What's New with Astra

Improvement:

• Header Footer Builder – Added new social profile “TikTok”.
• Improved title area customizer control UI for better user experience.
• Rearranged SureCart dynamic CPT sections on top level in the customizer.
• Refactor duplication blocks of code found in navigation JS file.
• Added a new filter ‘astra_font_line_height_unit’ to adjust the unit for line height. ( https://ast.bsf.io/docs/how-to-fix-the-line-height-unit-being-converted-to-em/ )
• Added a new filter ‘astra_show_banner_video’ to display/hide admin page banner YouTube video. ( https://ast.bsf.io/docs/enable-disable-youtube-videos-from-astra-admin-dashboard/ )
• Added font-size support till 200px in customizer typography options.

Fix:

• Header Builder – Menu – Item Divider doesn’t work on the last submenu item.
• Author Link not working on layout 2 for single post title.
• WooCommerce – Sticky Header feature is overwritten by the Checkout dropdown fields.
• Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Unsupported operand types: On frontend and customizer.
• Applied bottom spacing creates big gap with paragraphs from list block in entry-content.
• WooCommerce – Quantity not updating properly when ajax add to cart is used on shop page.
• Related Posts – Read more CTA having “http://” prefix with target attribute.
• WooCommerce – Slide-in cart automatically trigger while saving changes in Elementor editor.
• Incompatibility with latest PHP v8.x versions.
• Post title & Featured image is not visible while editing in Elementor with banner layout 2.
• The Sticky Add to cart feature not working in the RTL version of the website.
• Secondary menu SVG alignment on tablet/mobile including RTL version.
• Single product payment icons misalignment on Safari browsers (Mac and iOS).
• Blog – Read time option visible with free theme but not working.

New:

• WooCommerce – Added Sale badge color change option for shop card modern design.

Improvement:

• Updated the license deactivation setting notification icon from admin panel.
• Loaded WP admin-bar related compatibility css only if user is logged in.
• Added a new filter ‘astra_font_line_height_unit’ to adjust the unit for line height. ( https://ast.bsf.io/docs/how-to-fix-the-line-height-unit-being-converted-to-em/ )
• Custom Layout – Improvised layout editor icons with better UI.
• Added font-size support till 200px in customizer typography options.

Fix:

• WooCommerce – Column setting not working on single product page for display recently viewed products.
• Mega menu icon styling is not applying on tablet/mobile.
• WooCommerce – Console error on checkout order review page.
• WooCommerce – Checkout Order Review Page Does not Appear for Mobile/Tablet when the Modern Checkout is enabled.
• Custom Layout – Edit layout Screen does not work with Beaver Builder when classic editor is active.
• Custom Layout – Embed video block not working on front end.
• Nav Menu – Mega menu not working with RTL language setup on the frontend.
• License activation link not working on admin Custom Layout & Page Headers page.
• Console warning regarding the incorrect use of element and improved compatibility with accessibility tools.
• WooCommerce – Fatal Error on Modern Checkout Page after Adding New Field with YITH WooCommerce Checkout Manager Plugin.

Fix:

• Offcanvas Menu – Transparent empty canvas visible on expanding offcanvas toggle button.
• Custom Layouts – Block editor core blocks custom spacing incorrectly applies to custom layout blocks in editor.

Improvement:

• Nav menu – Optimized number of database call to fetch megamenu item details.

Fix:

• WooCommerce – Console error from horizontal slider & vertical slider product gallery.
• LearnDash – “Enable Distraction Free Learning” option missing from the customizer General settings.
• Custom Layout – PHP code snippet with function calls throws PHP error “can not redeclare the function”.
• Single Post: Apply Custom Sizes option missing from Customizer > Blog > Single Post section.
• Single Post: Custom featured image size is not working with dynamic post banner area.
• Spectra block dynamic styles missing on auto loaded previous posts.
• WooCommerce – Enabling filter with flyout produce eventlistner error on console.
• Sidebar title font is not working for product page.
• Fixed lost password link for multilingual sites by using wp_lostpassword_url() function.
• Header Search – Placeholder text appears twice in full screen search & header cover search style.

New:

• Introducing new “Disable Banner Area” metabox based option to control visibility of title banner area. ( https://ast.bsf.io/docs/introducing-the-new-disable-banner-area-meta-based-option/ )
• Introducing new filter “astra_rank_math_theme_support” to enable/disable rank-math theme support. ( https://ast.bsf.io/docs/introducing-new-filter-to-enable-disable-rank-math-theme-support/ )
• Introducing new color and gradient overlay settings for background type image customizer options.

Improvement:

• Theme package size has been optimized from 9MB to under 6MB.
• Added WPML translation support for Pro Custom Layout’s Layout, Display-Exclusion rules, Users rule options.
• Introduced filter ‘astra_header_profile_gmpg_link’ to remove gmpg link from webpage for GDPR.

Fix:

• Spectra’s Tab anchor links jerks when “Smooth Scroll to ID” option enabled from customizer.
• WooCommerce – Cart – Realtime quantity updater not working on change of input box when Mix Match plugin is activated.
• Breadcrumb content text-decoration style not working for active menu link.
• WooCommerce – Cart – PHP error “can not redeclare astra_cart_position function”.
• Header Builder – Off-canvas – Getting white flash jerk when closing offcanvas toggle menu.
• WooCommerce – Pagination does not work for WooCommerce Categories without Subcategories if displaying subcategories on products.
• Double border-top applied for footer in customizer preview.

Fix:

• Header Builder – Site Logo becomes too small for the sticky header.
• Custom Layout – Code editor strips out the code while saving and not working properly on frontend too.
• Search – Inline search box misaligned with respect it’s search icon position.

Fix:

• Container – Content Boxed layout removes Spectra column or container left padding.
• Offcanvas – Due to clickable hidden area toggle buttons don’t work in RTL mode.
• Header Builder – Cart – On adding product to cart, quantity plus & minus buttons gets disappear.
• Topic tags div visible multiple times and goes into infinite loop in case of BBPress.
• Offcanvas – Builder component popup overlaps on customizer controls section.
• WooCommerce – Widget’s dropdown arrow is moving to top corner.
• Header Builder – Cart – Slide cart goes blank when Elementor Pro is active with latest version.
• get_the_excerpt() callback breaks the functionality of external plugins like BuddyPress Registration, Five Star Restaurant Reservations, Formidable Form.

Fix:

• WooCommerce & WordPress marketplace users getting subscription notification when plugin purchased from Brainstorm Force store.

Fix:

• Post content shrinks on one side for the blog archive.
• Menu – CSS menu arrow icons are coming along with SVG icons.
• Menu – Submenu arrows are hidden in case of SVG icons are disabled.

Fix:

• Backward managing cron run into infinite loop which exhausted CPU usage on server.
• PHP notice “Uncaught error array_map() requires 2nd parameter as array” while saving code editor from Custom Layout.
• PHP error “Uncaught Error: Call to a member function is_type() on string” for WooCommerce product.
• PHP error “Uncaught Error: class Astra_Notices not found” in some cases.