design: thank-you-confirmation - Rebuild the thank-you pattern as a reusable confirmation section (LSA-198)

.github/reports/2026-10-23-dev-live-launch-audit.md

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+# DEV vs LIVE launch-readiness audit
+
+Date: 2026-10-23. Read-only audit. LIVE: lightspeedwp.agency. DEV: ls-agency.lightspeedwp.dev. Nothing was edited on either site.
+
+## Summary
+
+- LIVE has 69 published pages, 151 published posts, 19 published projects.
+- **Posts:** all 151 present on DEV at identical URLs.
+- **Pages:** 65 of 69 resolve on DEV (one via a 301). **4 do not (404).**
+- **Projects:** all 19 resolve via 301 from `/portfolio/<slug>/` to `/work/<slug>/`. The `/portfolio/` archive itself 404s.
+- **Redesign status of the 65 resolving pages:** 16 redesigned clean, 9 redesigned with defects, **40 still old, broken or blank.**
+
+## Blockers: LIVE URLs that 404 on DEV
+
+| LIVE URL | DEV state |
+|---|---|
+| /briefing/request-a-quote/ | DEV page 45865 exists but is DRAFT |
+| /client-intake-form/ | DEV page 38058 exists but is DRAFT (its published child /client-intake-form/thank-you/ works) |
+| /free-woo-consultation/ | DEV page 51498 exists but is DRAFT, no content |
+| /briefing/about-page-content/ | DEV page 46015 exists but slug is `about-us-page` (no redirect) |
+| /portfolio/ (projects archive) | DEV equivalent is /work/; no redirect from /portfolio/ |
+
+Handled by redirect already: /solutions/hosting/ → /services/hosting/ and all 19 /portfolio/<slug>/ → /work/<slug>/.
+
+Taxonomy archives on LIVE sitemap that 404 on DEV (low priority): /portfolio-group/elearning/, 5 × /project-type/*, /project-tag/branding/, /project-tag/content-management/, /project-tag/featued/. Post tags (24) and authors (3) all resolve.
+
+## Pages that still need the redesign (old, broken or blank)
+
+| LIVE path | Status | Note |
+|---|---|---|
+| /briefing/woo/ | BROKEN | Form text dark-on-black, unreadable |
+| /briefing/wordpress/ | OLD | Unstyled Gravity form |
+| /client-feedback/ | OLD | Default checkboxes/button |
+| /client-intake-form/thank-you/ | OLD | Legacy thank-you layout |
+| /contact/thank-you/ | OLD | Legacy thank-you layout |
+| /free-consultation/thank-you/ | OLD | Legacy thank-you layout |
+| /getting-started-with-lightspeed/ | OLD | Plain text, no hero |
+| /mailpoet-manage-your-subscription/ | OLD | Legacy layout |
+| /mailpoet-re-engangement-page/ | OLD | Legacy layout |
+| /mailpoet-unsubscribe-confirmation/ | BROKEN | Raw [mailpoet_page] shortcode text visible; unreadable button |
+| /mailpoet-unsubscribe-success-page/ | OLD | Legacy layout |
+| /policies/ | OLD | Plain text |
+| /policies/corrections/ | OLD | Plain text |
+| /policies/diversity-content/ | OLD | Plain text |
+| /policies/diversity-staffing/ | OLD | Plain text |
+| /policies/ethics/ | OLD | Plain text |
+| /policies/feedback/ | OLD | Plain text |
+| /policies/ownership-funding/ | OLD | Plain text |
+| /policies/publishing-principles/ | OLD | Plain text |
+| /referrals/ | BROKEN | Overlapping buttons/logo strip, unstyled form |
+| /referrals/thank-you/ | OLD | Legacy thank-you layout |
+| /services/content/audit/ | BROKEN | Overlapping CTA/logo strip, unreadable button |
+| /services/content/collection/ | OLD | Legacy layout, dark-on-dark button |
+| /services/content/strategy/ | OLD | Legacy layout, empty white band |
+| /solutions/lsx/ | BROKEN | Unreadable "Key Features" text; "Couldn't load plugin" PDF embed |
+| /team/ | OLD | Old team page; titles differ from new /about/team/ |
+| /testimonials/ | BROKEN | Testimonial cards are blank white boxes (no quotes/images) |
+| /thank-you-content-audit-post/ | OLD | Legacy thank-you layout |
