What's New with Astra

Fix:

• WooCommerce Shop page – on Mobile Grid single column was appearing when two columns were set from the customizer setting for existing users.
• Fatal error on sites due to incorrect migration flag.

New:

• Builder – Introduced new element Toggle for Desktop. (https://wpastra.com/docs/toggle-button-for-desktop/)
• SVG Icons support ( deprecating astra.woff font file ) (https://wpastra.com/docs/ast-font-icons-to-svg/)

Improvement:

• Redesigned the image resize control UI in customizer for better user experience.
• Builder – Menu – Added box-shadow option for submenu container.
• Code quality improvements for better performance.
• WordPress 5.7 compatibility.
• Frontend optimization – WooCommerce – Shop Page, Single Product Page. (https://wpastra.com/docs/optimize-css-html-before-3-3/)
• Frontend optimization – EDD – Shop Page, Single Product Page.
• Frontend optimization – LifterLMS – All Courses Page.
• Frontend optimization – LearnDash – All Courses Page, Single Course Page.

Fix:

• Builder – Account Element – Added better notices for user understanding when Profile Action is set to Menu.
• Above Header and Below Header compatibility in Page Header.
• Menu container width not calculated properly when Mega Menu Width is set to Menu Container Width.
• Vertical Alignment for Above, Below, and Primary footer not working when the addon is active.
• Divider being invisible in some cases due to invalid width/height references.

Deprecated:

• Footer Divider – Deprecated the vertical layout size in percentage and added it in px.
• Header Divider – Deprecated the horizontal layout size in percentage and added it in px.

New:

• Transparent Header – WooCommerce Cart & EDD Cart icon color options.
• Builder – Off-Canvas – Added spacing option for Off-Canvas.
• SVG Icons support ( deprecating astra.woff font file ) (https://wpastra.com/docs/ast-font-icons-to-svg/)

Improvement:

• Builder – Mobile Menu – Renamed Mobile Menu to Off-Canvas Menu.
• Builder – Added instructive message in the builder side panel when builder layout does not have any element in use.
• Replaced responsive number control with a responsive slider control for Base Font Size in Typography section.
• Gutenberg Editor – Block patterns compatibility. (https://wpastra.com/docs/fix-spacing-gb-blocks/)
• Compatibility with WordPress 5.7.
• Code quality improvements for better performance.
• Load minified customizer preview files for better performance.
• Frontend optimization – Comments, Pagination, Single Page, Single Post, Archive Page. (https://wpastra.com/docs/optimize-css-html-before-3-3/)
• Frontend optimization – WooCommerce – Shop Page, Single Product Page.
• Frontend optimization – EDD – Shop Page, Single Product Page.
• Frontend optimization – LifterLMS – All Courses Page.
• Frontend optimization – LearnDash – All Courses Page, Single Course Page.

Fix:

• White Label – White-labeled the Astra Header Footer setting notice.
• WooCommerce – Single Product page – Save review form fields cookies consent is misaligned.
• Builder – Off-Canvas – Close submenu toggle icon not changing in Mobile Menu element when the submenu is in the expanded state.
• Builder – Header – Frontend grid layout overlaps on the content section when multiple elements added in the same header layout.
• Builder – Footer – Customizer’s 2nd column stack layout SVG is missing in footer layouts for responsive devices.
• Builder – Footer – Responsive control for layouts gets hidden with the click of WordPress default responsive controls.
• Block Editor – Code Block spacing CSS tweaks when it is left aligned.

New:

• Introduced Inside Post/Page content option in Custom Layouts. (https://wpastra.com/astra-pro-3-2/)

New:

• Support for the Web Stories plugin by Google – Showcase your website content as web stories on the top of the header.

Fix:

• Transparent Header – Submenu background alpha not working for the old header.

