Align homepage and category discovery, modern widgets, admin controls, quotes, and comments with the reference theme. Remove superseded paths and add rendering and behavior coverage. Update stale asset and finance contracts; all 760 Node tests and 139 widget assertions pass.
The VIP purchase/renew modal opened with a single "loading..." line, which
reads as a hang while /pay/vip/modal round-trips. Every frontend pageview
also paid an option write inside wp_head, and the header user-card CSS was
enqueued even for guests who never see the card.
pay-vip.js now builds a full-layout skeleton (user box, level tabs, the
two-column package panel) from vipSkeleton(), reusing the global
aksrt-modal-runtime__skeleton line/block classes; the VIP-specific shapes
live in the conditionally loaded vip-modal.css, and the 640px two-column
threshold matches .pay-vip-form-row. The modal cache TTL goes 15s -> 60s
(purchase, card-pass redeem and points exchange already invalidate the
vip tag), and hover/focus on a .pay-vip trigger now prefetches the payload
through the same cacheKey and flight openRemote uses, so a warm click
opens instantly.
The bottom note and the whole help_text pipeline behind it are removed; the
admin-editable pay_user_vip_desc still renders at the top of the modal, and
the recharge/gateway help_text keys are untouched. get_catalog() reads
points and wallet balance through one new LedgerService::points_and_balance()
call. The StatsTracker counter write moves to shutdown so wp_head only does
the visitor check and setcookie, and header-userbox.css is enqueued for
logged-in users only.
Verification: node --test across the suite (628 tests, including the 7 new
contract assertions in tests/widget-system/vip-modal-skeleton.test.cjs) and
php -l on every changed PHP file. No visual acceptance performed, per request.
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