Astra Theme - Everything You Need to Build Stunning Website v4.14.0

Astra Theme - Everything You Need to Build Stunning Website v4.11.15

This release includes small adjustments to internal libraries and resolves a ReactDOM console warning in the Customiser, helping keep Astra’s codebase clean and up to date.

What’s Fixed?

• ReactDOM Console Warning – Addressed a minor ReactDOM console warning in the Customiser along with internal library updates for better stability and compatibility.

We recommend updating to Astra v4.11.15 to stay aligned with the latest maintenance improvements and ensure a smooth development experience.

As always, if you have any questions or need assistance, our support team is happy to help.

Astra Theme - Everything You Need to Build Stunning Website v4.11.14
= Astra v4.11.14 – Accessibility Improvements and UI Fixes for a Smoother Experience

Hello everyone,
We’re excited to introduce Astra v4.11.14 – an update focused on improving accessibility, enhancing compatibility, and refining the overall user experience.
With this release, we continue our commitment to keeping Astra lightweight, reliable, and accessible — ensuring your website performs seamlessly across all devices and platforms.

What’s Improved?​

• Enhanced Accessibility for “Skip to Content” Link – Improved accessibility and keyboard navigation for the “Skip to Content” link, providing a smoother experience for screen reader and keyboard users.

What’s Fixed?​

• BuddyBoss Forum Title – Fixed an issue where the forum title wasn’t displayed on the frontend when using the BuddyBoss plugin with the Forum module enabled.
• WooCommerce Quantity Buttons – Resolved an issue ensuring quantity buttons are properly disabled for “sold individually” products on single product pages.
• Google Fonts in Customizer – Fixed a bug where Google Fonts displayed limited font weights, restoring full access to all available weights.
• Columns Block Width – Addressed an issue where the Columns block sometimes failed to display at full width in certain layouts.
• Blog Archive Metabox Color Picker – Fixed a broken color picker UI issue in the Blog Archive metabox, ensuring smoother design adjustments.

We recommend updating to Astra v4.11.14 to take advantage of these enhancements and fixes for a more accessible, consistent, and user-friendly website experience.

Astra Theme - Everything You Need to Build Stunning Website v4.11.13
= What’s Improved?

• Faster Customizer Experience – Added lazy-loading for Google Fonts in the Customizer to improve performance and reduce extra PHP memory usage by loading fonts via AJAX only when needed.
• LifterLMS Compatibility – Enhanced compatibility for LifterLMS on the course catalog page for a smoother learning experience.
• Refined Post Filter UI – Improved spacing and alignment for post filter color settings, ensuring a more polished design interface.

What’s Fixed?​

• Media Aspect Ratios – Fixed incorrect aspect ratios for Vimeo and YouTube embeds to maintain consistent video display across devices.
• EDD Cart Widget Error – Resolved a JavaScript error (wc_add_to_cart_params is not defined) when using the EDD cart widget in the Header Builder.
• Off-Canvas Menu & Sticky Header – Fixed an issue where the Off-Canvas Menu did not function correctly when used with the Sticky Header.

Astra Theme - Everything You Need to Build Stunning Website v4.11.12

This release reflects our commitment to keeping Astra lightweight, flexible, and accessible for all WordPress creators.

What’s New?

• Streamlined Onboarding – Refined the initial setup flow so you can get started with Astra and Starter Templates faster, with a clearer path to the exact website you want to build.
  
  What’s Improved?
• LifterLMS Compatibility – Added seamless support on the course catalog page.
• Optimized Mobile Menu Initialization – Now uses DOMContentLoaded instead of window.load, ensuring faster responsiveness on content-heavy pages.
• WooCommerce Mini Cart Styling – Improved consistency for the empty cart button design.
  
  What’s Fixed?
• Logo Visibility – Resolved an issue where the custom logo disappeared if the primary menu was empty.
• Mobile Menu Accessibility – Corrected the aria-expanded attribute not updating on mobile menu toggle buttons for flyout and fullscreen header types.
• Padding on Pages – Fixed an issue where padding was not applied on single and archive pages.
• Color Picker Alignment – Corrected the misaligned color picker in Related Posts → Design → Content Color Options.

We recommend updating to Astra 4.11.12 to take advantage of these enhancements and fixes, ensuring your site remains fast, reliable, and user-friendly.

As always, our support team is here to help if you have any questions or need assistance with the update.

Astra Theme - Everything You Need to Build Stunning Website v4.11.11
2025-09-09 - v4.11.11
* Improvement: Enhanced the loading performance of the Quantity Plus and Minus buttons by using placeholders.
* Improvement: Updated archive, special, and single pages to automatically swap left/right positioning for full RTL compatibility.
* Improvement: Refined the Site Identity section UI in the Style Guide for better clarity and usability.
* Improvement: Added a new astra_elementor_use_default_settings filter to allow skipping Elementor-specific modifications for empty posts.
* Improvement: Dark palettes (e.g., palette 4) are now correctly detected and styled as dark mode even if colors are customized.
* Improvement: Resolved custom SVG attribute conflicts to improve SVG UI rendering.
* Improvement: Added the astra_html_widget_allowed_html filter to allow custom HTML elements in header/footer HTML widgets.
* Fix: Resolved an issue where the copyright element’s bottom margin was not applied across all devices.
* Fix: Fixed an issue where HTML select/option elements were displayed as plain text in header/footer HTML widgets.
* Fix: Corrected responsive font sizing for text in the Archive Title section.
* Fix: Corrected a dynamic CSS issue in the Search Page Title section.
* Fix: Fixed Elementor CSS cache issue where page title display settings were not updated after saving posts.

