What's New in Spectra

New:

• Redesigned UI/UX controls of Spectra blocks.
• Introduced a new, beautiful & fast Spectra admin dashboard powered by React.
• Block Presets – Introducing Preset for the most used block.
• Control Presets – Added Preset for Box-Shadow, Button, and Inner container.
• Copy Paste Styles – Added Copy/Paste styling feature for Core Gutenberg blocks & Spectra blocks.
• Introducing the Coming Soon mode feature.
• Introducing Allow only Selected fonts, Load fonts locally & Preload fonts feature.
• Introducing new border control which allows users to set borders to Top/Bottom/Left/Right in all directions.
• Introducing Automatic Block Recovery.
• Introducing Font Awesome 6 Support.
• Added global Container Padding option on admin dashboard.
• Added global default Content Width for container on admin dashboard.
• Introducing Collapse Panels.
• Introducing Blocks Editor Spacing.
• Added support for block-based widget editor.
• Z-index extension for Spectra block.
• Container – Introducing container block with advanced flex property feature.
• How-To – Separate child “Step” for how-to instead of info-box.
• Image – Introducing image block with advanced features.

Global Improvements:

• Responsive setting wherever needed.
• 4-way border control.
• 4-way spacing control for padding/margin.
• Refactored the Spectra blocks’ code & improved editor performance drastically.
• Typography control – Added text-transform, text-decoration, letter-spacing and font-style options.

Improvements:

• Template – Enable Templates Button on admin dashboard.
• Display Condition & Responsive Visibility – Enable/Disable option for Spectra extensions on admin dashboard.
• Removed jQuery dependency from Spectra blocks.
• Forms – Global reCAPTCHA setting option on admin dashboard.
• Heading – Hide option for heading text and description.
• Heading – Text shadow, gradient color option for Title
• Heading – Color option when link added to heading text.
• Heading – Highlight the heading text feature.
• Heading – Background color option classic and gradient.
• Buttons – Multiple Typography option for Text in the parent.
• Buttons-child – Enable/disable Icon option.
• Buttons-child – Add “nofollow” to the link option.
• Buttons-child – Remove Text option.
• Buttons-child – Separate Typography option for the child.
• Buttons-child – Background transparent/color/gradient option.
• Buttons-child – Box-Shadow option.
• Info-box – Enable/disable Icon/Image option.
• Info-box – Allow P tag in Title.
• Info-box – Icon option View( Stacked/Framed ), Shape( Circle/Square ).
• Call To Action – Enable the Additional Button option.
• Blockquote – Moved Twitter Username field inside Tweeter Icon Tab.
• Icon List – Icon Position before/after.
• Team – Title Span/Div tag support.
• Table of content – Added Marker View Bullet/Number.
• Table of content – Added Title below Separator Style.
• Marketing Button – Show Description toggle option
• Star Rating – Enable the Title option.
• Star Rating – Star Position option.
• Moved File Source option in block setting.
• Post Layout – Offset Starting Post option
• Post Layout – Show Meta Icon option
• Post Layout – Overall Border option
• Post Layout – Overall Box shadow option
• Post Layout – Added Taxonomy Styling option, show taxonomy above title option and layout normal/highlighted.
• Social Share Parent block Color and background color option

Fixes:

• Multiple issues in multiple blocks.

Deprecated:

• Advanced Columns, Section, WP-Search, Post Masonry, Contact Form 7 Designer, and Gravity Form Designer block.
• Removed Spectra extension i.e. responsive condition, display condition from the core block.
• Table of content – Removed Scroll Animation Delay.

Fixes:

• Fix: CSS was not applying on responsive devices.
• Fix: Multi Buttons – Child settings were not visible in the editor.

Improvements:

• Improvement: Added compatibility with WordPress v5.9.

Fixes:

• Fix: Masonry option was not visible for core/gallery.

Fixes :

• Fix: Block condition – Conflicting with plugin using REST API block preview.

Fixes :

• Fix: Block condition – Conflicting with WP Recipe Maker and Gravity Forms plugins.
• Fix: Call to undefined function twentyseventeen_panel_count() when previewing another theme from the customizer.
• Fix: Marketing Button – Validation issue when Title Tag set to p.
• Fix: Table of contents – Removed empty li tags from Table of contents markup.

New:

• Introduced Wireframe Blocks.

Fixes:

• Fix: Blockquote – Multiple blockquote post the same content after clicking on a tweet button.
• Fix: Table of contents – Hyperlink was not working on Safari and Firefox browsers.
• Fix: Styling was not applying on the preview page.
• Fix: Conflict with Astra theme customizer.

Fixes:

• Fix: Table of contents – Uncaught TypeError with the load function.
• Fix: Tabs – Responsive icons were not clickable in the editor.
• Fix: Updated the CSS priority, to resolve the Spectra blocks style issue with custom layout.

New:

• New: Introduced Star Rating block.
• New: Added Masonry option to core Gallery block.

Improvements:

• Improvement: Table of Contents – Added scroll to specific anchor tag feature.

Fixes:

• Fix: Table of Contents – Headings were not displaying correctly when multiple blocks were used on the same page.
• Fix: Asset generation conflicts with WooCommerce pages.