WordPress.org submission hardening (v1.6165.0919, gate 94/100) - #4
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… sync Brings Colophon to a clean WordPress.org submission state (gate 94/100, Gate A pass). Consolidates this session's work beyond the initial Abilities/a11y release: - Exhaustive WCAG 2.2 AA contrast remediation across the default palette AND all six style variations. The variations carried hidden failures the first pass missed (footer chrome on inverting tokens, 404 h1, base-mid/base-accent too light in several palettes); every text token is re-paired to its actual ground. - i18n verified: error-state prose removed, skip link translatable, footer bindings. - Honest readme/changelog: contrast figures match the shipped palette; pattern list reconciled to disk; accessibility-ready claim substantiated. - Version synced across style.css / readme / inc/bootstrap.php / colophon.json. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pull request overview
This PR hardens the Colophon theme for WordPress.org submission by tightening WCAG AA contrast across palettes/variations, removing hardcoded English from several block attributes to improve i18n, and syncing release/version metadata across theme files.
Changes:
- Adds bundled self-hosted editorial fonts (EB Garamond, Spectral) and introduces a new “Editorial” style variation that opts into them.
- Refactors multiple templates/patterns for improved contrast tokens and more language-neutral block configurations (e.g., removing custom labels/moreText).
- Updates distribution/metadata files (version bumps, .pot addition, .distignore adjustments) and removes the GitHub self-updater.
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| theme.json | Adds EB Garamond and Spectral font families with self-hosted fontFace sources. |
| templates/singular.html | Updates singular layout, spacing, and navigation/link label behavior. |
| templates/single.html | Removes hardcoded Previous/Next labels in post navigation and documents behavior. |
| templates/search.html | Removes hardcoded “Read more” and search label/buttonText for i18n neutrality. |
| templates/page-blank.html | Expands inline documentation for intentional header/footer omission and WCAG scaffolding. |
| templates/index.html | Removes hardcoded no-results prose and uses the core search block instead. |
| templates/author.html | Rebuilds author archive layout and no-results state to match site tokens/conventions. |
| templates/attachment.html | Rebuilds attachment layout and navigation to match site tokens/conventions. |
| templates/archive.html | Removes hardcoded no-results prose and uses the core search block instead. |
| templates/404.html | Removes hardcoded visitor prose, adjusts heading color token, and relies on core defaults for labels. |
| styles/warm.json | Adjusts accent and base-mid colors for contrast. |
| styles/slate.json | Adjusts base-mid color for contrast. |
| styles/midnight.json | Adjusts accent color for contrast. |
| styles/forest.json | Adjusts base-mid color for contrast. |
| styles/editorial.json | Adds a new style variation that switches headings/titles and quotes to bundled fonts. |
| style.css | Updates theme header metadata (version, tested up to, PHP requirement, description). |
| readme.txt | Updates description, features list, developer docs section, and changelog/version metadata. |
| preview/01-front-page.html | Updates submission screenshot preview styling/content for clarity and legibility. |
| patterns/site-footer.php | Improves footer link/text contrast and makes demo copy translatable. |
| parts/header.html | Documents skip-link relocation to PHP (wp_body_open) for translatability and single-source. |
| parts/footer.html | Replaces hardcoded footer credit with a block binding and documents filtering behavior. |
| NOT-A-WP-THEME.md | Updates repository/distribution notes and what ships vs. tooling. |
| languages/colophon.pot | Adds/updates the translation catalog for the theme’s translatable strings. |
| inc/setup.php | Adds PHP-rendered skip link on wp_body_open with translatable text. |
| inc/github-updater.php | Removes the GitHub self-updater implementation from the repository. |
| inc/bootstrap.php | Updates the theme VERSION constant for release/version sync. |
| GUIDE.md | Adds a worked example section describing CORE/SKIN deltas for a sibling theme. |
| colophon.json | Syncs tool/version metadata with the theme release version. |
| .distignore | Expands distribution exclusions (CLI binary + manifest) for WordPress.org packaging. |
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| printf( | ||
| esc_html__( '© %1$s %2$s. All rights reserved.', 'colophon' ), | ||
| esc_html( gmdate( 'Y' ) ), | ||
| esc_html__( 'Site Name', 'colophon' ) | ||
| ); |
| # This file is distributed under the GNU General Public License v2 or later. | ||
| msgid "" | ||
| msgstr "" | ||
| "Project-Id-Version: Colophon 1.6164.1500\n" |
| <!-- Article footer: tags + author box, separated by a rule. --> | ||
| <!-- wp:group {"style":{"spacing":{"blockGap":"var:preset|spacing|6","margin":{"top":"var:preset|spacing|12"},"padding":{"top":"var:preset|spacing|8"}},"border":{"top":{"color":"var:preset|color|base-rule","style":"solid","width":"1px"}}},"layout":{"type":"default"}} --> | ||
| <div class="wp-block-group" style="border-top:1px solid var(--wp--preset--color--base-rule);margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--12);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--8)"> | ||
| <!-- wp:post-terms {"term":"post_tag","prefix":"Tags: ","style":{"typography":{"fontSize":"var:preset|font-size|sm"},"color":{"text":"var:preset|color|base-mid"}}} /--> |
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| <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":"is-style-colophon-eyebrow","style":{"color":{"text":"var:preset|color|base-mid"}}} --> | ||
| <p class="is-style-colophon-eyebrow has-base-mid-color has-text-color">Author</p> | ||
| <!-- /wp:paragraph --> |
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| <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":"is-style-colophon-eyebrow","style":{"color":{"text":"var:preset|color|base-mid"}}} --> | ||
| <p class="is-style-colophon-eyebrow has-base-mid-color has-text-color">Media</p> | ||
| <!-- /wp:paragraph --> |
| * text must be translatable. A wp:html block in a template part ships English | ||
| * to every locale until an editor translates the part in the Site Editor, so a | ||
| * visitor on a non-English site sees "Skip to content" in English on first | ||
| * load. esc_html_e() resolves the string against the active locale's catalog |
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| The release needs a real `.zip` asset whose name starts with the theme slug (e.g. `colophon-1.3.0.zip`). And the headline feature is the off-switch: **delete the one file and it's gone** — the loader is `file_exists`-guarded, so nothing else needs touching. Do delete it before a WordPress.org submission, because .org supplies updates there and a self-updater gets a theme rejected. | ||
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| ## A worked example: Masthead in two files |
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| - `inc/github-updater.php` — a self-updater, disallowed in WordPress.org | ||
| submissions. `functions.php` loads it only when the file exists, so its absence | ||
| in the distributed zip is a no-op. |
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| #. translators: 1: four-digit copyright year, 2: site name. | ||
| #: patterns/site-footer.php:80 | ||
| msgid "© %1$s %2$s. All rights reserved." |
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Exhaustive WCAG 2.2 AA contrast remediation across the default palette and all six style variations, i18n verification, honest readme/changelog, and version sync. Passes the WordPress.org theme-submission gate at 94/100 (Elite), Gate A clean — verified per-variation by relative-luminance recomputation.
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