A filtered-out directory card stayed visible. The card is targeted by an
id-based ready-state selector (`.js #directory[data-dir-state="ready"]
#dirGrid > .dev-card`, two ids), which outranked the old per-element patch
`.dev-card[hidden] { display:none }` — so `card.hidden = true` set the
attribute and every card stayed on screen while the count line correctly
read "Showing 1 of 4".
Fix: one rule, `[hidden] { display:none !important }`, early in /style.css.
A class- or id-based `display` can no longer beat the attribute, so this
cannot recur with the next class that sets `display`. The per-element
`[hidden]` patches are removed so a single mechanism governs:
- odoo-community-developers: cards + filter row + pager + modal
(load-bearing — each sets `display`); focus-sliders/noscript (redundant)
- index/de/es `.hero-notice[hidden]`, odoo-black-friday `.ads-consent[hidden]`
(redundant — those elements set no `display`)
Re-fingerprint local assets (style.css changed): /style.css?v 3332fbba93 ->
061517baef across 51 pages.
Measured in a real browser (local harness, stubbed webhook; no record created,
no probe write) — computed display + geometry, never the `hidden` property:
- filtered to one card: the other three report display:none and height 0;
the visible set (1) equals the count line ("Showing 1 of 4") — 1 == 1
- HEAD (pre-fix) reproduces the defect: 3 cards hidden=true yet display:flex,
height 599.38 each; 4 visible vs the count's 1
- pager: display:none height 0 with one page; display:flex height 66.83 with
12 cards (Page 1 of 2); page 2 hides page-1 cards (display:none)
- modals closed: display:none height 0; load state: cards 0, pager/empty
display:none, filter row visibility:hidden by design
- 375 px: same result, no horizontal overflow; avatar ask-row top identical
across a row (2053.97 / links 2086.91)
Part 1 — asset versioning: every local <script src> and <link rel=stylesheet> on the
tracked pages now carries ?v=<sha256-of-the-file> (10 hex), computed at BUILD time from
the file's bytes by work/build-asset-versions.py — never hand-typed, and idempotent
(re-running with no file change rewrites nothing). This is what makes an edited
focus-rule.js / photo-upload.js a new URL instead of a stale cache hit.
Part 2 — language facet: a language now counts for the Language filter only when its
0-5 self-assessment is >= LANG_FACET_MIN (3 = 'works in it'). The constant sits beside
the 15-point rule in the page script and its mirror in build-directory.py. Nothing
stored changes; the card's languages chart still prints every language above 0, the
search box is unchanged, and the facet stays an exact membership test against the
card's value. A '1' language no longer offers the person under that language.
Two user decisions (2026-11-03). The page is live.
1. The anonymous-contact modal is removed in full, not just its gate: its markup and
comment, the .contact-modal and .dev-anon-btn CSS, the JS (modalEls, openContactModal,
closeContactModal, initContactModal, enhanceContact), the two init-time calls and the
per-card render call. ODOO_EXPERTS_QUOTE_WEBHOOK is deleted — the only readers were the
two gates (initContactModal, enhanceContact) and the postTo inside the modal's own
submit handler; nothing else read it. The modal's lede ("We pass your request on ...")
goes with it, so no relay copy survives. Kept on purpose: the invite relay form and
ODOO_EXPERTS_INVITE_WEBHOOK, the OCA filter + badge, ODOO_EXPERTS_WEBHOOK, and the
card's direct "Email this freelancer" chip.
2. hello@odoo4projects.com is retired site-wide: 24 occurrences (mailto + visible text)
become support@odoo4projects.com, and the 12 support@ODOO4projects.com case variants
are normalised to lower case. oliver@odoo4projects.com is a freelancer's own published
contact address on their card and is left untouched.
Tests run: verify-html.py PROBLEMS 0; check-inline-js.py OK; competitor QC exit 3 with 74
pre-existing hits and 0 added; impeccable detect 1 -> 1 (identical, 0 new).
