What's New with Astra

New:

• Header Builder – Menu – Filter to add mega menu compatibility with registered nav menus. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/mega-menu-support-for-all-builder-menus/ )
• Custom Layout – Custom action hook support added to trigger layout content or snippet on a specific location.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Recently viewed product feature.
• WooCommerce – Checkout – Back to cart button feature.

Improvement:

• Custom Layout – Redesigned admin posts list & editor meta settings with better UI/UX.
• WooCommerce – Removed jQuery dependency from Quick View addon.
• Introduced action ‘astra_checkout_login_field_before’ to trigger custom snippet before WooCommerce checkout’s login fields.
• Introduced action ‘astra_checkout_login_field_after’ to trigger custom snippet after WooCommerce checkout’s login fields.
• Added notice to install Astra theme if plugin directly starts. (Props – https://gist.github.com/mattyza)
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Selected active variant style design updated via filter ‘astra_addon_update_wc_variant_style’.
• Page Header – Repeated target rule error notice type changed to warning notice type with disabling the trigger.

Fix:

• WooCommerce – Single Product – Payment list styling is broken inside the quick view popup.
• WooCommerce – My Account – Placeholder added if product image is not available on the order and download section.
• WooCommerce – Composite product plugin compatibility on a single product.
• WooCommerce – Updated Related and Upsell products sub-option dependency.
• WooCommerce – Border removed on single product gallery sliders.
• Custom layout content before not working with the WPML targeted pages.
• WooCommerce – Quick view console error on all pages.
• Header Builder – Menu – Megamenu container get hides when hovering in between Top Offset spacing.
• W3 validation – WooCommerce – Quick view and Checkout’s Apply Coupon text having accessibility issues.
• Fatal error ‘Uncaught TypeError in Count function’ for invalid argument issue on the frontend for cache files, in some rare cases.
• WooCommerce – Checkout – Password required when guest checkout is active.
• Header Builder – Menu – Active colour from sticky header options not applying to menu items.
• Custom Layout – Inside post/page content displays multiple times with entry content hooks used.
• WooCommerce – Remove product icon misalignment issue on the cart page with the safari browser.
• Builder – Account Element – Changed direction for submenu opening does not work for account menu. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/change-the-direction-for-submenu-opening/ )
• WooCommerce – Single Product – The product gallery looks improper when a single product layout builds using a theme builder layout and the first image large gallery option selected from the customizer setting.
• Footer Builder – Divider Element – Hide on Desktop option is not working.
• WooCommerce – Off-Canvas Sidebar Filters – Close link trigger is not crawlable due to javascript:void(0) href.
• Header Builder – Menu – Sub-menu background colour overrides the border-radius of the submenu in the customizer.

New:

• WooCommerce Cart – “Cart Page” click action introduced to redirect the user to the cart page.

Improvement:

• Added Spectra plugin compatibility for a better experience.
• WooCommerce Cart – Moved border width option for cart icon from the addon to theme.
• WooCommerce – Clear button is aligned on top for WooCommerce active filter widget when the “Chips” option is enabled.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Edit shortcut link assigned to sticky add to cart for easy navigation in respective customizer section.
• WooCommerce – Added product images for tablet users on the cart page.
• To have an elegant fresh setup UI, updated the customizer sidebar layout by default to No-Sidebar.
• WooCommerce Cart – Responsive slider option to adjust Slide-in Cart width for Desktop, Tablet, & Mobile devices.

Fix:

• WooCommerce – Content background colour not working in the customizer preview.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Sale badge text is misaligned on the front end.
• WooCommerce – Custom image and icon support for payment section.
• WooCommerce – Payment list styling is broken inside quick view.
• Block Editor – Astra Meta settings do not save when the Custom Fields option is enabled from the preferences.
• Two search buttons are visible on the empty archive search result page.
• Disabled Astra meta setting for the Blog page, which does not work from meta box, as it acts like an archive page on the frontend.
• Megamenu spacing conflicts with the primary menu top offset option on mobile devices.
• WooCommerce – Cart icon size is not working on the starter template site.
• Top border showing up for related post section on a single post when Boxed & Content Boxed layout is active.
• Editor – External toggle controls reverse their direction due to the theme’s CSS.
• Block editor – Getting console error for reading properties of undefined for getEditedPostAttribute.

