Build Log 001 — Foundation Locked

Summary

The No Signal Media foundation is now in place. The site has moved from a plain WordPress setup into a private media-house structure with a public splash page, protected member rooms, a logged-in shell, and an atmospheric My Room dashboard.

What Was Built

• Created the public logged-out experience as a simple splash page.
• Created a logged-in member shell with a limited header.
• Added left-side room navigation.
• Added right-side tools navigation.
• Protected private pages from logged-out visitors.
• Set login redirect so members land on My Room.
• Added clean logout behavior.
• Created placeholder room content for Radio, TV, Social, Learn, Private, Meet, Account, and Settings.
• Added active room highlighting.
• Added a random My Room hero background pulled from uploaded background images.
• Added hover behavior for the hero image.
• Added date, time, and weather placeholder widgets.
• Added Recently Published / Recently Liked section.
• Added Messages section.

Current State

Logged-out visitors see the public Home splash and Login.

Logged-in users see the member layout with:

• Rooms navigation on the left
• Main content in the center
• Tools on the right
• My Room as the landing page

The My Room page now includes:

• Random visual hero
• Welcome message
• Date and time widgets
• Weather placeholder
• Recently Published / Recently Liked cards
• Messages cards

Decisions Made

• My Room is the member landing page.
• The public site should stay minimal.
• The visual system will use ambient, abstract, nature, macro, weather, texture, night, and filmic AI images.
• Background images are stored in uploads, not dumped randomly into the Media Library.
• Hero images use a 16:9 image strategy with a center-safe crop.
• Weather will stay as a placeholder until the core visual system is stable.
• Build documentation will use WordPress posts under the Build Log category.

Open Issues

• The active room dot was removed from the preferred direction, but active state styling may need another polish pass.
• Weather is not yet live.
• Recently Published / Recently Liked is currently static placeholder content.
• Messages are currently static placeholder content.
• The My Room layout needs mobile testing.
• The background image folder and naming system should stay consistent.

Next Steps

1. Clean up section heading hierarchy on My Room.
2. Decide whether Recently Published / Recently Liked should pull from posts, likes, saved items, or all three.
3. Decide whether Messages should be user messages, system notices, AI prompts, or a mixed signal feed.
4. Add a Build Log link somewhere in the member system if useful.
5. Create Build Log 002 after the next major layout update.

Reminder Notes

• Access and navigation logic live in MU plugins.
• The visual shell lives in the No Signal Media child theme.
• Background images are stored in: /wp-content/uploads/no-signal/backgrounds/
• The current build is still prototype-level but the foundation is working.
• Do not overbuild the automation until the documentation structure proves useful.