What's New in Spectra

This update includes the following bug-fixes:

Fixes:

• Dynamic Content – Resolved an issue wherein the disable link would not work as intended for the post-terms source.
• Dynamic Content – Resolved an issue wherein the dynamic image with the overlay layout in the Loop Builder would redirect to the current page when clicked on.

We are pleased to announce Spectra 2.9.1 – With WordPress 6.4 Compatibility!

This update comes to you with a few great improvements and a tonne of fixes to enhance your website building experience!

But here’s the best part – You can safely update your website to WordPress 6.4 without having to worry about Spectra’s compatibility – we’ve handled that in this update for you.

So what are you waiting for, update Spectra now!

Improvements:

• Container – Added a fallback image option for the video background type.
• Container – Added a new ‘Centralized Position’ setting for custom image background positioning.
• Global – Added the new ‘X’ logo for Twitter into the icon library.

Fixes:

• Container – Resolved an issue wherein the background video opacity would not work as intended.
• Container – Resolved an issue wherein the flex properties would not work as intended on the front-end when blocks were added inside a video-background Container.
• Buttons – Resolved an issue in which the margins added to the button group would get overridden by child button margins.
• FAQ – Resolved an issue in which the default content padding would appear differently in the editor and the front-end.
• Form – Added a note for the Form block regarding duplicate name fields requiring distinct labels.
• Icon List – Resolved an issue wherein the vertical alignment would not appear as intended in the editor’s mobile view.
• Post Grid/Carousel/Timeline – Resolved an issue wherein a `preg_replace` warning could appear.
• Slider – Resolved an issue wherein the block would not work as intended in the Astra widget customizer.
• Table Of Contents – Resolved an issue wherein the Table Of Contents collapse feature would not work as intended.
• Global – Resolved an issue with Full Site Editing (FSE) in which changes applied to page templates would not be visible when File Generation was enabled.
• Global – Resolved an issue in which the Spectra blocks were unable to be previewed in the widget editor customizer.

We are pleased to announce Spectra Pro 1.1, which brings the much awaited Global Block Styles for Spectra!

With Global Block Styles, you can create and sync styles for Spectra blocks across your site. This means that all you have to do is update the styles on one block to make the changes appear sitewide!

You can find our more from here.

New:

• Introducing Global Block Styles – Create global styles and use them for core Spectra blocks across your site!

Fix:

• Dynamic Content – Resolved an issue wherein the Image block would not render correctly on the front end when using Pods.

We are pleased to announce Spectra 2.9, which adds support for Global Block Styles into Spectra’s Core Blocks!

With this update, Spectra Pro’s Global Block Styles will be available for all of Spectra’s Core Blocks!

But that’s not all, we’ve also made Container editing easier, added in a new vertical align feature for buttons, and a whole lot more!

New:

• Core Blocks – Added Global Block Style support for core blocks.

Improvements:

• Container – Enhanced the accessibility of nested Containers.
• Buttons – Added a new vertical alignment option.
• Admin – Made the welcome video GDPR compliant and added a filter to hide it.

Fixes:

• Container – Resolved an issue wherein the core Social Share block would get centered by default inside Containers.
• Form – Resolved an issue that caused form submissions to fail when the reCAPTCHA badge was hidden with v3 enabled.
• Image Gallery – Resolved an issue in which the custom link validation would fail when the root domain contained hyphens.
• Lottie – Resolved an issue in which the SVG alignment would not work as intended in the TwentyTwentyThree theme.
• Lottie – Resolved an issue in which the width of the block would be adopted from the parent Container.
• Global – Resolved an issue wherein a block error would occur when attempting to select typography font-families in the presence of multiple iFrames.
• Global – Resolved an issue wherein adding Containers, Forms, Lottie blocks and the Popup Builder would cause errors when the Gutenberg plugin was active.
• Global – Resolved an issue wherein the ‘normal’ text-transformation option would not work as intended.