+| /thank-you-for-subscribing/ | OLD | Legacy thank-you layout |
+| /thank-you-newsletter-subscribe/ | OLD | Legacy, duplicate headings |
+| /wcct-sticker-competition/ | OLD | Legacy layout |
+| /website-development-project-terms-conditions/ | OLD | Plain legal text |
+| /website-packages/ | BROKEN | Package blocks have no visible text; empty boxes |
+| /why/ | BLANK | Title + one image only |
+| /why/lightspeed/ | OLD | Legacy layout |
+| /why/lsx/ | BROKEN | Overlapping cards, lorem ipsum in LSX Tour Operators card |
+| /why/mailchimp/ | BROKEN | Page titled Mailchimp shows Mailpoet content; invisible logo |
+| /why/tour-operator/ | OLD | Content is actually WooCommerce copy |
+| /why/woo/ | OLD | Legacy layout |
+| /why/wp/ | BROKEN | Sparse, overlapping buttons |
+
+Notes on likely replacements (inferred, please confirm): `/policies/*` probably maps to the blank new pages under `/about/` (privacy-and-terms, diversity, publishing-principles-ai-ethics); `/team/` to `/about/team/`; `/solutions/lsx/` to `/lsx/` (currently blank "being rebuilt"); `/why/*` is unclear. If these are meant to be replaced, they need redirects as well as content.
+
+## Redesigned pages with defects to fix
+
+| Path | Defect (from visual review) |
+|---|---|
+| /blog/ | Stat cards ("18/12/24") look like placeholder data |
+| /contact/ | FAQ is about design systems (wrong topic); Email field split into two inputs |
+| /services/ | Hero colour-swatch panel (hex codes) looks like leftover design-doc content |
+| /services/content/ | ~100px empty gap before FAQ; no case study |
+| /services/email-marketing/ | Blank dark band before FAQ (empty case-study slot?) |
+| /services/security/ | Large empty band before FAQ |
+| /services/support/ | Case-study block labelled "Discovery in practice" (wrong copy) |
+| /services/training/ | Blank dark band after "What you receive"; "See training in practice" link has no target |
+| /solutions/ | 7th card (AI Chatbots) orphaned |
+
+## Redesigned and clean
+
+/, /about/, /about/culture/, /about/history/, /about/process/, /free-consultation/, /privacy-policy/, /services/design/, /services/development/, /services/discovery/, /services/migrations/, /solutions/hosting/, /solutions/tour-operators/, /solutions/woocommerce/, /solutions/wordpress/, /terms-conditions/
+
+## DEV-only pages that are published but blank (title only)
+
+These do not exist on LIVE, but they would go live empty: /faq/, /faq-2/ (duplicate), /pricing/ and 5 children (foundation, growth, enterprise, how-we-price-work, pricing-principles), /guarantees/, /systems/ and 3 children, /solutions/ai-readiness/, /about/ai-governance/, /about/community-events/, /about/diversity/, /about/publishing-principles-ai-ethics/, /about/privacy-and-terms/, /book-a-call/, /services-landing/, /woocommerce-redesign/, /wordpress-redesign/, /woocommerce-solutions/, /tour-operators-solutions/, and /lsx/ + 2 children ("being rebuilt"). 28 pages in total. Also /briefing/ and /briefing/about-us-page/ are old content.
+
+Draft-only on LIVE (not blockers): 9 pages, including 6 Mailchimp pages and a Website Briefing page.
+
+## Method and limits
+
+- Page and post lists from both MCPs plus LIVE Yoast sitemaps; every LIVE URL requested on DEV (GET only).
+- Content state from rendered HTML (overlap of LIVE text on DEV), theme `ls-` classes, and a read-only DB query on DEV.
+- Visual review: 179 full-page screenshot segments at 1280px, reviewed by four sub-agents. Their defect notes are observations from screenshots; spot-check before acting.
+- Popups: LIVE has 2, DEV has 3 (not public URLs, not compared). Server-level redirects were inferred from HTTP responses only.

