Starter Templates – AI-Powered Templates for Elementor & Gutenberg

Přehled změn

v4.4.20 – 13-May-2025
– Improvement:
– AI Builder: Optimized API for templates loading functionality in batches.
– Revised Features Selection on Classic Templates Onboarding.
– Refined the condition to detect Gutenberg pages more efficiently.

v4.4.19 – 14-April-2025
– New:
– Added compatibility with the Variation Swatches for WooCommerce plugin.
– Introduced support for AI-generated Elementor templates.
– Improvement:
– Ensured compatibility with WordPress 6.8.

v4.4.18 – 24-March-2025
– New:
– Integrated Latepoint plugin for booking options in AI & Classic Templates onboarding.

v4.4.17 – 20-March-2025
– Fix: Addressed a critical bug causing an error in the customizer.

v4.4.16 – 19-March-2025
– New:
– Deprecated Beaver Builder starter templates, enable with astra_sites_enable_legacy_beaver_builder_support filter to continue using them – https://startertemplates.com/docs/sunsetting-beaver-builder-support/
– Improvement:
– Improved memory error handling for Classic Template import by detecting memory limits and showing user-friendly messages.
– Fix:
– Resolved an issue where Elementor templates and the sync progress modal were not loading initially on a fresh site.
– Resolved an Undefined array key "id" warning from Astra Notices library.

v4.4.15 – 11-March-2025
– New:
– Integrated SureMail plugin for SMTP option in Classic Templates onboarding.
– Fix:
– Resolved an issue where _load_textdomain_just_in_time function was incorrectly triggered for the astra-sites text domain.
– Resolved inaccurate translations for the Estonian language.

v4.4.14 – 24-February-2025
– Improvement:
– AI Builder: Integrated SureMail plugin for SMTP feature support in AI onboarding.
– Added compatibility for LatePoint redirection during Classic Builder template onboarding.

v4.4.13 – 21-February-2025
– New:
– Introduced LatePoint Integration with the Wellness Coach template.
– Fixes:
– Fixed template search issue in Chrome browser.
– Free Images: Editors can now search for free images.

v4.4.12 – 10-February-2025
– New:
– AI Builder: Added filter to update the default business type.
– Added translations for the Estonian language.
– Improvements:
– AI Builder: Added translation support to the Business Category API.
– Introduced a progress bar to provide real-time updates during template syncing.
– Reduced the likelihood of import failures caused by low memory availability.
– Improved mobile responsiveness for the Classic Builder templates.
– Fixes:
– AI Builder: Removed unnecessary API request headers to improve compatibility.

v4.4.11 – 07-January-2025
– Improvements:
– Enhanced mobile responsiveness in the classic builder.
– Added compatibility for SureForms import.
– Fix:
– Fixed search terms persisting in the Classic Templates Builder during navigation.

v4.4.10 – 16-December-2024
– New:
– Expanded plugin accessibility with translations in 7 new languages: [ Spanish, German, Dutch, Frensh, Italian, Polish, Portuguese ]
– AI Assistant: The AI Assistant is now Location Aware.
– Improvements:
– AI Assistant: Revamped the entire UI of the Assistant Sidebar.
– Enhanced NPS Survey styles to ensure seamless compatibility with other plugins.
– Fix:
– Removed redundant code related to authentication to enhance security and simplify maintenance.

v4.4.9 – 02-December-2024
– Improvements:
– AI Builder: Enhanced error handling in the import process with clearer error messages.
– AI Builder: Upgrade plan popup UI enhancements for a better user experience.
– AI Builder: Added import success action to trigger custom actions after successful site import.
– Design Kit: Improved business description screen for better user experience.
– Design Kit: UI enhancements for better usability.
– Design Kit: Improved code quality for enhanced performance and maintainability.
– UI/UX optimizations for a smoother Classic Templates Builder experience.
– SureCart template is now the default selection for eCommerce templates.
– Fixes:
– Free Images: Removed garbage CSS conflicting with other plugins.

v4.4.8 – 15-November-2024
– Improvements:
– AI Builder: Hidding ecommerce templates if ecommerce feature is hidden.
– Free Images: Removed the „Free Images“ option from the WordPress media library where images are not expected.
– NPS survey hidden for white-labeled environments.
– UI/UX optimizations for a smoother Classic Templates Builder experience.
– Fixes:
– AI Builder: Addressed a security bug. Props to Patchstack for reporting it.
– AI Builder: Fixed SureCart settings import failed error.
– AI Builder: Resolved an issue causing the import process to fail due to unexpected SureForm plugin redirection upon activation.
– Free Images: Resolved an issue where the media library button text was incorrectly displayed in certain cases.
– Ensured selected eCommerce platform and feature plugin are synchronized.
– Resolved intermittent issue with other plugin updates failing.

