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Linked issues

Relates to Linear LSA-212 (improve: referrals - Redesign the referral programme page). It does not close the issue: the Referrals page on DEV still has to be rebuilt from these patterns, and the manual QA is still open.

Design Overview

The section patterns for the redesigned Referrals page, built from the approved standalone design. The page keeps every word of the live page copy, the five steps, the four reasons, the seven form fields and the case-study query. The hero reuses hero-split-graphic-actions with the referral copy and the referral graphic from the previous PR, and the client logos use the shared marquee from the previous PR.

• Section - Intro Graphic Lede: the "We love our clients and our partners!" H2, a decorative three-person network graphic (an empty group masked with the shape and filled with the brand text token, so it follows light and dark mode) and the lede paragraph. The columns stack on mobile.
• Section - List Card Pair: two bordered cards, each an H3, a lead paragraph and a core List. "How referrals work" stays a real ordered list whose numbers become round brand badges (CSS counters), and "Why refer LightSpeed?" is a bulleted list with brand-coloured bullets, bold lead-ins and the WordPress.org link.
• Section - Split Intro Form Panel: laid out like the Contact page. The "Partner with us" H2 and paragraph sit on the band on the left (sticky on desktop through the shared ls-hero-form-intro class), and a bordered surface.canvas card on the right holds only the Gravity Forms block. The form ID is looked up by the form title ("Referral"), so the pattern works on every site (ID 5 on LIVE and DEV, ID 6 locally), falling back to 5. The form uses the shared Gravity Forms token mapping scoped to the card's referral-form anchor, so no other form changes.
• Section - Project Query Image Cards: a "Related Case Studies" H2 above a 2-column core Query Loop of project posts from the "WordPress" project group (looked up by slug per site), each rendered as the existing Card - Case Study shell with the featured image (16:10) and the post title as an H3. The whole card is one link: the title link is non-positioned so its stretched overlay covers the card, with the focus ring drawn around the card and the shell's existing hover lift.
• Reuse first: the form card and sticky intro reuse the Contact page treatment, the cards reuse the Card - Case Study shell, and the Gravity Forms colours come from the shared token mapping. No new tokens.

Design Files / References

Standalone HTML design produced in Claude Design from the LightSpeedWP-Agency prototype and the Testimonials design, checked against the live page (/referrals/) for content.

Changes

• Patterns: intro-graphic-lede.php, list-card-pair.php, split-intro-form-panel.php and project-query-image-cards.php under patterns/sections/.
• SCSS: referral-sections.scss (compiled to assets/css/referral-sections.css) gains the network graphic mask, the numbered step badges, the brand bullets, the referral form styles (scoped to #referral-form, field text at the 16px minimum) and the stretched case-study link. inc/animations.php lists the new render markers.
• Mobile menu (accessibility fix): each accordion title in parts/mobile-menu.html was a link inside a <summary>, which axe reports as nested-interactive. The titles are now plain text, and the section overview link already inside every panel ("See all work", "See all solutions", "See all services", "Read all insights", "About LightSpeed") is the way to the section page. The unused summary > a rules are removed from styles/blocks/details/mobile-menu-accordion.json. This changes the mobile menu on every page: tapping a title now opens its panel instead of going straight to the section page.
• Mobile menu spec: tests/specs/mobile-menu.spec.ts drops "Pricing" from the accordion list (the Pricing menu is hidden since fix: header-and-hero - Align the header, centre the mega menus, hide Pricing and tighten the blog hero (BugHerd #268, #269, #270) #167, so its tests were failing on every page), turns the known-issue test into a real check that no summary contains a link, and runs the axe scan with no rules disabled.

Investigated but not changed

• Content quirks on the live page: the "GET 10% PER REFERRAL*" asterisk has no footnote anywhere on the page, the form labels contain typos ("You Name", "You Email", "woud like"), and amounts appear as both "R10000" and "R10,000". All are kept verbatim; the labels are fixed in the form itself.
• Form error colours: Gravity Forms' default red error text is below 4.5:1 on the dark card. Until a status.error token exists, the error banner and messages use the default text token (marked TEMPORARY in the SCSS) and only the icon and borders keep the plugin's red. Proposed token, mirroring status.success: error-strong #B91C1C in light (6.2:1 on the canvas) and the existing error-foreground #EF4444 in dark (5.32:1).
• Step badges: white on the default brand fill is 4.41:1 in light mode, so the badges use surface.brand-strong (5.34:1 in light, 11.37:1 in dark).

