What's New with Astra

Improvement:

• Add Astra Pro fields in the LifterLMS Course builder.
• Quick View gallery now support image variation images.
• Headers created using custom layouts work correctly with transparent headers.
• Target Rule now allows targeting WooCommerce shop page.
• Target Rule now allows targeting all the posts inside a taxonomy/term.
• Added newly introduced actions in Custom Layouts addon.
• Updated logic for Ajax add to cart to add better support for third-party WooCommercce plugins.
• Set default background color for page headers with 0.5 so that the background image is visible by default.
• Custom Layouts addon now supports Divi Builder.
• Change read time string to be grammatically correct.

Fix:

• Page Headers not displayed correctly when in the customizer.
• Ajax add-to-cart not displaying variation names in some cases.
• Custom Layouts + Thrive Page builder fixes.
• When WooCommerce cart is used in header layout 2. The menu is misaligned on safari 10
• Sticky header is not working as expected with the padded layout.
• Quick View popup adds space for the header, above-header.
• Enable cursor for the Quick View background.

Improvement:

• Add icon for the LifterLMS My certificates link in My account page. Switch certificate icon with achievements icon.
• Add icon for the LifterLMS Social Learner link.
• Added filter for editor style.
• Increased site header z-index to 99 to fix compatibility with third-party modules.
• Remove post navigation from LifterLMS Assignments single posts (Credits @thomasplevy)
• Add Astra theme fields to LifterLMS builder settings (Credits @thomasplevy)
• Hiding Overflow on Site Content is not needed and has unpredictable consequences (Credits @actual-saurabh)

Fix:

• 403 and 404 errors in customizer in some sites.
• Learndash + LearnDash WooCommerce + Astra errors.
• Mobile menu is displayed for until the page is completely loaded.
• Variations product style issue with Stripe Payment Gateway.
• Don’t override the meta settings when previewing the elementor_template.
• Comments not visible on Pages.
• Comments Form: Correctly align the cookie consent option.
• Improvement in styling for the third-party plugin for variations product.
• 404-page displaying content twice if theme builder is used.
• CSS errors in Opera Mini browser.
• W3 Validator errors for some Customisations.
• Header Layout 2 misalignment on Versions Safari 10 and below when custom menu element is selected.
• LifterLMS: Align Take Quiz and Next lesson buttons.
• LifterLMS profile link in header layout 2 is misaligned.

Fix:

• Duplicate content area when using Elementor Pro’s single page template.
• Search icon in primary menu causing the page to jump when clicked.
• Comments box not visible on the pages.

Fix:

• Custom layout not saving values for “Sticky: Desktop + Mobile”.
• Background color not working for the sticky header.
• Background color not working on blog layouts and blog grid layouts.
• Added a default value for link color for below header section.
• Background param not saving when color is set to empty.
• WP CLI commands to activate the license not working on a fresh site.

New:

• Filter `astra_site_title_tag` to change the HTML tag of the site title.

Improvement:

• Improve RTL support for customizer controls.

Fix:

• Correct template part not being loaded for plugins that change the default WordPress template hierarchy. This fixes compatibility with plugins bbPress, LearnPress, PeepSo Core etc.
• Background param color does not save then value when it is empty.
• Learndash – Added the same icon of the LearnDash course status to the Course Navigation widget.
• Learndash – Use theme color instead of link color for table’s heading, icons, progress bar.

Fix:

• Above header navigation JS error.
• Above header background color not working.

New:

• Added support for LearnDash LMS from Astra Theme.
• Background images options for `Header`, `Above Header`, `Below Header`, `Sidebar`, `Content`.

Fix:

• `Ajax add to cart` not adding products to cart for Composite Products and WooCommerce Booking plugins. Ajax add to cart will be by default disabled on these product types.
• Blog Pro – Excerpt word count of `0` was not working.

New:

• Added support for LearnDash LMS from Astra Theme.
• Introduced option to set the background image for `body`, `Footer Widgets`, `Footer Area`. More background image options added from Astra Pro.

Improvement:

• Merge the footer widget background options into the new background image settings.
• Merge the small footer background options into the new background image settings.
• Improvement in LifterLMS profile & Lesson styling.
• Improvement in LifterLMS Certificate widget styling.

Fix:

• Some of the google fonts missing all the weight options in the customizer options.

Fix:

• Fixes fatal error if using an older version of Elementor on the site.