What's New in Spectra

Introducing Spectra 2.12,  featuring Quick Action Bar, a new feature that brings all your essential Spectra blocks to your fingertips, streamlining your workflow. Read more here about the feature.

The AI Assistant has been enhanced to be accessible outside the editor, providing flexibility for users whether they are on frontend or working anywhere in the WordPress area. Additionally, with the latest update, the AI Assistant now allows you to select any text outside the editor and use it as context, ensuring relevant and contextual assistance in various digital activities.

These updates collectively aim to enhance the user experience, making Spectra blocks and the AI Assistant more convenient and powerful tools for your daily tasks.

New:

• Introducing a Quick Action Bar – Keep all your essential Spectra blocks right at your fingertips!

Features:

• AI Assistant – Now you can use the AI Assistant outside the editor!
• AI Assistant – Now you can select any text and use it as context when outside the editor!

Fixes:

• Forms – Resolved an issue wherein forms would not be submittable when used on a page as well as in the footer.

This update includes the following improvements and bug-fixes:

Improvements:

• Buttons – Handled the inherit-from-theme secondary-button option for Astra child themes.
• Global – Added a filter to modify the icons in the Spectra Icon Picker.
• Global – Added a negative value range to linear-gradient location for background styles.

Fixes:

• Image Gallery – Resolved an issue where block was showing error when Lightbox preview was enabled in editor.
• Image Gallery – Resolved the stacking issue on Safari during the initial load when choosing the masonry layout.
• Popup Builder – Resolved an issue wherein dynamic blocks inside popups would not be visible on the fronted.
• Tabs – Resolved an issue wherein the layout on the frontend would appear inconsistently when a title with bold text is present.
• Global – Resolved an issue wherein all icons would appear enlarged in the Twenty Sixteen Theme.
• Global – Resolved an issue wherein the template styles for some WooCommerce templates would not load as intended in FSE themes.

This update includes the following improvement & bug-fixes:

Improvements:

• Merged Spectra One and Spectra Plugin settings inside Editor

Fix:

• Heading color compatibility with Spectra plugin.

This update includes the following bug-fixes:

Fixes:

• Container – Resolved an issue wherein the overlay opacity would be doubled when using a dynamic background image.
• Dynamic Content – Resolved an issue wherein the disable link would not work as intended for the include-context.
• Image Gallery – Resolved an issue wherein the custom URL would not appear as valid without ‘www’ in some cases.

This update includes the following feature, improvements and bug-fixes:

Feature:

• Transform to – Added transform to option from Core Media & Text to Spectra Image.
• Transform to – Added transform to option from Core Buttons to Spectra Buttons.
• Transform to – Added transform to option from Core Media & Text to Spectra Infobox.
• Transform to – Added transform to option from Core Pull-quote to Spectra Block-quote and Core List to Spectra Icon-list.
• Global – Added a rename option in the list view to customize Spectra block names.

Improvements:

• Core – Updated asset URL generation logic to prevent caching issues.

Fixes:

• Container – Resolved the background overlay glitches in the style settings.
• FAQ – Resolved an issue in which the answer tab would be opened by default if the content had a paragraph or break tag.
• Icon – Resolved an issue wherein the icon would appear enlarged in the Twenty Seventeen theme.
• Info Box – Resolved an issue wherein the page would reload upon clicking on the Info Box with the call-to-action set as complete box.
• Post Grid – Resolved an issue wherein the featured image border-radius would not be applied and the image would overflow.
• Global – Resolved an issue in which the Customizer responsive buttons would not work as intended.

Fixes:

• Hardened the security of the plugin.

Fixes:

• Gutenberg Template – Resolved an issue where 503 error occurs in some cases.

Introducing Spectra 2.11, featuring an AI-powered Template Kit library. Enjoy personalized content and images tailored to your needs, industry-aligned patterns, and enhanced time-saving efficiency. Upgrade now to elevate your design experience.

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New:

• All new AI based Template Kit library

Feature:

• Transform to – Added transform to option for Core Gallery to Spectra Image Gallery.

Fixes:

• FAQ – Resolved an issue wherein FAQ blocks inside an inner-container would shrink when minimized.
• Google Maps – Resolved an issue where the eye icon to hide the page title disappears when importing Google Maps in the editor.
• Slider – Resolved an issue where slides per view ( pro feature ) was not working in editor.
• Tabs – Resolved an issue wherein the nested tab does not shows the content on the frontend.
• Global – Resolved an issue wherein the template styles for static page selected as front-page would not load as intended in FSE themes.

Fixes:

• Global – Resolved an issue wherein the Astra customizer typography settings would not appear as expected.
• Global – Resolved an issue wherein the template styles for the front-page and single-post templates would not load as intended in FSE themes.