Astra is one of the most popular WordPress themes with more than 1 million active installs on WordPress websites. Brainstorm Force is the company behind the development of Astra. They have many other products apart from Astra like Ultimate Addons, Convert Pro, Schema Pro and many more. Astra has a free version as well as a Pro version. Astra Pro is available for $59 Annual Subscription and $249 for a lifetime license. If you are planning to get a premium WordPress theme and customization is top on your priority list, then Astra is worth consideration.
Astra Pro is used to make various kinds of websites like a blogging site, displaying portfolio, E-commerce sites, business sites and many more. Astra Pro is a highly customizable WordPress theme that has many amazing features. It’s a lightweight (less than 50kb on frontend) theme and a website using Astra Pro should load within less than half a second. Astra Pro is compatible with all page builders like Elementor, Beaver Builder, Gutenberg, Brizy, Divi Builder and many other.
In Astra one can choose a template to design a website using Starter Template extension. Starter templates allows developer to import any free or pro template. Below are the features a developer should know before designing a website with Astra Pro. Below image shows how starter template looks and how one can import templates to site.
You can select a page builder and import its template to your site and can further design it as per your requirements.
Features of Astra Pro
- Layouts : A designer can design a website in different layouts as per their requirements. There are different types of layout available for headers, footers, blogs, single pages etc. In Astra Pro there is an option for boxed layout, Full width layout, Padded layout, Fluid layout to display primary content. Padded layout is one where one can add margins to the edges of the content to give it a padded look where as a fluid layout is one which goes edge to edge of the browser on all screen sizes
- Transparent Headers : An option for transparent header is available while designing your website which allows you to set your header transparent i.e it will merge primary header and page content. The upper section of the page will be set as background of primary header.
- Header and Footer : There are various inbuilt header and footer templates which can be used and modified as per user requirements.
- Page Headers: A custom header can be added and set to display on a specific page of a website. Header size, breadcrumbs etc all can be customized as per ones requirement.
- Sticky Header: Sticky header also known as fixed header, is a kind of tool that fixes the menu at the top of the screen as a user scrolls down a page. You can add this feature using Astra Pro without writing any CSS codes.
- Mobile Headers: This feature is again really helpful for designers as it allows them to customize mobile header view as per their requirements. A separate option to upload logo for mobile header is provided.
- Nav Menu: Nav menu also known as mega menu allows you to create a menu where you can showcase parent pages along with lower level sub pages. It is a two dimensional dropdown menu. One can highlight sub pages with a label, can add background images, change color for menu items.
- Colors and Typography: One can change colors and typography settings as per their design requirements.
- WooCommerce Supported: Astra Pro is WooCommerce supportive which helps one to build and customize their Ecommerce store easily.
- White Label: Astra Pro allows you use brand your own name. You can change fields to prove that product displayed on website is your own brand.
- Integeration with Learning Management System: Astra Pro offers seamless integration with LifterLMS and LearnDash, two awesome learning management systems. These platforms allow you to create, manage, and distribute online courses for your readers. Astra contributes well with advanced settings that let you enhance user experience with additional styling on such websites.
- SEO Optimization: Astra brings inbuilt Schema Integration and comes with basic schema mark-ups which helps to deliver rich SERP snippets to help bring more traffic to your website. Not only that, but the theme is developed following the best coding standards to make sure to offer better SEO performance.
We may have missed out some features above. You can especially benefit if you are a developer or designing agency that needs to build various niche websites for their clients. Its diverse collection of ready to use website demos and customization options makes it a priceless tool for web development. We would recommend to use Astra Pro above any other theme because of its fast page load speed, its lightweight and easily customizable i.e user friendly and is compatible with all the page builders like Elementor, Beaver Builder, Brizy etc. Astra Pro team also provides a great customer support service which helps designers to solve any issues regarding their sites. The team is continuously trying to improve performance of the theme and develop as many new features as possible.
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You can also refer following article for more detail about Astra Pro v/s Astra Agency Bundle.