What's New with Astra

Hello everyone,

We’re excited to introduce Astra 4.9.0! This update brings a brand-new feature, improvements to Smooth Scrolling, and important fixes to enhance your website-building experience.

This update introduces a Dark Color Palette (Beta), significant improvements to Smooth Scrolling, and various bug fixes to ensure a smoother and more polished user experience.

What’s New?

• Dark Color Palette (Beta) – Added a new color palette in Astra’s Global Color Palettes section perfect for dark-themed designs. To know more about Dark Color Palette, you refer to this help document.

What’s Improved?

• Smooth Scroll to ID – Now supports a dynamic sticky offset for sticky headers and includes slide and fade animations for a better scrolling experience.

What’s Fixed?

• Fixed an issue with the Submenu link font size changes.
• Fixed a problem where color settings were not reflecting in the Off-Canvas menu on desktop.

We highly recommend updating your Astra theme to version 4.9.0 to take advantage of these new feature and improvement. Keeping your theme up to date ensures optimal performance, security, and compatibility with the latest WordPress versions.

Thank you for being a valued Astra user! We appreciate your feedback and look forward to bringing you more exciting updates in the future.

Best,

Team Astra

Hello Astra Pro users,

We’re excited to roll out Astra Pro v4.8.14, an update focused on WooCommerce enhancements, checkout improvements, and key UI fixes to ensure a seamless experience for your website visitors.

This release resolves issues affecting product galleries, checkout layouts, search icons, and Theme Builder custom layouts, making your site more visually consistent and user-friendly.

What’s Fixed?

• Resolved an issue where product gallery thumbnails appeared blurry by ensuring the correct image size is used.
• Resolved a UI issue where the “Re-enter New Password” field was displaying incorrectly.
• Resolved a CSS conflict where the Stripe Checkout payment button affected the Astra Modern Checkout layout.
• WooCommerce – Resolved UI issue in Astra Pro’s Quick View feature where landscape images distorted the layout for variable products.
• Resolved an issue where the WooCommerce Product Variation Switcher displayed the featured image instead of the selected variation’s image in Astra Pro’s Gallery Layouts.
• Resolved an issue causing double search icons to appear for some existing users.
• Resolved an issue where custom layouts created using Theme Builder did not render on empty category archives.
• Resolved an issue where extra field data on single product page was not being submitted when adding the product to the cart.

We recommend updating to Astra Pro v4.8.14 today for a smoother and more reliable experience!

If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out—we’re always here to help!

Best,
Team Astra

Hello everyone!

We’re excited to introduce Astra 4.8.13, packed with improvements for a better experience. This update brings enhancements to the Search Widget and addresses several important fixes to ensure smoother functionality.

What’s New?

• Search Widget – Added an option for visible search result counts with live search.

What’s Fixed?

• Resolved “Undefined array key” warning by checking if the color key exists before using it.
• Deprecated warning “Deprecated: preg_replace()” on search result page with PHP 8.1 or higher.
• Resolved an issue where brand color on hover not working for Social Icons in Footer Builder in specific cases.
• Resolved an issue where the Account icon is not clickable when Astra Pro is deactivated.

Upgrade to Astra 4.8.13 today for a smoother, more optimized experience.

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

Thank you for your continued support and trust in Astra.

Best,

Team Astra

Hello everyone!

We’re excited to bring you Astra 4.8.12, an update designed to make your website smoother, more efficient, and easier to manage.

This release focuses on improving menu toggle functionality, enhancing SEO control for blog post titles, and fixing several key issues affecting layout, styling, and third-party integrations.

Whether you’re using Astra for an online store, a learning platform, or a content-rich site, these refinements ensure a better experience for both you and your visitors.

What’s Improved?

• Improved synchronization of toggled class across menu toggle buttons to ensure consistent add/remove behavior.
• Added filter to use more attribute to blog post title links for improved SEO control.

/**
 * Modify the anchor attributes for post titles in Astra theme.
 *
 * This function adds 'rel' attributes (bookmark and nofollow) to post title anchor tags.
 *
 * @param array $attributes The current attributes of the post title anchor.
 * @return array The modified attributes for the anchor tag.
 */
function customize_post_title_anchor_attributes( $attributes ) {
    if ( is_array( $attributes ) ) {
        $attributes['rel'] = 'bookmark nofollow';
    }
    return $attributes;
}
add_filter( 'astra_post_title_anchor_attributes', 'customize_post_title_anchor_attributes' );

What’s Fixed?

• Heart button color is missing for students in LifterLMS lessons page to mark as favorite.
• Resolved an issue where cart widget css not loading properly on Cartflows checkout page.
• Resolved an issue where the theme preview was not visible on the wp.org themes page.
• Resolved an issue where extra white space appearing on the sides of the layout on certain screen sizes after the recent update.

Upgrade to Astra 4.8.12 today for a smoother, more optimized experience.

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

Thank you for your continued support and trust in Astra.

