What's New with Starter Templates

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.

 Improvement:

• Don’t display sites from both the page builders in the same view.
• Merge Whitelabel settings with the Astra Pro White label settings so that all the white label related settings can be managed from a single view.

Fix:

• Astra Sites admin area not working in the Firefox.

New

• Added white label support.
• Added filter `astra_sites_menu_item` for adding extra tabs in admin page.
• Added back image import feature for `elementor` page builder. In batch image import we import all images from Astra site into client site.

Improvement

• Updated JS code with object prototype.

Fix

• Screen bounce on retina devices.

Enhancement

• Improvement: Added support for retina logo import.
• Fix: Site logo image not displayed in customizer.

Bug Fix

• Fix: Updated `Astra Business Toolkit` purchase link.

New

• New: Added page builder categories for listing sites as pre page builder.

Enhancement

• Enhancement: Disabled dismiss-able notice visible once for each user.
• Enhancement: Showing error message for for user who have not manage_plugins capability.

Bug Fix

• Fix: Beaver Builder option import.

Bug Fix

•  Fix: Custom Menu widget not setting imported widget.
•  Fix: Improved the animation of the License Activation popup.