What's New with Astra

Fix:

• WordPress 5.4 compatibility with Gutenberg Editor.
• Mega Menu settings button appearing twice on menu page with WordPress 5.4.

Fix:

• Lightning icon not appearing on Astra options page.
• Breadcrumb separator appearing as HTML entity for new users.

Improvement:

• Compatibility with Elementor Theme Style.
• Theme Button options dependency on Elementor global color/font settings.
• Deprecated ast-spacing param.
• Customizer – changed ‘Learn More’ button to secondary button from primary button for UX.
• Added new Edit Shortcuts in the Customizer Preview.

Fix:

• Elementor Theme Style button color conflict with customizer global button color.
• Theme check warnings and recommendations.
• Conflict with Fast Velocity Minify plugin.
• Unable to copy paste or type RGBA color code in color picker.
• Updated Iris library for Color Picker param.
• Lifter LMS certificate CSS issue with Boxed and Content Boxed layout.

Improvement:

• Added compatibility of ‘Display on Mobile’ option with all ‘Section’ options with Above and Below Header.
• Added support for file generation option to work in individual sites on multisite setup.

Fix:

• Student Gravatar customizer option missing in Learndash 3.0 template.
• Updated Iris library for Color Picker.
• Undefined url and path PHP notice in some cases.
• PHP warnings for undefined notice in Spacing Addon.
• Transparent header jittery issue with animation on mobile.
• Footer widget line height round off issue.
• Line height round off issue in WooCommerce product title on single product and product archive page.

Fix:

• Updated links for Starter Templates plugin.

Fix:

• Theme minimum version notice appearing in some cases even after theme is updated.

Fix:

• Astra Addon minimum version notice appearing in some cases even after Astra Addon is updated.

Fix:

• Custom Layouts built with Thrive and Divi not working.

New:

• Options for Header Button – Open link in New Tab, add rel attribute. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/new-button-options-in-astra-theme/ )

Improvement:

• Hardened the security of theme.
• Compatibility with latest WordPress PHP_CodeSniffer rules.
• Filter to remove featured image link on blog page. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/remove-featured-image-link-on-blog-page/ )
• Added Fallback for database migration for some edge cases and when CRON is disabled.

Fix:

• Protect theme button padding to be overridden by default values during update.
• Breadcrumb customizer doc link fix. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/add-breadcrumbs-with-astra/ )
• W3C HTML validation header button ( Replaced button tag with div tag ).
• Archive Description <p> tag missing – conflict with SEOPress.
• Duplicate search with sticky header.
• Breadcrumb compatibility with Yoast Seo 12.8.1. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/add-breadcrumbs-with-astra/#support-for-third-party-plugins )
• Comment and Search Button form compatibility with v2.2.0 button options. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/typography-module/#button )