What's New with Astra

Fix:

• PHP error “Uncaught Error: Access to undeclared static property” for clonned header builder button’s padding.

Fix:

• Single Post – Related Post Title Font Size is not working for responsive devices.
• PHP notice “Warning: Array to string conversion” while parsing button styling CSS.

New:

• Accessibility options to change color and style of highlighted element. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/accessibility-controls/ )
• WooCommerce – Shop – Introducing new redirect actions on add to cart click. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/introducing-new-add-to-cart-trigger-actions-for-shop-and-single-product-pages/ )
• WooCommerce – Sortable support for payment options on single product page.
• Published, last-updated date support for post meta date field.
• Date format option for post meta date field.
• Introduced new filter ‘astra_custom_logo_attributes’ to add attributes into custom logo.

Improvement:

• Hardened the security.
• Compatibility with WordPress-6.2.
• Starter Templates admin menu nav-link removed when Whitelabel is enabled.
• Improved accessibility for header menu navigation.

Fix:

• Customizer – Typography and Button Preset options selected preset not highlighting and reset button not functioning.
• Author Info box is visible multiple times and goes into infinite loop in case of BBPress.
• W3 validation – Builder – Menu – Duplicate IDs for responsive devices.
• Block editor – Image breaking outside the entry container when left/right aligned.
• WooCommerce – Real Time Quantity Updater not working in case of shortcode used.
• WooCommerce – CSS overriding Global H2 tag font size WooCommerce pages.
• Customizer – Global buttons text and background hover color not working in customizer preview.
• Customizer – Global outline button styling not reflecting in block editor for some cases.
• Footer builder – Widgets dynamic CSS gets added multiple times on the frontend.
• WooCommerce – Error, info content messages UI breaking on the frontend.
• Builder – Off-canvas menu – Dropdown menu arrow icon is misplaced in case of toggle for desktop.
• Spectra Compatibility – Spectra spacing options for applying custom margin and padding not working.
• Content background color does not apply to Author Box in customizer preview.
• Cost Calculator Builder – compatibility range slider.
• Disable the title from Elementor setting is not working as expected.
• Footer menu alignment issue for responsive devices.
• Inside container spacing for single posts affecting the related posts section.
• PHP error ‘Uncaught TypeError: ltrim()’ for getting taxonomy term link.
• Single post title transformed to capitalize with 4.0 update.
• WooCommerce – Console throwing an event listener error when a product has only 1 item in stock.
• Customizer – Typography and Button Preset options selected preset not highlighting and reset button not functioning.
• WooCommerce – Buttons does not inherit global button styling from the theme customizer. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/global-button-styling-now-supports-woocommerce-store-buttons/ )

New:

• Single Post – Social Sharing feature. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/social-sharing/ )
• WooCommerce – Introducing new add to cart trigger actions for shop and single product pages. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/introducing-new-add-to-cart-trigger-actions-for-shop-and-single-product-pages/ )
• Header Builder – Cart – Showcase featured products in the cart instead of showing it empty when no products added into it. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/showcase-featured-products-in-the-cart-instead-of-showing-it-empty-when-no-products-are-added/ )
• Header Builder – Sticky header – Blur background options for above, primary and below header. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/sticky-header-blur-background/ )
• WooCommerce – Added option to change strings for WooCommerce special pages like shop, cart, checkout, my-account.

Improvement:

• Hardened the security.
• Compatibility with PHP-8.1.
• Compatibility with WordPress-6.2.
• Single Post – Moved author info box before post navigation.
• Accessibility for header mega menu navigation.
• Button – Slider input field for sticky header’s border-radius control changed to spacing control to manage all direction sizes easily.
• Custom Layout – Provided actions support of banner title area for single post & archive.

Fix:

• Login popup issue when Sticky header with slide animation is enabled.
• Sidebar design tab in customizer does not show up when “Colors & Background” addon is disabled.
• W3 validation – Builder – Menu – Duplicate IDs for responsive devices.
• WooCommerce – Stripe Google pay button is not working on two-column checkout layout page.
• Custom Layout – Specific selection rule not working correctly if multiple specific selections added in rule engine.
• Sticky logo width option is not working with Enable Shrink Effect.
• Custom Layout – content_top and content_bottom hook’s layout misaligned on the frontend.
• WooCommerce – Quick view does not work with infinite scroll.
• Page Header showing author HTML markup on frontend on author archive page.
• Page Header – Showing PHP notice for ‘Function astra_addon_get_template was called incorrectly’ on WooCommerce single products.
• Select option hidden when dropdown to button option is active for a WooCommerce Composite Product.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Sorting Filters not working with Shop Card Design Layout 2 on Mobile View.
• Custom Layout & Page Headers admin – Edit content list posts gets overlapped with WordPress admin footer.
• Inside container spacing for single posts affecting the related posts section.
• WooCommerce – Variation Button does not work in Quick View modal.

Fix:

• Page Header showing author HTML markup on frontend on author archive page.

Deprecated:

• Filter ‘astra_single_banner_post_meta’ for single post meta markup has been deprecated instead use ‘astra_single_post_meta’.

