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Build trust-bar, newsletter-signup, and republish-notice patterns (LS-1721) - #11
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Investigated newsletter-signup (both size variants) and republish-notice directly against Figma before building, confirming real integration points instead of guessing: newsletter-signup-compact needs the site's existing Gravity Form (ID 1), and the Republish button is powered by the already-installed Creative Commons Post Republisher plugin, which opens a modal rather than linking out or copying to clipboard. Built patterns/republish-notice.php with the confirmed CC BY-ND 4.0 copy and the plugin's own button/modal markup embedded as a wp:html block (a self-closing block reference stored no content at all, breaking both the front-end button and editor validation), reusing the theme's existing republish-article button styling. Wired into single.html via wp:pattern, replacing the placeholder. Known issue, not yet resolved: the button renders but doesn't trigger its modal on click — likely a script-loading issue on the environment, to continue investigating Monday.
Republish-notice's button/modal now work end-to-end: enqueue the plugin's modal CSS (only auto-loads with a real registered block, which our wp:html markup intentionally isn't) and add a defensive render filter against duplicate inline blocks. Also fix theme.json's spacing sizes silently losing to WordPress core's identically-slugged default scale (20-80) sitewide, via defaultSpacingSizes:false.
dashboard/secondary/republish-article used spacing|20/30 for padding, tuned by eye against the broken flat scale from before today's defaultSpacingSizes fix; now that spacing presets resolve correctly, that rendered oversized. Standardized all four button styles on spacing|10/20 (vertical/horizontal), matching the Figma button spec (~8px/18px) that outline.json's vertical value already matched by coincidence.
Front-page variant is static placeholder content pending Zared's input on whether a dynamic query against real Edition categories is needed. Sidebar variant embeds the real Gravity Form (already wired to Mailchimp) restyled to match the design, same CSS-bridge approach used for the CC Post Republisher plugin's button. Also fixes the same border-block-attribute validation bug found this morning in republish-notice.php, this time in newsletter-signup's outer card.
Replaces the whole placeholder heading+content group in each location with a single wp:pattern reference, since both patterns already bake in their own heading — same approach used for topic-band-compact. Confirmed live: front-page shows the static issue list correctly, sidebar renders the real Gravity Form with working styling.
trust-bar.html: outer bar padding was on all four sides instead of vertical-only (spacing|30), items were missing vertical padding and an explicit icon-to-text gap (spacing|10), and the heading/description pairing relied on the sitewide default gap instead of Figma's explicit spacing|5 — all confirmed against a fresh pull of the "Stats Bar" component. Divider color corrected from neutral-100 to base. topic-band-compact.php: tile padding was spacing|40 instead of Figma's spacing|20 (a pre-existing bug, not caused by today's fix, just newly visible at its real size), and the heading had a redundant padding-bottom double-counting the outer wrapper's own gap.
Sidebar variant's real Gravity Form embed is confirmed correct; the front-page variant's button destination stays open pending Zared. Marks tasks 3.8/3.9 done — PR 3 (LS-1721) is complete.
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| Layer / File(s) | Summary |
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Newsletter patterns and template wiring patterns/newsletter-signup*.php, assets/css/newsletter-signup.css, assets/css/newsletter-popup.css, functions.php, templates/front-page.html, parts/sidebar-editorial.html, CHANGELOG.md, openspec/changes/spotlight-pattern-library/* |
Adds front-page and compact newsletter patterns. The compact pattern embeds Gravity Form 1. The newsletter CTA uses the newsletter-signup__cta Popup Maker trigger class. The templates reference the patterns, and the related stylesheets are enqueued. |
Republish notice and plugin integration patterns/republish-notice.php, assets/css/republish-notice.css, functions.php, templates/single.html |
Adds the republish notice markup and styles. The single-post template references the pattern. Inline plugin blocks are suppressed, and plugin styles load before theme styles. |
Layout and spacing corrections parts/trust-bar.html, patterns/topic-band-compact.php, assets/css/story-card.css, styles/blocks/button/*.json, theme.json |
Updates trust-bar separators and spacing, reduces topic tile and button padding, prevents card stretching, clips story media, and disables default WordPress spacing sizes. |
Release metadata and validation records .gitignore, style.css, readme.txt, openspec/changes/spotlight-pattern-library/tasks.md |
Ignores Playwright MCP files, increments the theme version and stable tag to 1.0.1, and records implementation and validation completion. |
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes
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The PR adds and wires the requested patterns while correcting related layout and styling behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.
