I’m really excited to be officially announcing our first major update of 2018 and it’s amazing!
Get your WooCommerce website ready for more design features with Astra Pro
Here are some quick screenshots of all new features:
Brand new List Style:
Off Canvas Filtering:
Hover Effects for Images:
Box Shadow:
Quick View:
Horizontal / Vertical Gallery:
Ajax Add to Cart on Single Product Page:
Product Navigation:
Options for the Cart in Menu:
Two Step Checkout:
Distraction Free Checkout:
What’s more?
Focus on Performance
Performance is important. For e-Commerce stores, delay of every second means loss of sales and search engine rankings. Amazon estimates that a page load slowdown of just one second could cost it $1.6 billion in sales each year.
Understanding the importance of the speedy stores, we have taken care for the performance throughout the development and made sure it performs great and remains fast. Astra makes no extra HTTP requests. We have profiled and optimized every line of code to ensure Astra remains performant as possible.
Design & Customizations
There are more than 3 million WooCommerce stores active today. But every brand and stores have their own design requirements.
We have taken efforts to ensure Astra will make any WooCommerce website look stunning out of the box with minimum setup. Furthermore, we have offered customization options for every tweak that will make your store look unique.
Convert more with better Checkout Pages
There is so much said about cart abandonments. We researched all possible reasons for abandonments during checkout and addressed them in the checkout page design. Here are some of the options you will find for the checkout pages:
- Two step checkout to make forms look simple and elegant
- Inline validation of fields
- Distraction Free Checkout that removes unnecessary details from the page
- Use Placeholders instead of Labels to make the checkout form look less busy
- Local storage feature to avoid users frustration & data loss by accidental refresh
- Options to remove unnecessary fields such as Coupon, Order Note, etc
New Starter Templates
Have you notice new templates we have been adding in our library? We have designed some eCommerce website templates as well that you can check.
Just in case if you didn’t know, these sites can be imported easily.
What’s Next?
We spent last couple of months to make Astra the best WooCommerce theme. Now February is going to be a big month for us as we plan to release other awaited features viz. Spacing Module, Background Images, Menu Customizer, better integration with LifterLMS, LearnDash and finally the Ultimate Addons for Elementor.
Our team very excited and hope you are too 🙂
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Thanks for the great work you guys have done and keep on doing. The WooCommerce came at a perfect time for me as I just decided to change my WordPress workflow and use Astra with Elementor for my projects. I am PATTTIIIEEEENNNTTTLLLLLYYYYYY waiting for the Ultimate add-ons for Elementor.
Kudos!!!!
Really awesome update. Can’t wait to give it go.
This is awesome Sujay! Many thanks to you and the team for constantly pushing me to learn more and grow my skills with the Astra theme.
Awesome work as always!
It’s a really motivating article, i did not regret at all to have buy my agency licence, i’m doing a website with LearnDsh, so i cant complain about the integration as well in your priority for next month, but your Trello roadmap only mention LifterLMS integration and addon, not LearnDash 🙁
Regards.
LearnDash is now next in the line for this type of integration. We have also updated the Trello Board for the public roadmap 🙂
Hello. I buy Astra pro theme. Install it. Activate it. I have activated Woocommerce in theme settings to. But. In customize theme settings I really don’t see options like you shown on pictures. I can customize woo, bat only little. Can you try to help me?
Hello,
If you haven’t yet done so, could you please open up a ticket at our support center, so that we can take a closer look and help you asap?
Will the cart in menu work for a custom Beaver Themer header?
In the v1.2.0 The Cart in menu can be added using a shortcode. So this shortcode can be added anywhere on your site. Including Custom Beaver Themer Header.
Looks awesome! I just shared this on the Woocommerce Slack channel
Thank you Hashim.
Very cool module!
I can’t find the colour custrmizer of discount sales badge. By default it picks the themes colour. How can i customize it?
Sale bubble takes color from Theme Color. Can you open up a support ticket from Support Form so that we can find a solution for you?
Hi Nikhil, can you post the solution you found for customising the woocommerce badges? thanks
Off-Canvas Filter – Filter Attributes
Why is the custom field attributes not part of the drop down selection ?
The Filter attributes should be available. The off-canvas sidebar is a sidebar area where you can add different widgets. WooCommerce provides the widget “Filter products by Attributes” which lets you filter using custom attributes.
Hi,
How can i add custom fields to a single product page with Astro Pro Woo-commerce Module?
Is there any documentation on this?
Thanks
Hello,
Here is an article that will help you with the settings that can be managed with the WooCommerce module on a single product page.
Could you please open up a ticket if you need help with anything else?
It will help us understand your requirements better. 🙂
Thank you so much for adding these features. I had just switched to another “Woocommerce friendly” theme but saw that you added all of these tools, and the functionality is SO much smoother and better! I’m really happy to have everything under one roof now!
Hello Kari,
So glad to hear about your experience with us! Much appreciated. 🙂
Thank you so much for adding these features. What is missing here is Ajax Live Search that Porto Theme already includes. Using the default WordPress Sitewide Search isn’t sufficient for e-commerce sites. Looking forward to what your team has in store for future updates!
Hello Rahul,
We appreciate your thoughts and feedback. 🙂
Yes, we do have some changes and improvements lined up for the WooCommerce module. Stay tuned!