What's New with Astra

We’ve added non-adaptive mode option in the template library. Now, if you don’t want to inherit the styles from theme, you can enable the ‘Non-Adaptive Mode’.

What is Adaptive Mode and Non-Adaptive Mode?

Our templates are designed to seamlessly integrate with your website. They adjust to match your website’s existing design elements.

For example, on your website, the H1 tag might have specific properties like:

– Font size: 30 pixels
– Color: blue
– Line height: 1.6 em

These properties are usually determined by your website’s theme.

If you are using the Astra theme, you can customize these properties through the customizer, as explained in this guide: https://wpastra.com/docs/typography-free/

When you import a template from our library, it automatically inherits these values from your theme. This feature ensures that your website maintains a consistent and branded appearance.

In the future, if you wish to make changes to colors or sizes, you only need to adjust your theme settings. These changes will be reflected throughout your website. Our templates are deliberately designed to adapt to your website by utilizing the values from your theme.

By default, all templates in our library are displayed in adaptive mode. This means that you get a preview of how a particular template will appear on your website once imported.

However, there may be instances where the preview doesn’t align well with your website’s existing design, especially if your theme settings differ significantly. In such cases, you might prefer to view the original design of those templates.

This is where the non-adaptive mode comes into play.

When you activate non-adaptive mode, the template previews will be displayed with typical, standard values. This allows you to see how the templates are designed to look under standard conditions, helping you better understand their original design.

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New

• Introduced Non-adaptive mode option in Template Kit library.

Improvement

• Added default line-height to heading tag in Template Kit library for a better preview of patterns and pages.

Experience enhanced flexibility with ‘vw’ unit support in customizer typography settings. Plus, enjoy greater customization with the addition of a new filter, ‘astra_fullscreen_modal_heading_tag,’ empowering you to adjust the Full-Screen search style’s heading tag according to your preferences.

• Introducing new “vw” unit support for font-sizes in customizer typography settings.

Improvements:

• Added a new filter ‘astra_fullscreen_modal_heading_tag’ to change the Full-Screen search style heading tag.

More Fixes:

• WooCommerce – Checkout – In modern checkout place order button missing a thousand separators.
• Fatal error ‘Attempt to read property taxonomy & name’ from addon cache files in some rare cases.
• Site Builder – Single templates get shrink due to flex-based CSS on the ast-container wrapper.
• WooCommerce – Product Catalog – Quick View Background option not working with Boxed layout.
• Site Builder – Custom layout appearing on the frontend if any hook action is set but the layout is not of ‘hooks’ type.

Discover enhanced compatibility with WooCommerce 8.4 and the capability of import-export individual header-footer site layout by the ‘Astra Import Export‘ plugin for a seamless experience. On top of that, now support ‘vw’ unit for font-size in typography settings. Plus, improved accessibility and padding updates for secondary button styles!

• Compatibility to Import Export header-footer builder customizer layouts with the “Astra Import Export” plugin.
• Introducing new “vw” unit support for font-sizes in customizer typography settings.

Improvements:

• Compatibility with WooCommerce 8.4.
• Improved accessibility by adding aria-label and title attributes to the shopping cart link.
• Secondary Button Styles – Padding default values updated for Page Builder button’s support.

More Fixes:

• Preventing duplication of multiple keys in the Block Editor’s post-update request by setting values for the ‘astra-migrate-meta-layouts’ meta key.
• Secondary Button Styles – Background color option does not apply background color to outline button as expected.
• Site Builder – Toggle Block Inserter redirects to Site Builder when Full-screen mode in Editor is disabled.
• Header Builder – After resizing the GIF stops working on the frontend as a site logo.
• Submenu animation not working while navigating site using tab key.
• Broken UI fix for YouTube block with BorLabs cookie plugin.
• Kadence Tabs Block scrolling issue with Astra’s smooth scroll to ID option.
• WooCommerce – Inside dropdown cart buttons are not aligned properly on WooCommerce pages.
• WooCommerce – Shop card structure gets broken if the Add To Cart button is kept just below the title.
• Input fields border focus did not consistently inherit the correct styling in certain scenarios.
• WooCommerce – PHP fatal error ‘Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get_cart_contents_total() on null’ when cart element is added in the header and “Hide Cart Total Label” option is enabled.
• PHP deprecated notices with PHP 8.0 and above when activating the theme.

