Astra Theme - Still good in 2021? (Site Setup & Speed Tests)

The theme is very flexible and offers a lot of customization options. It's also optimized for speed. Astra is compatible with the new Gutenberg editor. This is an editor that will become the industry default in the future. There are also some features that the Astra team have upgrade since we last looked at Astra on the channel. This tutorial is primarily focused on using Gutenberg with Astra.

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0:00 Astra Introduction
1:42 Install Theme
2:42 Gutenberg v Elementor speed
3:42 Astra Starter Template
5:10 Performance options
6:30 Header, footer, menus in Astra
12:58 Colors, fonts in Astra
17:05 Block editor with Astra (Gutenberg)
22:50 Astra patterns and wireframes
23:38 Embed google map in Astra
24:52 Anchor links in Astra
27:05 Clone a page
29:59 Astra global buttons
30:31 Conclusions & recommendations

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[barsk]

Thank you Alex for Astra + Gutenberg combo tutorial. I use both on all my websites too. 👍👍

[seonewport]

wonderful presentation on Astra & Gutte

[peterwilliams]

Thanks for the thorough review, always helpful Alex!

[anoniem]

Your video’s so gooood m8, happy that I have found you. May Allah bless you with Islaam. The litespeed video was good recommendation.

[HaifengZhu-pnuq]

Thanks for your work. I haven;t decided between Kadence and Astra.
Kadence has Kadence block, does Astra have its own block editor?

[arjunkudva]

Good content as always. Do make a complete tutorial on creating a blog website with kadence, gutenberg, rankmath in future if possible.

[fcolpz]

Thanks for the tutorial! This is just the kind of info I was looking for. Question, If I already started building with Elementor, and I wanted to follow your advice for the speed advantage, what would be the best way to go about it? Would I start over? Can I simply decide to make future edits on Gutenberg? I'm completely starting out so starting over isn't so much of an issue since I don't have much built. Thanks again!

[vijaydevkar]

Thank you for the well-detailed tutorial, Alex.!

[vladlipovsky]

Thank you for this video! Found some help!

[jorexander]

Hola, muchas gracias por el video, estoy tratando de instalar el tema pero cuando voy a TEMAS > ANADIR TEMA, no me deja anadir el tema porque dice que tengo que tener la cuenta BUSINESS para poder agregar un tema, yo tengo la cuenta PREMUN y no me deja!! alguien me puede ayudar?? gracias.

[martynagriffin]

The blue-frame-highlight in the block editor... Is this an Astra thing? Can I turn it off? It annoys me to no end and I quite like the theme otherwise. Thanks!

[Ben-S-Man]

Any way to get the entrance animations and other fancy looking stuff that comes in elementor in a site like this?

[shahbaaz]

Hi alex love your videos. I do habe a question - How to speed up website that uses google adsense?

[mecrayavcin]

Kadence or Astra?
Which one would you buy ideasoft?
You can answer for the free versions as well.

I remembered Astra had problems with total cache plugin. I had Tried it and theme had broken down.
İn Kadence free version there are free sticky header.

I Got problems with Astra free