Zakra Changelog: See What’s New

Here, we’ve listed the Zakra theme’s fixes, feature updates, and new demo release information.

  • 4.3.1 2026-08-12
    • Added
      • Mobile Image option under Header Image, shown instead of the Header Image/Video on mobile devices.
    • Fix
      • Optimization section’s “Enable” toggle had no description.
      • Site navigation disappeared at exactly 768px viewport width.
      • “Modified Date” post date type showed the “Posted on” label instead of “Updated on”.
      • Large empty gap below the price box on Masteriyo’s Single Course page at tablet and mobile widths.
      • Page Header/Post Title section got duplicated in the Customizer preview when editing Header Builder.
      • Block editor styles failed to load in Gutenberg’s iframed editor, triggering a console deprecation warning.
      • Checkout Order Summary product names broke into unreadable character fragments at tablet-range viewport widths.
      • Container Layout and Sidebar Layout Customizer controls had no effect on Masteriyo Single Course pages.
      • Footer Builder Social element’s Alignment control showed no default selection, unlike the Copyright element’s.
      • My Account active tab kept the default button color instead of updating with the Customizer’s Button color setting.
      • Breadcrumb’s Link Color control was labeled simply “Color”, unlike the adjacent Text Color and Separator Color controls.
      • Mobile off-canvas menu listed every page on the site instead of falling back to the Primary Menu when no Mobile Menu was assigned.
      • Customizer icons and the Zakra Dashboard logged React “Invalid DOM property” console warnings due to un-camelCased SVG attributes.
      • Sidebar widgets were still rendered and shipped to the browser, then hidden via CSS, whenever Container Layout was Narrow or Stretched.
      • At tablet width (768px), the WooCommerce sidebar column was squeezed too narrow alongside the multi-column product grid, wrapping widget headings awkwardly.
      • Full Width/Wide Gutenberg blocks didn’t break out to full viewport width with No Sidebar layout, and incorrectly broke out of the Narrow layout’s centered column.
      • Header Builder, Footer Builder, and Customizer settings had no effect on the Starter Content homepage; also fixed a stray content gap and an unwanted page title bar on that same page.
      • Header Builder Search color controls had several issues: Background Color had no effect, Icon Color and Text Color appeared under the wrong section, and Icon Color was overridden by Text Color.
  • 4.3.0 2026-07-30
    • Enhance
      • Smoother theme switching on sites with a large number of users.
      • The search box now responds instantly when you click the search icon.
      • Pages now load faster by reusing saved styles instead of rebuilding them on every visit.
    • Tweak
      • Added step increments to range slider controls in the Customizer.
      • Clearer, less technical Customizer labels and refined info-text design.
      • Used theme version instead of timestamp for dashboard and meta box stylesheet cache-busting.
    • Dev
      • Security audit of the codebase.
    • Fix
      • Mobile menu could not be closed using the Escape key.
      • Logo width slider was mislabeled “Height” in Header Builder.
      • Slider and dimension controls output invalid CSS for empty values.
      • Removed a broken Google Fonts request for the font-family “inherit”.
      • Added a missing accessible label to the search overlay’s close button.
      • Global color picker Hex field showed wrong value with a palette swatch.
      • WooCommerce extension styles broke when all WC stylesheets were dequeued.
      • Mobile menu toggle now announces its open/closed state to screen readers.
      • Social icons (X, Instagram) not displayed with their official brand icons.
      • Starter-content homepage layout overflowed horizontally on mobile devices.
      • Footer widget and social alignment settings output invalid CSS when left unset.
      • Typing a hex color code in the Customizer color picker didn’t update the selected color.
      • Self-hosted web fonts now preload to prevent a layout shift (CLS) when text first renders.
      • Post Meta heading didn’t render in Post Content > Meta due to an invalid section reference.
      • Header and Footer Builder Custom HTML fields lost embedded images, icons, and scripts after saving.
      • Color picker Hex field showed black instead of the actual color for swatches linked to the Global Palette.
  • 4.2.2 2026-06-24
    • Tweak
      • Added missing translation wrappers.
      • Improve clarity on user facing texts.
      • Added starter files for org preview of theme.
    • Fix
      • Empty onkeypress causes AMP validation error.
      • Year, Month and Day text are not translated in Archive page.
  • 4.2.1 2026-05-25
    • Fix
      • Header builder mobile component option issue.
      • Background image control issue.
      • Layout control image issue.
    • Update
      • Compatibility with WPML plugin.
      • Security fixes.
  • 4.2.0 2025-11-10
    • Added
      • 6 new Typography Presets for font selection.
      • Option to add/delete custom color palettes.
      • “Header Media” as a top item in the customizer navigation.
      • “Site Identity” to the main customizer navigation list.
    • Renamed
      • “Header Builder” to “Header”.
      • “Content” to “Post Content”.
      • “Container” to “Layouts”.
      • “Footer Builder” to “Footer”.
      • “Sidebar Layout” in WooCommerce to “WooCommerce Layout”.
    • Moved
      • “Page Header” to “Post Content”.
      • “Breadcrumb” to “Additional”.
      • “Sidebar” from Content to Widget in Additional.
      • “Inside Background” and “Outside Background” from Container to Colors in Global.
    • Improved
      • Typography control design.
      • Updated color palette design.
      • Enhanced color palette presets.
