What's New with Starter Templates

Improvements

• Some users reported confusion in the default option of choosing page builder. We have made UX improvements so users now must select the Page Builder first before selecting any website.

New:

• Added filter astra_sites_xml_import_options to change the XML import options.

Fix:

• Astra Pro plugin ‘Custom Layouts’ & ‘Page Headers’ not setting right display location due to different page, tax, category ids.
• WooCommerce shop, checkout cart page ids not setting issue.
• After site import updated demo url from the nav menus.

New:

• Added SVG file support for importing the SVG images.

Improvement:

• Importing WooCommerce product category images.
• Retain WooCommerce cart, checkout & my account pages when importing the ready WooCommerce sites.

Fix:

Disabled WooCommerce plugin setup wizard after plugin install & activate.

Improvement:

• Retain WooCommerce shop page when importing the ready WooCommerce sites.

Fix:

• Force check bundle plugins.
• Handling plugin installation errors.

Improvement:

• Change the API URL for Astra sites to https://websitedemos.net/ from https://sites.wpastra.com/

New:

• Import the site content using Event Source (SSE) which ensures faithful imports.
• We have divided the site import process into separate AJAX calls to reduce the possibility of timeouts.
• Generated the import log file. It will be displayed in the UI if the import fails.

Improvement:

• Validate all the possible errors.
• Updated Astra sites HTML grid structure for WordPress v4.9 compatibility.
• Updated plugin name from `Astra Sites – Lite` with `Starter Templates`.

New:

All the linked images in a site will now be downloaded on the client server in WordPress media library. No more loading images from external URLs! This is a major improvement since imported sites will no more rely on our servers ?

Next, we have made it easy to preview how a website looks on small devices before importing:

Besides these new changes, we’ve added a box to collect suggestions for new sites. If you have ideas, please feel free to let us know!

Other Improvements:

• Now Search string will not be removed after switching the page builder.
• Loading 15 sites instead of 6 Astra sites in the first load.
• Removed LazyLoad which is not useful in admin back-end for showing Astra Sites.

New:

• Browsing the Astra Sites in the Admin panel is not faster with JS rendering.