v4.4.7 – 04-November-2024
– New:
– AI builder: Added compatibility for importing SureForms templates.
– AI builder: Added filter to hide specified features on feature selection screen.
– Improvement:
– Prompted users for detailed business descriptions to enhance content generation.
– Enabled SureCart provisional account creation when the eCommerce feature is selected.
– Added page builder selection screen for classic templates.
– Added pre-import warning to alert users about potential overrides of existing settings during template import.
– Hiding non-FSE page builder options when the Spectra One theme is active.
– Design Kit: Generating business description based on the selected language.
– Design Kit: Optimized styles for better readability and usability on smaller screens.
– AI Assistant: Resolved PHP fatal error caused by a conflict with certain plugins.

v4.4.6 – 16-October-2024
– Fix: Updated outdated migrations that were causing PHP errors.

v4.4.5 – 15-October-2024
– New:
– AI Builder: Implemented toasters to provide more detailed error information.
– AI Builder: Added source parameters to URLs redirecting to ZipWP for better tracking.
– Design Kit: Added source parameters to URLs redirecting to ZipWP for better tracking.
– Tweak: Refactored the NPS code by separating it into an independent NPS library.
– Improvement:
– Design Kit: Removed outdated options data that were previously left undeleted.
– Design Kit: Optimized server API call execution for better performance.
– Enhanced code quality and optimization for better performance and maintainability.
– Fix:
– Free Images: Fixed broken UI components for Elementor and Beaver Builder.

v4.4.4 – 07-October-2024
– Fix: Resolved issue where the selected page builder was resetting after a page refresh.
– Fix: Corrected CSS issues affecting the appearance and functionality of checkboxes on the feature page.

v4.4.3 – 30-September-2024
– New:
– AI Builder: Added functionality to save failed site creations and allow reimporting them.
– AI Builder: Displaying users ZipWP plan information.
– AI Builder: Displaying alert notice when AI site generation count is nearing its limit.
– AI Builder: Added an option to choose the type of store when the Ecommerce feature is selected.
– Design Kit: Introduced filter ast_block_templates_exclude_post_types to exclude asset loading for specified post types.
– Introduced eCommerce feature for classic templates along with some UI tweaks.
– NPS form now includes a back button for better usability and rating edits.
– Improvements:
– AI Builder: Resume Session popup will now restore the step where the user left off.
– AI Builder: Improved images upload process for better performance and user experience.
– AI Builder: Showing Premium template notice on customizer screen if user has free plan.
– AI Builder: Added a validation on Image upload to check if the image URL is valid.
– Design Kit: Added loading skeleton when uploading the images on AI onboarding.
– Design Kit: Added images validation on AI onboarding.

• Fix:
  • AI Builder: Customizer ‚Show site title‘ option was not applied correctly during site import.
  • Design Kit: Resolved CSS conflicts with the WordPress core blocks.
  • Design Kit: Fixed PHP warning when generating content.
  • Design Kit: Content was not getting generated in the selected language.
  • Images Library: Resolved issue where image search results reset to default after applying filters.

v4.4.2 – 03-September-2024
– New:
– AI Builder : Added a filter to update default website language.
– AI Builder : Added image replacement compatibility for archive product banner image.
– Added filter to disable the „Design Kit“ library.
– Improvements:
– Design Kit: Enhanced API performance by optimizing execution times and reducing delays.
– Free Images : Enhanced UI for better user experience.
– Better database handling for the NPS.
– Fixes:
– Design Kit: Corrected styling issues for patterns/pages preview to ensure consistent display.
– Design Kit: Addressed CSS conflicts with SureCart blocks to prevent styling discrepancies.
– After import images were not getting replaced for classic Elementor templates.

v4.4.1 – 28-August-2024
– Improvement: Hardened the security of the plugin.