Improvement:

• Compatibility with WordPress 6.1.

New:

• WooCommerce – Checkout – Order summary & payment box background color options.

Improvement:

• Introduced filter ‘astra_addon_override_single_product_layout’ to enable/disable vertical & horizontal slider gallery layout in case if Single Product layout built using any page builder themer.
• Action ‘astra_addon_woo_quick_view_before’ for firing before Quick View popup trigger.
• WooCommerce – Introduced new JavaScript event ‘astraInfinitePaginationLoaded’ after shop infinite pagination loaded.

Fix:

• WooCommerce – Single Product – Default variation option not working with Change Dropdown to Buttons option in variable type product.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Gallery thumbnail slider not in sync when product variations changes.
• WooCommerce – Checkout – String ‘Customer information’ is not translatable.
• WooCommerce – Checkout – Email validation not working for non admin users when trying to login through the checkout page when the modern layout is active.
• WooCommerce – My Account – Download items UI gets messed up in modern layout.
• WooCommerce – Checkout – Login button font-size does not match with their surrounding label in modern checkout style.
• WooCommerce – Checkout – Country/Region misalignment in checkout form on single country selection when modern input style enabled.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Misalignment with quantity updater when vertical style is applied.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Product cards box shadow not working when old header footer is active.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Product gallery missing when single product layout build using theme builder layouts.
• WooCommerce – Removing white background color being added to minicart icon when style is selected as outline.
• WooCommerce – ‘View Cart’ secondary link is hidden when product added to that cart from the single product page.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Active filter misalignment on the frontend.
• WooCommerce – Modern Checkout layout support for Germanized for WooCommerce plugin.
• Showing deprecated function warning on frontend after installing Elementor with theme.
• Customizer range slider control not accepting decimal values for ’em’ unit.
• Need to double click for dropdown menu to open sub-menus on desktop in rare cases.
• Blog – Infinite scroll is not working with Custom Post types.
• W3 validation – aria-label attribute is missing for button in Full search style.
• Updated product columns option dependency on individual Related and Upsell enable setting.

Improvement:

• WooCommerce – Admin bar’s customize link updated on WooCommerce pages for quick landing to it’s respected customizer section.
• WooCommerce – Added WPML translation support for cart dynamic input, proceed to checkout input & free-shipping text input through wpml-config.xml file. (Props – OnTheGoSystems)
• WooCommerce – Shop – Shop skin layout design 3 option moved from addon to theme.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Product card alignment option moved from addon to theme.
• WooCommerce Cart – Hide cart total when cart is empty option.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Moved sticky add to cart from addon to theme.
• WooCommerce – Moved Add to cart quantity button to cart from addon to theme.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Moved structure options from pro to free theme.
• Earth (default) icon for selected color improved for better visibility on brighter & dim colors.
• Redesigned the Astra Meta Settings layout control similar to customizer layout selection options.

Fix:

• WooCommerce – Single Product – Alignment issue with content added by plugin near add to cart section.
• WooCommerce – Dropdown icon cart link does not redirect to cart page.
• WooCommerce – Cart element is adding primary header height on below and above header section.
• WooCommerce – Cross sell grid products showing with 50% width when modern cart layout is enabled on cart page.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Flex CSS conflicting with third party plugins which adds custom functionality aside add-to-cart button.
• WooCommerce – Checkout – Misalignment for order products quantity in order summary box.
• WooCommerce – Show password eye icon is not visible on My Account page.
• Block Editor – 2em Block gap spacing appearing in container blocks.
• Customizer range slider control not accepting decimal values for ’em’ unit.
• Padding being added to the Full Width/Stretched Layout when using Brizy Page Builder.
• Search element not clickable on above header, moving old to new header builder.
• Showing deprecated function warning on frontend after installing Elementor with theme.
• The Menu gets disappeared on the Android mobile device when you select Header Type is set as Dropdown.
• Footer – Footer global background color and padding is not working in the frontend.
• Spectra plugin settings page link redirect to old ‘uag’ admin page.

