Summary

Sam correctly flagged that the /practice-areas/ page had drifted into a landing-page pattern: oversized hero form, sparse left-side hero, orange buttons, visible phone number in hero buttons, and a commitments block whose grid spilled too wide instead of sitting inside padded content.

Work completed

• Removed the hero intake form from the live practice-area page.
• Removed hero CTA buttons and visible phone-number button text from the hero.
• Recentered the hero H1 and supporting copy on desktop and mobile.
• Fixed the commitments section so the dark background is full-bleed while the six cards stay constrained inside padded content.
• Changed remaining orange-filled page buttons on this practice-area page to white/navy with orange accents.
• Updated agent guidance in AGENTS.md, AI-CONVENTIONS.md, Skills/pre-publish-qa/SKILL.md, Skills/pre-publish-qa/references/structure-and-components.md, Skills/sail-forms/SKILL.md, Skills/sa-template-reference/SKILL.md, and Skills/website-rules-new/SKILL.md.

Maintenance incident

During the first REST update retry, WordPress entered maintenance mode and returned 503 with Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. I recovered the site by SSHing to Cloudways flexible hosting and removing the stuck .maintenance file from /home/1615235.cloudwaysapps.com/fctbkwwahp/public_html/.maintenance after copying it to /home/master/backups/. The public page returned HTTP 200 afterward.

Verification

• Final public URL check returned HTTP/2 200, x-cache: MISS, age: 0.
• Final rendered source checks: no maintenance page, no hero form, no literal [sal_contact_intake], no visible hero phone button, commitments full-bleed CSS present, constrained commitments grid CSS present.
• Final Playwright QA at 1280 and 390 confirmed: no hero form, zero hero buttons, no visible hero phone number, centered H1, commitments section full width, commitments grid within viewport, no card overflow, no horizontal overflow, no orange-filled buttons.
• QA evidence folder: /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Projects/admin/session_logs/practice-areas-design-fix-qa-2026-05-29-final/.

Rollback

Primary design backup: /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Claude/wp-content-backups/practice-areas-2026-05-29-123157-pre-practice-hero-commitments-fix.html.

Orange-button compliance backup: /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Claude/wp-content-backups/practice-areas-2026-05-29-123845-pre-orange-button-compliance.html.

Earlier form rollback backups from this same lane remain in /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Claude/wp-content-backups/.