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Linked issues

Relates to Linear LSA-212 (improve: referrals - Redesign the referral programme page). It also changes the client logo strip built for LSA-206 (Testimonials). It does not close either issue: the Referrals sections are in the next PR in this stack, and both pages still have to be rebuilt on DEV.

Design Overview

One shared scrolling client logo strip for the Testimonials and Referrals pages, plus the Referrals hero graphic. It replaces the static Logo Strip pattern from #173.

• Section - Logo Marquee: six client logos in a clipped track that scrolls slowly and endlessly. Each logo is a light/dark image pair toggled by the existing logo visibility tokens, so the logos stay legible in both modes. A visually hidden H2 ("A few of our happy clients") names the section, and a small text-and-icon control beneath it pauses and plays the scroll.
• Accessibility (WCAG 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide):
  • Without JavaScript, or when the visitor prefers reduced motion, the logos stay a static, centred, wrapping row, with no repeat and no pause control.
  • The script starts the scroll, repeats the logos once for a seamless loop (the repeat has empty alt text and aria-hidden), and shows the pause control. The control is a real <button>, keyboard operable (Enter and Space), with a label that names the next action, a 16px minimum text size and a target above 24px.
  • The scroll also pauses on hover and while anything inside has focus, and it follows the visitor's reduced-motion setting if it changes while the page is open.
  • The window is sized to less than one set of logos (by the width of the widest logo), so the same logo can never show twice at once. It re-measures as the images load and the screen resizes.
• Referral hero graphic: a masked "one person refers another" shape, filled with the brand text token so it follows light and dark mode. It replaces banner-refer.svg, whose fixed dark fill disappeared in dark mode. The Referrals page uses it by swapping the graphic group's class in the Hero - Split Graphic Actions markup.
• Reuse first: the control is a core Button (tagName: button) with the neutral Button - Secondary Outline variant, the same approach as the Expand all toggle. The JS follows the existing render_block enqueue pattern (FAQ accordion, scroll timeline, Expand all). No new tokens.

Design Files / References

Standalone HTML designs produced in Claude Design for the Testimonials and Referrals pages, with the marquee added on request after the Referrals design review.

Changes

• Pattern: patterns/sections/logo-marquee.php (slug ls-theme/logo-marquee). patterns/sections/logo-strip.php is removed, since the marquee replaces it and falls back to a static row by itself. Nothing else referenced it.
• SCSS: src/scss/structural/logo-marquee.scss holds the static-row default, the seamless loop keyframes (60 seconds a loop), the edge fades, the logo sizing and the pause control styles. src/scss/structural/referral-sections.scss starts with the referral hero graphic mask. The now-unused strip rules are removed from testimonial-cards.scss. Compiled CSS is rebuilt for all three.
• JS: assets/js/logo-marquee.js.
• Wiring: both bundles are added to the build:css, build:css:dev and watch:css scripts in package.json, registered with their render markers in inc/animations.php (logo-marquee loads on the Testimonials and Referrals pages), the marquee script is enqueued by a render_block filter with translatable labels and the two inline icons, and both bundles are added as editor styles in functions.php.
• Icons: the LightSpeed icon collection has a play icon but no pause icon, so the small pause and play glyphs are drawn inline to match each other.

Scope and exclusions

• The Referrals sections (intro, list cards, form, case studies), the mobile menu fix and the stale Pricing spec fix are in the next PR in the stack.
• DEV pages are page content in the database and are not touched. After deploy, the Testimonials page should use this pattern in place of the old strip.
• Review size: 12 files, 561 added and 122 removed lines against develop. The three compiled CSS files (4 changed lines) are build output. The code is the pattern (201 lines), the JS (101), the marquee SCSS (153) and the inc/animations.php wiring (76). That is over the 400-line preferred budget and inside the 800-line limit and the 15-file budget; the marquee is one coherent change that cannot be split further.

Screenshots / video

None attached. Checked on the local site in dark and light mode at 1440px and 390px: the logos scroll, fade at the edges and never repeat in view, and the pause control sits right-aligned under the strip.

Accessibility / performance notes

• The scroll runs on transform only, with will-change: transform, and stops while hovered, focused or paused. Browsers already stop painting a transform animation that is off-screen, so there is no separate off-screen pause.
• The pause button's text stays at 16px minimum even where the fluid base size token drops to 14px.
• Light mode and dark mode use the same logo pair toggle as the site logo, so there is no extra request in either mode.