Fix:

• Mobile menu flyout mode not working properly when old Header layout is active.
• WooCommerce – Button variation is displaying the old deleted product attributes on single product.
• WooCommerce – Shop active filter toggle not working properly due to incorrect customizer option handle.
• Theme version rollback does not work on the initial page load of Astra Options.

Fix:

• WooCommerce – Child theme’s WooCommerce custom templates gets overridden by parent theme.
• Block editor – Row block’s layout stack in editor.
• PHP error with uncaught function ‘ctype_xdigit’ not found in common-functions.php on some specific servers.

New:

• Redesigned the entire customizer UI for better user experience.
• WooCommerce – General – Quantity Plus Minus Button Options With Multiple Designs.
• WooCommerce – General – Modern Input skin type.
• WooCommerce – General – Ajax based quantity selector.
• WooCommerce – General – Introduced Color and background option for Sale badge.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Added new modern view option for shop style.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Introduced unique filter panel design.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Introduced sticky shop filter sidebar option.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Added accordion compatibility for WooCommerce filter widgets.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Added Flyout and Collapsible option for WooCommerce filters panel.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Added sticky add to cart on single product.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Product tabs heading – Product tabs heading – Added normal, hover, and active text color support.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Added Color and Typography options for Category text.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Added Enable/Disable Quantity Plus-Minus sign option.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Added Option to Add Extra Product Description.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Introduced tab style presets for product details. ( Accordion / Distributed ).
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Introduced previous-next product preview option on navigation hover.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Payment options list in single product structure.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Introduced sticky product summary option.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Toggle to Convert Variation select dropdown to buttons UI on Single Product page.
• WooCommerce – Added Multistep Navigation for Cart, Checkout and Order Received pages.
• WooCommerce – Cart – Modern Cart Layout.
• WooCommerce – Cart – Sticky Cart total on scroll on WooCommerce cart page.
• WooCommerce – Checkout – Modern Layout.

Improvement:

• Single Product – Option to Show/Hide Category on WooCommerce single product page.
• Single Product – Product gallery Layout options ( First Image Large / Vertical Slider / Horizontal Slider ).
• Single Product – Product Navigation color options ( Normal & Hover ).

Fix:

• Related Products & Upsell columns not working on responsive devices.

New:

• Redesigned the entire customizer UI for better user experience.
• WooCommerce – Product Catalog – Introduced content layout & sidebar option.
• WooCommerce – General – Introduced store notice text color & background color options.
• WooCommerce – General – Introduced store notice position option.
• WooCommerce – Single Product- Introduced Option to add free shipping text next to WooCommerce single product price.
• WooCommerce – Single product – Introduced Product Variation Orientation option.
• WooCommerce Cart – Option for enabling desktop offcanvas cart flyout.
• WooCommerce Cart – Option to update offcanvas flyout direction.
• WooCommerce Cart – Option to change offcanvas flyout width.
• WooCommerce Cart – Introduced cart icon hover color option.
• WooCommerce Cart – Introduced cart Margin and Padding spacing option.
• WooCommerce Cart – Introduced cart total Label position option.
• WooCommerce Cart – Introduced Icon size option in the WooCommerce Cart.
• WooCommerce Cart – Introduced show/hide cart total badge option.

Improvement:

• Categorized & segregated global options into respective sections of customizer.
• WooCommerce Cart – Modify the Cart label section via Shortcodes. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/improvement-woocommerce-modify-the-cart-label-design/ )
• Introduced filter ‘astra_stretched_layout_with_spacing’ to exclude Stretched layout around spacing CSS. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/improved-block-editor-experience/ )
• Introduced filter ‘astra_get_store_sidebar_layout’ to extend sidebar option for the WooCommerce layout.

Fix:

• WooCommerce – Margin issue for single shop page with the Full width & Contained Layout.