Same defect the bootcamp carried (2aa9b19), fixed site-wide in one mechanical pass.
P0 (17 pages): /style.css was deferred via media="print" onload=... -> unstyled
first paint -> a BODY layout shift. Now a normal render-blocking
<link rel="stylesheet">; the now-redundant no-JS <noscript> for style.css is
dropped. Web fonts + Font Awesome keep their legitimate deferral.
Pages: index.html, odoo-black-friday/, odoo-hosting-offers/, de/index.html,
es/index.html, odoo-hosting-2027.html (+de/+es), odoo-community-upgrade.html
(+de/+es), odoo-staging-environment/, odoo-community-ai/,
odoo-n8n-masterclass/, australia.html, workshops/, what-can-i-use-odoo-for/.
P1 (1 page): /odoo-black-friday/ footer form action mailto: -> CRM webhook
(Lighthouse is-on-https). Changed only because the page already loads a handler
for #footerContactForm (static/black-friday.js). The other 13 mailto-form pages
load no handler and are left alone on purpose (no drive-by handler copy-in).
Added the no-JS <noscript> fallback so a JS-off visitor keeps a path.
P2 (35 pages): add a single <main> landmark wrapping the primary content; top
bar and footer stay outside. Additive only, no redesign.
Guards held: bootcamp EN/DE/ES and every JS/static file untouched; Buy forms
product_id 4/17 intact; one [data-bc-seats]; ads-consent gate intact.
verify-html.py PROBLEMS 0; competitor QC 74 pre-existing, 0 added.
The DE/ES hero-sub read '... Zertifikat und Upgrades.' / '... el certificado y
las actualizaciones.' — the last unqualified upgrade instances, mirroring the EN
hero fix (8fc6478). Both pages already qualify the distinction in the body and
the comparison table; the hero now matches, naming the in-version scope with the
pages' own phrase (DE 'die Updates innerhalb Ihrer Odoo-Version' / ES 'las
actualizaciones dentro de su versión de Odoo').
In-version updates/upgrades stay included; a major-version migration (19 -> 20)
remains a separate quote. Copy-only: tag/attr/JSON-LD structure proven identical.
Qualify the version-upgrade claim in the three spots the EN page (46b943b) already
qualifies, in the DE and ES twins at exactly the same three places:
- JSON-LD Product.description
- "Why we exist" body paragraph
- comparison-table row (Version upgrades / Versions-Upgrades / Actualizaciones de versión)
In-version / server-side updates and upgrades are included; a major-version
migration (Odoo 19 -> 20) is a separate service and is quoted separately
(user rule 2026-11-02, wiki concepts/odo4-commercial-promises). Copy-only: no
price, plan, structure, tag, attribute, class or link changed.
Mark the six conversion goals on the self-hosted Plausible instance so the
events match the goals to be registered in Plausible. Event names verbatim:
Trial, FAQ, Buy, Custom Quote, search posts, Project Plan.
CSS-class markings (work without JS logic, on the clickable element):
- FAQ -> index/de/es index .faq-card; odoo-hosting-2027 + odoo-community-upgrade
(de/es twins) and australia <summary>; support.html .faq-question
- Buy -> index/de/es index .btn-buy anchors; australia + bootcamp native
post_basket submit buttons (forms stay native POST)
JS call markings in script.js (loaded by index, de/index, es/index):
- Trial on the successful trial-form POST (.then branch)
- Custom Quote on the successful custom-quote POST (.then branch)
- Project Plan on the successful business-wizard submit
- search posts on the FIRST input of #blogSearch only (guard flag, one per
pageview, not on every keystroke, not on #ocaSearch)
Nothing fires on page load; the 'Start the free trial' anchors that only
scroll to #trialCard are deliberately not tagged. One goal per topic across
all languages, no language suffix. No visual, behavioural or request change.
build-i18n.py's rebase_paths() only re-pointed a root-absolute page link when it
contained ".html", so extensionless directory links stayed on the EN route even
when the language had its own copy (`/odoo-erp-automation-bootcamp/` on all four
DE and ES pages, and `/` on the DE/ES bootcamp pages). Same guard as the .html
branch: localise only when <lang>/<path>/index.html exists.