v4.4.0 – 07-August-2024
– New:
– AI Builder: Enhanced onboarding UI.
– Design Kit: Enhanced personalized library steps UI.
– Improvements:
– Switched from using transient to option data for storing information.
– AI Builder: Enabled business descriptions to be generated in the selected language.
– Design Kit: Converted Spectra common stylesheet to a JSON file instead of an option variable.
– Design Kit: Hidden Update Image option until the user personalizes the library.
– Design Kit:Blocked block pages preview if import is in process.
– Fixes:
– Fixed issue where user input was not getting prefilled when switching between steps.
– Ensured required plugins for selected features are correctly installed.
– Resolved an issue where some classic editor templates were getting stuck during import.
– Fixed issue where the default logo was not getting replaced for classic templates.
– AI Builder: Removed the condition that showed the site limit exceed popup for all sites.
– Design Kit: Fixed issue where the Favorites functionality was not working in certain cases.
– Design Kit: Addressed problem where related block pages were not displaying in some scenarios.
– Design Kit: Fixed content regeneration for a category.
– Design Kit: Resolved visibility issue with the „Design Kit“ button in WordPress 6.6 with the full site editor.

v4.3.9 – 25-July-2024
– Improvement: Improved the UI/UX.
– Improvement: AI Builder – Better error message handling.
– Improvement: AI Builder – Added new icon for the ecommerce feature.
– Improvement: Improved the way Starter Templates translate strings in the script.
– Fix: AI Builder – Fixed an issue where the template preview designs were showing ternary operation results as HTML.
– Fix: AI Builder – Required plugins data was incorrect on the Elementor templates screen.
– Fix: AI Builder – Social icons title was not translation-ready.
– Fix: AI Builder – Fixed an issue where the import process was failing after changing the site language.
– Fix: Resolved a fatal error encountered with the Ghost Kit plugin.

v4.3.8 – 16-July-2024
– New: AI Builder – Added script translation with a filter to update the text domain for script translation.
– Improvement: ZipAI – Added WordPress 6.6 compatibility.
– Improvement: Hardcoded index are made dynamic.
– Fix: AI Builder – Premium badge was not showing for Premium templates.
– Fix: Footer widgets was not getting imported for AI & Classic templates.

v4.3.7 – 09-July-2024
– New:
– Added NPS Survey.
– Improvements:
– Updated „What’s New“ library.
– Enhanced sidebar for classic editor to align with AI Builder.
– Updated pre-import screen for classic templates.
– Standardized text-domain to „astra-aites“ for all libraries.
– Refreshed font pairs.
– Removed duplicate code.
– Fix:
– Upload logo and selected color pallete was not getting imported for FSE.
– Design Kit – Business category now pre-fills correctly during onboarding.
– AI Builder – Business name now resets after clicking „Start Over.“
– AI Builder – „Resume Session“ popup no longer appears after site creation.
– AI Builder – Business type now pre-fills correctly when site is created from ZipWP platform.
– AI Builder – Hover color for accent color is now a CSS variable.
– AI Builder – Correct icon now appears for the Contact Form feature.

v4.3.6 – 04-July-2024
– Fix: AI Builder – Resolved an issue preventing users from continuing to the next step if the business type input was entered manually.
– Fix: Design Kit – Resolved an issue where adding social media URLs caused an error when proceeding to the next step.

v4.3.5 – 02-July-2024
– New
– Design Kit – Added a page preview feature along with other page options.
– Design Kit – Introduced error boundaries for better error management.
– Improvement
– Design Kit – Introduced a new „Favorites“ tab, separated from Patterns, Pages, and Kits.
– Design Kit – Added clickable navigation in the sidebar, allowing users to jump to previous steps.
– Design Kit – Disabled live preview and other actions while inserting the kit into a page.
– Design Kit – Improved UI/UX for a better user experience.
– Design Kit – Enhanced error handling during the import process.
– Design Kit – Added an admin notice for missing file permissions.
– Design Kit – Removed validation for the mobile field in AI onboarding.
– Design Kit – Added a loader while inserting the block.
– AI Builder – Added ZipWP new features icon support.
– AI Builder – Added a filter to disable the Premium Badge for templates.
– Fix
– Design Kit – Fixed console error causing a blank screen in GT AI onboarding if already prefilled.
– Design Kit – Resolved an issue where the Design Library button was not displayed in the Spectra One theme editor when the Gutenberg Plugin was activated.
– Design Kit – Fixed a console error that occurred on the screen of the image when AI data was prefilled.
– Design Kit – Addressed a blank screen issue when accessing the „Design Library“ on Bedrock-powered sites.
– Design Kit – Fixed option ‚ast-block-templates_data-‚ not getting deleted after importing the site template.
– Design Kit – Prevented adding a block to a new page after Spectra installation.
– Design Kit – Fixed shuffling of images when changing the orientation multiple times.
– Design Kit – Fixed AI-generated business description response count not working as expected.
– Design Kit – Fixed issue with authentication redirection.
– AI Builder – Made compulsory features enabled by default and non-clickable.
– AI Builder – UI improvements.
– AI Builder – Fixed acceptance of incorrect input in the email field.
– AI Builder – Ensured the „site creation limit exceeded“ popup is displayed correctly.

