What's New with Astra

Improvement:

• Add icon for the LifterLMS My certificates link in My account page. Switch certificate icon with achievements icon.
• Add icon for the LifterLMS Social Learner link.
• Added filter for editor style.
• Increased site header z-index to 99 to fix compatibility with third-party modules.
• Remove post navigation from LifterLMS Assignments single posts (Credits @thomasplevy)
• Add Astra theme fields to LifterLMS builder settings (Credits @thomasplevy)
• Hiding Overflow on Site Content is not needed and has unpredictable consequences (Credits @actual-saurabh)

Fix:

• 403 and 404 errors in customizer in some sites.
• Learndash + LearnDash WooCommerce + Astra errors.
• Mobile menu is displayed for until the page is completely loaded.
• Variations product style issue with Stripe Payment Gateway.
• Don’t override the meta settings when previewing the elementor_template.
• Comments not visible on Pages.
• Comments Form: Correctly align the cookie consent option.
• Improvement in styling for the third-party plugin for variations product.
• 404-page displaying content twice if theme builder is used.
• CSS errors in Opera Mini browser.
• W3 Validator errors for some Customisations.
• Header Layout 2 misalignment on Versions Safari 10 and below when custom menu element is selected.
• LifterLMS: Align Take Quiz and Next lesson buttons.
• LifterLMS profile link in header layout 2 is misaligned.

Fix:

• Duplicate content area when using Elementor Pro’s single page template.
• Search icon in primary menu causing the page to jump when clicked.
• Comments box not visible on the pages.

Fix:

• Custom layout not saving values for “Sticky: Desktop + Mobile”.
• Background color not working for the sticky header.
• Background color not working on blog layouts and blog grid layouts.
• Added a default value for link color for below header section.
• Background param not saving when color is set to empty.
• WP CLI commands to activate the license not working on a fresh site.

New:

• Filter `astra_site_title_tag` to change the HTML tag of the site title.

Improvement:

• Improve RTL support for customizer controls.

Fix:

• Correct template part not being loaded for plugins that change the default WordPress template hierarchy. This fixes compatibility with plugins bbPress, LearnPress, PeepSo Core etc.
• Background param color does not save then value when it is empty.
• Learndash – Added the same icon of the LearnDash course status to the Course Navigation widget.
• Learndash – Use theme color instead of link color for table’s heading, icons, progress bar.

Fix:

• Above header navigation JS error.
• Above header background color not working.

New:

• Added support for LearnDash LMS from Astra Theme.
• Background images options for `Header`, `Above Header`, `Below Header`, `Sidebar`, `Content`.

Fix:

• `Ajax add to cart` not adding products to cart for Composite Products and WooCommerce Booking plugins. Ajax add to cart will be by default disabled on these product types.
• Blog Pro – Excerpt word count of `0` was not working.

New:

• Added support for LearnDash LMS from Astra Theme.
• Introduced option to set the background image for `body`, `Footer Widgets`, `Footer Area`. More background image options added from Astra Pro.

Improvement:

• Merge the footer widget background options into the new background image settings.
• Merge the small footer background options into the new background image settings.
• Improvement in LifterLMS profile & Lesson styling.
• Improvement in LifterLMS Certificate widget styling.

Fix:

• Some of the google fonts missing all the weight options in the customizer options.

Fix:

• Fixes fatal error if using an older version of Elementor on the site.

New:

• Added Elementor pro 2.0 Support. This also fixes the problem some users were facing related to unusual margins below header when trying out Elementor Pro 2.0 Beta versions. Read the blog post here.
• Introduced new actions and filters for Blog Archive / Single Post template.

Improvement:

• Modify the read more tag style which added from content editor.

Fixed:

• Few of the Google fonts were not rendered correctly.
• Product search widget button text having more padding and causing the text to fall on two lines.
• WooCommerce composite products plugin conflict on Single Product Page.
• Footer current year does not render correctly for a few languages.