This one’s huge.

Hey community! We’re so excited to bring you the Astra Pro 4.6.0 update. This update allows you to access some additional features on top of your latest Astra 4.6.0 update.

We have added some much-demanded changes, fixed small issues, and addressed some necessary feedback from you guys!

Check out these updates!

Blog Improvements: (Read More…)

• Blog – Reveal Effect: Introducing new Reveal Effect for posts appearing on the archive & search results page.
• WooCommerce: Introducing a new option for Reveal Effect for product archives.

Single Layout Improvements (Single & Author Box) (Read More…)

• Single – Author Box: Introduced new controls like Alignment, Background, Border, and Spacing for improvising the author box.
• Single – Author Box: Introduced new Section placement and social Share option support.
• Single – Post Navigation: Introducing a new badge style for a better visual appearance.
• Single Post: Moved the Author Box, and Social Sharing settings from the Single Post section to the new sub-sections under the Single Post section.
• Author Box: Introduced new filter “astra_addon_author_box_heading_tag” to change the heading tag of the author box section.
• Author Box: Introduced new filter “astra_addon_author_title_heading_tag” to change the heading tag of the author name.
• Added Customizer Section Shortcut Link to Author Box section for quick access for better user experience.

General

• Performance: Removed legacy CSS for the spacing addon & managed spacing with the new spacing options.
• WooCommerce: Added a new customization option for the color of the cart icon when the sticky header is enabled.

Fixes (Overall)

• Social Icons: Horizontal alignment does not work if Stack-On is selected.
• Sticky Header: Background is not blurry on iOS devices.
• Page Header: Background Image is not working on a single post.
• Nav Menu: Menu items hover color not working as expected.
• WooCommerce: Horizontal product gallery slider resizes in landscape mode for mobile devices.
• Site Builder: Header Shrink effect does not work in Site Builder header layouts.
• Site Builder: Layouts and page headers with untitled showing empty title space on the front end admin-bar menu dropdown.
• Site Builder: Issue with hooks not showing up in full width with Beaver Builder on the editor page.
• WooCommerce: Unable to login with modern checkout when the password contains some specific symbols such as ampersand.
• WooCommerce: The shop page sidebar collides when it’s moved to the top of the screen on responsive devices.
• WooCommerce: Quick view background color does not apply to the entire product details section when the sticky add to cart button is enabled.
• Nav Menu: Menu layout breaks on responsive devices due to default spacing added.
• Page Header: Getting str_contains() deprecated notice from the custom header with PHP 8.
• WooCommerce: The Off-canvas Sidebar does not close with an outside click or ESC key.
• PHP error “Uncaught Error: class FLThemeBuilderLayoutData not found” when Beaver Themer is active.
• Sticky header active menu color is not working when the submenu is added.

You need to update to Astra Pro 4.6.0 to experience these amazing new features!

We’re always working to make Astra better for you. So if you face any issues, please feel free to reach out.

You have our docs to help you out whenever you’re stuck with something.

Cheers,

Team Astra

Introducing Site Builder (formerly known as Custom Layout)

We’re excited to share that Custom Layout is evolving into Site Builder, reflecting our commitment to enhancing your website creation experience.

• Introducing Site Builder: Big news! Say hello to Site Builder, the rebranded and upgraded version of our beloved Custom Layout feature. Dive into a revamped, user-friendly interface tailored to empower your website creation process.
• WooCommerce – Product Catalog – Quick View Background option: Introducing the Quick View Background color option in WooCommerce’s Product Catalog. Customize your product displays effortlessly in any background.

Improvements:

• Custom Layout & Page Header metadata saving code improvements.
• Updated the select2 library to 4.0.13 to harden the security.

More Fixes:

• Mega Menu – Links should not be crawlable when ‘Disable Link’ option is set.
• Date-Box – Date Box stick at the corner of a post instead of the featured image which breaks blog UI.
• Mega Menu – Mega menu heading normal and hover color is not working.
• Top Border color & width not applied when mega menu width set to full width/full width stretched.

Discover Astra Pro 4.4.0: Blog Filters, Full Screen Search Modal Styles, Page-Level Background Settings, and More!

Elevate Your Blog Archive with Post Filters Using Astra!

Are you looking to enhance your blog archive and make content navigation a breeze for your visitors? Adding post filters is the key!

