Session log — Hide Register Now button on medistage homepage

25 May 2026 · Hasmukh with Claude · auto-published from the local journal entry. A polished narrative version can be requested in any future Claude session.

Summary

Hasmukh asked to hide the "Upcoming Free Session" banner on medistage.medilearn.africa, then corrected the scope to just the "Register Now — It's Free" button inside that banner. The button is now hidden while the rest of the banner (label, placeholder title, date/time line, "Free to attend, Cameras on") still shows.

Decisions

Hide only the Register Now link, not the whole banner.
Use an inline display:none style on the anchor rather than wrapping the link in an HTML comment. PageMotor's text processor mangled the HTML comment on the first attempt by inserting a stray --> right after the opening <a> tag, which left the button text visible.
Keep the link markup in place so it can be restored later by simply removing display:none; from its style attribute.

Changes made

Backed up the homepage content row from pm_content (id=1) on medistage to /root/medistage-backups/home-content-20260525-pre-hide-banner.html on the VPS before any edits.
Edited the homepage content in the medistage database to add display:none; to the Register Now anchor's inline style. The surrounding banner section, the placeholder title [To Be Confirmed], and the meta line with [] · [] SAST · Free to attend · Cameras on are untouched.
Confirmed on the live site that the button is no longer rendered while the rest of the banner is unchanged.

Follow-ups

When the next free session topic, date and time are known, restore the button by removing display:none; from the anchor's style, and fill in the placeholder title and date/time line on the same homepage row.
The placeholder strings [To Be Confirmed], [] and [] SAST are still visible on the page in the meantime. Consider whether to also tidy those up or leave them as obvious placeholders until the session is confirmed.