Fix:

• get_option database call increase page loads for fetching theme options.
• exclude_from_search query parameter removed from get_post_types list to get CPTs under Customizer > Custom Post Types section, case of CartFlows Step custom post type.
• Archive – Title area 2 – Archive type title gets added as prefix on archive pages.
• Text transformed to ‘capitalize’ for single post titles & archive titles after 4.0.0.
• Single Post – “Read Time” option missing from metadata.
• Comment form fields should be stack on responsive devices.
• iframe breaks out of parent container on responsive devices.
• UI glitch typography input box control on Firefox browser.
• Multiple times fetching custom post types list callback executes for dynamic customizer.
• Theme preview showing title area on the banner section for the homepage.
• Importing wp-starter-content template on fresh setup overriding the existing site title.
• Dynamic customizer – Single-archive section titles and taxonomy meta names getting by its slug name instead of title.
• Admin dashboard’s Site Identity quick setting link redirecting to Header Builder > Logo section instead of redirecting to Site Identity section.

Improvement:

• Introducing filter ‘astra_dynamic_get_post_types_query_args’ for getting post types list to load further dynamic sections in customizer.

Fix:

• Header Builder – Visibility control options missing from header sections & respective element sections.
• Header Builder – Header or the elements on the frontend gets hide directly if previously back in past it got disabled temporary.
• Header Builder – Account – PHP error E_PARSE gives syntax error for customizer configurations.
• Smooth scroll to ID – Navigation hash link which redirect to other page’s section is not clickable.
• Archive type title gets added as prefix on archive pages.

New:

• Redesigned the entire admin area with better user experience. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/updates/astra-4 )
• Redesigned the entire mega menu area with better user experience. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/nav-menu-module/ )
• White Label – Agency icon field for re-branding software.
• Introduced admin bar quick links for easy navigation to edit Custom Layout & Page Header posts.
• Nav Menu – Custom icon & position support for mega menu items.
• Nav Menu – Enhanced options to customize the color and the background inside the mega menu.
• Nav Menu – Introducing divider color and styles for mega menu items.

Fix:

• Sidebar design tab in customizer does not show up when Colors & Background is disabled.
• Custom Layout – Specific selection rule not working correctly if multiple specific selections added in rule engine.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Content inside filter clipping when filter accordion is enabled.
• Single post – Top-Bottom inside container spacing is not work on mobile devices.
• Header Builder – Menu – Dropdown Menu on mobile device is not scrollable when Sticky Header is activated.
• PHP error when bsf-analytics data submitted for breadcrumb-position.
• Site title and tagline not displaying on Sticky Header after uploading different logo for sticky header.
• Blog/Archive – Enable/disable for Blog title & post meta does not work for blog layout 2 & 3.
• Scroll to top trigger position gets misaligned with padded layout.
• Sticky Header – Due to assigned custom margin to header, it gets misaligned.
• WooCommerce – Product catalog filter is not showing properly on mobile devices when modern layout is active.
• When WPML Multilingual CMS plugin is active custom Page Headers are not visible/working.
• WooCommerce – Variable product is not working with quick view.
• WooCommerce – Product gallery is not working in quick view.
• WooCommerce – Getting console error on product category pages when infinite scroll pagination-type is selected.
• Header Builder – Account – Text font family not working on the frontend.
• Custom Layout – Nested custom layouts not working on the frontend.

New:

• Redesigned the entire admin area with better user experience. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/updates/astra-4 )
• Narrow Width Container layout for Single Posts, Blogs/Archives & Pages. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/narrow-width-container-layout/ )
• Introduced Smooth scroll to ID option for smooth scrolling to section ID on one page site navigation.
• Added elegant starter-content theme support for wordpress.org preview & for fresh setup. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/replicating-the-screenshot/ )
• Added text decoration and text transform options to each customizer typography settings.
• Dynamic content layout & sidebar layout support added for all custom post types. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/how-to-use-dynamic-customizer-from-astra-4-0/ )
• Dynamic single & archive banner title area support for all custom post types. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/how-to-use-dynamic-customizer-from-astra-4-0/ )

Improvement:

• Moved Scroll to Top pro extension from addon to theme. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/scroll-to-top-pro/ )
• Redesigned customizer typography control’s UI for better experience.
• Customizer typography & color defaults updated to get better UI experience for fresh setup.
• Introduced new filter ‘astra_global_color_palette’ to extend default color palette settings.
• Block Editor – Editor experience improved in relation with the frontend.
• Responsive toggle selection customizer options replaced with new multi-selector control for better experience.
• Performance related customizer options moved to new admin dashboard under Settings tab.

Fix:

• Customizer’s responsive font-size control UI is misaligned.
• Off-canvas – Full screen – Mobile Menu gets very long scroll when Elementor plugin is activated.
• Full Width/Contained layout Layout is showing extra padding above in the Transparent Header.
• Block editor – Getting “wp.data.select( ‘core/editor’ )getBlocks()” console warning in editor as being deprecated in WordPress version 5.3.
• Block editor – Button background color gets overridden by core styles for Legacy block editor setup.
• Elementor Global button style overrides theme’s submenu button style.
• Getting console error in customizer when trying to update footer columns.
• Block editor – Color gradient angle input field not visible in the block settings.
• Block editor – Content background gets explicitly set to white in responsive view.
• WooCommerce – Sticky add to cart is not working on old header footer.
• Margin applying for the last child ‘li’ tag inside widget section.
• Block editor – Button background color gets overridden by core styles for the Legacy block editor setup.
• Customizer – Content background color reflections not working in customizer preview.