What's New with Astra

New:

• Custom Layout – Introducing Custom Template feature.

  Earlier, using Custom Layout you were able to create a header, footer, search, and 404 page but now with the Custom Template feature extend this limit to creating single as well as archive templates.

• Introduced option to change Header logo color while sticky.

Improvement:

• Accessibility improvements for WooCommerce Pages.
• WooCommerce – HPOS Compatibility.
• WooCommerce – New Product Editor Compatibility.
• Introducing new admin notice for incompatibility of the theme.

Fix:

• Custom Layout – Spectra’s dynamic CSS-JS assets loading even though the layout is disabled from the edit list.
• Custom Layout – Layout hooked at ‘After Single Product Summary’ overlaps on the single product image and summary box.
• Custom Layout – FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING deprecated notice.
• WooCommerce – Elementor Pro’s Mini Cart Widget Conflicts With Astra Mini Cart Widget.
• Header Builder – Menu – Parsing duplicate ID error for ‘primary-site-navigation’ and ‘ast-hf-menu-x’.
• Header Builder – Account Login Popup’s UI breaking when Sticky Header is active with Hide on Scroll option.
• Header-Footer Builder – Divider elements missing from the settings when old astra-settings getting imported.
• File Generation – PHP warning while accessing cache files on some servers.
• Compatibility with WooCommerce Min/Max Quantities plugin.
• Compatibility with YITH Composite Products for Single Product Real Time Add to Cart.

New:

• Header-Footer Builder – Social – Enable Brand Color option on hover.

Improvement:

• Introducing new admin notice for incompatibility of Astra Pro.
• WooCommerce – Mini Cart – Cart price details do not update on the “Enter” keypress.

Fix:

• Header Builder – Menu – Parsing duplicate ID error for ‘primary-site-navigation’ and ‘ast-hf-menu-x’.
• Header Builder – Normal header and transparent header height issue. Introduced new filter: ‘astra_site_svg_logo_equal_height’ to enable or disable this fix.
• Header Builder – Menu – On desktop toggle submenu click it goes in an infinite scroll loop when Elementor is active.
• Footer Builder – The widget section gets 3.5em bottom spacing which affects frontend UI.
• FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING deprecated notice coming while saving post meta.
• Horizontal line is not inheriting the global text colors when Elementor is active.
• bbPress widget items loading in an infinite loop while rendering banner layout.
• Desktop and mobile header visible together at tablet_breakpoint (921px default) on scaled screen resolutions.
• WooCommerce – Sticky add to cart scroll is not working properly for mobile & tablet.
• WooCommerce – Swap Images feature shows the uncropped image.
• WooCommerce – Subpages of My Account dashboard menu do not update the page title according to the set menu.
• WooCommerce – Elementor Pro’s Mini Cart widget conflicts with the Astra Mini Cart builder element.
• WooCommerce – Left margin from the “Add to cart” button when Sold Individually option is selected.
• WooCommerce – Shop Archive page Product Category Background color issue.
• WooCommerce – PHP fatal error when ‘astra_enable_woocommerce_integration’ filter is used to disable Astra and WooCommerce extended integration. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/remove-astra-customization-for-woocommerce/ )
• WooCommerce – Single Product – alt tag absent while rendering images for the WooCommerce payments.
• WooCommerce – Cart button color setting is not working when a product is added to the cart.
• WooCommerce – Default customizer layout setting not applied correctly for Single Product.
• Customizer – Gradient picker breaking from responsive background control in WordPress 6.3.
• Customizer – UI design tweak for the widget block editor.
• Customizer – Widget Editor – Unable to scroll down to add blocks in the widget when header/footer builder area is active.
• Block – Calendar widget block appearing with accent background color due to which date is not readable.
• Block – List block widget showing list style type none instead of disc.
• Block editor – Quote block text color does not match the set from the customizer.
• Block editor – Group container inner blocks option is not disabled in the editor.
• Block Editor – Query Loop Block – Tag ‘article’ inside ‘article’ getting extra spacing with Boxed layout.
• Block Editor – Title visibility eye meta option not appearing in Firefox browser.
• Appearing sub arrows under themes.php page for admin pages of other BSF plugins like Sidebar Manager, Adobe Typekit Fonts etc.
• Default layout should be Fullwidth (formerly Full-width Stretched) when creating a new Elementor Page.

New:

• Introduced new site logo color option.

  We are pleased to announce that we are introducing new color option for your site logo under Header Builder – Site Identity – Design. Similarly you can also update the Header Logo color for Transparent header.

Improvement:

• Header Footer Builder – Added new social profile “Threads”.
• Values in customizer spacing controls should be unlinked if provided values are different.
• Guillemet symbol “>>” from “Post Comment” removed for better UI.
• New dashboard CTA banner for Starter Template installation.
• Synced comments-area border color with customizer border color setting.
• Accessibility improvements for WooCommerce pages.

