Hello Starter Templates users,

We’re releasing Starter Templates v4.7.2 — broader importer support (SureMembers, SureCookie, Spectra Blocks), a cleaner Finish Setup experience, and a set of AI Builder polish and fixes.

What’s Improved?

• Added SureCookie (Cookie Consent) to the features selection step in the onboarding flow.
• Importer: Spectra Blocks plugin is now installed from the WordPress.org repository during import, removing the temporary hardcoded download URL.
• Importer: Added SureMembers import support — access group, post, and term ID remapping across restriction rule metas, restricted-content post meta, shortcodes, and block attributes.
• Finish Setup: Show the Website Pages action item in the Finish Setup checklist when the standalone Spectra Blocks plugin is active.
• Design Kit: Version toggle no longer appears when UAGB is inactive, even if stale database options from a previous install are present.
• AI Builder: Import progress screen improvements.

What’s Fixed?

• AI Builder: Template search now correctly handles multiple keywords and keywords containing spaces or special characters.
• AI Builder: Prevent Spectra Blocks onboarding redirect after activation during import by updating to the renamed redirect and onboarding options.
• AI Builder: Corrected typos in user-facing error messages.

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We recommend updating to Starter Templates v4.7.2 for the latest improvements and fixes.

Best,
Team Starter Templates

Hello Starter Templates users,

We’re releasing Starter Templates v4.7.1 — a small patch fixing an AI Builder loading-screen glitch and an image replacement issue in V3 template imports.

What’s Fixed?

• AI Builder: Progress loader jump and content alignment on the building-website screen.
• Importer: Selected images were not replaced in content for V3 templates using core Image and Spectra v3 Container blocks.

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We recommend updating to Starter Templates v4.7.1 for the latest fixes.

Best,
Team Starter Templates

Hello Starter Templates users,

We’re releasing Starter Templates v4.7.0 — a feature-packed update with broader plugin compatibility, a redesigned AI Builder loading experience, and a set of Design Kit improvements.

What’s New?

• Added compatibility for the SureDonation plugin.
• Added SureMembers Core plugin compatibility to prevent onboarding redirect during template import.
• AI Builder: Added a feature card carousel to the loading screen with auto-advancing dot navigation, gradient progress ring, and support CTA.
• Design Kit: Added a consent popup that installs and activates the required Spectra and form plugins before a pattern is inserted, with a tooltip on the Insert button listing the required plugin.
• Design Kit: Added compatibility for the Spectra Blocks plugin.

What’s Improved?

• AI Builder: The loading screen now handles failures gracefully with a credit-restore message, retry that rebuilds the site, and a stall timeout.
• Importer: Added compatibility for the SureCart Product Form block to correctly remap product IDs after template import.
• Design Kit: Pattern import no longer shows the upfront ZipWP connection prompt.

What’s Fixed?

• Fixed the ecommerce platform selection step showing incorrectly for templates without a SureCart variant.
• AI Builder: Listbox language selection crash and tooltip rendering issue while using the Google Auto-Translate wizard.
• Design Kit: Auto-open Design Library no longer closes third-party plugin modals.
• Design Kit: Improved sanitization of imported block content in the block and template-kit importers. Uses raw context in sanitize_post_field to preserve Gutenberg block comment delimiters.
• Design Kit: Self-host the Inter and Figtree fonts used by the Design Library / template importer UI instead of fetching from fonts.googleapis.com.

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We recommend updating to Starter Templates v4.7.0 for the latest features, improvements, and fixes.

Best,
Team Starter Templates

Hello Starter Templates users,

We’re releasing Starter Templates v4.6.3 — bringing Spectra Blocks compatibility to AI Builder imports and adding a version selector for sites running Spectra Legacy.

What’s New?

• Added Spectra Blocks plugin compatibility for Classic Builder and AI Builder template imports.

What’s Improved?

• Added a version selector for sites with Spectra Legacy installed, allowing users to switch between Spectra Legacy and Spectra Blocks template designs.

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We recommend updating to Starter Templates v4.6.3 for the latest improvements.

Best,
Team Starter Templates

Hello Starter Templates users,

We’re releasing Starter Templates v4.6.2 — improving AI Builder import reliability on slower hosts and shipping a few targeted fixes.