Fix:

• Customizer not working due to fatal error in Color Group control for some edge cases.
• Header getting hidden in a rare case on some first loads in chrome due to miscalculated browser window width.
• Showing multiple menu locations on the menu admin page.
• Transparent Header – Submenu color not working for the older header.
• Transparent Header – Submenu background color not working for the older header.

Fix:

• Saved value is overridden by Default value for HTML Element and Copyright Element in Customizer.
• Header Builder margin option default units were missing.
• Transparent Header – Submenu background color not working.

New:

• Ability to clone and delete elements from Header/Footer Builder. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/clone-delete-hf-elements/ )
• Added new color options for Add to Cart Tray.
• Language Switcher element for Header & Footer Builder.

Improvement:

• Redesigned the entire customizer UI for better user experience. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/revamped-astra-customizer/ )
• Added design options for Builder – Toggle Menu in Sticky header.
• Builder – Search – Placeholder text and color options.
• Builder – Search – Box height, Icon color and Background color options.
• Builder – Button – Added button size options.

Fix:

• Builder – Social Icons – Added ability to show the social icons in vertical layout for mobile devices.
• Builder – Sticky Header – Social icon, label custom color & official color not working.
• Corrected position of ‘Last Menu Item’ typography controls inside ‘Primary Menu’ section.
• Builder – Menu – Megamenu container get hides when hover in between Top Offset spacing.
• Sticky Header – Page scrolls to top in customizer when user switch to responsive mode.
• Submenu colors are not working in the frontend.
• Menu font size not working with old Header.
• Sticky Header – Menu link, background and hover colors not working for old header.
• Sticky Header – Site title and tagline color not working.
• White Label – Not able to white label the theme author and theme name in footer builder.
• Added missing widget title font family option.
• Product count value in cart element not aligned.
• Custom Layouts – Removed unwanted blank CSS while using spacing option.

Improvement:

• Redesigned the entire customizer UI for better user experience. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/revamped-astra-customizer/ )
• Added design options for Builder – Toggle Menu in Transparent header.
• Optimized dynamic CSS functionality to reduce unwanted CSS on the page.
• Overall HTML Structure improvement which includes removing blank spaces and removing unwanted HTML Tags.
• Optimized customizer by removing PHP controls.
• Optimized the SVG icons.
• Builder – Transparent Header – Placeholder Text and Color options for Search.
• Builder – Social Icons – Ability to add an extra Phone and Contact icons.
• Builder – Social Icons – Added ability to select icon from an Icon Picker for individual social elements
• Builder – Social Icons – Added a color option for labels of social icons.
• Builder – Off-Canvas – Added an option to manage spacing between inner elements of the Off-Canvas.
• Added new Page meta options for Above, Below and Mobile header.

Fix:

• Footer vertical alignment option not working.
• Above Footer & Below Footer showing up an unwanted border in the customizer preview.
• Updated Learn More Links on Astra Options page for Nav Menu & Easy Digital Downloads addon.
• Overflowing content not wrapping as per grid layout on responsive device for Header Footer builder layout.
• Builder – Transparent Header – Social icon, label custom color & official color not working.
• Builder – Transparent Header – Menu & Submenu style applying to Off-Canvas Menu.
• Block Cover align full CSS compatibility in Block editor with sidebar.
• Color picker icon not visible on hover.
• Font size not reverted back to the initial size when the value is deleted.
• Menu active link style not working when sub-menu item is active.
• Menu line height not being applied in frontend.
• Global Button Border and Typography controls are not working in the customizer preview.
• Breadcrumb position misalignment issue for inside header option.
• Search box misaligned in Dropdown option for Off-Canvas in Mobile.
• Submenu divider option adding heavy border around menu items on responsive devices.
• JS console error with Elementor – Header, Footer & Blocks plugin.
• Console error in customizer due to third party plugin dependency.
• Menu font size not working with old Header.
• Transparent Header – Menu link, background and hover colors not working for old header.
• Builder – Menu – Submenu container get hides when hover in between Top Offset spacing.-