Why Post Filters Matter:

🚀 Simplify content discovery.
🧹 Organize your blog efficiently.
📈 Help new and returning visitors find what they need.

Exciting New Options in Header Builder – Search Element!

Enhance your website’s search functionality with these fresh options for full-screen searches:

🎨 Choose between Light or Dark search modal styles.
📝 Customize Heading Text to suit your brand.
✏️ Tailor the Description Text to engage your audience effectively.

Upgrade your Header Builder – Search Element with these powerful new features!

Unleash Your Creativity with Astra’s Page-Specific Background Settings!

Exciting news for website customization enthusiasts! Astra’s recent update (version 4.4.0) brings a game-changing feature – Page-Specific Background Settings.

In the past, you could only set one background style for the entire site and one for the content. But now, with Astra 4.4.0, you can give each page its own unique background, making it stand out from the rest.

Page-Specific Settings Overview:

🖌️ Customize backgrounds on a per-page basis.
🌐 Override global settings for site and content backgrounds.
🎨 Achieve a truly unique look for each page.

Why Astra Page-Specific Settings?

– Gain full control over your website’s aesthetics by breaking free from uniform global settings.
– Create distinct looks for different pages with ease.

New:

• Blog Pro – Blog Filter to filter categories and tags. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/post-filter/ )
• Header Builder – Search – Option to switch Light or Dark modal design for Full Screen style.
• WooCommerce – Introducing a new cart shortcode ‘astra_woo_slide_in_cart’, which adds support for a slide-in cart feature.
• Editor – Introducing Page Level Background Settings (Page Background & Content Background). ( https://wpastra.com/docs/page-level-background-settings/ )

Improvement:

• Added a new filter ‘astra_social_rel_attribute‘ to change Social Share’s “rel” attribute inside the post.

Fix:

• Blog – Social sharing icons were incorrectly linking to Twitter for all platforms.
• Header-Footer Builder – Social Icon – Text decoration typography style for labels not working.
• Custom Layout – Embed/YouTube block not working inside nested blocks.
• Sticky Header – Menu color gets overridden by normal header primary menu color.
• WPML conflicting with Profile language for translation.

New:

• Custom Layout – Introducing Custom Template feature.

  Earlier, using Custom Layout you were able to create a header, footer, search, and 404 page but now with the Custom Template feature extend this limit to creating single as well as archive templates.

• Introduced option to change Header logo color while sticky.

Improvement:

• Accessibility improvements for WooCommerce Pages.
• WooCommerce – HPOS Compatibility.
• WooCommerce – New Product Editor Compatibility.
• Introducing new admin notice for incompatibility of the theme.

Fix:

• Custom Layout – Spectra’s dynamic CSS-JS assets loading even though the layout is disabled from the edit list.
• Custom Layout – Layout hooked at ‘After Single Product Summary’ overlaps on the single product image and summary box.
• Custom Layout – FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING deprecated notice.
• WooCommerce – Elementor Pro’s Mini Cart Widget Conflicts With Astra Mini Cart Widget.
• Header Builder – Menu – Parsing duplicate ID error for ‘primary-site-navigation’ and ‘ast-hf-menu-x’.
• Header Builder – Account Login Popup’s UI breaking when Sticky Header is active with Hide on Scroll option.
• Header-Footer Builder – Divider elements missing from the settings when old astra-settings getting imported.
• File Generation – PHP warning while accessing cache files on some servers.
• Compatibility with WooCommerce Min/Max Quantities plugin.
• Compatibility with YITH Composite Products for Single Product Real Time Add to Cart.

New:

• Single Post – Social Sharing feature. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/social-sharing/ )
• WooCommerce – Introducing new add to cart trigger actions for shop and single product pages. ( https://wpastra.com/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://wpastra.com/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://wpastra.com/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.

New:

• Redesigned the entire admin area with better user experience. ( https://wpastra.com/updates/astra-4 )
• Redesigned the entire mega menu area with better user experience. ( https://wpastra.com/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.

Fix:

• WooCommerce – Variable product is not working with quick view.
• WooCommerce – Product gallery is not working in quick view.
• Custom Layout – When WPML Multilingual CMS plugin is active custom header/footers are not working. ( Props – https://wpml.org/errata/astra-pro-3-9-3-enabling-custom-layouts-blocks-loading-scripts-added-in-the-header-or-footer/ )