feat(blog): publish "Our freelancer directory opens on 1 December. Help us get the signup right"

Adds the soft-launch news post (pipeline record id=128, category News) as
blog/posts/freelancer-directory-soft-launch.html. Body pasted verbatim from
the inbox source block (sha256 14f61402…, byte-identical in the page).

- chrome copied from blog/posts/odoo-20-is-live-on-our-servers-here-is-what-changed.html
  (the newest post); inline <style> trimmed of the rules this page does not use
  (ul/ol, li, figure, figure img, figcaption) — the body carries no list or figure
- card/OG image wired additively: img.post-image (alt = the page h1), og:image,
  twitter:card, and the new blog/index.json "image" key
- BlogPosting JSON-LD with url == canonical
- blog/index.json: one entry, first, key order id,date,area,headline,teaser,link,image
  (text splice, not json.dumps)
- sitemap.xml: one <url>, first in the blog group, lastmod 2026-11-04
- llms.txt: one line at the top of the blog list
- work/verify-html.py FILES extended with the new page

Blog stays English-only. No older post touched.

blog/index.json

@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 {
   "posts": [
+    {
+      "id": "freelancer-directory-soft-launch",
+      "date": "2026-11-04",
+      "area": "news",
+      "headline": "Our freelancer directory opens on 1 December. Help us get the signup right",
+      "teaser": "We need your help! We are opening our Odoo Community Freelancer directory on 1 December. Before real clients start brows",
+      "link": "blog/posts/freelancer-directory-soft-launch.html",
+      "image": "https://image.office.odoo4projects.com/img/freelance_platform.png"
+    },
     {
       "id": "odoo-20-is-live-on-our-servers-here-is-what-changed",
       "date": "2026-11-03",

blog/posts/freelancer-directory-soft-launch.html

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+<!doctype html>
+<html lang="en-US">
+  <head>
+    <meta charset="utf-8" />
+    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
+    <title>Our freelancer directory opens on 1 December. Help us get the signup right | ODOO4projects</title>
+    <meta name="description" content="We need your help! We are opening our Odoo Community Freelancer directory on 1 December. Before real clients start brows" />
+    <link rel="canonical" href="https://odoo4projects.com/blog/posts/freelancer-directory-soft-launch.html" />
+    <meta property="og:title" content="Our freelancer directory opens on 1 December. Help us get the signup right" />
+    <meta property="og:description" content="We need your help! We are opening our Odoo Community Freelancer directory on 1 December. Before real clients start brows" />
+    <meta property="og:url" content="https://odoo4projects.com/blog/posts/freelancer-directory-soft-launch.html" />
+    <meta property="og:type" content="article" />
+    <meta property="og:image" content="https://image.office.odoo4projects.com/img/freelance_platform.png" />
+    <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" />
+    <link rel="icon" href="../../images/favicon.ico" />
+    <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com" />
+    <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin />
+    <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inter:wght@400;500;600;700;800&family=Inter+Tight:wght@500;600;700;800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet" />
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/6.5.1/css/all.min.css" />
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../style.css?v=061517baef" />
+    <style>
+      body { background: #0d1b2e; }
+      .blog-post { max-width: 720px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 3rem 1.5rem 6rem; color: #171c26; background: #faf7f1; min-height: 100vh; }
+      .blog-post h1 { font-family: 'Marcellus', Georgia, serif; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 400; margin: 0 0 0.5rem; color: #0d1b2e; }
+      .blog-post .post-meta { font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 0.82rem; color: rgba(23,28,38,0.6); margin-bottom: 2rem; }
+      .blog-post .post-meta .badge { display: inline-block; font-size: 0.68rem; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 0.15em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #c9a227; margin-right: 0.75rem; }
+      .blog-post .post-image { width: 100%; border-radius: 0.75rem; margin-bottom: 2rem; box-shadow: 0 2px 8px rgba(13,27,46,0.08); }
+      .blog-post p { font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 1.2rem; }
+      .blog-post h2 { font-family: 'Marcellus', Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.6rem; font-weight: 400; margin: 2rem 0 0.75rem; color: #0d1b2e; }
+      .blog-post a { color: #8a6f1f; text-decoration: underline; }
+      .blog-post strong { font-weight: 600; }
+      .back-link { display: inline-block; margin-top: 2rem; font-family: 'Marcellus', Georgia, serif; font-size: 0.9rem; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.04em; color: #c9a227; text-decoration: none; }
+      .back-link:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
+      @media (max-width: 600px) { .blog-post h1 { font-size: 1.7rem; } .blog-post { padding: 2rem 1rem 4rem; } }
+    </style>
+  <script type="application/ld+json">
+    {
+      "@context": "https://schema.org",
+      "@type": "BlogPosting",
+      "headline": "Our freelancer directory opens on 1 December. Help us get the signup right",
+      "datePublished": "2026-11-04",
+      "url": "https://odoo4projects.com/blog/posts/freelancer-directory-soft-launch.html",
+      "image": "https://image.office.odoo4projects.com/img/freelance_platform.png",
+      "author": {
+        "@type": "Organization",
+        "name": "ODOO4projects",
+        "url": "https://odoo4projects.com/"
+      },
+      "publisher": {
+        "@type": "Organization",
+        "name": "ODOO4projects",
+        "url": "https://odoo4projects.com/",
+        "logo": {
+          "@type": "ImageObject",
+          "url": "https://odoo4projects.com/images/logo.png"
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  </script>
+  <!-- Privacy-friendly analytics by Plausible -->
+<script async src="https://plausible.office.odoo4projects.com/js/pa-NhA7Rf-79VopXFQXhSS4e.js"></script>
+<script>
+  window.plausible=window.plausible||function(){(plausible.q=plausible.q||[]).push(arguments)},plausible.init=plausible.init||function(i){plausible.o=i||{}};
+  plausible.init()
+</script>
+  </head>
+  <body>
+    <main class="blog-post">
+      <span class="badge">news</span>
+      <h1>Our freelancer directory opens on 1 December. Help us get the signup right</h1>
+      <div class="post-meta">November 4, 2026 &middot; News</div>
+      <img src="https://image.office.odoo4projects.com/img/freelance_platform.png" alt="Our freelancer directory opens on 1 December. Help us get the signup right" class="post-image" loading="lazy" />
+      <div class="post-body">
+<p>We need your help!<br><br>We are opening our <b>Odoo Community Freelancer directory</b> on 1 December. Before real clients start browsing it, we want the signup to work, and we would like your help to get it right.</p>
+<p>So this is a soft launch. Sign up for free and tell us how the signup went: where you got stuck, what you expected to find, what you would change. That feedback is what we fix before opening day.</p>
+<p>Joining is free, for freelancers and clients both. The directory is where a freelancer describes their work, in their own words.</p>
+<p>If you are a member of the Odoo Community Association, this is a chance to be seen alongside your community. Your profile card carries an OCA Member Profile badge, and a visitor can filter the directory by OCA membership. We mark it, and the choice of who to contact stays with the visitor.</p>
+<p>Start here: <a href="https://odoo4projects.com/feedback/">odoo4projects.com/feedback</a></p>
+      </div>
+      <a href="../../index.html#blog" class="back-link">&larr; Back to the Blog</a>
+    </main>
+  </body>
+</html>

