What's New in Spectra

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.

Improvements:

• Global – Removed Backward compatibility of button padding for old users from multiple blocks.
• Global – Updated SVG icons rendering conditions & optimized the loading.

Fixes:

• Container – Full height and Fixed background Image not working properly on the editor.
• Info-Box – CTA padding not working on responsive devices.
• Heading – Disabling heading and sub-heading hides the separator.
• Forms – Using form inside inner blocks, it was showing an error on submit.
• Background control – Image has the wrong units for custom positioning.

Improvements:

• Updated Gutenberg Templates Library.

Fixes:

• Post Block – PHP comment appears on the front end.

Security Fix:

• Props to Patchstack for reporting security issues. Those are fixed in this release. Plus we’ve hardened security in other areas of the plugin.

Improvements:

Modal – Added presets for a button trigger.

Fixes:

• Forms – Multiple Form Submit AJAX-related issues.
• Gradient Picker – Block encounters an error when using gradient picker for Spectra block when Gutenberg is activated.
• Timeline – Unable to set connector Icon Background Size to zero.

Fixes:

• Info-Box – Margin unit set to px after refresh in editor.
• Post Block – First post is getting empty when post block used on shop page.
• Background processing issues in some cases.

New:

• Introducing the Slider block that allows you to make almost anything into a carousel, a good way to grab attention!

Improvements:

• Added support for Astra’s 4.0 theme menu position next to the Dashboard in admin.

Fixes:

• Container – Adding padding to paragraph cause uneven space and cross the boundary of container on responsive devices.
• Container – Background video goes out the boundary of the container if we have rounded corner.
• Image Gallery – When adding any of the HTML code or adding the link, the visibility of that caption gets changed to always visible
• Image Gallery – Broken links were shown in the gallery on frontend when added to caption.
• Icon List – Disable link for the list item, it turns on the toggle again.
• Testimonial – Carousel dots overlapping on below blocks in the mobile device.
• Post Grid – Undefined array key issue.
• How-To – Image is not visible when image selected from Image control.
• Image – Does not wrap with paragraph.
• Tabs – Container get hidden inside tabs body whenever use.
• Global – Buttons – Removed the WP default allowedFormats from the toolbar.
• Global – SVG Icons for blocks look big after switching to responsive devices inside the editor.
• Deprecated: Global – Removed deprecated toolbar and multiline for rich text.

New:

• Introducing the Modal block that will help you to show your own customized popups on the page and turn your visitors into subscribers and leads!

Improvements:

• Global – Added hover color accessibility to the Spectra block with a button.
• Counter – Bar Layout – Added toggle to flip/swap the positions of the bar and title.

Fixes:

• Container – Resolved the issue where the list items overflow inside a Container on responsive devices.
• Image – Resolved the issue where the alignments are ineffective inside a Container on the front end.
• Buttons – Page scroll to the top when the hash link is added and refresh on click when the hash is removed.
• Post Grid – Equal Height is not functional in the Post Grid block.
• Tabs – Removed the WP default Link option from the toolbar for the tabs title field.
• Testimonial – Block break when we reduce the number of testimonials to 2.
• Block Transform – The theme pallet color for the default theme does not carry forward when block transform.
• Global: Typography – Resolved Google font console errors.

Improvements:

• Call To Action – Added a width option for the CTA buttons.
• Forms – Added a gradient background option for the submit button.
• Table Of Contents – Added unique IDs for headings that have the same text.
• Typography Control – Allowed negative values for letter spacing.

Fixes:

• Container – Resolved an issue where the boxed container width would break when inside other blocks.
• Container – Resolved an issue in which the background image position control goes missing when the viewport is changed.
• Forms – Resolved an issue wherein settings a checkbox with a required condition would enforce the user to check all the checkboxes before submitting the form.
• Marketing Button – Implemented support to make the background and hover colors persist for older users (V1.25.6).
• Post Carousel/Masonry – Resolved an issue where the featured images for posts were not visible.
• Post Carousel – Resolved an issue in which the static CSS was not loaded on the front end.
• Separator Control – Removed the unwanted space that was added when the separator is used.