Spectra Team
June 3, 2023

Version 2.6.4

Fixes:

  • Buttons – Resolved an issue in which the button size would not work as expected in the editor after adding padding.
  • Resolved an issue with an invalid Google Maps API Key in the Embed URL implementation, ensuring functionality, and made the block dynamic for enhanced flexibility.
Spectra Team
June 1, 2023

Version 2.6.3

Fixes:

  • Post Carousel – Resolved an issue in which the posts would not show up on the front end when the number of columns was greater than the number of posts.
  • Separator – Removed the block preview image from the Style Book.
Spectra Team
May 31, 2023

Version 2.6.2

New:

  • Introducing the Inherit From Theme option – Choose to make buttons in Spectra blocks inherit their styles from the theme.

Improvements:

  • Icon List – Added the functionality to create a new list item when pressing the enter key inside the Icon List block.
  • Global – Updated the hover box shadow generation, added shadow transitions and added optional hover shadow separation.

Fixes:

  • Container – Fixed an issue where setting a text color for a heading from a child container would affect all other headings on the page.
  • Call To Action – Resolved an issue in the responsive view wherein the button would become taller when using an additional button.
  • Forms – Resolved an issue in which the custom class for Forms block uag-col-2 was not working as intended on the front end.
  • Image Gallery – Removed the additional bottom spacing in the masonry layout that would appear on certain themes.
  • Image Gallery – Resolved an issue in which the masonry layout would appear stacked for a brief moment on load.
  • Image Gallery – Resolved an issue in FSE themes wherein the lightbox would have an extra top margin on the front end.
  • Post Carousel – Resolved an issue in which preset layout 4 would not show as a slider on the front end.
  • Post Carousel – Resolved an issue in which the carousel would appear as a grid for some time on load.
  • Post Carousel – Resolved an issue in the FSE ( Full Site Editing ) template in which the arrows would overflow the page.
  • Table Of Contents – Resolved an issue in which the Table Of Contents block would overflow the Container in Full Site Editing (FSE) themes.
  • Table Of Contents – Resolved an issue in which the uagb-toc-hide-heading class would not work on core heading blocks in the front end.
  • Taxonomy – Resolved an issue in which the number of columns would not work as required for responsive devices on the front end.
  • Team – Resolved an issue in which the alignment would not function properly when the Team block is used in RTL mode.
  • Spectra Custom CSS – Resolved Conflict with Astra Custom Layout Sticky Settings.
  • Global – Resolved an issue in which the CSS would not load in the front end in edge cases.
  • Global – Resolved an issue wherein the border would overlap parts of the background images and gradients.
Spectra Team
May 19, 2023

Version 2.6.1

Improvement:

  • Added Premium Templates in Template Kits library.

Fixes:

  • Admin Dashboard – Added missing i18n support for some strings.
  • Admin Dashboard – ‘Activate all’ and ‘Deactivate all’ previously had no impact on the status of Animations extension.
  • Animations Extension – Resolved the ‘Error loading’ issue for dynamic blocks that was caused by animation attributes.
  • CF7 Designer – Resolved an issue with CF7 Styler where CSS of custom classes were not being applied correctly to multiple column fields.
  • Image Gallery – Resolved an issue in which the ‘show on hover’ border color for bar-type captions would not work as intended.
Spectra Team
May 17, 2023

Version 2.6.0

New:

  • Introducing the Popup Builder – Create sitewide Popups and Info Bars with ease!
  • Introducing the Animations extension – Give a new life to your page with some scroll-based entrance animations.
  • Introducing the Separator block – Divide your page content in style.

Improvements:

  • Heading – Added the functionality to move onto a new paragraph when pressing the enter key inside the Heading block.
  • Countdown – Added the Countdown block to the list of Core Blocks.
  • Typography – Added ‘Bebas Neue’ Google font in Font Families.

