Reviving Praderas (Day 22) — Phase 5 UI closed, retrofit back on rhythm

Tonight we shipped two planned tracks in one pull request: finish the multilingual UI layer (what the tracker still called open after the post backlog closed) and resume Tier A cover retrofit on Reviving Praderas at the ~two ES/EN pairs per day cadence. This post records both the work already merged to main and the cover batch on this branch.

Wall clock (order of magnitude)

• Phase 5 UI closure (vocabulary + templates + agent docs): on the order of one hour of agent time plus merge to main before this branch.
• Tier A retrofit (Days 2 and 3) + Comfy + WebP + key patch: ~one more hour (two SDXL runs + audit).
• This ES/EN ship log: written in the same session.

This is human direction and review time, not “the model ran for two hours.”

Block A — Phase 5 UI closed (already on main)

After merging feat/day-22-phase-5-vocabulary-and-ui-closure, the repo treats Phase 5 as complete under the current product model: paired ES/EN posts (done earlier) plus UI surfaces that do not mix languages on a single page.

What landed in code and docs

1. scripts/tag_vocabulary.json — single source per canonical Spanish tag (Tags in YAML unchanged): label_en, blurb_es, blurb_en. Category blurbs used to be duplicated inline in categories.twig; 65-Multilingual.php now exposes tag_blurb_es / tag_blurb_en alongside tag_label_en.
2. scripts/frontmatter_audit.py — verifies the JSON matches all ten CANONICAL_TAGS rows with non-empty fields (same spirit as the Day 21 Translation_Key guard).
3. /en/blog pagination — 10-Pagination.php filters blog/en/* only; blog-en.twig uses paged_pages with Older posts / Newer posts / Page N of M (Spanish /blog listing stays Spanish on purpose).
4. categories.twig — EN footer links to /en/search; removed the stale “search UI still Spanish-only” note (superseded by Day 15).
5. Agent docs — multilingual-ui-backlog.md marked closed; vocabulary table expanded in translation-migration-tracker.md; phase-5-6-plan.md updated; Phase 6 JSON not started.

Explicitly deferred

• Bilingual Tags in front matter — deferred (large content + URL migration). Current model: one Spanish YAML taxonomy + English display maps.

Block B — Tier A retrofit: Days 2 and 3 (this PR)

We follow .agents/retrofit-cover-queue.md (~2 pairs/day target). After Day 1 on the Day 21 PR, tonight covers Phase 1 and Phase 2 ship logs.

Both used export_cover.py with --webp --webp-delete-png --translation-key to patch Image: on each ES/EN pair without hand-listed paths.

CLIP prompts (summary)

Day 2 (listing, search, pagination): cinematic Praderas meadow, abstract blog card grid, soft search motif, pagination dots on the horizon, no legible text.

Day 3 (navigation, categories, breadcrumbs, related): abstract breadcrumb trail, category hub nodes, distant related-card shapes, teal and meadow-green accents.

Reproduce (Day 2)

python3 scripts/comfyui/export_cover.py \
  --output assets/images/day02-comfyui-sdxl-phase1-listing-search-pagination-hero.png \
  --positive "Wide cinematic editorial illustration for a Spanish tech blog named Praderas, soft golden meadow light, abstract blog listing grid with paired card silhouettes and a subtle magnifying glass shape suggesting search, gentle pagination dots along a calm horizon, responsive column hints without readable text, grass-green and warm neutral tones, professional quiet atmosphere, no logos, no watermarks, high detail, tasteful color grading" \
  --seed 02052026 \
  --prefix praderas_day02_phase1 \
  --webp --webp-delete-png \
  --translation-key praderas-day-2-phase-1-listing-search-pagination

Reproduce (Day 3)

python3 scripts/comfyui/export_cover.py \
  --output assets/images/day03-comfyui-sdxl-phase2-navigation-breadcrumbs-hero.png \
  --positive "Wide cinematic editorial illustration for a Spanish tech blog named Praderas, soft dawn meadow light, abstract breadcrumb trail and gentle hub nodes suggesting categories and site navigation, subtle linked paths between soft shapes without readable labels, related content motifs as quiet overlapping cards in the distance, teal and grass-green accents, calm professional atmosphere, no logos, no watermarks, high detail, tasteful color grading" \
  --seed 03052026 \
  --prefix praderas_day03_phase2 \
  --webp --webp-delete-png \
  --translation-key praderas-day-3-phase-2-navigation-categories-breadcrumbs-related

Next focus

• Tier A — queue rows 4–16 (~2 pairs/day when capacity allows).
• Phase 6 — JSON endpoints when ready (phase-5-6-plan.md).
• Comfy checklist — rows 8–9 (CI / ffmpeg) remain optional.