What's New with Astra

New:

• Blog Pro addon – This module adds more options in the customizer for the blog layouts.
• Site Layouts addon – Adds Box, Fluid, Padded layouts to add more design possibilities to your websites.

New

• Added a button to regenerate the cache generated by Astra Pro.
• Custom Layouts – Allow footers to be made sticky.

Enhancement

• Header Sections – Header Sections menu support added if a primary menu is disabled for responsive devices.
• Page Headers – Custom Primary Menu option is available whether Merge Page Header with Site Header is selected or not.

Improvement

• Page Headers – Transparent Header renamed to Merge Page Header with Site Header.

Fixed

• Header Sections – If the primary menu is hidden the below header menu was also hidden.
• Transparent Header – Logo width not applied to the customizer preview.
• Sticky Header – Sticky Header opacity not working when header’s background color with opacity applied.
• Page Headers – Logo width option was not working.

Fix:

• Regression in v1.0.29 which caused site logo to be full width if using an SVG image.

New:

• Added new filters `astra_post_read_more` and `astra_post_read_more_class` to change the custom text and custom class to the read more text for blog posts

 Fix:

• Site SVG logo only visible if site title is enabled in some cases.

Fix:

• Set correct page meta settings on themer layouts if they are empty.

Enhancement:

• Astra meta box support added to BB Themer for single, 404 and archive page.

Improvement:

• Renamed filter `astra_sigle_post_navigation_enabled` to `astra_single_post_navigation_enabled`. The older filter will keep working but it is recommended to change to the new filter.

Fix:

• Two primary menu navigation drop-down icon visible for responsive devices.
• Remove empty div for responsive devices if primary menu and custom menu item is disabled

Fixed:

• Duplicate menu drop-down toggle appearing on mobile devices

Improvement:

•  Updated the theme screenshot and correct license details for the screenshot.

Fixed:

• Astra’s menu CSS being applied to the Elementor’s menu when used as a replacement in the header.

New

• Transparent Header Addon
• Now design Header & Footer directly from Custom Layouts Addon (Formerly Advanced Hooks Addon)

Improvement

• Improvement: Renamed Advanced Headers Addon to Page Headers.
• Improvement: Renamed Advanced Hooks Addon Custom Layouts.
• Improvement: Custom Layouts – Automatically enabled Beaver Builder and Elementor.
• Improvement: Header Sections – Background Color picker with opacity option added in the Customizer.

Fixed

• Page Headers – Allow Template to be overridden from the child theme.
• Page Headers – Page content text overlap on page headers.
• Sticky Header – Fade animation effect is not applied to top bar.
• Typography – Font Family for Headings was inherited from the body, now it will be correctly inherited from Heading Font Family.
• White Label – Theme’s welcome page, site footer’s author name, author URI missing from the white label.
• Removed category word on custom post-types category archive in page headers.