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participant SingleTemplate
participant WordPressRenderer
participant CCPostRepublisher
participant Browser
SingleTemplate->>WordPressRenderer: Render republish-notice pattern
WordPressRenderer->>CCPostRepublisher: Load modal styling dependency
WordPressRenderer->>Browser: Output notice and modal markup
CCPostRepublisher-->>WordPressRenderer: Suppress inline cc/post-republisher blocks
Browser->>CCPostRepublisher: Open republish modal
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In `@functions.php`:
- Around line 293-309: Update
spotlight_theme_2026_suppress_inline_republish_block so it suppresses
cc/post-republisher only in single-post contexts, preserving the block on pages
and other post-content contexts without the replacement pattern.
In `@patterns/newsletter-signup.php`:
- Line 103: Remove the newsletter subscription CTA until its destination is
confirmed; do not ship the anchor with href="#".
In `@patterns/republish-notice.php`:
- Line 7: Update the pattern registration header description in
patterns/republish-notice.php to describe the content as “plugin-compatible
button/modal markup” rather than claiming it includes the real Creative Commons
Post Republisher plugin block; leave the plain wp:html markup unchanged.
- Around line 43-44: Update the heading in the republish notice pattern so it
remains semantically valid after arbitrary post content: use a context-safe
heading level that cannot create a skipped hierarchy, or replace it with a
styled non-heading element if it is not a document section. Preserve the
existing text, styling, translation, and escaping.
- Around line 8-9: Update the pattern metadata for templates/single.html by
changing the Inserter setting from true to false, while preserving the existing
single template configuration.
In `@style.css`:
- Line 7: Synchronize the theme version metadata by updating the Stable tag in
readme.txt to match the Version declaration of 1.0.1, or set both fields to the
intended release version if 1.0.1 is not final.
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Set republish-notice's Inserter to false — single.html already inserts it automatically, so leaving it inserter-visible let editors drag a duplicate into post content and collide with the plugin's fixed DOM IDs, the exact bug already fixed once. Corrected its heading from h4 to h3, since it sits after arbitrary post content with no guaranteed hierarchy above it. Clarified the pattern description to reflect plain HTML rather than a real block instance. Synced readme.txt's Stable tag with style.css's 1.0.1.
Content, popup theme, and trigger are authored in wp-admin per Zared's direction to use Popup Maker natively rather than a theme pattern; this covers everything the theme needs to support it — restyled Gravity Form markup, AJAX submission so validation errors render in place instead of closing the popup on a full-page postback, a mobile width cap for Popup Maker's un-responsive fixed-width inline style, and the button class wired to the popup's Click Open trigger.