v4.3.4 – 24-June-2024
– Chore: AI-Builder – Included build files.
– Improvement: AI-Builder – Added ability to skip the Features screen using a filter.
– Improvement: AI-Builder – Improved UI/UX.
– Fix: AI-Builder – Site creation limit exceeded popup was not displaying.
– Fix: AI-Builder – Removed irrelevant error messages from logs during import failures.

v4.3.3 – 12-June-2024
– Improvement: AI Builder – Error Boundary Screen in case of unexpected errors.
– Improvement: AI Builder – Removed phone validations to match this phone format – Ex: +1 (888) SIXT-CAR (749-8227)
– Improvement: ZipWP Images – Updated preview screen for better UX.
– Fix: AI Builder – Better handling of console errors due to missing URLs in Image object from ZipWP images API.
– Fix: Design Kit – Fixed a console error in Gutenberg Templates library due to missing URLs for author and engine for placeholder images.
– Fix: Resolved PHP 8.2 deprecated notice related to the creation of dynamic properties.
– Fix: ZipWP Images – „Select“ of media library was not showing in the customiser preview.

v4.3.2 – 11-June-2024
– Fix: Fixed an issue where the search functionality in the Elementor editor was not working.

v4.3.1 – 06-June-2024
– Improvement: Added logging for import failures with a user alert for log details, warning that retries will exhaust AI site attempts.
– Improvement: Prefill websites based on the previous site creation.
– Fix: Resolved issue causing infinite skeleton loading for the classic template library.
– Fix: Resolved blog posts throwing 404 errors.
– Fix: Fixed an error when using the Spectra One theme and Starter Templates to import websites with ZipAI.
– Fix: The title for the Description step does not change for exceptional cases.
– Fix: Design Kit – Resolved Console error for undefined images.

v4.3.0 – 04-June-2024
– New: What’s New – Ability to see the new updates for Starter Templates plugin in the form of feed.
– New: Free Images – Added all new library for Free Images with new free image search engines like Pexels and Pixabay.
– Improvement: Added Admin Notice if Required XML Reader Class Not Found.
– Improvement: Consistent UI Changes for AI Builder.
– Improvement: UI – Improved the tooltip UI.
– Fix: Classic Templates Not Showing for New Sites During Sync.
– Fix: AI Builder – Fixed an issue with inconsistent font sizes and line height in the onboarding process.

v4.2.6 – 27-May-2024
– Improvement: AI Builder – Added a pre-installation confirmation modal before building the site.
– Fix: Fixed a redirection issue with the „Try the New AI Builder“ button on Starter Templates dashboard.
– Fix: Corrected template listing for the Spectra One theme.
– Fix: Fixed an issue where import failed for Beaver Builder templates.
– Fix: Addressed an issue where fonts, colors, and other settings were not applied after importing Elementor templates.

v4.2.5 – 21-May-2024
– Fix: Resolved an issue that caused plugin activation errors on multisite installations.
– Fix: Design Kit – The library not displaying on subdomain sites when the plugin is network activated.

v4.2.4 – 17-May-2024
– Improvement: Added a way to disable Classic Templates Importer.
– Fix: Fixed broken WP-CLI import process for classic templates.

v4.2.3 – 14-May-2024
– Fix: Fixed the error while importing the classic templates.

v4.2.2 – 10-May-2024
– Improvement: Better error handling.
– Improvement: Better preview for the color palette.
– Improvement: Better UX while selecting Starter Templates.
– Improvement: Improved the way Starter Templates stores JSON data while sync process to address memory issues.
– Improvement: AI Builder – Improved the user experience by blocking unwanted options while processing data on a particular step.
– Fix: Fixed an issue where the Starter Templates won’t get imported on an RTL website.
– Fix: Design Kit: Rectified an issue where the Template kit names went missing due to library update.
– Fix: AI Builder – Fixed an issue where the import would remain stuck at 98%.
– Fix: Made Starter Templates more secure while uploading SVG files.

v4.2.1 – 03-May-2024
– Fix: Fixed an incorrect type casting of a string on a popup for AI Builder.