Astra Theme - Everything You Need to Build Stunning Website v4.11.10

== Astra 4.11.10 Update: Accessibility Enhancements and Key Bug Fixes

Hello everyone,
We’re excited to share the release of Astra v4.11.10 – an update focused on accessibility improvements, dashboard compatibility, and key fixes to ensure a smoother site-building experience.
This release continues our mission to make Astra a lightweight, accessible, and highly compatible WordPress theme for all website creators.
What’s Improved?

• WCAG 2.0 Accessibility Compliance – Fixed duplicate menu IDs in navigation components to improve accessibility standards.
• Screen Reader Experience – Enhanced accessibility by preventing screen readers from announcing flyout navigation content when it is hidden.

What’s Fixed?

• Gutenberg Compatibility – Resolved a compatibility issue in the Astra dashboard with the Gutenberg plugin where sprintf was not defined.
• Customizer Styling – Fixed minor UI styling issues in Customizer controls for a cleaner editing experience.
• Elementor Title Sync – Corrected an issue where the post title appeared in the Elementor editor even when disabled, ensuring proper sync with Elementor’s Hide Title option.

We recommend updating to Astra 4.11.10 to benefit from these improvements and keep your site running optimally.
As always, our support team is just a click away if you have any questions or need assistance with the update.

Astra Theme - Everything You Need to Build Stunning Website v4.11.9
Astra 4.11.9 – Accessibility and Compatibility

Hello everyone,
We’re excited to share the release of Astra v4.11.9 – an update focused on accessibility improvements, better plugin compatibility, and a key fix for a smoother editing experience.
This release continues our mission to make Astra a lightweight, accessible, and highly compatible WordPress theme for all website creators.
What’s Improved?

• Enhanced Accessibility in Header Builder – Improved accessibility for Header Builder elements, especially the toggle menu, ensuring better navigation for all users.
• Better GenerateBlocks Compatibility – Improved styling compatibility to ensure block settings from the GenerateBlocks plugin display correctly across your site.

What’s Fixed?

• Elementor Meta Settings Sync – Fixed an issue where Astra meta settings in WordPress weren’t syncing correctly with the Elementor editor for newly created pages, ensuring a consistent editing experience.

We recommend updating to Astra 4.11.9 to benefit from these improvements and keep your site performing optimally.
As always, our support team is just a click away if you have any questions or need assistance with the update.

Astra Theme - Everything You Need to Build Stunning Website v4.11.8

Hello everyone,
We’re excited to announce the release of Astra v4.11.8 – a user-focused update that brings greater flexibility, accessibility enhancements, and key bug fixes to ensure a seamless experience while building your website.
This release reinforces our commitment to delivering a fast, accessible, and intuitive WordPress theme that adapts to both developers and everyday users.
What’s New ?

• Custom SVG Support in Social Icons – You can now use your own SVG code in the Social Icons widget, giving you more design control and customization flexibility.

What’s Improved ?

• Accessible Off-Canvas Navigation – We’ve improved keyboard navigation for the off-canvas menu by managing focus correctly and supporting the ESC key to close the panel. This brings us closer to full WCAG 2.1 compliance and a better experience for all users.

What’s Fixed?

• WooCommerce Mini Cart Alignment – Fixed an issue where the item count in the mini cart was misaligned, ensuring cleaner layouts.
• Customizer Taxonomy SVG Display – Resolved a bug where the remove icon for taxonomy options was showing raw SVG HTML instead of the intended icon in the Customizer.
• Dropdown Target Link Behavior – Fixed an issue where clicking on the “Dropdown Target Link” option closed the menu instead of opening its submenu.
• Cart Markup Visibility in Customizer – Prevented unintended cart HTML from displaying inside the Customizer preview before the footer area.

We recommend updating to Astra 4.11.8 to enjoy these enhancements and maintain the best performance, accessibility, and compatibility for your WordPress site.
As always, if you have any questions or need assistance, our support team is here and happy to help!

Astra Theme - Everything You Need to Build Stunning Website v4.11.7

We’re happy to share the release of Astra v4.11.7 – a maintenance update focused on improving the internal library and ensuring an even more stable experience for all users.

While this is a minor update, it includes a small library improvement to ensure Astra stays up to date behind the scenes.

What’s Improved ?

• NPS Survey Library Update – Updated the NPS Survey library to incorporate the latest enhancements.

We encourage you to update to Astra v4.11.7 to take advantage of these refinement and keep your site running at its best.

As always, our support team is just a click away if you have any questions or need assistance with the update.

Astra Theme - Everything You Need to Build Stunning Website v4.11.6

2025-07-16 - v4.11.6
* Improvement: Updated live search results background to use a dynamic color variable for better dark mode support.
* Improvement: Improved accessibility by assigning explicit roles to the header and footer widget areas to ensure proper landmark structure.
* Improvement: Added a filter to exclude specific post types (such as SureForms) from Astra meta key registration to avoid errors.
* Improvement: Prevented WooCommerce-related CSS selectors from dynamic CSS when WooCommerce is not installed or activated, reducing unnecessary output and improving code cleanliness.
* Improvement: Added consistent button styling across the editor and frontend on a fresh setup.
* Fix: Resolved a quantity update button conflict with Beaver Themer.
* Fix: Resolved an issue where WPForms styling incorrectly applied dark mode CSS when the File Generation option was enabled.
* Fix: Resolved a layout conflict between the WooPack Off-Canvas Cart module and the Beaver Themer header in Astra.