Fix:

• “Post Comment” button & Search button does not inherit customizer global button stylings.
• On home page & front page there is h1 tag assigned for site title.
• Footer Builder – Menu – Zero ‘0’ value not accepting in Menu Space.
• Customizer – Typography font variation select dropdown gets cropped in font settings.
• Related Posts – Meta’s author link is incorrect for other than admin created posts.
• Customizer – Typography – Font weight select dropdown gets blank after selecting font-family & font-weight “inherit”.
• Spectra – Table of Content’s anchor links jerks when “Smooth Scroll to ID” option enabled from customizer.
• Blog: Pagination – Next Page and Previous Page pagination links jumps on mobile view on focus.
• Editor – Theme preview starter-content button not aligned properly in the editor.
• WooCommerce – Widget title size and color issue on all WooCommerce pages.
• Block editor – Applying font-extras customizer settings to paragraph block (Line-height, Text Transform, Text Decoration, Letter Spacing).
• Spectra Compatibility – Customizer spacing options overriding Spectra’s block spacing.
• Customizer – Gradient picker shrink in size under color-group background controls.
• WooCommerce – Slide in cart action for Add to Cart button does not work.

Fix:

• PHP error while parsing container layout dynamic CSS under PHP-7.2 version.
• Block editor – Undefined JS error while accessing post title visibility meta.

New:

• Introducing Revamped Container Layout Options: ‘Normal’, ‘Narrow’, ‘Fullwidth’. (Learn More)

  Earlier, we offered five different layouts, namely: Fullwidth Contained, Fullwidth Stretched, Boxed Layout, Content Boxed, and Narrow Layout.

  Now, with the latest release, we have simplified them to only three: Normal, Narrow, and Fullwidth Layouts. The new layouts are intuitive to use, avoid complexity, and provide users with more clarity while managing the Container Layouts.

• Introducing new Container Style Options: ‘Boxed’, ‘Unboxed’. (Learn More )

  We have a brand new option called the Container Style, which will provide the users the ability to customize the look and feel of the containers.

  It comes in two modes: Boxed and Unboxed. The Boxed Option applies a “Boxed” background and boundary to the container, whereas, on the contrary, the Unboxed Option provides a clean “Unboxed” look without any background or boundaries.

  The Container Style is fully flexible and can be combined with the layouts and the Sidebar Style Option.

• Introducing new Sidebar Style Options: ‘Boxed’, ‘Unboxed’. (Learn More)

  We also have another new option called the Sidebar Style. It provides the users the capability to customize the look and feel of the sidebar.

  It too comes in two modes: Boxed and Unboxed.

  The Boxed Option applies a “Boxed” background and boundary to the sidebar, whereas, on the contrary, the Unboxed Option provides a clean “Unboxed” look without any background or boundaries.

  The Sidebar Style is fully flexible and can be combined with the layouts and the Container Style Option. Unboxed:

Fix:

• Title enable/disable option not appearing in block editor in few edge cases with WordPress-6.3.

Fix:

• Title enable/disable option missing in block editor with WordPress-6.3.
• Content layouts not working realtime in block editor with WordPress-6.3.

Improvement:

• Compatibility with WordPress-6.3.

Improvement:

• Compatibility with WordPress-6.3.

New:

• Introducing Revamped Container Layout Options: ‘Normal’, ‘Narrow’, ‘Fullwidth’. (Learn More)

  Earlier, we offered five different layouts, namely: Fullwidth Contained, Fullwidth Stretched, Boxed Layout, Content Boxed, and Narrow Layout.

  Now, with the latest release, we have simplified them to only three: Normal, Narrow, and Fullwidth Layouts. The new layouts are intuitive to use, avoid complexity, and provide users with more clarity while managing the Container Layouts.

• Introducing new Container Style Options: ‘Boxed’, ‘Unboxed’. (Learn More )

  We have a brand new option called the Container Style, which will provide the users the ability to customize the look and feel of the containers.

  It comes in two modes: Boxed and Unboxed. The Boxed Option applies a “Boxed” background and boundary to the container, whereas, on the contrary, the Unboxed Option provides a clean “Unboxed” look without any background or boundaries.

  The Container Style is fully flexible and can be combined with the layouts and the Sidebar Style Option.

• Introducing new Sidebar Style Options: ‘Boxed’, ‘Unboxed’. (Learn More)

  We also have another new option called the Sidebar Style. It provides the users the capability to customize the look and feel of the sidebar.

  It too comes in two modes: Boxed and Unboxed.

  The Boxed Option applies a “Boxed” background and boundary to the sidebar, whereas, on the contrary, the Unboxed Option provides a clean “Unboxed” look without any background or boundaries.

  The Sidebar Style is fully flexible and can be combined with the layouts and the Container Style Option. Unboxed:

Improvement:

• Migrating container & sidebar layouts to new revamped settings for better user experience. (Learn More)

  After updating to the newly released Beta Version, Astra will automatically update the existing container layouts and migrate to the new options based on your existing site’s customizations. Please also note that going forward, we have provided backward compatibility for the sidebar with the Fullwidth Layout. Meaning, for the existing users upgrading to the latest version, the sidebar will remain intact with the Full-Width (Earlier called Full-Width Stretch) Layout but will not be supported anymore for the new users of Astra.