Re-applied the rebasing to the 8 already-built DE/ES pages (work/i18n/
relocalise-links.py) - a full re-transform is not safe for them because the
switcher-slot/hero rework means repo pages are not raw transform output. 18 refs
in 8 files. The DE/ES homepages were the stale case: their body links were built
before support.html/odoo-hosting-2027.html existed in that language and were
never revisited.
check-links.py now flags an EN-route page link whose language has its own copy:
0 such links on all 10 DE/ES pages after the rebuild. test-build.py 107 passed;
verify-html.py 0 problems.
The translated pages now carry the same four footer items as the three English pages:
ODOO Bootcamp -> /odoo-erp-automation-bootcamp/, ODOO Hosting in 2027 (DE) / ODOO Hosting en
2027 (ES), Support/Soporte, Rechtliches/Aviso legal. Deleted: Startseite/Inicio,
Datenschutz/Privacidad, AGB/Terminos, Kontakt/Contactenos.
Rebuilt with work/i18n/build-i18n.py from the translator's six files (work/i18n/I18N-BUILD-PLAN.md
section 5), then: place-hero-slot.py for de|es/index.html, place-slot.py for the two 2027 pages,
insert-hero-i18n.py for the two bootcamp pages (the hero CSS is language-neutral chrome held
outside the translated source). Nothing else changed: git diff 31c02b1 over these six files is
the footer list and nothing else - bootcamp hero, three buy forms (product_id 12), 465.00,
selector and hreflang clusters untouched.
Checked: verify-html.py PROBLEMS: 0; node --check static/lang.js OK; verify-footer-useful-links-de-es.py
PROBLEMS: 0; test-build.py 88/88; test-lang.js 31/31; check-links.py BROKEN/MISPLACED: 0;
impeccable detector identical finding set on all six pages (0 changed lines).
Four new pages, built from the verified translator output with work/i18n/build-i18n.py,
plus the same hreflang cluster and top-bar language selector on the two English pages.
Same recipe as the homepage pilot (main 937dbd4 / 06beab4); nothing else touched.
- de|es/odoo-hosting-2027.html, de|es/support.html: per-language canonical, the full
hreflang cluster (en-US, de, es, x-default -> EN), /static/lang.js, and the switcher
slot placed in the page's own top bar (.cmp-topbar on the 2027 page, .blog-header on
support.html) with the per-shape CSS hook from I18N-BUILD-PLAN.md §3.
- odoo-hosting-2027.html, support.html: same cluster, same selector, so the cluster is
symmetric (asymmetric hreflang is discarded by Google). support.html's canonical and
og:url were still on the capitalised ODOO4projects.com host; the build normalises them
to the lowercase form the rest of the site and sitemap.xml use.
- Internal links: the build's rebase step now also localises a root-absolute page link
(/support.html#contact in the translator's 2027 pages) once that page exists in the
language. /de/support.html, /de/odoo-hosting-2027.html, /de/, /de/#pricing and
/de/#trialCard are local; /legal.html stays on the EN route because the legal pages
are not translated (lawyer review pending).
- sitemap.xml: +4 URLs, lastmod 2026-10-24, priority reused from the EN entry (2027 -> 0.9,
support.html -> 0.6 fallback, it has no EN entry). 17 -> 21 <loc>, no duplicates.
- llms.txt: the ## Languages section now names the mirrored pages.
Checks: verify-html.py PROBLEMS: 0; node --check static/lang.js OK; test-lang.js 31/31;
test-build.py 64/64 (was 43; +21 for the four built pages and the root-absolute rule);
check-links.py on the four new pages BROKEN/MISPLACED: 0.
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