What's New with Astra

Improvement:

• Compatibility with WordPress 5.8.
• Added default styling for – Site Logo, Site Tagline, Login/out and Search blocks.
• Widget Element – block editor and design section added.
• Theme support added for Rank Math plugin – breadcrumbs module.

Fix:

• Customizer not working due to conflict with block editor JS.
• Alignment of title and content in the editor.
• WP 5.8 UI conflict with extra control spacing and section title font in the customizer.
• Widget page block editor width not appearing properly.
• Headers showing border even though its not set from customizer in FireFox browser.

Improvement:

• Introducing content links underline option.

Fix:

• Improvement: Global button default padding values updated.
• Fix: Global button padding settings not working for Gutenberg buttons. ( https://spectra-test.wpastra.com/docs/apply-default-button-padding/ )

Fix:

• Fix: WooCommerce – Infinite Posts scroll event showing duplicate products in AJAX search results.

Fix:

• WooCommerce & Blog – Infinite Posts showing different taxonomy’s products on category or tag archive pages.

• Security Fix: Sanitized AJAX query_vars for Infinite Scroll actions.

Fix:

• Enable ‘Preload Local Fonts’ option affects on height of Gutenberg Cover edit block.
• Related Posts articles showing meta structure based on current active post.

Fix:

• Theme check warning – Replaced search form markup with get_search_form().
• Both desktop and mobile headers appearing on desktop due to Astra’s cache.

Improvement:

• Added headings font-weight support to widget-title headings. (https://spectra-test.wpastra.com/docs/font-weight-for-widget-titles/)
• Removed jQuery dependency in Scroll To Top addon.
• Custom Layout – Added close button for multi-select selected items for Display On field.

Fix:

• Builder – Account Element – Sticky Icon Color creates color patch on sticky header active.
• Builder – WooCommerce cart – 0 Border width count removes default cart icon’s border.
• WooCommerce cart – Color option not working in old header layout.
• Megamenu – Clicking on any item causes a short gray blink on the items in other columns.
• Customizer’s font & color settings not reflecting in Gutenberg editor. (https://spectra-test.wpastra.com/astra-3-6/)
• ‘Page Header: Center Aligned’ layout not working for new users.
• Core Web Vitals – WooCommerce add to cart plus/minus buttons increasing CLS score.
• Sticky Header – Transition effect of headers when Shrink Effect is enabled.