What’s Improved?

• AI Builder: AI-generated template imports now retry key steps when the server is slow to respond, instead of failing immediately — improving reliability on slower or shared hosting.

What’s Fixed?

• Prevent Spectra onboarding redirect after activation during import process.
• AI Builder: Prevented legacy batch processing from overwriting Elementor page data during AI template imports.
• AI Builder: Show a dedicated reconnect prompt when the connected ZipWP organization is no longer found.

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We recommend updating to Starter Templates v4.6.2 for the latest improvements and fixes.

Best,
Team Starter Templates

Hello Starter Templates users,

We’re releasing Starter Templates v4.6.1 — a small update adding SureContact to the onboarding flow and improving template import reliability on slower hosts.

What’s New?

• Added SureContact (CRM & Contacts) to the features selection step in the onboarding flow.

What’s Improved?

• Template imports are now more reliable on slower or shared hosting — key import steps will automatically retry if the server takes too long to respond, instead of failing immediately.

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We recommend updating to Starter Templates v4.6.1 for the latest improvements.

Best,
Team Starter Templates

Hello Starter Templates users,

We’re releasing Starter Templates v4.6.0 — bringing WordPress 7.0 compatibility, a redesigned plugin install/activation step, and a wide set of AI Builder and Importer fixes.

What’s Improved?

• Compatibility with WordPress 7.0.
• Prevented Power Coupons from redirecting to its onboarding after template import.
• Logo and other customizer images are now correctly replaced with media library URLs after template import.
• Import: Redesigned the plugin install/activation step with per-plugin status, inline retry, and clearer error messages so users can recover from individual plugin failures without restarting the import.

What’s Fixed?

• Prevented PHP fatal in filesystem helper when running on FTP-based hosts without WordPress credentials.
• Astra Pro enabled extensions were not being applied after template import.
• AI Builder: Template cards now load with their default color palette instead of a random one; shuffle only applies on button click.
• AI Builder: Temporarily reverted popup-based ZipWP authentication to same-tab redirect to resolve environment-specific issues.
• AI Builder: Logo and other customizer images are now correctly replaced with media library URLs after template import.
• AI Builder: Resolved blank organization and plan name in the Limit Reached modal when connecting ZipWP account mid-flow.
• AI Builder: Resolved a crash on the contact details step caused by invalid saved social media data.
• AI Builder: Custom color palette selection no longer crashes the design step when the default palette has not yet been hydrated.
• Free Images: Improved REST API compliance — return WP_REST_Response/WP_Error, add sanitize_callback to route args, and use esc_url_raw( wp_unslash() ) for URL sanitization.

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We recommend updating to Starter Templates v4.6.0 for the latest improvements and fixes.

Best,
Team Starter Templates

Hello Starter Templates users,

We’re releasing Starter Templates v4.5.4 — a maintenance update focused on import reliability fixes, template visibility improvements, and security hardening.

What’s Fixed?

• Clean up stale import flags from failed/interrupted imports plus deactivation/uninstall cleanup of import state options.
• Fixed some templates not appearing on the onboarding templates listing screen due to an incorrect total template count.
• Fixed search results label displaying colon after the search term instead of before it.
• AI Builder: Content duplication on retry after failed site import.
• Importer: Record batch processing start timestamp for stale import flag detection.
• Importer: Strip residual websitedemos.net URLs from customizer settings and Spectra container block attributes during classic-template imports.
• Importer: Resolved fatal errors during content import on hosts where set_time_limit is disabled, and when another plugin defines a global Api, Admin, Ajax, Plugin, or Register class.

Security

• AI Builder: Hardened ZipWP auth postMessage handling by validating origin and source window to prevent CSRF-based credential overwrite (CWE-352) – (Props – Nhan Tran Van).

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We recommend updating to Starter Templates v4.5.4 for the latest fixes and security improvements.

Best,
Team Starter Templates

Hello Starter Templates users,

We’re releasing Starter Templates v4.5.3 — a hotfix that resolves a critical error affecting some configurations.

What’s Fixed?

• Fatal Error Fix: Resolved a fatal error caused by a missing Astra_Notices class.

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We recommend updating to Starter Templates v4.5.3 immediately if you encountered this error after the previous update.

Best,
Team Starter Templates