Along with the conventional templates, Starter Templates now includes AI-driven building, powered by ZipWP. It will require connecting the user to their ZipWP account and providing their business details, after which it will generate content + images for patterns and pages based on the specified business details.

People get dummy content and images with conventional templates, but with AI, they get business-specific content and relevant images generated by the AI. Building a website will be more than 10 times faster.

New

• All new AI based Template Kit library.

Fix

• Revert to Template Kit library v1.3.3

New

• All new AI based Template Kit library.

Improvement

• Update Essential and Business Toolkits instead of Essential and Business Toolkits.

Fix

• Fixed an issue where the WooCommerce description & short description are not displayed.
• Removed the alert box that pops up when a user tries to leave the page after import process is done.

Enhancing WooCommerce integration, Astra ensures a smoother checkout experience while resolving issues like hidden form labels. The update also tackles visibility glitches, CLI errors, and menu heading color issues, promising a refined and stable site navigation.

• WooCommerce – Declared HPOS Compatibility across the plugin to avoid incompatibility notice when WooCommerce Addon Module is disabled.

More Fixes:

• WooCommerce – Checkout – Form labels get hidden for Stripe payment method.
• Mega Menu – Mega menu heading color option is not working on frontend.
• Blog Filter – Banner visibility glitch with ‘Post Filter’ and ‘Banner Layout 2’.
• PHP Fatal error ‘Uncaught TypeError: call_user_func()’ while running WP CLI commands.
• Submenu border width of old header footer builder causing site crashing issue.

Unlocking the power of WooCommerce 8.3 compatibility, Astra brings a seamless shopping experience. This bug-fixing update ensures your site is at its best!

• Compatibility with WooCommerce 8.3.
• Introducing a new filter ‘astra_embed_wrapper_class’ to add a class to the iframe wrapper for embed blocks.

More Fixes:

• Function parameter value was wrong in ‘responsive_oembed_wrapper’ callback while processing embed blocks iframe. (Props: https://github.com/IngoWinter)
• Embed block (Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify) does not appear on the frontend.
• Customizer – Avoid premature closing of Gradient Color Picker.
• WooCommerce – Container related meta are settings not working on Cart & Checkout Page.
• Submenu border width of old header footer builder causing site crashing issue.

Improvement

• Added a filter to remove the page builder selection screen and automatically select the Block Editor.
• Ability to remove Elementor as a Page Builder from the selection list.

Fix

• Prevented CartFlows plugin redirection when import is in progress.
• Handled usage of deprecated function get_page_by_title.

Introducing Site Builder (formerly known as Custom Layout)

We’re excited to share that Custom Layout is evolving into Site Builder, reflecting our commitment to enhancing your website creation experience.

• Introducing Site Builder: Big news! Say hello to Site Builder, the rebranded and upgraded version of our beloved Custom Layout feature. Dive into a revamped, user-friendly interface tailored to empower your website creation process.
• WooCommerce – Product Catalog – Quick View Background option: Introducing the Quick View Background color option in WooCommerce’s Product Catalog. Customize your product displays effortlessly in any background.

Improvements:

• Custom Layout & Page Header metadata saving code improvements.
• Updated the select2 library to 4.0.13 to harden the security.

More Fixes:

• Mega Menu – Links should not be crawlable when ‘Disable Link’ option is set.
• Date-Box – Date Box stick at the corner of a post instead of the featured image which breaks blog UI.
• Mega Menu – Mega menu heading normal and hover color is not working.
• Top Border color & width not applied when mega menu width set to full width/full width stretched.