design: careers-page - Add the Hero and Sections 2-5 patterns and the warm accent token (LSA-197) by brandonmarshal · Pull Request #139 · lightspeedwp/ls-theme

brandonmarshal · 2026-10-21T14:18:31Z

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Linked issues

Relates to Linear LSA-197 (design: careers-page - Build Careers page). It does not close the issue: Sections 6-12 (a second PR), the Careers page content on DEV, copy approval and the manual QA are still open.

Design Overview

The first five patterns for the About "Careers" page (/about/careers/): the hero and the next four sections. Built from the standalone prototype About Careers Standalone.html and the content doc 06-about-careers.md. This is the first of two PRs for the page; the second (#140) covers What you'll learn, the toolset loop, What we look for, Open source, Open roles, and the reused FAQ and CTA.

Hero - Split Photo: breadcrumb across the top, then dot eyebrow, H1 with one brand-coloured word and lede on the left, and the team photo on the right at its natural 3:2 ratio. It stacks on mobile.
Section - Statement Lede: "Shape the Future of Digital Publishing and Ride the AI Wave." as a large statement with a brand-coloured closing phrase, plus the intro paragraph, on a card band.
Section - Split Text Pair Statement: "Why join LightSpeed" and "How we work" as two columns, then the closing "The goal is not ~~constant visibility~~. The goal is dependable progress." statement on two lines. The strike-through and highlight are core inline formats.
Section - Numbered Bento Cards: "Who thrives here" as a six-column bento of six numbered cards with blue, orange, green and purple numbers.
Section - Intro Icon Card Trio: "Riding the AI Wave: Growth & Upskilling" with three equal-height icon cards (Phosphor users-three, graduation-cap and book) on the page canvas.
Reuse first: the dot eyebrow, ls-corner-glow, Yoast breadcrumbs, the Card - Plain style, the Icon block well class and the existing brand, phase and warm colour tokens. All blocks are core blocks; no custom blocks.

Design Files / References

Standalone HTML prototype About Careers Standalone.html and content doc 06-about-careers.md. No Figma frames.

Changes

Patterns: patterns/hero/hero-split-photo.php, patterns/sections/statement-lede.php, patterns/sections/split-text-pair-statement.php, patterns/sections/numbered-bento-cards.php and patterns/sections/intro-icon-card-trio.php. Internal links use home_url(). Every section follows light and dark mode, including the Growth section, which the prototype keeps permanently dark.
Hero photo: linked directly from the DEV media library, the same way the About team cards link their photos. It is not added to the theme.
Styles: src/scss/structural/about-careers.scss, compiled to assets/css/about-careers.css. It owns only what JSON cannot reach: the statement measure in ch, text-wrap, and the bento reflow on small screens. Each rule carries a "JSON limitation" comment. package.json, inc/animations.php (a page condition plus render_block marker detection) and functions.php (editor stylesheet) wire the bundle.
Tokens: none added. The accent.warm token (the orange accent) came in with the merged Culture PRs (design: culture-page - Add the Hero and Sections 1-4 patterns and the warm accent tokens (LSA-108) #135 and design: culture-page - Add the Sections 5-8 patterns (LSA-108) #136) and is now on develop, so this branch merges develop and uses it. The first card number, the Independence rule and the open-roles numbers read it (4.96:1 in light, 11.88:1 in dark on the page background).

Scope and exclusions

Not in this PR: Sections 6-12 (design: careers-page - Add the Sections 6-10 patterns and compose the FAQ and CTA (LSA-197) #140), the Careers page content on DEV, SEO metadata, copy approval and the manual QA.
The "30+ plugins and 10 block themes" FAQ claim, the growth benefits and the two open roles come from the content doc and still need owner approval before publishing.
Review budget: 10 files and about 510 lines, including the one-line compiled assets/css/about-careers.css. That is under the 15-file budget and over the preferred 400 lines, because the patterns are block markup, which is long per line.

