What's New with Astra

New:

• Shortcode ‘
  ‘ – https://qa.wpastra.com/docs/display-breadcrumb-with-shortcode/

New:

• Breadcrumb customizer option. Read more about here – https://qa.wpastra.com/docs/add-breadcrumbs-with-astra/
• Action hooks – astra_before_archive_title, astra_after_archive_title, astra_after_archive_description, astra_header_markup_after, astra_header_markup_before.

Improvement:

• Remove body schema when using WooCommerce template.

Fix:

• WP Block pullquote border not visible issue.
• LearnDash: sortable/dragable elements unable to scroll the page.
• HTML 5 Validation error in the main header menu header toggle button classes.

New:

• Option to enable/disable transparent header on blog home.

Improvement:

• Removed default font weight form main navigation class

Fix:

• AMP – Hide desktop logo on the mobile logo is being displayed.
• AMP – Validation errors appearing in the slide search.
• Mobile menu’s submenu not working when no navigation menu is assigned to the primary menu.
• Upload theme button not working.

Fix:

• Custom Layouts – Hook name not being displayed in the admin area when editing the custom layout.

Fix:

• AMP – Fix usage of amp-state component to be inside tag. (Props – https://github.com/westonruter)
• Possible fatal error for some users if Spectra is also activated.
• Extra > being displayed in the footer widget area.
• Margin from the title meta was removed if only the title is enabled from customizer.

New:

• New: Native AMP support from Astra Theme and Astra Pro. Read more about here

Improvements:

• Improvements: Accessibility – Keyboard navigation not working for menu in the sticky header.
• Improvements: Above Header & Below header text/html preview.

Fix:

• Fix: WooCommerce – Invalid Product notice issue.
• Fix: Lightbox issue with custom layout(Image size issue).
• Fix: Gutenberg – container color does not work on pages freshly created.
• Fix: Infinite scroll issue with product catalog option of WooCommerce.

New:

• New: Native AMP support from Astra Theme and Astra Pro. Read more about here

Fix:

• Fix: Upload New Theme button not working when Astra Theme is activated.
• Fix: Gutenberg – Container color does not work on pages freshly created.
• Fix: Block Quote border color issue in Gutenberg back end and front end.
• Fix: Extra Padding bottom being applied to blog post meta even if it is disabled from post meta.

New:

• Whitelabel – Allow white label strings to be updated using PHP constants. (See Doc)

Improvement:

• Whitelabel – Replace wpastra.com links in customizer with white-labeled links.
• Whitelabel – Replace plugin strings on the updates page.
• Whitelabel – Replace Theme strings on the Themes page and update notification.
• Whitelabel – Replace the theme page slug to white-labeled theme name.
• Improve accessibility of Mega menu, Make sure the mega menus can be accessed by using tab navigation.

Fix:

• Fix: Above header mobile menu getting incorrect width.
• Fix: Divi builder not working on archive pages with custom layouts.
• Fix: Toggle for menu does not work when sticky header animation is enabled.
• Fix: Custom Layout hooks created for WooCommerce actions showing 404 pages when trying to edit them.

New:

• Filter to disable automatic logo resizing. (See Doc)
• CSS class ast-left-align-sub-menu will change the direction navigation menu opens for all submenus. (See Doc)

Improvement:

• Gutenberg – Body color not applied in the block editor when boxed layout or contained boxed layout.
• Correctly move hook astra_head_bottom to the very bottom of the tag.

Fix:

• Transparent header logo not displayed on tablet screen sizes.
• Fix: After changing a font in typography param it would stop previewing next fonts due to a JS error.