What's New with Astra

Hello everyone,

This update focuses on performance optimizations, accessibility enhancements, and important fixes to improve overall usability and frontend consistency across your website.

What’s Improved?

• Performance Enhancements – Removed legacy browser polyfills, optimized asset loading, and reduced frontend payload size to improve performance and Core Web Vitals.
• Submenu Keyboard Accessibility – Improved submenu toggle keyboard interaction to enhance accessibility and better align with WCAG compliance standards.

What’s Fixed?

• Sticky Header Shrink Conflict – Fixed a conflict where the header height CSS rule interfered with the sticky header shrink effect when used alongside the “Hide When Scrolling Down” option.
• EDD Add to Cart Button Duplication – Resolved an issue causing the Easy Digital Downloads Add to Cart button to appear twice on archive pages.

We recommend updating to Astra v4.12.6 to take advantage of these performance improvements and fixes.

As always, our support team is here to help if you have any questions or need assistance with the update.

Best,
Team Astra

Hello everyone,

This update focuses on improving theme security and resolving an issue affecting course review submissions to ensure a more stable and secure experience.

What’s Fixed?

• LifterLMS Course Review Submission Issue – Fixed an issue where course review submissions were not working due to a nonce mismatch, restoring proper functionality.

Security Update

• Security Hardening Improvements – Strengthened theme security with additional hardening measures to protect against potential vulnerabilities.

We recommend updating to Astra v4.12.5 to benefit from these fixes and security enhancements.

As always, our support team is here to help if you have any questions or need assistance with the update.

Best,
Team Astra

Hello everyone,

This update introduces usability improvements, resolves important Site Builder and WooCommerce issues, and includes security updates to ensure a more stable and secure experience across your websites.

What’s Improved?

• Social Icons “Stack On” Tooltip – Added a helpful tooltip to the Social Icons Stack On control, clarifying that stacking behavior cascades downward from the selected device for better usability and understanding.

What’s Fixed?

• Site Builder Layout Duplication Issue – Fixed an issue where duplicating Site Builder layouts caused page builder data (Elementor, Beaver Builder, WPBakery) and Astra meta settings to be lost.
• WooCommerce Vertical Gallery Slider (Firefox) – Resolved an issue where vertical slider gallery images appeared wider in Firefox compared to Chrome, ensuring consistent cross-browser display.

Security Updates

• DOMPurify Library Update – Updated the DOMPurify library to version 3.3.2 to address sanitization bypass vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-0540).
• Security Hardening Improvements – Strengthened plugin security with additional hardening measures to protect against potential vulnerabilities.

We recommend updating to Astra Pro v4.12.4 to benefit from these improvements, fixes, and security enhancements.

As always, our support team is here to help if you have any questions or need assistance with the update.

Best,
Team Astra

Hello everyone,

This update focuses on resolving compatibility issues and fixing layout inconsistencies to ensure a smoother and more reliable experience across blog layouts, headers, dynamic content, and multilingual websites.

What’s Fixed?

• Featured Image Spacing Issue – Fixed gaps around featured images when Blog Card Content Alignment is enabled, ensuring a consistent blog layout.
• Sticky Header Compatibility with jQuery 4.0 – Resolved an issue where the sticky header was not functioning correctly when other plugins loaded jQuery 4.0.
• Accordion Content Clipping on Product Pages – Fixed an issue where accordion tab content was clipped on initial page load when dynamic content was present on single product pages.
• Polylang Front Page Language Condition Issue – Resolved an issue where translated custom layout hooks appeared across all languages instead of only their assigned language when using the Front Page display condition with Polylang.

We recommend updating to Astra Pro v4.12.3 to benefit from these fixes and improvements

As always, our support team is here to help if you have any questions or need assistance with the update.

Best,
Team Astra

Hello everyone,

This update introduces new customization options in the Astra Dashboard, improves accessibility and UI consistency, and includes important fixes along with a security enhancement to ensure a smoother and more reliable experience across the theme.

What’s New?

• Show Learn Tab Toggle – Added a new “Show Learn Tab” option in Dashboard Settings, allowing users to show or hide the Learn tab from the Astra Dashboard navigation.

What’s Improved?

