What's New with Astra

New:

• Introducing new “Disable Banner Area” metabox based option to control visibility of title banner area. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/introducing-the-new-disable-banner-area-meta-based-option/ )
• Introducing new filter “astra_rank_math_theme_support” to enable/disable rank-math theme support. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/introducing-new-filter-to-enable-disable-rank-math-theme-support/ )
• Introducing new color and gradient overlay settings for background type image customizer options.

Improvement:

• Theme package size has been optimized from 9MB to under 6MB.
• Added WPML translation support for Pro Custom Layout’s Layout, Display-Exclusion rules, Users rule options.
• Introduced filter ‘astra_header_profile_gmpg_link’ to remove gmpg link from webpage for GDPR.

Fix:

• Spectra’s Tab anchor links jerks when “Smooth Scroll to ID” option enabled from customizer.
• WooCommerce – Cart – Realtime quantity updater not working on change of input box when Mix Match plugin is activated.
• Breadcrumb content text-decoration style not working for active menu link.
• WooCommerce – Cart – PHP error “can not redeclare astra_cart_position function”.
• Header Builder – Off-canvas – Getting white flash jerk when closing offcanvas toggle menu.
• WooCommerce – Pagination does not work for WooCommerce Categories without Subcategories if displaying subcategories on products.
• Double border-top applied for footer in customizer preview.

Fix:

• Header Builder – Site Logo becomes too small for the sticky header.
• Custom Layout – Code editor strips out the code while saving and not working properly on frontend too.
• Search – Inline search box misaligned with respect it’s search icon position.

Fix:

• Container – Content Boxed layout removes Spectra column or container left padding.
• Offcanvas – Due to clickable hidden area toggle buttons don’t work in RTL mode.
• Header Builder – Cart – On adding product to cart, quantity plus & minus buttons gets disappear.
• Topic tags div visible multiple times and goes into infinite loop in case of BBPress.
• Offcanvas – Builder component popup overlaps on customizer controls section.
• WooCommerce – Widget’s dropdown arrow is moving to top corner.
• Header Builder – Cart – Slide cart goes blank when Elementor Pro is active with latest version.
• get_the_excerpt() callback breaks the functionality of external plugins like BuddyPress Registration, Five Star Restaurant Reservations, Formidable Form.

Fix:

• WooCommerce & WordPress marketplace users getting subscription notification when plugin purchased from Brainstorm Force store.

Fix:

• Post content shrinks on one side for the blog archive.
• Menu – CSS menu arrow icons are coming along with SVG icons.
• Menu – Submenu arrows are hidden in case of SVG icons are disabled.

Fix:

• Backward managing cron run into infinite loop which exhausted CPU usage on server.
• PHP notice “Uncaught error array_map() requires 2nd parameter as array” while saving code editor from Custom Layout.
• PHP error “Uncaught Error: Call to a member function is_type() on string” for WooCommerce product.
• PHP error “Uncaught Error: class Astra_Notices not found” in some cases.

Fix:

• PHP error “Uncaught Error: Access to undeclared static property” for clonned header builder button’s padding.

Fix:

• Single Post – Related Post Title Font Size is not working for responsive devices.
• PHP notice “Warning: Array to string conversion” while parsing button styling CSS.

New:

• Accessibility options to change color and style of highlighted element. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/accessibility-controls/ )
• WooCommerce – Shop – Introducing new redirect actions on add to cart click. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/introducing-new-add-to-cart-trigger-actions-for-shop-and-single-product-pages/ )
• WooCommerce – Sortable support for payment options on single product page.
• Published, last-updated date support for post meta date field.
• Date format option for post meta date field.
• Introduced new filter ‘astra_custom_logo_attributes’ to add attributes into custom logo.

Improvement:

• Hardened the security.
• Compatibility with WordPress-6.2.
• Starter Templates admin menu nav-link removed when Whitelabel is enabled.
• Improved accessibility for header menu navigation.

Fix:

• Customizer – Typography and Button Preset options selected preset not highlighting and reset button not functioning.
• Author Info box is visible multiple times and goes into infinite loop in case of BBPress.
• W3 validation – Builder – Menu – Duplicate IDs for responsive devices.
• Block editor – Image breaking outside the entry container when left/right aligned.
• WooCommerce – Real Time Quantity Updater not working in case of shortcode used.
• WooCommerce – CSS overriding Global H2 tag font size WooCommerce pages.
• Customizer – Global buttons text and background hover color not working in customizer preview.
• Customizer – Global outline button styling not reflecting in block editor for some cases.
• Footer builder – Widgets dynamic CSS gets added multiple times on the frontend.
• WooCommerce – Error, info content messages UI breaking on the frontend.
• Builder – Off-canvas menu – Dropdown menu arrow icon is misplaced in case of toggle for desktop.
• Spectra Compatibility – Spectra spacing options for applying custom margin and padding not working.
• Content background color does not apply to Author Box in customizer preview.
• Cost Calculator Builder – compatibility range slider.
• Disable the title from Elementor setting is not working as expected.
• Footer menu alignment issue for responsive devices.
• Inside container spacing for single posts affecting the related posts section.
• PHP error ‘Uncaught TypeError: ltrim()’ for getting taxonomy term link.
• Single post title transformed to capitalize with 4.0 update.
• WooCommerce – Console throwing an event listener error when a product has only 1 item in stock.
• Customizer – Typography and Button Preset options selected preset not highlighting and reset button not functioning.
• WooCommerce – Buttons does not inherit global button styling from the theme customizer. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/global-button-styling-now-supports-woocommerce-store-buttons/ )