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    1. Team Astra Profile Pic

      This option is not included in this update as this focused mainly on optimizing the customizer load time and it’s UX, Although we have this in our list and will get it updated in a future update.

  1. Øystein Profile Pic

    With the continuous focus on speed improvements, both in front and back is why I choose Astra for all my projects. The Astra customizer also has the perfect amount of options you need to setup a WordPress site compared to other themes that often have too many. Seems like a smart move to reorganize these to make the WordPress setup even faster.

  2. David Waumsley Profile Pic

    Excellent work Sujay. Thank you for this informative and fascinating post. Looking forward to this improvement.

    1. Team Astra Profile Pic

      Hello Dan!

      Yes! This update is available for both – the free Astra theme as well as the Astra Pro addon.

      We’ve already shared the beta version of the theme in the post above and the Astra Pro users can access the beta version of Astra Pro through their account on our store. 🙂

  3. draguny Profile Pic

    How long approx until I can update to 2.0 the normal way (not beta)? Would it change my Learndash site (using your Learndash theme) in a significant way when I update? wonder if I should wait or keep working on it

    1. Team Astra Profile Pic

      Hello,

      The stable version will be released anywhere around the coming week. However, this update only affects the customizer and user experience. 🙂

      It won’t affect your website in anyway! You can start working on your website.

      1. Greg Profile Pic

        Nice to have the customiser working really well and faster. Helps the novice and expert easily setup styles etc.

        What improvements, if any, have been made to the front-end speed/performance wise?

        Any idea when the final stable release will be made available?

    1. Team Astra Profile Pic

      You’re welcome Craig! 🙂

      Please go ahead and give it a try! We’d love to get some feedback from you.

  4. Steven Denger Profile Pic

    I have been trying Astra theme and what I did not like about it is the limited header customizations. This is typical with a lot of themes – where one just has to deal with what the theme developer gives you. Also I have a good clean accordian code that worked well with another theme but the Astra messes it up with the default settings it has. This accordian code dictates the color and size as well as the font awsome pointer – the Astra messes it all up. I could not – for the life of me – put a search bar in the header where I wanted it – even though I tried for hours and days doing so. My other theme took a lot of work but I was able to accomplish it. There shoud be numerous header widget areas to put siteorigin page builder widgets in to arrange a header the way one wants to. The header shoud be no different than a page area – where it can easily be redesigned with page builders. I also had a hard time trying to make the sidebar narrower – this shoud be easily customized as well. I wish you spent more time making more customized features instead of optimizing the existing customizations.

    1. Team Astra Profile Pic

      Hello, Can you open up a support ticket with these questions so that we can discuss these case-by-case and find a correct solution for all these questions?

  5. Mehmet Kocali Profile Pic

    I’m not sure if it’s me, but I updated the Astra theme to the beta first from the link that came with the email. I didn’t see any changes as shown in this article to my customizer. Then I downloaded the beta from the account downloads section, the name is different this time, link from the mail pointed to beta2 and downloads section to beta1.1. After updating to this beta version also didn’t change my customizer section. What might be the problem?

    Also, I should add that I’m grateful for all your superb work, thanks.

    1. Team Astra Profile Pic

      Can you open up a support quick ticket so that we can check what is happening?

      Also, 2.0.0-beta.2 was released few hours ago so if you check the downloads section you will see the new ZIP files. and also, you can simply enable beta updates and the updates will be delivered as an automatic update directly in your WordPress dashboard.

    1. Team Astra Profile Pic

      Hello Chris,

      Starter templates are a part of the Starter Templates or the Astra Premium Sites plugin. This update is with respect to the Astra theme and the Astra Pro addon. You will see the changes in the theme’s customizer and therefore it will be seen on all current and future starter templates.

      If you wish to see the newly added starter templates, you can take a look at the most recent ones that get added to the website demo list.

  6. Tomas Acda Profile Pic

    Could you please add a ‘Widget’ before header menu?
    So that we can finally add a WooCommerce search widget Ajax in the middle of the header.

    I’m missing this so much. That the only reason I dont buy Astra is because its missing this.
    Tried 20 hours to fix this. But you guys need to just add that feature.

  7. Gordon Wridgway Profile Pic
    Gordon Wridgway

    Great work Sujay and team! I can’t wait to upgrade when 2.0 comes out. Always impressed with your commitment to improve. Well done!

  8. Athlone Harris-Compton Profile Pic
    Athlone Harris-Compton

    Excellent work Sujay and team. I’m looking forward to this as the customizer was very sluggish at times.

    1. Team Astra Profile Pic

      Hello Ida,

      We are the makers of the Astra theme and therefore this update focuses on the improvements within the Astra customizer itself. 🙂

  9. Griya Mitra Profile Pic

    Yes finally it will be faster than before, i have to wait a long time when open customizer to edit astra setting. Thank you for listening

  10. longfeifei Profile Pic

    I am trying the beta 2.0.0 , when will your team publish the official 2.0 version? I am worrying about that if there are some bugs in beta version.

    thanks,

  11. Greg Profile Pic

    Nice to have the customiser working really well and faster. Helps the novice and expert easily setup styles etc.

    What improvements, if any, have been made to the front-end speed/performance wise?

    Any idea when the final stable release will be made available?

  12. Myron Profile Pic

    I see that Astra Pro 2.0 has been released. How long should it be before I get a notice in WPAdmin that there is a 2.0 update?

    1. Team Astra Profile Pic

      Hello Myron,

      Astra 2.0 is uploaded on the store. You should be able to see the notification early this coming week. 🙂

  13. Dan Profile Pic

    Is there an easy way to select a different menu for mobile?
    I know one can combine menus but sometimes using the mega menu option doesn’t translate that well for a good mobile experience and a dedicated mobile menu is cleaner and faster.
    Love ? Astra btw.

  14. umair Profile Pic

    Astra is such a great theme. However, I am still not sure why there’s no option to make the sidebar sticky in the premium version. It requires a few lines of code. Please incorporate it ASAP. There are countless affiliate sites using Astra theme and would like to see this option.

    Thanks

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