llms.txt

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
 
 ## Blog posts
 
+- [Our freelancer directory opens on 1 December. Help us get the signup right](https://odoo4projects.com/blog/posts/freelancer-directory-soft-launch.html) — 2026-11-04 — We need your help! We are opening our Odoo Community Freelancer directory on 1 December. Before real clients start browsing it, we want the signup to work, and we would like your help to get it right.
 - [Odoo 20 Is Live on Our Servers — Here Is What Changed](https://odoo4projects.com/blog/posts/odoo-20-is-live-on-our-servers-here-is-what-changed.html) — 2026-11-03 — Two weeks. That is how long it took us to bring up Odoo 20 on our servers, with every new feature that comes with it. It is live now — if your instance runs with us, the engine underneath it just moved forward.
 - [From a Spreadsheet to a Running ERP in Ten Thursday Sessions](https://odoo4projects.com/blog/posts/from-a-spreadsheet-to-a-running-erp.html) — 2026-11-02 — Most small businesses do not run on an ERP. They run on a spreadsheet, a messaging group, and one person's memory. It works — until that person is on holiday.
 - [ODOO4projects Supports the OCA Paraguay Internationalization Hackathon](https://odoo4projects.com/blog/posts/oca-paraguay-internationalization-hackathon.html) — 2026-10-29 — Two online days to push Odoo's Paraguayan localisation forward — and we are supporting them.

sitemap.xml

@@ -84,6 +84,12 @@
     <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
     <priority>0.4</priority>
   </url>
+  <url>
+    <loc>https://odoo4projects.com/blog/posts/freelancer-directory-soft-launch.html</loc>
+    <lastmod>2026-11-04</lastmod>
+    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
+    <priority>0.6</priority>
+  </url>
   <url>
     <loc>https://odoo4projects.com/blog/posts/odoo-20-is-live-on-our-servers-here-is-what-changed.html</loc>
     <lastmod>2026-11-03</lastmod>