Screenshots/video

To be added before review (light, dark and 390px mobile).

Accessibility notes

One H1; each section has a real H2, and the card headings are H3. The eyebrow-style labels in Sections 3 and 4 are real H2 headings, so the page keeps a correct heading order.
The hero photo has descriptive alt text. The strike-through and highlight in the closing statement use core inline formats.
Contrast checked against the real palette in light and dark: text and accent colours pass WCAG 2.2 AA (4.5:1) on the page canvas and surface.card.
No new motion in this PR.

Stack

Position: PR 1 of 2
Issue/Epic: Linear LSA-197
Followed by: design: careers-page - Add the Sections 6-10 patterns and compose the FAQ and CTA (LSA-197) #140 (Sections 6-10 patterns and the FAQ and CTA composition, based on this branch)
Review scope: the hero and Sections 2-5 patterns, and the about-careers SCSS bundle with its wiring

Testing

Changelog

meta:no-changelog: this is the first layer of a two-PR stack. The single Careers page changelog entry lives in the second PR (#140), which covers both.

Checklist

Related issues linked above
Existing patterns, styles and tokens reused where they fit; no new tokens
Accessibility standards met (screen reader not yet tested)
Changelog entry added in the second PR of the stack (design: careers-page - Add the Sections 6-10 patterns and compose the FAQ and CTA (LSA-197) #140)

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New Features
- Added reusable careers page sections for a team-focused hero, growth and learning cards, a numbered bento-card grid, and statement-led content.
- Added responsive layouts that adapt the careers content and cards for tablet and mobile screens.
- Careers page styling is available in both the site and the editor.

… warm accent tokens (LSA-197) Patterns - Add Hero - Lede Wide Photo with breadcrumb, eyebrow, H1 and a wide team photo - Add Section - Statement Lede for the "Shape the Future" intro - Add Section - Split Text Pair Statement with the struck-through and highlighted closing line - Add Section - Numbered Bento Cards for "Who thrives here" - Add Section - Split Intro Staggered Icon Cards for "Growth and Upskilling" Styles - Add the about-careers SCSS bundle with the statement measure and the mobile reflow - Wire the bundle in package.json, inc/animations.php and functions.php - Add the compiled about-careers.css Tokens - Add accent.warm with warm-300 and warm-700 palette colours in theme.json and dark.json - Keep the values identical to the Culture page tokens so the two branches reconcile Context - Link the hero team photo from the DEV media library, as the About team cards do - Patterns follow light and dark mode through existing semantic tokens - Remaining sections 6-12 follow on a stacked branch

…am photo on the right (LSA-197) Hero - Replace Hero - Lede Wide Photo with Hero - Split Photo - Put the eyebrow, H1 and lede on the left and the team photo on the right - Show the photo at its natural 3:2 ratio so it is no longer stretched or cropped Cleanup - Remove the unused hero photo crop rule from about-careers.scss - Drop the hero class from the about-careers marker list in inc/animations.php - Rebuild about-careers.css

…e the Growth cards equal height (LSA-197) Statement - Let the closing goal statement span the full width instead of an 800px box - Break the line between the two sentences so each sits on its own line Growth cards - Replace the staggered columns with a three-column grid so the cards share one height - Rename Section - Split Intro Staggered Icon Cards to Section - Intro Icon Card Trio - Remove the staircase marker class and the mobile min-height reset Cleanup - Update the about-careers marker list in inc/animations.php - Rebuild about-careers.css

linear-code · 2026-10-21T14:18:38Z

LSA-197

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This change adds five WordPress patterns for the Careers page, responsive bento styling, CSS build targets, editor registration, render markers, and conditional stylesheet loading for about/careers.