Best,

Team Astra

Hello Astra Pro users,

We’re excited to introduce Astra Pro v4.8.13, bringing a new Search Widget feature and enhancements to the Modern Cart Layout for a better user experience.

What’s New

• Search Widget – Added support to search icon from the icon library or using a custom SVG code.

What’s Improved?

• Enhanced coupon field in Modern Cart Layout to display error notices for invalid or empty coupon submissions.

This update enhances design customization and improves the checkout experience, making your website more user-friendly.

We recommend updating to this version for a smoother and more reliable experience.

If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out—we’re always here to help!

Best,
Team Astra Pro

Hello Astra Pro users,

We’re excited to announce the release of Astra Pro v4.8.12, bringing essential improvements and fixes to enhance your website-building experience.

This update focuses on boosting accessibility, refining WooCommerce features, and resolving layout issues to ensure everything runs smoothly on your site.

What’s Improved?

• Enhanced accessibility of the Search Widget by addressing form label issues flagged by the WAVE tool.
• Enhanced Astra Real-Time Add to Cart functionality to make it compatible with WooCommerce Subscription’s Proration feature.
• Added hash-based URL functionality to toggle between login and registration forms.
• Enhanced Search Widget markup rendering to occur only when the widget is present in the Header Builder with Header Cover and Full-Screen Search options.

What’s Fixed?

• String Translations not working correctly for Astra Customizer settings.
• Resolved layout breakage in Astra Mega Menu to ensure proper display for both normal and custom width.

We recommend updating to this version to enjoy a more seamless and reliable experience.

If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out—we’re always here to help!

Best,

Team Astra Pro

Hello everyone!

We’re thrilled to announce the release of Astra 4.8.11, designed to improve your workflow and enhance your site’s functionality.

This update brings notable improvements, including enhanced styling for the WooCommerce variation clear button and block-based cart and checkout fields, ensuring a smoother shopping experience for your users.

We’ve also fine-tuned container width calculations to account for scrollbar width, improving alignment with the header container for a more polished design.

In addition to these improvements, this release resolves several issues. Styling inconsistencies in custom fields added to the WooCommerce Address section have been addressed, and the outline-style for Input Highlight accessibility settings now complies with W3C standards.

We’ve also fixed compatibility conflicts with popular plugins like Side Cart WooCommerce, WPC Fly Cart for WooCommerce, and FooEvents, ensuring seamless integration. Furthermore, issues with Disable Header & Footer meta settings on the WooCommerce Shop page and Single Page customizer controls with Elementor have been resolved for a smoother experience.

What’s Improved?

• WooCommerce – Enhanced styling for the variation clear button and block-based cart and checkout fields to improve user experience.
• Adjusted container width calculations to consider scrollbar width and align with the header container.

What’s Fixed?

• Addressed a styling issue affecting custom fields added to the Address section in WooCommerce through the woocommerce_register_additional_checkout_fields function.
• Resolved an issue where the outline-style was incorrectly set to `disable` when Input Highlight was disabled under Accessibility, replacing it with unset to comply with W3C standards.
• Resolved conflict with Side Cart Woocommerce, WPC Fly Cart for WooCommerce and FooEvents plugins.
• Account icon click showing dropdown and incorrectly redirecting to the account page.
• Resolved issues with the Disable Header & Disable Footer page meta settings not working on the WooCommerce Shop page.
• Resolved an issue where Single Page customizer control did not apply correctly in the preview when the Elementor plugin was active

Make sure to update your Astra theme to the latest version 4.8.11 to take advantage of these fixes and enjoy a more reliable website-building experience.

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

Thank you for your continued support and trust in Astra.

Best,

Team Astra

Hello everyone,

We’ve rolled out Astra v4.8.11 to quickly address an issue introduced in the previous version, ensuring your site runs smoothly and without interruptions.

What’s Fixed?

• Blog Grid Fatal Error: Resolved a fatal error affecting the blog grid functionality from v4.8.10.

We strongly recommend updating to the latest version to apply this fix.

If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out—we’re always here to help!

Best,

Team Astra

Hello Astra Pro users!

We’re excited to announce the release of Astra Addon v4.8.10, bringing essential fixes to improve dynamic content handling, design consistency, and overall functionality.

This update focuses on resolving issues related to the Query Loop block, white labeling, dynamic CSS, and color inheritance.

Here’s a breakdown of what’s fixed:

What’s Fixed?

• Query Loop Block: Fixed an issue where dynamic content wasn’t displaying correctly in the Site Builder’s Archive Template.
• White Labeling: Resolved a problem where white-labeling wasn’t applying to the Astra menu panel strings.
• Dynamic CSS Warnings: Addressed undefined array key warnings for ‘tablet’ and ‘mobile’ in dynamic CSS PHP files when the blog Reveal effect was enabled.
• Color Inheritance: Fixed color inheritance issues between the Account widget menu and transparent headers.

We recommend updating to Astra Pro 4.8.10 to take advantage of these improvements and ensure your website runs smoothly.

If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out—we’re always here to help!

Best,

Team Astra Pro