• WooCommerce Dashboard UI – Refined the WooCommerce section in the Astra Dashboard with an improved layout, clearer hero feature dividers, and better navigation visibility for a more streamlined experience.
• Enhanced Submenu Accessibility – Improved keyboard navigation by automatically closing the previously opened submenu when a new menu item receives focus, resulting in better accessibility and usability.
• Elementor Meta Settings Control – Added a new filter allowing developers to disable Astra meta settings within the Elementor editor when needed.
• SureCart Dark Mode Styling – Ensured all SureCart dark mode styles correctly use the .astra-dark-mode-enable prefix when file generation is enabled, improving styling consistency.

What’s Fixed?

• WooCommerce Quantity Field CSS Conflict – Scoped WooCommerce quantity field styles to prevent conflicts with third-party number fields such as Ninja Forms.
• REST API Meta Registration Issue – Resolved invalid meta key registration for excluded post types during REST API requests.
• Off-Canvas Menu Spacing Issue – Fixed unwanted spacing appearing in the Off-Canvas Menu under certain edge cases.

Security Update

• Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Fix – Addressed a stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability related to post background meta fields. (Props to Wordfence for responsible disclosure.)

We recommend updating to Astra v4.12.4 to benefit from these improvements, fixes, and security enhancements.

As always, our support team is here to help if you have any questions or need assistance with the update.

Best,
Team Astra

Hello everyone,

This hotfix update focuses on resolving a styling issue to ensure a smoother and more consistent experience within the WordPress admin interface.

What’s Fixed?

• WP Admin Bar Search Icon Styling – Resolved an issue where the search icons in the WordPress admin bar were styling showing incorrectly, ensuring proper visual consistency and usability.

We recommend updating to the latest version of Astra v4.12.3 to take advantage of this fix.

As always, our support team is here to help if you have any questions or need assistance with the update.

Best,
Team Astra

Hello Astra Pro Users,

This update introduces performance improvements in file generation along with important fixes to ensure consistent header behavior — helping you build faster, more reliable, and stable websites.

What’s New?

• File Generation Optimization – Implemented a selective caching strategy where only the relevant post/page CSS is refreshed instead of clearing all dynamic CSS files during post updates. This improves performance and reduces unnecessary file regeneration.

What’s Improved?

• Sticky Header Width Issue – Resolved an issue where the sticky header width unexpectedly changed to full width, ensuring consistent layout and design integrity.

We recommend updating to Astra Pro v4.12.2 to take advantage of these performance improvements and stability fixes.

As always, if you have any questions or need assistance, our support team is here to help!

Best,
Team Astra

Hello everyone,

This update focuses on improved accessibility, smoother mobile navigation, and important fixes to ensure a more consistent and user-friendly experience across menus and responsive views.

What’s Improved?

• Menu Dropdown Accessibility – Enhanced menu dropdown behavior by aligning aria-expanded usage with supported ARIA roles, resolving Lighthouse accessibility audit warnings and improving overall navigation accessibility.

What’s Fixed?

• Off-Canvas Search Click Issue on Mobile – Resolved an issue where the search element was not clickable in the off-canvas view on mobile and tablet devices, ensuring smooth and reliable user interaction on smaller screens.

We recommend updating to the latest version of Astra v4.12.2 to take advantage of these accessibility improvements and mobile navigation fixes.

As always, our support team is here to help if you have any questions or need assistance with the update.

Best,
Team Astra

Hello everyone,

This update focuses on improved customization flexibility, better design consistency, and important fixes ensuring a smoother and more polished experience across navigation, forms, WooCommerce, and the Customizer.

What’s Improved?

• Mobile Submenu Icon Customization – Added the astra_mobile_nav_submenu_items_arrow_icon filter, allowing developers to customize the mobile submenu arrow icon to better match their site design.
• Global Color Consistency for Forms – Replaced the static color used for form label and legend elements with a global variable-based color, improving visual consistency and making customization easier.
• WooCommerce Product Collection Styling – Removed extra padding applied to the WooCommerce Product Collection block for cleaner layouts and better alignment.

What’s Fixed?

• Course Enroll Button Hover Layout – Fixed a layout issue affecting the hover state of the “Enroll in this Course”button.
• Menu Padding with Custom Adobe Fonts – Resolved a menu padding glitch that occurred when using the Cambriafont via Custom Adobe Fonts.
• Customizer Reset Button in RTL – Fixed an issue where the Customizer Reset button was not displaying correctly in RTL mode.

We recommend updating to the latest version of Astra to benefit from these improvements and fixes for a more consistent and reliable website-building experience.

As always, our support team is here to help if you have any questions or need assistance with the update.

Best,
Team Astra