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.
- 13 tracked pages + the directory page's footer carry a new <li>
<a href="/odoo-community-developers/">Odoo Freelancer Directory</a>,
placed after "ODOO Hosting in 2027" (our service links together, before Support/Legal).
- The directory page itself is excluded (a page does not link to itself in its own footer).
- Removed the final Start / "Browse the freelancers" CTA section from the directory page;
the hero copy keeps its one "Browse the freelancers" link. .cmp-cta CSS untouched (11 pages).
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 hero-sub read 'the certificate and the upgrades' unqualified while the
same page qualifies the distinction twice (body + comparison table). Replaced
with the page's own qualified phrase, 'the updates within your Odoo version'
(no new vocabulary, text-only). In-version updates/upgrades stay included; a
major-version migration (19 -> 20) remains a separate quote.
Copy-only: 2 lines, tag/attr/JSON-LD structure proven identical.
The four 'version upgrades are run for you' lines (black-friday, hosting-offers,
hosting-2027 body + table row, llms.txt) and their JSON-LD descriptions now say
updates and in-version upgrades are included, and name a major-version migration
as a separate, quoted service. terms.html: migration = separate service, quoted
separately; release list no longer reads stale (names Odoo 20 as current).
No offer, price, page structure or ad change.
The copy's 'Into this page' table, applied as single additive sentences:
- support.html: the 'error 500 after a git check in' FAQ answer links
'test it safely first'.
- blog/posts/speed-run-backup.html: end of the post links
'what a staging environment is, and why you probably do not need one'.
- odoo-hosting-2027.html: one contextual note by the backup/module rows
links 'do you need a staging environment?'.
- index.html: one FAQ card 'Do you need an Odoo staging environment?'.
No footer change. No new impeccable finding category.
The blog was an island: zero post→page links to hosting/upgrade/support/courses,
and only one page→post link in the whole site. Posts ranked for nothing while the
old blog host ranked for our long-tail queries.
Posts → pages (26 new in-body contextual links across 17 posts):
each post now carries one or two links to the page that answers its reader's next
question — odoo-hosting-2027, odoo-community-upgrade, support, the workshops hub,
the n8n masterclass, and the plan pricing on index.html#pricing.
Pages → posts (7 pages, one contextual link each):
index.html (OCA section), odoo-hosting-2027, odoo-community-upgrade, support,
workshops/, odoo-n8n-masterclass/, odoo-erp-automation-bootcamp/ now link into the
post that fits their own subject. The clearest miss is fixed — the
community-vs-enterprise-cost post and the odoo-community-upgrade page now link
to each other.
Anchors wrap existing sentences where the text already said the thing; four short
linking sentences were added (index OCA section, support first-steps FAQ, masterclass
lessons, bootcamp included section). No new components, no related-posts widget,
in-body anchors only. English pages only; DE/ES untouched (translator follow-up).
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.
The list becomes the same four items in all three English pages:
ODOO Bootcamp -> /odoo-erp-automation-bootcamp/ (new, first),
ODOO Hosting in 2027 -> the existing comparison page (renamed from
"Odoo hosting 2027", added to the homepage which lacked it),
Support, Legal. Home / Privacy / Terms / Contact us removed.
Content-only edit inside the existing <ul>; each page keeps its own
href style. No CSS, no markup pattern change, no other footer column
touched. de/ and es/ untouched (translator owns those in parallel).
Checks: verify-html.py PROBLEMS 0; work/verify-footer-useful-links.py
PROBLEMS 0; impeccable detect finding set identical to HEAD (87
anti-patterns / 100 advisories, all pre-existing); browser check at
1280px and 375px on all three pages: 4 items, no overlap, no
horizontal overflow.
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.
Reuses the exact snippet shipped on index.html in 6bb529a, inserted
verbatim as the last thing in <head> (before </head>). Diff is this
file only; the ld+json @graph block is byte-identical.
Applies the 16 findings the user answered in projects/active/odoo-hosting-2027-landing/
decisions-2026-10-21-user.md, using the wording from
copywriter/out/site-fix-wording-2026-10-21.md.
index.html: Powerhouse 535 -> 595 in the card and in the JSON-LD Offer; delete the
three Save 8%/9%/10% badges and the empty badge div on the Empire card; replace the
'Save 15% with yearly billing' line and the coupon message text (ids kept - script.js
reads them); delete the FREE TRIAL coupon input block; qualify the checkout line as
'Card required to buy, not to start'; fix 'redundant slots' to the real rotating-slot
model; drop the 'coupon codes for startups and NGOs' promise; add Privacy and Terms to
the footer.
email/trial-confirmation.html: stop promising backups, domain mapping and SSL on the
trial (the trial has none); state what the trial is not; copyright 2024 -> 2026;
repoint Privacy/Terms from the 404 /legal/privacy and /legal/terms to the new pages.
support.html: state that custom and OCA modules install from On the Rise up and that
Side Hustle has no module installation.
odoo/upsell.html: '4 weeks free' -> '30 days free'.
blog: the backup speed-run no longer sends readers to a non-existent hosting
dashboard; my-first-post loses the 30-day refund promise and the dashboard domain
step; community-vs-enterprise-cost quotes $214/year instead of $19.40/month;
odoocommunity-agents drops 'per-seat licensing' from the body and both meta
descriptions.
sitemap.xml: add /privacy.html and /terms.html.
llms.txt: publish the Powerhouse price and list the two new pages.
Evidence: every old string verified gone and every new string present in the working
tree; 12 HTML files tag-balanced; JSON-LD and sitemap XML valid.
Match the pattern index.html already uses (media=print + onload swap,
noscript fallback) so the new page adds no render-blocking stylesheet.
Page-scoped critical CSS stays inline.
New page odoo-hosting-2027.html (feature + lifetime-cost comparison tables,
Odoo Online exclusion, Enterprise growth path, JSON-LD). Links it from the
homepage pricing CTA, adds it to sitemap.xml, adds llms.txt for AI-SEO.
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