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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