Scope and exclusions

• The DEV page is page content in the database and is not touched. After deploy, rebuild it from these patterns, set its template to page-no-title, re-add the pattern names to the top-level blocks, and use the pum-triggercta class on the consultation button.
• The header and the desktop menu are not changed.
• Review size: 10 files, 460 added and 27 removed lines against the base (branch 1). The compiled CSS file is build output. The code is the four patterns (296 lines), the SCSS (146), the spec (23) and small wiring changes. That is slightly over the 400-line preferred budget and inside the limits.

Screenshots / video

None attached. Checked on the local site at desktop, tablet and mobile widths in dark mode and visually at 1440px and 390px: the intro, list cards, form card, case-study cards and the opened mobile menu render as designed, the form shows the validation error state on an empty submit, and nothing scrolls horizontally.

Accessibility / performance notes

• One H1, H2 section headings and H3 card and column headings; the steps are a real ordered list and the cards are real links.
• The mobile menu summaries are no longer nested controls (axe nested-interactive).
• Form field text is at the 16px minimum, and the case-study card has a visible focus ring around the whole card.
• The new stylesheet loads on the Referrals page and through the render-marker fallback where the patterns render. No new scripts.

Stack

• Position: PR 2 of 2
• Issue/Epic: LSA-212
• Depends on: design: logo-marquee - Add the scrolling client logo marquee and the referral hero graphic (LSA-212) #174 (the logo marquee and the referral hero graphic)
• Review scope: the Referrals page section patterns, the mobile menu accessibility fix and the stale Pricing spec fix. Review PR 1 first; this PR's base is its branch, so the diff shows only this layer.

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 shows 2 new warnings for the wp_json_encode block-comment idiom in split-intro-form-panel.php and project-query-image-cards.php (the same idiom as other existing patterns, JSON hex-encoded for comment safety); 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
• Single-page Playwright on /referrals/, light mode, four projects, standing specs plus the mobile menu spec: 103 passed, 26 skipped, 0 failed
• The same run in dark mode on the same code before the stack was rebased: 103 passed, 26 skipped, 0 failed
• Editor block validity: the Referrals test page (109 blocks), the Testimonials test page (337) and the mobile menu template part (97), 0 invalid
• Case-study card: clicks on the image, edges, title and empty space all land on the link, and clicking the image navigates
• Form: an empty submit shows the validation error state and saves nothing
• Form success state and a real submission on DEV
• Screen reader tested
• CodeRabbit review
• The Referrals page on DEV after deploy

Changelog

meta:needs-changelog: adds four new patterns and changes the mobile menu. The entry is added to CHANGELOG.md on this branch.

Checklist

• Related issues linked above
• Existing card shell, form mapping, sticky intro and tokens reused
• Media linked from DEV, not copied into the theme
• Accessibility standards met (screen reader not yet tested)
• Changelog entry added

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• New Features
  • Added referral-page sections presenting the referral offer, a five-step process, reasons to refer, and a referral form.
  • Added a related case studies section displaying up to two projects.
• Changes
  • Added styling for referral graphics, form fields and validation messages, and case-study cards.
  • Mobile-menu accordion headings are now plain text; submenu and “view all” links remain available within each panel.
• Accessibility
  • Updated mobile-menu checks to confirm accordion headings contain no links and run accessibility checks without excluding nested interactive elements.

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The pull request adds four WordPress patterns for the Referrals page, with matching styles and render markers. It also changes five mobile-menu accordion headings to plain text, removes related link styling, and updates accessibility tests.

Changes: Referrals Page Patterns

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Referral page content patterns patterns/sections/intro-graphic-lede.php, patterns/sections/list-card-pair.php, patterns/sections/split-intro-form-panel.php, patterns/sections/project-query-image-cards.php, CHANGELOG.md	Adds patterns for referral details, a five-step process, reasons to refer, a referral form, and up to two related case studies. The changelog records the patterns and styling.
Referral styles and bundle markers src/scss/structural/referral-sections.scss, assets/css/referral-sections.css, inc/animations.php	Adds styles for referral graphics, lists, forms, and case-study cards. The render markers include the new pattern classes.

Mobile Menu Accordion Headings

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Plain-text headings and accessibility checks parts/mobile-menu.html, styles/blocks/details/mobile-menu-accordion.json, tests/specs/mobile-menu.spec.ts, CHANGELOG.md	Changes five accordion headings from links to plain text and removes nested-link styles. Tests no longer include hidden Pricing, check that summaries contain no links, and run the axe scan without disabling nested-interactive.

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Change: Feature

Possibly related issues

• lightspeedwp/ls-theme#157: The issue requests a redesign of /referrals/, including form presentation and responsive layout; this pull request adds Referrals patterns and form styling.

Possibly related PRs

• lightspeedwp/ls-theme#174: Both PRs implement the Referrals work; this PR extends the referral-sections bundle introduced in #174.

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