Improvements:

• Animations – Added a new one-click button in Containers to animate all inner-blocks.

We are pleased to announce Spectra 2.8, with the all new Sticky feature for Containers and the enhanced Site Visibility Mode!

With Sticky Containers, you can create a seamless UI by sticking containers into place when the page is scrolled. Stick them to the top or bottom of the screen, or even restrict them to stick only inside the parent container – Make the content that matters persist.

With our Site Visibilty improvements, you now get both Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode – Keep your visitors informed and maintain SEO health by using the appropriate HTTP response codes, optimizing the user experience and search engine recognition.

Feature:

• Container – Added a new Sticky-Container setting in the Advanced tab.
• Site Visibility – Improved the Coming-Soon Mode by adding the Maintenance Mode feature.

Improvements:

• Container – Updated responsive padding settings to inherit from bigger devices by default.
• Buttons – Added alignment options to both the child and parent blocks in the block controls toolbar.
• Buttons – Reduced the default number of buttons to 1.
• Form – Made the default recipient as the current user’s WordPress email address when the `To` field is left empty in submitted forms.
• Global – Enhanced the reusable block functionality for the following blocks: Tabs and Slider.

Fixes:

• Container – Resolved an issue wherein the left and right margins of inner-containers would not work as intended.
• Content Timeline – Resolved an issue in which the icons would appear over-sized and the content styling would break on the frontend.
• Image Gallery – Resolved an issue with the masonry type wherein the loader would not be hidden after all the images have been loaded.
• Post Carousel – Resolved an issue in which the responsive columns would not work as intended in the editor.
• Post Grid – Resolved an issue wherein the post meta responsive font-size would not work as intended in the editor.
• Separator – Resolved an issue wherein the height would revert from percentage to pixels after reloading the editor.
• Global – Removed responsive conditions for core PHP-rendered blocks.
• Global – Resolved an issue in which the font-family that was set would not appear as intended in the FSE template editor.

Fixes:

• Fix: Loop Builder – Resolved an issue wherein the block would encounter an issue within Astra’s Custom Layout Archive.
• Fix: Popup Builder – Resolved an issue in which the visibility modal UI would appear incorrectly.
• Fix: Dynamic Content – Resolved an issue in which the Read More button on the posts page would not appear when Spectra Pro is enabled.
• Fix: Global – Resolved an issue in which the Spectra Pro notice would appear when Spectra was not installed.

Fixes:

• Image – Resolved an issue in which the updated responsive images would not appear as intended.
• Image – Resolved an issue in which masked images would get cut off when the zoom-in hover effect was used.
• Form – Resolved an issue wherein the country-code background color would not match in the editor and the front-end.
• Form – Added an error message when the confirmation type is set to “URL text”.
• Form – Resolved an issue wherein the Forms block would not work inside Containers in Astra’s Custom Layout.
• Google Maps – Resolved an issue in which the custom classes would not appear on the frontend.
• Image Gallery – Resolved an issue in the carousel type wherein the arrow positions would revert from percentage to pixels after reloading.
• Marketing Button – Resolved an issue in which the default border-radius would not match in the editor and the front-end.
• Post Timeline – Resolved an issue in which the notice links would not redirect users as intended.
• Table Of Contents – Resolved an issue wherein headings containing some uppercase latin characters would not function as intended.
• Testimonials – Resolved an issue wherein the gradient background styles would not work as intended.
• Global – Resolved an issue wherein a PHP error could occur in the Widget Editor.
• Global – Resolved an issue in which non-FSE themes running on PHP 8.1 would encounter PHP issues regarding the preg_match and strlen functions.
• Global – Removed the Block Editor Spacing setting for FSE themes.

Fixes:

• Hardened the security of the plugin. Props: Patchstack
• Container – Resolved an issue wherein container background images would not render as intended during site migration.
• Admin – Resolved an issue in which a deprecation notice would be shown on PHP v8.2 and above.