Stack

• Position: PR 1 of 2
• Issue/Epic: LSA-212
• Followed by: design: referrals - Add the Referrals page section patterns and fix the mobile menu accordion links (LSA-212) #175 (the Referrals sections PR; its base is this branch)
• Review scope: the shared logo marquee and the referral hero graphic

Test plan

• composer run phpcs and composer run lint:php pass
• npm run schema:validate, npm run lint:json and npm run security:scan pass
• npm run patterns:escape reports nothing for logo-marquee.php (35 warnings are in existing files)
• npm run theme:validate completes with warnings only (existing placeholder text)
• npm run lint:scss: no issues in the changed files; the one error is the known one in phase-link-card-grid.scss
• npm run build:css leaves no extra diff
• Browser checks (Playwright): the scroll runs, pauses and resumes by click, Enter and Space, pauses on hover, stays a static row with reduced motion and with JavaScript off, and nothing overflows at 390px
• The same logo never appears twice in view, sampled at 241 points of the loop at 1440px, 1280px, 1024px, 768px and 390px
• Single-page Playwright standing specs on /testimonials/, light mode, four projects: 15 passed, 0 failed
• Editor block validity on the Testimonials test page (337 blocks, 0 invalid)
• Single-page Playwright on /testimonials/ in dark mode on this branch alone
• Screen reader tested
• CodeRabbit review
• The Testimonials and Referrals pages on DEV after deploy

Changelog

meta:needs-changelog: adds a new pattern, script and stylesheet and removes the Logo Strip pattern. The entry is added to CHANGELOG.md on this branch.

Checklist

• Related issues linked above
• Existing button style, icon approach, enqueue pattern and tokens reused; no new tokens
• Media linked from DEV, not copied into the theme
• Accessibility standards met (screen reader not yet tested)
• Changelog entry added

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added an animated client logo marquee with a pause/resume control. Scrolling pauses on hover or keyboard focus, and animation is disabled for visitors who prefer reduced motion.
  • Added a branded graphic for referral sections.
• Changes
  • Replaced the static client logo strip pattern with the animated marquee. The previous strip pattern is no longer available.

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LSA-212

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Walkthrough

The PR replaces the static Logo Strip pattern with a JavaScript-enhanced logo marquee that supports pause controls and reduced-motion behavior. It adds a masked referral mark style and registers related assets for editor and conditional front-end loading. It also updates CSS build scripts and the changelog.

Changes: Logo marquee and referral styling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Marquee pattern and presentation patterns/sections/logo-marquee.php, patterns/sections/logo-strip.php, src/scss/structural/logo-marquee.scss, assets/css/logo-marquee.css, src/scss/structural/testimonial-cards.scss, assets/css/testimonial-cards.css, CHANGELOG.md	Adds a logo marquee pattern with six client logo items and a pause button. Styles control animation, pause behavior, and reduced-motion presentation. Removes the Logo Strip pattern and its logo-specific styles.
Marquee behavior and asset integration assets/js/logo-marquee.js, inc/animations.php, functions.php, package.json	Adds marquee initialization, sizing, pause controls, and reduced-motion synchronization. WordPress conditionally enqueues the script and registers the marquee stylesheet. CSS build and watch scripts include the new stylesheets.
Referral mark styling src/scss/structural/referral-sections.scss, assets/css/referral-sections.css, inc/animations.php	Adds the responsive, masked .ls-referral-mark graphic and registers its stylesheet for editor use and conditional loading on the Referrals page.

Priority: Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant render_block
  participant enqueue as ls_theme_enqueue_logo_marquee_script
  participant script as logo-marquee.js
  participant marquee as .ls-logo-marquee
  render_block->>enqueue: pass rendered block content
  enqueue->>script: enqueue script and provide labels and icons
  script->>marquee: initialize markup and synchronize animation state

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Possibly related issues

• improve: referrals - Redesign the referral programme page #157 — The PR replaces the Logo Strip pattern with a marquee, addressing the issue’s logo-strip objective.

Possibly related PRs

• lightspeedwp/ls-theme#175 — Both PRs use the referral stylesheet and loading contract; PR #175 extends that bundle for additional Referrals sections.
• lightspeedwp/ls-theme#173 — PR #173 adds the Logo Strip pattern that this PR removes and replaces with the logo marquee.

Suggested reviewers: zaredrogers, krugazul

Merge Risk: Low · up to 8dbee

The marquee can move to a different position while visitors are elsewhere on the page. This is low-impact and can be addressed as a follow-up.

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Review comments at @assets/css/testimonial-cards.css:
- Line 1: Restore the legacy .ls-logo-strip sizing rule and its loading marker
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