v4.2.0 – 29-April-2024
– New: Added custom color palette selection option in AI Builder.
– New: Added „Features“ screen to the Classic Builder onboarding.
– New: ‚Load More‘ templates option in AI Builder.
– New: Design Kit – Added language compatibility for personalizing the AI copy.
– Improvement: Enhanced template search functionality.
– Improvement: Improved the way Starter Templates store JSON data during the import process to address memory issues.
– Improvement: Optimized and enhanced code for a better user experience.
– Improvement: User Interface improvements for the Template Kit library.
– Improvement: Design Kit – Improved responsive design and UX.
– Improvement: Classic Templates – Improved responsive design and UX.
– Improvement: Ability to edit the previous step of AI Onboarding by clicking on the sidebar.
– Improvement: Now, Upload images are available in a new tab within same screen.
– Fix: Resolved issue with import for RTL sites.
– Fix: Design Kit – Fixed an issue where the Design Kit button was not visible on an FSE-based theme.
– Fix: Design Kit – Fixed an issue where the line height of the Design Kit templates appeared messed up.
– Fix: Design Kit – Fixed a fatal error caused by unavailable error_log related libraries on the user’s server.

v4.1.7 – 22-April-2024
– Improvement: Hardened the security of the plugin.

v4.1.6 – 09-April-2024
– Fix: Resolved issue with Media library not functioning properly.

v4.1.5 – 08-April-2024
– Improvement: Streamlined the Gutenberg Templates library structure to reduce resource consumption.

v4.1.4 – 01-April-2024
– Fix: AI image replacement batch was inadvertently functioning for Classic editor templates.
– Fix: Displaying „Download images fail“ message when no images are selected during onboarding.

v4.1.3 – 28-March-2024
– Fix: Resolved import process getting stuck due to resource limitations on certain hosts.

v4.1.2 – 25-March-2024
– Improvement: Added WordPress 6.5 compatibility.

v4.1.1 – 20-March-2024
– Fix: Import process was getting stuck after activating the plugin required for selected feature.

v4.1.0 – 19-March-2024
– New: Introduced local language support in AI building.
– New: Added an upload image feature when selecting images for your site.
– Improvement: Enhanced AI building for a better user experience.
– Improvement: Consolidated Logo, Font, and Color Palette support into one screen on the Classic Builder.
– Improvement: Enhanced and optimised code for an improved user experience.

v4.0.13 – 21-February-2024
– Fix: Resolved an issue where the AI description won’t get generated on WordPress.com sites.

v4.0.12 – 12-February-2024
– Fix: Resolved an issue where the Template Kit button was not visible due to mismatched business categories.

v4.0.11 – 10-February-2024
– Fix: Resolved an issue where the import process stayed stuck at 95% with AI Website Builder.

v4.0.10 – 07-February-2024
– Fix: Resolved an issue where the Template Kit button was not visible.

v4.0.9 – 05-February-2024
– Fix: Resolved an issue where the category was not assigned after import.

v4.0.8 – 01-February-2024
– Improvement: AI Website Builder – Ability to create a site with desired features like Donations, Automation, Sales Funnels Video Player, etc for the website.

v4.0.7 – 29-January-2024
– Fix: Resolved an issue where the Premium Template Kits won’t get imported.

v4.0.6 – 25-January-2024
– Improvement: Enhanced user experience by providing informative error messages for better troubleshooting.

v4.0.5 – 23-January-2024
– Improvement: Added Flexbox Container compatibility for Elementor templates.

v4.0.4 – 22-January-2024
– Fix: Fixed the fatal error issue that would occur after Spectra v2.12.0.

v4.0.3 – 17-January-2024
– Fix: Fixed an issue where the import process was breaking for AI websites.
– Fix: Fixed an issue where the images won’t get reflected in search results as per the search keyword.

v4.0.2 – 15-January-2024
– Improvement: Added Flexbox Container compatibility in Elementor.
– Improvement: Added ability to resume back to last session while building AI website.
– Improvement: Better UX while using AI Website Builder.

v4.0.1 – 04-January-2024
– Fix: Fixed an issue where the CSS looked messed up after importing using AI Website Builder.

v4.0.0 – 03-January-2024
– New: AI Website Builder.
– Fix: Tightened the plugin security.

v3.5.7 – 30-December-2023
– Fix: Fixed Template Kit library conflict ( 503 Error ) with Gravity Form plugin.

Check out the detailed changelog here.