Fixes:

  • Container – Resolved an issue in which the content box width would not apply in the editor inside the column core block.
  • Container – Resolved an issue where the video/image background styling was not working as expected on the front-end.
  • Image – Resolved an issue where an error would occur when we try to crop the image.
  • Buttons – Fixed the issue in which the text hover color would apply to the icon when the icon is enabled.
  • Info Box –  Resolved an issue in which the prefix margin would not be applied on the front-end.
  • Forms – Fixed an issue on form submission failure in FSE themes.
  • Image Gallery – Resolved an issue wherein the carousel images would initially appear big on load.
  • Form – Resolved an issue in which the forms were not being submitted when the block is used inside the footer widget.
  • Masonry Gallery Extension – Resolved an issue in which the Masonry Gallery extension would not work as intended in the FSE.
  • Masonry Gallery – Resolved an issue in which the reset button did not work as intended.
  • Modal – Resolved an issue with the close button in Astra’s custom layout action hook `before_add_to_card_form`.
  • Modal – Resolved an issue wherein the alignment of the block moves to the center from the left when inside the Container.
  • Post Blocks – Resolved an issue wherein the Spectra Heading and Container blocks were not displayed in post excerpts.
  • Post Grid – Resolved a pagination bug in Post Grid that affected the other grid’s pagination.
  • Slider – Fixed an issue that was causing the Slider block to malfunction when used in the Full Site Editing (FSE) template and widget editors.
  • Table Of Contents – Updated the front-end preview UI to match in the “Inside Post/Page Content” type of Astra’s Custom Layout.
  • Table Of Contents – Resolved an issue wherein the gap between lists setting would not work as required on the front-end.
  • Tabs – Set the tab title default color to ‘inherit’ to prevent it from taking the link color from the theme.
  • Taxonomy List – Resolved an issue where the child taxonomy links would show the link of the parent taxonomy.
  • Multi-buttons Control – Resolved a console issue that occurs when setAttributes is not defined.
  • Custom CSS – Added support for Custom CSS on the front-end for WP Core blocks without requiring a Spectra block to be present.
  • Global – Resolved an issue wherein a PHP error would appear for the Full Site Editing (FSE) font compatibility feature.
  • Global – Fixed an issue wherein a Google error would appear when loading Google Fonts locally with a specific font weight and family set to default.
  • Global – Fixed a font resource URL breakage issue that occurs when the provided ‘google_font’ array contains a font family with an empty string.
  • Global – Updated dynamic styling to load in FSE (Full Site Editing) template pages in the front-end for reusable blocks.
Spectra Team
April 28, 2023

Version 2.5.1

Features:

  • You can now add Google Fonts to Block Based Themes from Spectra Dashboard.

Fixes:

  • Counter – Added support for use within Slider (previously not working within Slider when it’s set to infinite loop).
  • Buttons – Gap settings on Mobile preview is taking desktop value as default.
  • Modal – Container background do not get border radius.
  • Modal – Background not applying properly when custom width is set.
  • Resolve an issue of PHP error appear for block-based widget editor.
  • Table Of Contents – Removed the console warning that was thrown for an empty collapsible Table Of Contents block.
Spectra Team
April 25, 2023

Version 2.5.0

New:

  • Spectra now has support for the all-new Spectra Pro!

Improvements:

  • Global – Improved the editor performance.
  • Global – Added Advanced options in Gradient Component.

Fixes:

  • Container – Resolved an issue where the heading tags were not inheriting the color from the theme or the Container.
  • Container – Removed Z-index restrictions that caused Image Gallery Lightboxes to get overlapped by other content.
  • Container – Handled the full-width issue encountered with the Neve theme on the front-end.
  • Container – Fixed settings link control’s unlink functionality.
  • Heading – Removed the extra padding that was visible in the editor.
  • Image – Resolved an issue where the width and height tags would not appear when an image is uploaded.
  • Image – Removed the extra spacing and fixed the escaping container size issue in FSE themes.
  • Image – Resolved an issue in which the image sizing was incorrectly set for mobile devices on the front-end.
  • Countdown – Fixed separator line-height mismatch between the editor and the front-end.
  • Forms – Resolved an accessibility issue wherein the field labels for date and toggle child were missing.
  • Image Gallery – Replaced the null array focus list with an optimized object.
  • Image Gallery – Updated the carousel gap to work as required.
  • Modal – Removed the trigger alignment option for automatic, custom ID and custom class trigger types.
  • Post Carousel – Resolved an issue in the TwentyTwentyone theme wherein the hover styles for arrows and dots were mismatched in the editor and front-end.
  • Post Carousel – Resolved an issue in which the gap between posts was not visible when only 2 posts were present.
  • Slider – Updated dot color setting to avoid taking the background color of arrows.
  • Table Of Contents – Resolved an HTML validation issue in the HTML validator.
  • Advanced Columns – Resolved an issue in which the border radius was not getting applied in the front-end.
  • Controls – Updated control UI to render seamlessly when in RTL mode.
  • Spacing Control – Removed the capability to set negative values for width and border radius settings.
  • Typography Control – Removed the capability to set negative values for line height and font size settings.
  • Global – Resolved an issue in which fonts would not load in the customizer when Spectra blocks are used in Astra theme’s header/footer section.
  • Global – Updated the mobile settings to inherit tablet setting values in the editor instead of inheriting desktop values.
Spectra Team
April 25, 2023