      • Set default colors for different sections to global colors.
      • Global color handling in presets, color picker, and added tooltips for color names.
      • Merged default layout from “Sidebar”, “Content Area”, and “Container” into “Layouts”.
      • Separated sidebar layout options into container and sidebar layout.
      • Enhanced design of presets and tabs in “Page Header”.
      • Removed “Sidebar” in Global after moving its contents to respective places.
      • Removed “Header & Navigation” after moving its items to respective places.
    • Improved – Moved page-specific sidebar and container layout options to respective pages in “Post Content”.
    • Improved – Moved page-specific sidebar and container layout options in Sidebar Layout in WooCommerce to the respective page in WooCommerce.
    • Improved – Renamed Container (Wide & Boxed) Layouts to “Box Style” as a toggle.
    • Improved – Layouts and all Post Content child Items with tabbed design and layout options.
  • 4.1.8 2025-08-22
    • Updated
      • Dashboard notice.
  • 4.1.7 2025-08-13
    • Updated
      • Dashboard notice.
  • 4.1.6 2025-07-28
    • Updated
      • Full width on fresh setup.
  • 4.1.5 2025-06-17
    • Enhancement
      • Introduced zakra_woocommerce_cart_icon hook.
  • 4.1.4 2025-02-28
    • Fix
      • Option to enable Header Footer Builder.
  • 3.3.1 2026-08-12
    • Fix
      • Shop “Product Box” Style 2 showed no visible difference from Style 1.
      • Zakra Pro Dashboard logged React console warnings on several screens.
      • Layout 3 Style 1 header nav disappeared at exactly 768px viewport width.
      • Shop Product Elements drag-and-drop reordering had no effect on the rendered order.
      • Breadcrumb and Mobile Menu icon picker dropdowns showed raw class names instead of descriptive labels.
      • Full Search Form expanded to an excessive width when sharing a column with other Header Builder elements.
      • Shop Content Alignment and Image Alignment “Center” settings had no visible effect on the classic Shop template.
      • “Complete Zakra Pro Activation Now” notice CTA landed on the Dashboard instead of the License Activation screen.
      • Header Action section showed up alongside Header Builder’s own Cart/Wishlist components even though it has no effect in Builder mode.
  • 3.3.0 2026-07-30
    • Added
      • “Both Date” option for the blog post date type.
    • Dev
      • Security audit of the codebase.
    • Fix
      • Mobile drawer menu could not be closed using the Escape key.
      • Mobile menu toggle now announces its open/closed state to screen readers.
      • Related Posts thumbnails didn’t load the correctly sized image for the visitor’s screen.
      • Typography set in Zakra Pro’s controls is now included when preloading self-hosted web fonts.
      • Raw numbers were added to the page’s saved data when changing the container width in Page Setting.
      • Per-page color overrides (menu, footer, page header, breadcrumbs) didn’t apply when set to a non-hex color or a Global Palette swatch.
  • 3.2.1 2026-06-24
    • Tweak
      • Improve clarity on user facing texts.
    • Fix
      • Customizer styles incorrectly applied when Header Builder is disabled.
      • Dynamic CSS causing undefined index on breadcrumb separator icon.
  • 3.2.0 2025-11-10
    • Added
      • 6 new Typography Presets for font selection.
      • Option to add/delete custom color palettes.
      • “Header Media” as a top item in the customizer navigation.
      • “Site Identity” to the main customizer navigation list.
    • Renamed
      • “Header Builder” to “Header”.
      • “Content” to “Post Content”.
      • “Container” to “Layouts”.
      • “Footer Builder” to “Footer”.
      • “Sidebar Layout” in WooCommerce to “WooCommerce Layout”.
    • Moved
      • “Page Header” to “Post Content”.
      • “Breadcrumb” to “Additional”.
      • “Sidebar” from Content to Widget in Additional.
      • “Inside Background” and “Outside Background” from Container to Colors in Global.
      • “Sticky Header” to “Header”.
      • “Transparent Header” to “Header”.
      • “Header Action” to “Header”.
      • Sidebar Styles from the Sidebar in Content to Sidebar in Global.
    • Improved
      • Typography control design.
      • Updated color palette design.
      • Enhanced color palette presets.
      • Set default colors for different sections to global colors.
      • Global color handling in presets, color picker, and added tooltips for color names.
      • Merged default layout from “Sidebar”, “Content Area”, and “Container” into “Layouts”.
      • Separated sidebar layout options into container and sidebar layout.
      • Enhanced design of presets and tabs in “Page Header”.
      • Removed “Sidebar” in Global after moving its contents to respective places.
      • Removed “Header & Navigation” after moving its items to respective places
    • Improved – Moved page-specific sidebar and container layout options to respective pages in “Post Content”.
    • Improved – Moved page-specific sidebar and container layout options in Sidebar Layout in WooCommerce to the respective page in WooCommerce.
    • Improved – Renamed Container (Wide & Boxed) Layouts to “Box Style” as a toggle.
    • Improved – Layouts and all Post Content child Items with tabbed design and layout options.
  • 3.1.4 2025-06-17
    • Added
      • Option to change WooCommerce Cart icon, icon size.
  • 3.1.3 2025-02-21
    • Updated
      • Zakra Dashboard.
  • 3.1.2 2025-02-21
    • Fix
      • PHP error.
  • 3.1.1 2025-02-20
    • Updated
      • Zakra Dashboard.
  • 3.1.0 2025-02-20
    • Updated
      • Zakra Dashboard.
    • Update
      • Move option to change blog title color.
  • 3.0.8 2025-02-17
    • Update
      • Move option to change global button typography to free .
      • Move option to change header button typography to free.
  • 3.0.7 2025-02-04
    • Update
      • Freemius SDK to the latest version.

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