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.

Fix:

• Custom Layout – Layouts missing on the frontend for logged-out users with update v4.3.2.

Fix:

• Improved codebase for improved security. (Props – Patchstack)
• Blog – Social sharing icons were incorrectly linking to Twitter for all platforms.

New:

• Custom Layout – Option for dynamic content preview in single/archive template editor.
• Header Builder – Account – Introducing new option for Account menu expansion “Hover” or “Click”.

Improvement:

• Introducing filter ‘astra_addon_cl_ast_container_fullwidth’ to make flex based ast-container full-width to resolve edge cases like Custom Template shrinks on archive pages.

Fix:

• Header Builder – Account – PHP warning ‘Undefined variable $css_output_desktop’ while generating dynamic CSS.
• Mailchimp for WooCommerce radio select option is not clickable when Modern Input Fields is enabled.
• Custom Layout – Meta options modal’s UI adding extra space after WordPress-6.3.
• Custom Layout – Archive templates get shrink due to flex-based CSS on the ast-container wrapper.

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.

Improvement:

• Compatibility with WordPress-6.3.

New:

• WooCommerce – Added Sale badge color change option for shop card modern design.

Improvement:

• Updated the license deactivation setting notification icon from admin panel.
• Loaded WP admin-bar related compatibility css only if user is logged in.
• Added a new filter ‘astra_font_line_height_unit’ to adjust the unit for line height. ( https://wpastra.com/docs/how-to-fix-the-line-height-unit-being-converted-to-em/ )
• Custom Layout – Improvised layout editor icons with better UI.
• Added font-size support till 200px in customizer typography options.

Fix:

• WooCommerce – Column setting not working on single product page for display recently viewed products.
• Mega menu icon styling is not applying on tablet/mobile.
• WooCommerce – Console error on checkout order review page.
• WooCommerce – Checkout Order Review Page Does not Appear for Mobile/Tablet when the Modern Checkout is enabled.
• Custom Layout – Edit layout Screen does not work with Beaver Builder when classic editor is active.
• Custom Layout – Embed video block not working on front end.
• Nav Menu – Mega menu not working with RTL language setup on the frontend.
• License activation link not working on admin Custom Layout & Page Headers page.
• Console warning regarding the incorrect use of element and improved compatibility with accessibility tools.
• WooCommerce – Fatal Error on Modern Checkout Page after Adding New Field with YITH WooCommerce Checkout Manager Plugin.