What's New with Astra

Fix:

• WooCommerce – Child theme’s WooCommerce custom templates gets overridden by parent theme.
• Block editor – Row block’s layout stack in editor.
• PHP error with uncaught function ‘ctype_xdigit’ not found in common-functions.php on some specific servers.

New:

• Redesigned the entire customizer UI for better user experience.
• WooCommerce – General – Quantity Plus Minus Button Options With Multiple Designs.
• WooCommerce – General – Modern Input skin type.
• WooCommerce – General – Ajax based quantity selector.
• WooCommerce – General – Introduced Color and background option for Sale badge.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Added new modern view option for shop style.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Introduced unique filter panel design.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Introduced sticky shop filter sidebar option.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Added accordion compatibility for WooCommerce filter widgets.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Added Flyout and Collapsible option for WooCommerce filters panel.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Added sticky add to cart on single product.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Product tabs heading – Product tabs heading – Added normal, hover, and active text color support.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Added Color and Typography options for Category text.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Added Enable/Disable Quantity Plus-Minus sign option.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Added Option to Add Extra Product Description.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Introduced tab style presets for product details. ( Accordion / Distributed ).
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Introduced previous-next product preview option on navigation hover.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Payment options list in single product structure.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Introduced sticky product summary option.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Toggle to Convert Variation select dropdown to buttons UI on Single Product page.
• WooCommerce – Added Multistep Navigation for Cart, Checkout and Order Received pages.
• WooCommerce – Cart – Modern Cart Layout.
• WooCommerce – Cart – Sticky Cart total on scroll on WooCommerce cart page.
• WooCommerce – Checkout – Modern Layout.

Improvement:

• Single Product – Option to Show/Hide Category on WooCommerce single product page.
• Single Product – Product gallery Layout options ( First Image Large / Vertical Slider / Horizontal Slider ).
• Single Product – Product Navigation color options ( Normal & Hover ).

Fix:

• Related Products & Upsell columns not working on responsive devices.

New:

• Redesigned the entire customizer UI for better user experience.
• WooCommerce – Product Catalog – Introduced content layout & sidebar option.
• WooCommerce – General – Introduced store notice text color & background color options.
• WooCommerce – General – Introduced store notice position option.
• WooCommerce – Single Product- Introduced Option to add free shipping text next to WooCommerce single product price.
• WooCommerce – Single product – Introduced Product Variation Orientation option.
• WooCommerce Cart – Option for enabling desktop offcanvas cart flyout.
• WooCommerce Cart – Option to update offcanvas flyout direction.
• WooCommerce Cart – Option to change offcanvas flyout width.
• WooCommerce Cart – Introduced cart icon hover color option.
• WooCommerce Cart – Introduced cart Margin and Padding spacing option.
• WooCommerce Cart – Introduced cart total Label position option.
• WooCommerce Cart – Introduced Icon size option in the WooCommerce Cart.
• WooCommerce Cart – Introduced show/hide cart total badge option.

Improvement:

• Categorized & segregated global options into respective sections of customizer.
• WooCommerce Cart – Modify the Cart label section via Shortcodes. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/improvement-woocommerce-modify-the-cart-label-design/ )
• Introduced filter ‘astra_stretched_layout_with_spacing’ to exclude Stretched layout around spacing CSS. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/improved-block-editor-experience/ )
• Introduced filter ‘astra_get_store_sidebar_layout’ to extend sidebar option for the WooCommerce layout.

Fix:

• WooCommerce – Margin issue for single shop page with the Full width & Contained Layout.

Fix:

• Getting top spacing for entry-header in case of page builder template.

Fix:

• Custom layout styling not loading on front-end.

Fix:

• Page layout & Sidebar option directly updating after the last update.

New:

• Block editor – Padding presets for container blocks. (https://wpastra.com/docs/improved-block-editor-experience/)

Improvement:

• Default sidebar layout is improved.
• Moved Single Post and Page spacing option to theme from addon

Fix:

• Block editor – Bottom margin is not set as per customizer setting for Paragraph block.
• Table block not aligned centrally for Legacy block editor setup.
• Sticky header – Offcanvas menu do not close when header menu link is set to #target.
• Blog Achieve layout 2 and layout 3 broken between 769px to 921px.
• Image block not aligned centrally for Legacy block editor setup.
• Block editor and frontend layout mismatch for Row block.
• Primary submenus not expandable on mobile when toggle button element is not added.
• PHP Notice – Array to string conversion on widget.php page.
• ul & ol list items overlap on previous alignleft WordPress block.
• Logo markup loading on the frontend without added logo in Site Identity.
• Mobile/tablet menu not able to close when #target_id link is used.

Improvement:

• Moved Single Post and Page spacing option to theme.

Fix:

• Translated Taxonomies not listed under the target specific rule for Custom Layout with Polylang plugin.
• Custom Layouts – Inside post/page content displays multiple time with entry_after hooks used.
• Small space appearing between the Sticky Above and Primary header in the Beaver Builder editor.
• Primary submenus not expandable on mobile when toggle button element is not added.
• “Header Button” heading added to separate out Sticky Header options in old header.
• Accessibility – LifterLMS profile link is missing aria-label and role attribute.
• Fixed display Products from Same Category with Navigation. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/products-from-same-directed-category-with-navigation/ )

Fix:

• Improvements as per WordPress coding standards.
• Elementor page with Motion effect jerks on scroll when header is set to sticky and animation is None.
• Header – Menus – Box Shadow not applying for submenus from customizer options.
• Submenu items expanded initially in offcanvas, when Toggle Button being used for desktop header.
• Single Product Quantity not working for decimal numbers.
• Astra theme version number missing in Rollback section.