Version 2.4.2

Fixes:

  • Container – Updated default content width for block-based themes to wide Size.
Spectra Team
April 3, 2023

Version 2.4.1

Improvements:

  • Updated Spectra to work with WordPress 6.2 and Full Site Editing (FSE) themes.
  • Added filter to enable/disable core responsive condition.
  • Resolved the Spectra blocks editor spacing conflict with the Blocksy theme.

Fixes:

  • Image – Resolved an issue where the image caption was visible twice in the editor when a caption is enabled.
  • Inline Notice – Resolved an issue where the content color and typography were not working in the editor.
  • Modal – Resolved an issue where the Info box as an inner block was not loading in the Modal when Gutenberg was activated.
  • Social Share – Optimized PHP code for legacy users causing an error due array_merge() parameter issues.
  • Taxonomy List – Added the missing translation for the Select string in the PHP code.
  • Post Grid – Resolved an issue where pagination was not visible inside the editor.
Spectra Team
March 15, 2023

Version 2.4.0

New:

  • Introducing the Countdown block that will help you generate hype and create a sense of urgency among your audience, during product sales or releases!
  • Introducing the Icon block that allows you to add FontAwesome 6 icons on your website with tonnes of styling options.

Feature:

  • Image Gallery – Added a new lightbox feature with all the essential customizability that you’ll need.

Improvements:

  • Performance – Optimized the editor performance for all Spectra Blocks.
  • Performance – Improved the archive page speed.
  • Image Gallery – Added a dropdown to select the image size for all the images in the gallery.
  • Custom CSS – Disabled the option for “on page-level CSS”.
  • Typography – Added Fahkwang and Jost Google Fonts in Font Families.
  • Typography – Added Zen dots Google font in Font Families.
  • Display Conditions – Added a “Day” option to display Spectra blocks on specific days.

Fixes:

  • Container – Resolved the full-width issue when adding a Container block inside the Slider block.
  • Container – Resolved an issue where the content was misaligned vertically when the background type was set to “video”.
  • Image – Resolve an issue that was encountered when the Gutenberg plugin was activated.
  • Image – Updated the image dimensions width & height box as per the Spectra UI guidelines.
  • Buttons – Fixed the stack orientation and responsive alignment settings not working as expected on the front end.
  • Info Box – Resolved an issue where the icon was misaligned on tablet/mobile when padding was added.
  • Info Box – Updated the CTA hover styling on the front end.
  • Call To Action – Resolved an issue where the additional button’s icon color was not changing on hover in the front end.
  • Forms- Resolved an issue where the form submit throws a success message without adding the “To” email address field.
  • Forms/Tabs/Table Of Contents – Resolved an issue where the JS throws an error in the console on blog/home page.
  • Post Timeline – Resolved an issue where the left padding was not applicable on the front end.
  • Team – Resolved an issue where images were not working as expected on responsive device presets.
  • Display Conditions – Fixed the undefined key/index when the Operating System is set to none.
  • Responsive Conditions – Updated slanted lines visibility for Counter and Slider Blocks.
  • Responsive Conditions – Slanted lines not visible for Post timeline and Content timeline Blocks.
  • Global – Updated Border Settings to remove all Border CSS when set to “default”.
  • Global – Excluded BR Tags from buttons’ text.
  • Global – Cartflows templates throw an error in the editor’s Spectra Page Settings.
  • Global – Fonts were not loading on the 404 page when Spectra blocks were used in the Astra theme’s header/footer.