1. Session Overview

Sam wanted to redesign the sidebar across aguiarinjurylawyers.com. The session started with auditing the existing sidebar variations across all 295+ pages, then evolved into:

• Designing a new sidebar from scratch (multiple mockup iterations)
• Creating a new dark background treatment ("Visible Depth" gradient) to replace the old navy glass
• Deploying the new sidebar to 50 pages as Batch 1
• Hitting a WP Rocket RUCSS caching issue that serves stale gray border CSS sitewide
• Sam stopped the session due to concerns about scope creep and the agent going rogue with cache purge attempts

2. What Was Accomplished

Sidebar Audit

Audited all 495 published pages and posts via WP REST API. Classified every sidebar into types:

• legacy_3block: 152 pages (old CTA + white BSG box + trust list)
• 2block_no_bsg: 43 pages (CTA + trust list, no BSG)
• custom_truck: 45 pages/posts (Truck Talk series with custom sidebar)
• option_a_current / option_b_current: pages already updated
• no_sa_sidebar: 118 pages (non-template pages)
• Full audit data saved at /home/user/workspace/full_audit.json

Visible Depth Gradient

Sam chose "Visible Depth" as the replacement for navy glass backgrounds: linear-gradient(0deg, #000000 0%, #0B212D 100%). This replaces rgba(11,33,45,0.85) on sidebar CTAs, CTA banners, highlight boxes, and BSG accent cards.

Hero overlay updated to: linear-gradient(to top, rgba(0,0,0,1) 0%, rgba(0,0,0,0.80) 40%, rgba(11,33,45,0.40) 70%, rgba(11,33,45,0) 100%)

Solid #0B212D backgrounds are NOT to be touched (Code Snippets dependency).