Session 2026-06-04 — Verify Uber/Lyft hero live status (already live, no deploy)

Session Overview

Sam uploaded a Perplexity-generated draft hero file (hero_61285_Uber_+_Lyft.html) and asked one question: is this hero live on the site now. After an initial check suggested it was not, Sam chose to deploy the draft as-is. Deeper verification then proved the hero was already live, so no deploy ran.

What Was Verified

Target: WP page 61285, slug uber-lyft-rideshare-accidents, status publish, https://aguiarinjurylawyers.com/practice-areas/uber-lyft-rideshare-accidents/
The draft is the cva-hero split layout: H1 "INJURED IN AN UBER OR LYFT ACCIDENT?" (orange accent on UBER OR LYFT), a hero-uvp subhead citing the Bigger Share Guarantee, one CALL NOW button (tel:5028888888), background image rideshare-accident-v2.webp.
Authenticated REST content.raw AND the uncached public front-end (cf-cache-status DYNAMIC, x-cache MISS) both render this exact hero: single CALL NOW, no Get Started, no old serif H1. It is live.
Revisions: rev 70754 (Jun 3 00:58) H1 "Uber & Lyft Accident Cases"; rev 70832 (Jun 3 10:21) the serif "Uber and Lyft Accident Lawyers in Kentucky" hero; rev 71168 (Jun 4 11:02:57, author 0) flipped to the "INJURED IN AN" draft hero. The 11:02 revision is when it went live.

Why The First Read Was Wrong

The opening check used an unauthenticated REST GET through the web fetch tool, which returned a cached content.rendered from before the 11:02 flip (the serif hero), producing a false "not live" answer. An authenticated context=edit raw read plus a direct front-end fetch (both uncached) corrected it. Lesson for this Cloudflare/Cloudways site: for live-status checks, trust the front-end HTML or REST context=edit raw, not a possibly cached rendered field.

Cross-Agent Context

A separate 2026-06-04 session (Notion: "Session Export 2026-06-04 — Split-Hero draft image fixes + 4 live hero swaps") already treated this Uber hero as live and left it unchanged (image rideshare-accident-v2). It logged one OPTIONAL, still-pending item for this page: swap the hero background image from the square rideshare-accident-v2 to landscape media 63344 uber-lyft-accident-kentucky-hero. That is awaiting Sam's approval; it was not done here.

Decisions Made

Did not deploy. The page already contains the exact draft hero, so a push would be redundant and could collide with the other agent's in-flight hero work. Held all writes.
Kept the work read-only and backed up the current raw content for reference.

Files / Locations

/tmp/rideshare_raw.html and /tmp/rideshare_backup.json: snapshot of page 61285 raw content and full REST payload (sandbox scratch, not persisted to the workspace).
No site changes. No workspace files created.

Current State

Question answered: the hero is live. No edits made to the site. No pending work owned by this session.