.github/reports/2026-10-23-pre-launch-todo.md

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+# Pre-launch to-do (DEV vs LIVE)
+
+Date: 2026-10-23. Based on the DEV/LIVE audit and the decisions made in chat. Items marked CONFIRM are my defaults and need a yes/no.
+
+## 1. Redirects to set up (no page build needed)
+
+| From (LIVE URL) | To | Note |
+|---|---|---|
+| /portfolio/ | /work/ | Individual /portfolio/<slug>/ projects already redirect |
+| /briefing/request-a-quote/ | /free-consultation/ | Form 3 is retired; brief popup replaces it |
+| /client-intake-form/ | /free-consultation/ | Same as above |
+| /client-intake-form/thank-you/ | /free-consultation/thank-you/ | Only used by retired form 3 |
+| /free-woo-consultation/ | /free-consultation/ | Same consultation form (form 4) |
+| /briefing/woo/ | /briefing/wordpress/ | Woo marketing copy retired |
+| /briefing/about-page-content/ | /briefing/about-us-page/ | Slug changed on DEV (CONFIRM page still needed) |
+| /team/ | /about/team/ | New team page is built |
+| /why/lightspeed/ and /why/ | /about/ | Also update the footer link |
+| /why/wp/ | /solutions/wordpress/ | |
+| /why/woo/ | /solutions/woocommerce/ | |
+| /why/tour-operator/ | /solutions/tour-operators/ | LIVE page is a copy of the Woo page |
+| /why/lsx/ | /solutions/design-systems/ | CONFIRM |
+| /why/mailchimp/ | /services/email-marketing/ | |
+| /policies/diversity-content/, /policies/diversity-staffing/ | /about/ | Diversity page dropped for launch (CONFIRM) |
+| /policies/, /policies/publishing-principles/, /policies/ethics/, /policies/corrections/, /policies/feedback/, /policies/ownership-funding/ | /about/publishing-principles-ai-ethics/ | Needs that page filled (CONFIRM mapping) |
+| /solutions/lsx/ | /solutions/design-systems/ or /lsx/ | /lsx/ is blank today (CONFIRM) |
+
+## 2. Pages to redesign before launch (17)
+
+- Thank-you: /contact/thank-you/, /free-consultation/thank-you/, /thank-you-content-audit-post/, /thank-you-newsletter-subscribe/, /referrals/thank-you/
+- MailPoet: /mailpoet-manage-your-subscription/, /mailpoet-unsubscribe-confirmation/ (raw shortcode visible), /mailpoet-unsubscribe-success-page/, /thank-you-for-subscribing/
+- Content and utility: /testimonials/, /getting-started-with-lightspeed/, /client-feedback/, /website-development-project-terms-conditions/, /briefing/wordpress/
+- Kept by decision: /website-packages/ (broken, no text), /referrals/ (live form 5), /services/content/collection/
+
+## 3. Fix defects on redesigned pages (9)
+
+- /services/support/: case-study block labelled "Discovery in practice"
+- /services/email-marketing/, /services/security/, /services/training/: empty band before FAQ; training "See training in practice" link has no target
+- /services/content/: empty gap before FAQ
+- /contact/: FAQ about design systems; Email field split in two
+- /solutions/: 7th card orphaned
+- /services/: leftover colour-swatch panel in hero
+- /blog/: stat cards look like placeholder numbers
+
+## 4. Unpublish and clean up navigation
+
+- Unpublish: /pricing/, /pricing/foundation/, /growth/, /enterprise/, /how-we-price-work/, /pricing-principles/, and /guarantees/ (CONFIRM it counts as pricing); /about/diversity/
+- Remove the Pricing mega menu and the Diversity link from the header and footer, or they will 404
+- Website packages sits inside the Pricing mega menu: give it a new menu home; /contact/ and /free-consultation/ also link to it
+
+## 5. Other blank DEV-only pages that are published
+
+Not on LIVE, publicly reachable and empty: /faq/, /faq-2/, /book-a-call/, /services-landing/, /woocommerce-redesign/, /wordpress-redesign/, /woocommerce-solutions/, /tour-operators-solutions/, /systems/ (+3 children), /solutions/ai-readiness/, /about/ai-governance/, /about/community-events/, /about/privacy-and-terms/, /lsx/ (+2 children). Unpublish or fill before launch.
+
+## 6. After launch (not blockers)
+
+- /wcct-sticker-competition/ (kept in the build, restyle later)
+- /mailpoet-re-engangement-page/
+- Taxonomy archives that 404 on DEV (project-type, project-tag, portfolio-group)

CHANGELOG.md

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+## [Unreleased] — Rebuild the thank-you pattern as a reusable confirmation section (LSA-198)
+
+### Added
+
+- `patterns/sections/thank-you-confirmation.php` (Section - Thank You Confirmation): one reusable confirmation section for every thank-you page, with neutral copy to overwrite per page. It has a Yoast breadcrumb, a success status badge, an H1, a lead paragraph and a home button, a "What happens next" card with a tick list, and a "While you wait" row of three whole-card links below a top border. The hero, the card and the cards row sit in one centred 900px column.
+
+### Changed
+
+- The success colour reads the `status.success` token, which has its own light and dark values. The card, list and button reuse the existing Card - Plain, Card - Service Tile and Tick Accent styles and the core Button, with no new SCSS.
+- `styles/blocks/lists/tick-accent.json`: the tick now stays on the first line of a list item that wraps (`align-items: first baseline`), instead of sitting in the middle. This also applies to `work-discuss-project-list` and `section-card-services`.
+- `.github/reports/`: added the 2026-10-23 DEV vs LIVE launch-readiness audit and the pre-launch to-do list.
+
+### Removed
+
+- `patterns/thank-you-consultation.php`: replaced by the new pattern. It had a hardcoded "Free consultation" breadcrumb, consultation-only copy, unused `ls-thank-you*` classes and a `core/separator` that the editor flagged as invalid content.
+
+([#159](https://github.com/lightspeedwp/ls-theme/pull/159))
+
+---
+
 ## [Unreleased] — Add the Team page patterns (LSA-109)
 
 ### Added