra plugin was activated.
• Button Spacing – Fixed the issue of no spaces between buttons block in the editor and single page.

We recommend updating to Astra version 4.7.3 to take advantage of these new features and improvements.

As always, if you have any questions or need help, feel free to reach out.

Best,

Team Astra