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Description
This branch implements PR 3 of the Spotlight pattern library (LS-1721 — trust, newsletter, and editorial-utility patterns), building the
republish-noticeandnewsletter-signup/newsletter-signup-compactpatterns, then wiring them intosingle.html,front-page.html, andsidebar-editorial.html. Along the way it also fixed a sitewidetheme.jsonspacing-scale bug and two recurring block-validation/layout bugs that this PR's work exposed.Changes
republish-notice: the in-article "Republish this article, for free" card, using the real CC Post Republisher plugin's expected button/modal markup (wrapped inwp:html, not awp:cc/post-republisherblock reference — that block'ssave()returns real content, and a self-closing reference stores none) so the site's existing modal JS actually works. Confirmed end-to-end via Playwright: click → modal opens → populates real license content → closes.newsletter-signup/newsletter-signup-compact: front-page and sidebar size variants. The sidebar variant embeds the site's real Gravity Form (ID 1, "Sign up to get stories that matter in your inbox," already wired to Mailchimp) rather than static markup, restyled via CSS to match the design — the same "restyle the plugin's own markup" approach used for the Republish button. The front-page variant's 3-item "latest newsletters" list is static placeholder content for now; this site has real "Edition"/"Spotlight Edition" categories that could back a real query later, deferred pending Zared's feedback on whether it's needed.modal.jsover an untrusted local HTTPS cert; Classic Editor forced as the site's default editor, silently triggering the plugin's own legacy fallback to auto-inject a second, differently-styled button into every post body; and the plugin's modal CSS only auto-enqueuing alongside a real registered block, which ourwp:html-based button intentionally isn't. Fixed by deactivating both plugins locally and declaring the modal stylesheet as an explicit dependency.theme.jsonspacing bug: our custom spacing scale reuses slugs (20–80) that collide with WordPress core's own built-in default spacing scale; withoutdefaultSpacingSizes:false, core's identically-slugged flat values were silently winning over our fluidclamp()ones everywhere a pattern used one of those sizes — not scoped to this PR's patterns. Fixed once intheme.json, then re-verified and corrected padding acrossrepublish-notice,newsletter-signup, all four custom button styles,trust-bar.html, andtopic-band-compact.php(the front-pagetopic-band.phpgrid is flagged as likely affected too, but left unverified — see Deployment Notes).has-border-colorclass) — found and fixed twice, inrepublish-notice.phpandnewsletter-signup.php, both times by moving the border into real CSS instead.story-cardcards were stretching to match a taller row-mate (no block attribute exists for a grid item's ownalign-self), which cascaded into a card's aspect-ratio image rendering at the row's full height instead of its own ratio — inflating page height and, on/latest-news/, physically overlapping and blocking the pagination component from being clicked/hovered. Fixed withalign-self: startplusoverflow: hiddenon the media container, the latter as a permanent defensive fix (a deleted/corrupted media file on staging or live would hit the exact same failure mode, not just local demo data).Files Modified
Source files:
functions.php— republish/newsletter stylesheet enqueues, defensiverender_block_cc/post-republisherfiltertheme.json—defaultSpacingSizes:falsestyle.css— version bump (1.0.0 → 1.0.1)styles/blocks/button/dashboard.json,secondary.json,republish-article.json,outline.json— padding corrected now that the spacing scale is trustworthyassets/css/story-card.css—align-self: start(grid-stretch fix) andoverflow: hidden(broken-image containment)parts/trust-bar.html— padding/gap/divider-color corrected against a fresh Figma pullpatterns/topic-band-compact.php— tile padding corrected, redundant heading spacing removedtemplates/single.html,front-page.html— placeholder markers replaced with realwp:patternreferencesparts/sidebar-editorial.html— newsletter module replaced with awp:patternreference.gitignore— ignore local Playwright MCP test artifactsopenspec/changes/spotlight-pattern-library/design.md,tasks.md— task completion notes and new Open QuestionsNew files:
patterns/republish-notice.php,newsletter-signup.php,newsletter-signup-compact.phpassets/css/republish-notice.css,newsletter-signup.cssKey Improvements
spacing|20–spacing|80is fixed at the root (theme.json), not patched per-patternoverflow: hiddenon story-card media protects staging/live from the same broken-image layout bleed, not just local demo dataRelated Issues
Closes LS-1721 — Trust, newsletter, and editorial-utility patterns
Part of LS-1706 — Spotlight pattern library (parent issue; PR 3 of 7)
Testing
npm run schema:validatepassesnpm run theme:validatepassescomposer run lint:phpandcomposer run phpcspassopenspec validate --strict spotlight-pattern-librarypasses/latest-news/Deployment Notes
topic-band.phpgrid likely has the same spacing-scale regression astrust-bar.html/topic-band-compact.phpbut is unverified — Figma access hit a hard View-seat rate limit mid-session — flagged indesign.mdfor a follow-up PR rather than guessed atChecklist
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