What's New with Astra

Fix:

• Fix: WooCommerce – Infinite Posts scroll event showing duplicate products in AJAX search results.

Fix:

• WooCommerce & Blog – Infinite Posts showing different taxonomy’s products on category or tag archive pages.

• Security Fix: Sanitized AJAX query_vars for Infinite Scroll actions.

Fix:

• Enable ‘Preload Local Fonts’ option affects on height of Gutenberg Cover edit block.
• Related Posts articles showing meta structure based on current active post.

Fix:

• Theme check warning – Replaced search form markup with get_search_form().
• Both desktop and mobile headers appearing on desktop due to Astra’s cache.

Improvement:

• Added headings font-weight support to widget-title headings. (https://wpastra.com/docs/font-weight-for-widget-titles/)
• Removed jQuery dependency in Scroll To Top addon.
• Custom Layout – Added close button for multi-select selected items for Display On field.

Fix:

• Builder – Account Element – Sticky Icon Color creates color patch on sticky header active.
• Builder – WooCommerce cart – 0 Border width count removes default cart icon’s border.
• WooCommerce cart – Color option not working in old header layout.
• Megamenu – Clicking on any item causes a short gray blink on the items in other columns.
• Customizer’s font & color settings not reflecting in Gutenberg editor. (https://wpastra.com/astra-3-6/)
• ‘Page Header: Center Aligned’ layout not working for new users.
• Core Web Vitals – WooCommerce add to cart plus/minus buttons increasing CLS score.
• Sticky Header – Transition effect of headers when Shrink Effect is enabled.

New:

• Performance – Load Google Font locally. (https://wpastra.com/docs/self-hosted-google-fonts/)
• Performance – Preload locally hosted Google Font. (https://wpastra.com/docs/self-hosted-google-fonts/)

Improvement:

• Improvement: Added SVG logo height option to resolve the CLS issue. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/improve-cls-for-svg-logo/ )
• Added close button for multiselect selected items in Google font variants.
• Changed customizer submenu control title from ‘Container Animation’ to ‘Submenu Animation’.
• Moved ‘Submenu Animation’ control from General tab to Design tab.
• Changed sub-menu container animation option name from ‘Default’ to ‘None’.
• Added headings font-weight support to widget-title headings. (https://wpastra.com/docs/font-weight-for-widget-titles/)
• Changed Transparent Header Border Bottom default value from ” to 0;

Fix:

• Customizer’s font & color settings not reflecting in Gutenberg editor. (https://wpastra.com/astra-3-6/)
• Max-width responsive CSS enlarges logo size on mobile devices in old header layout.
• Cart Icon not working with Sticky Header after enabling the option “Hide when scrolling down” on mobile devices.
• Secondary menu not expendable on mobile when it is outside of Off Canvas.
• CLS – Flashing desktop menu on mobile view.
• WooCommerce – product search widget button not aligned on other than shop and single product page.
• Sticky Header – Transition effect of headers when Shrink Effect is enabled.
• Two search buttons visible on the result page when Astra SVG icons enabled.

Fix:

• Aspect ratio is changed for YouTube embed block.
• Spacing CSS missing when ‘Inline Logo and Title’ option is enabled.
• Updated the theme screenshot.
• JS Console error in blog/archive customizer settings.
• WooCommerce – Product’s Sale bubble appears on the header on scroll due to z-index.
• Site Title and Tagline context not working properly for new Header Footer builder.
• Version compare updated to v3.5.0 to support Site Title & Tagline pro color controls dependency.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Frontend optimization by reducing static CSS and loading it conditionally. (https://wpastra.com/astra-3-5/)

Fix:

• Fix: Version compare updated to v3.5.0 to support Site Title & Tagline pro color controls dependency.