Hello Starter Templates users,

This update focuses on improving the Design Kit workflow and making AI-powered imports more seamless, especially when working with patterns and images.

What’s New?

Design Kit – Design Library on New Pages:
Newly created pages can now directly access Design Library patterns, making it faster to build consistent layouts from the start.

What’s Improved?

Design Kit – Improved ZipWP Connection Flow:
Refined the ZipWP connection process to open in a new window while preserving the Design Library state, resulting in a smoother and less disruptive user experience.

Design Kit – Expanded Pattern Import Support:
Design Library patterns can now be imported into inner containers and the popup builder, removing previous structural limitations.

AI Builder – Smarter Image Selection:
When image selection is skipped during import, AI Builder now automatically selects relevant images based on the business context, reducing manual effort and improving visual consistency.

We recommend updating to the latest version to take advantage of these workflow improvements and enhanced AI behavior. As always, our support team is ready to help if you run into any issues.

Best,
Team Starter Templates

Hello Starter Templates users,

We’re excited to bring you Starter Templates v4.4.48 — a release that adds better navigation support and resolves a few important import-related issues.

What’s New?

• Command Palette Compatibility: Starter Templates now supports the WordPress Command Palette with multiple navigation commands, allowing instant access using the Cmd + K / Ctrl + K keyboard shortcut.

What’s Improved?

• Smoother Post-Import Experience: Prevented unwanted redirections triggered by the Cart Abandonment Recovery and Modern Cart plugins after template import.

What’s Fixed?

• Customizer Import Reliability: Resolved an issue where the Customizer import could fail in certain cases, such as after refreshing the page.
• CLI Booking Templates: Fixed an issue affecting booking templates imported via the CLI command.

We recommend updating to Starter Templates v4.4.48 to benefit from these enhancements and fixes. And as always, our support team is here if you need help!

Best,
Team Starter Templates

Hello Starter Templates users,

We’re back with Starter Templates v4.4.47 — a release focused on improving import reliability and resolving edge-case issues to ensure a smoother site-building experience.

What’s Improved?

• Stronger Imports: Enhanced the plugin data import process with additional checks and a retry mechanism to prevent potential errors and ensure more reliable imports.

What’s Fixed?

• WooCommerce Compatibility: Resolved a plugin activation issue with Modern Cart for WooCommerce by ensuring it loads only after WooCommerce is activated.
• Design Kit Stability: Fixed cache conflicts in lazy-loaded chunks that could occur during version rollbacks.

We recommend updating to Starter Templates v4.4.47 to benefit from these stability and reliability improvements. And as always, our support team is here if you need assistance!

Best,
Team Starter Templates

Hello Starter Templates users,

We’re excited to roll out Starter Templates v4.4.46 — a release focused on expanding AI Builder capabilities and refining the overall import experience.

What’s Improved?

• AI Builder Sales Funnels: WooCommerce-enabled AI templates now include a Sales Funnels option with eCommerce, helping you create conversion-focused flows more easily.
• Imports: We’ve improved the template import experience to make site setup more reliable.

We recommend updating to Starter Templates v4.4.46 to take advantage of these enhancements. And as always, our support team is here if you need assistance!

Best,
Team Starter Templates

Hello Starter Templates users,

This update focuses on making imports more reliable, improving UI consistency, and fixing edge-case issues that could affect the setup experience.

What’s Improved?

• Duplicate Content Prevention: Enhanced the import process to prevent duplicate content in some rare cases.
• Feature Plugin List UI: Improved the feature plugin list interface to avoid duplicate entries.
• SureCart Block Support: Added support for the SureCart checkout form block during batch processing.
• Design Kit Compatibility: Added compatibility for the reorganized Astra Color Palette in Design Kits.

What’s Fixed?

• CLI Imports: Fixed an issue where widgets were missing during CLI-based imports.
• Template Preview: Resolved an issue with the eCommerce option selection in the template preview screen.
• Memory Limit Handling: Improved error handling around memory-limit checks to avoid unexpected failures.
• Free Images Media Uploader: Fixed an issue where the “Select” button text was incorrect due to media frame conflicts with other plugins.

We recommend updating to the latest version of Starter Templates to benefit from these improvements and fixes. As always, our support team is here if you need assistance!

Best,
Team Starter Templates

Hello Starter Templates users,

We’re back with an update focused on improving AI Builder controls, refining import behavior, and resolving UI issues for a smoother onboarding experience.

What’s New?

• AI Builder Account Controls: You can now quickly switch teams or disconnect your AI plan directly from the Zip Plan info modal, making account management more accessible.

What’s Improved?

• SureCart Product Setup: The product creation flow now uses template products when available, resulting in a more streamlined and consistent setup experience.
• Cleaner Imports: The importer now skips irrelevant site-specific meta keys to ensure faster and more accurate template imports.

What’s Fixed?

• AI Builder Search: Fixed an issue where the search box would stop responding after clearing the keyword and searching again.
• Console Warnings: Eliminated console warnings during the onboarding flow for a cleaner and more stable experience.

We recommend updating to the latest version to enjoy these enhancements. And as always, our support team is here if you need help!

Best,
Team Starter Templates

Hello Starter Templates users,

Starter Templates v4.4.43 is here with improvements that strengthen multisite workflows and ensure smoother theme and template imports.

What’s improved?

• Improved Multisite Support for AI Builder: Subsite admins can now seamlessly import AI templates, making multisite setups more flexible than ever.

What’s Fixed?

• Astra Theme Installation: Resolved the “folder already exists” error by gracefully handling cases where the Astra theme directory already exists.
• WP-CLI Imports: Fixed issues affecting template imports triggered through CLI commands.

We recommend updating to Starter Templates v4.4.43 to benefit from these improvements. And as always, our support team is here if you need assistance!

Best,
Team Starter Templates

Hello Starter Templates users,

We’re rolling out Starter Templates v4.4.42 — a release focused on stability, security, and removing compatibility for deprecated components.

What’s Fixed?

• Reliable Elementor Imports: Exceptions that occurred during Elementor template imports are now gracefully handled, preventing potential fatal errors when updating site options.
• AI Builder Routing: Fixed an issue where the ai-builder route was incorrectly replaced with astra-sites, which caused access errors on page refresh.

Security Fix

• Addressed an important security bug. Props to WordFence for reporting it responsibly. Please update to the latest version for continued security on your site.

Miscellaneous

• Plugin Cleanup: Sunset compatibility for the discontinued Checkout Plugins – Stripe for WooCommerce plugin to keep the codebase clean and up-to-date.

We recommend updating to Starter Templates v4.4.42 to benefit from these stability and security enhancements. As always, our support team is here if you need anything!

Best,
Team Starter Templates

Hello Starter Templates users,

This update brings improved compatibility and a better import experience for users in restricted regions.

What’s Improved?

• AI Builder: For users in Russia, AI Builder will now automatically use the Unsplash image engine since Pexels is blocked regionally, ensuring imports work without interruption.

We recommend updating to the latest version of Starter Templates to take advantage of these improvements. As always, our support team is here if you need help!

Best,
Team Starter Templates