What's New with Astra

New:

• Global Color Palette compatibility for Block editor using theme.json. (https://optimization.bsf.io/astra-3-7/)

Improvement:

• Updated labels for Global Palette colors.
• Global Color Palette preview time optimized.
• Footer – Copyright text color compatibility with Global Color Palette.
• Added tooltip for palette inside colorpicker control.

Fix:

• Color Palette options appearing outside control container.

Improvement:

• Astra menu settings button made accessible to users with ‘edit-theme-options’ capability.
• Clear asset cache of theme and addon on every new update of the addon.
• WooCommerce & EDD cart – Introducing Cart product count color option.

Fix:

• Fatal error Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function astra_get_tablet_breakpoint() in some cases.
• Fatal error Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function astra_get_tablet_breakpoint() in some cases.
• Search – Added Accessibility for Search Box style of Search Button.
• EDD – Cart count is overlapping on the submenu section.
• Builder – Account Element – Sticky header menu color not working.
• Builder – Account Element – Menu Font not working.
• Builder – Account Element – Deprecated responsive options for menu colors.
• Builder – Account Element – Login menu notice only visible when WooCommerce or Lifter LMS plugin activated.
• Sticky Header shrink option not working in new Header/Footer builder.

Improvement:

• In the font size option, users cannot set the value ‘0’.
• Introduced filter to exclude anchor links from text-decoration style. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/remove-underlined-content-links/ )
• Clear asset cache of theme and addon on every new update of the theme.
• Moved addon related Toggle for Desktop frontend-pro.js file from theme to the addon.
• Moved the ‘Site Icon’ control to a separate section, ‘Site Identity’.

Fix:

• Auto-scroll not working on clicking Footer Builder in the customizer preview.
• WooCommerce – Cart icon not appearing correctly on Tablet & Mobile devices.
• Dropdown target as a link not working if the menu item has a link.
• WooCommerce – Cart count is overlapping on submenu section.
• The submenu toggle is not working when ‘Flyout Menu’ is used, and the page is resized.
• Customizer color group control’s reset position misaligned.
• Desktop logo width is applying on the mobile devices during page load.
• Social icon does not change in the customizer preview.
• Gutenberg Editor content area showing white background color when Full-Width Contained / Stretched layout is active.

Deprecated:

• Builder – Account Element – Deprecated transparent header’s responsive options for menu colors.

Improvement:

• Content background option is removed and will be available with the free Astra Theme.
• Typography options for Heading H4 to H6 are now moved to the free Astra Theme.

New:

• Introduced Global Color Palette Feature – It’s a new dynamic color system. It lets user create custom color palettes and control colors across the website from one place. 
• Introduced Typograhpy Presets Feature – Choose from beautiful and effective typography combination and apply it to the entire website with a single control. 
• Introduced Button Presets Feature – Pre-built button designs to style up your website buttons quickly and easily.
• Added Heading Typograhpy options for H4-H6 also
• Content background color option

Fix:

• Heading color option not working for Sidebar, Footer widget title
• Heading color option not working for Archive page title
• Live preview for content background option not working
• Content background image not working for related posts section

Improvement:

• Added WPML translation support for all customizer’s strings through wpml-config.xml file.

Fix:

• Elementor Pro’s Header-Footer theme builder layouts does not override theme’s Header-Footer builder layouts.
• Bulk action selection not working on any WordPress list table when theme’s “Get Started” notice is active.
• Header Footer Widgets: Off-canvas content is displaying over Legacy widget’s preview in the customizer for WordPress 5.8.

Deprecated:

• Header Footer Widgets – Deprecated design specific options for better compatibility with WordPress 5.8. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/enable-astra-widget-design-options/ )

Fix:

• Previous & Next arrow icons not appearing for product gallery in Quick View layout.
• Compatibility with WPML plugin version 4.5.
• Console error while editing in the beaver builder editor view when “CSS File Generation” is enabled with Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder plugin.

Deprecated:

• Header Footer Widgets – Deprecated design specific sticky header options for better compatibility with WordPress 5.8. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/enable-astra-widget-design-options/ )

Fix:

• Replaced AJAX post request with simple JS request for Infinite pagination from WooCommerce & Blog Pro addon.
• Builder – Submenu & sticky header colors not working if “Header Sections” addon is deactivated from old header. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/editing-submenu-above-below-header-fix/ )
• Search – In ‘Search Box’ style search icon missing when Astra CSS icons available on site.
• Category archive title showing extra 1em space around when “Add Space Between Posts” option is disabled.
• Showing old footer copyright section on checkout page when distraction free checkout option is enabled for WooCommercce, EDD and LifterLMS.
• Stack On option for footer Social Icons not reflecting correctly as per setting in customizer.
• Search icon color is not applying to the Sticky Header Search Box style.
• Builder – WooCommerce & EDD cart – Outline cart type has transparent background. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/fix-transparent-woocommerce-cart/ )
• Page Headers and Custom Layouts for specific Pages/ Posts/ Taxonomies, etc. do not work in customizer.
• Swap Section feature not working for mobile in Old Header Footer. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/fix-swap-sections-not-working/ )

Deprecated:

• Filter ‘astra_infinite_pagination_post_type’ deprecated as AJAX request handled by simple JS request. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/restrict-search-results-post/ )

Improvement:

• Rendered Addon dependent toggle code conditionally and removed unwanted code.
• Changed the screen reader text tag from ‘h2’ to ‘span’ for better SEO.

Fix:

• Changing Off-canvas flyout close button color not reflecting on frontend.
• Broken layout WooCommerce Shop/Archive page on mobile view when using elementor template or Product archive widget.
• Next and Previous pagination button is not aligned with page numbers for mobile view.
• Added dynamic breakpoint support for the responsive view of the sidebar and main content.
• Heading color h1-h6 of customizer not working in the Gutenberg editor.
• Global headings font family not working in the Gutenberg editor.
• Footer Builder – Widgets – Right margin space not working. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/fix-footer-widget-right-margin/ )
• Search icon color is not applying to the Standard and Transparent Header Search Box style.
• Removed the spacing applied for the menu items in the customizer section.
• Builder – WooCommerce & EDD cart – Cart and Checkout buttons not visible when multiple products added to cart flyout.
• Builder – Social Icons – Tiktok icon not appearing in customizer and on frontend.
• ‘Disable Footer’ option is missing in Page meta settings for new Header Footer builder.
• Removed ‘Disable Footer Widgets’ option in Page meta settings for new Header Footer builder.
• Sidebar block editor width changes on the widgets page.
• Off-canvas menu closes on scrolling on mobile devices.
• Customizer builder section not scrollable when multiple elements dropped in builder area.
• Theme’s default margin space of OL tag apply to Elementor’s TOC widget. ( https://optimization.bsf.io/docs/remove-spacing-elementor-toc/ )
• Menu dropdown icons showing at incorrect position in RTL languages.
• “Search” string in Search Form is not translatable.
• Transparent header showing border even if it is not set from customizer in FireFox browser.