Changes: About Careers page

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Careers page patterns `patterns/hero/hero-split-photo.php`, `patterns/sections/*.php`	Adds the Careers hero, statement, growth, and numbered bento patterns with localized content, themed markup, responsive layouts, and escaped dynamic output.
Responsive Careers styles `src/scss/structural/about-careers.scss`, `assets/css/about-careers.css`	Adds balanced text wrapping and responsive bento-grid behavior for tablet and mobile widths.
Stylesheet build and loading `package.json`, `functions.php`, `inc/animations.php`	Compiles the Careers stylesheet, registers it for the editor, adds render markers, and conditionally loads the style bundle on `about/careers`.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Possibly related issues

lightspeedwp/ls-theme#138 — Defines the Careers page scope implemented by these patterns and the about-careers bundle.

Possibly related PRs

lightspeedwp/ls-theme#140 — Adds later Careers sections and extends the stylesheet and render-marker mapping introduced here.
lightspeedwp/ls-theme#135 — Adds the warm accent token used by the numbered bento cards.

Suggested reviewers: zaredrogers

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b00ca

The page remains mergeable with awareness of two responsive bento layout concerns: an empty grid cell at tablet widths and styling that can follow the wrong card after an edit.

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…s (LSA-197) Changelog - Add one Unreleased entry for the Careers page patterns, the about-careers styles and the accent.warm token - Link both pull requests (#139 and #140) Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Replace the hard-coded DEV media URL with a stable image source.

$ls_hero_photo_url points to ls-agency.lightspeedwp.dev. Every site that uses this pattern then loads its hero image from the DEV host.

If that host is unavailable, renamed or moved, the hero image fails. The browser also makes a third-party request on every Careers page view.

Ship the image inside the theme and load it with get_theme_file_uri(). Alternatively, use a pattern-safe placeholder image that the editor replaces with a Media Library image after insertion.
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-$ls_hero_photo_url = 'https://ls-agency.lightspeedwp.dev/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/lightspeed-team-photo-edited.png';
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…and fill the two-column gap (LSA-197) Bento reflow - Make the first card span a full row between 600px and 782px so the final row no longer leaves an empty cell Selectors - Add ls-bento__card--wide and ls-bento__card--feature classes in Numbered Bento Cards - Use the classes instead of :last-child for the two-column span and the mobile column layout - Rebuild about-careers.css

…s (LSA-197) Changelog - Add one Unreleased entry for the Careers page patterns, the about-careers styles and the accent.warm token - Link both pull requests (#139 and #140) Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…eers-page-patterns-1-5 # Conflicts: # package.json

…s (LSA-197) Changelog - Add one Unreleased entry for the Careers page patterns, the about-careers styles and the accent.warm token - Link both pull requests (#139 and #140) Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

… FAQ and CTA (LSA-197) (#140) * design: careers-page - Add the Sections 6-10 patterns for the Careers page (LSA-197) Patterns - Add Section - Split Label Text Pair for "What you'll learn here" - Add Section - Process Loop Text Pair for the toolset loop and its two text columns - Add Section - Accent Rule Columns for the three core values - Add Section - Centered Statement Link for "Open source still matters here" - Add Section - Numbered Card Pair Action Note for Open Roles, the Open Application row and the note - Reuse Solutions Split FAQ and Services CTA for the FAQ and closing CTA Styles - Extend the about-careers SCSS with the loop return line, the stacked mobile loop and the role card hover lift - Let the long GitHub outline button wrap on small screens so the page no longer scrolls sideways - Add the loop and role card classes to the about-careers marker list in inc/animations.php - Rebuild about-careers.css Context - Patterns follow light and dark mode through existing semantic tokens - The Open Roles section carries the open-roles anchor for links elsewhere - Stacked on the Sections 1-5 branch * docs: changelog - Add the Careers page entry covering both Careers PRs (LSA-197) Changelog - Add one Unreleased entry for the Careers page patterns, the about-careers styles and the accent.warm token - Link both pull requests (#139 and #140) Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: changelog - Move the Careers summary from the Unreleased heading into Added --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: coderabbitai[bot] <136622811+coderabbitai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

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