Help centers using the documentation layout now render correctly in two
cases that previously fell back to the wrong output. Opening a portal at
its custom-domain root (e.g. docs.example.com/ ) now shows the full
documentation home
in place instead of the classic layout, and portals whose locale is a
region variant that Chatwoot doesn't ship a
translation for (e.g. th_TH , fr_ML ) now show their categories in the
sidebar on article pages.
Closes
https://linear.app/chatwoot/issue/CW-7437/portal-layout-is-not-properly-working-in-custom-domain
## How to test
1. Create a portal with the documentation layout and a custom domain
(e.g. example.chat.test ), with at least one
category containing a published article.
2. Visit the custom-domain root ( http://example.chat.test:3000/ ) → it
should show the full documentation home
(sidebar, topbar), not the classic layout, with no redirect.
3. Set the portal's locale to a region variant Chatwoot doesn't
translate, e.g. th_TH , with categories/articles
under that locale.
4. Open an article → the sidebar should list the article's category and
sibling articles. Before the fix the sidebar
was empty for these locales.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Portals can now override their name, page title and header text per
locale, with a fallback chain of locale override → default locale → base
value. Overrides are stored under portal.config.locale_translations and
validated with a JSON schema.
Editing is exposed as a "Localize content" action in each non-default
locale's menu on the Locale page, and all public-facing portal views
(classic + documentation layouts) render the localized values. The live
chat widget is also loaded in the active portal locale.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This change blocks Help Center access for default/Hacker-plan accounts
and closes the downgrade gap that could leave `help_center` enabled
after a subscription falls back to the default cloud plan.
Fixes: none
Closes: none
## Why
Default-plan accounts should not be able to access the Help Center, but
the downgrade fallback path only reset the plan name and did not
reconcile premium feature flags. That meant some accounts could keep
`help_center` enabled even after landing back on the Hacker/default
plan.
## What this change does
- blocks Help Center portal and article access for default/Hacker-plan
accounts
- reconciles premium feature flags when a subscription falls back to the
default cloud plan, so `help_center` is disabled immediately instead of
waiting for a later webhook
- preserves existing account `custom_attributes` during Stripe customer
recreation instead of overwriting them
- adds Enterprise coverage for the default-plan access checks on hosted
and custom-domain Help Center routes
- fixes the public access check to use the resolved portal object so
blocked requests return the intended response instead of raising an
error
## Validation
1. Create or use an account on the default/Hacker cloud plan with an
active portal.
2. Visit the portal home page and a published article on both the
Chatwoot-hosted URL and a configured custom domain.
3. Confirm the Help Center is blocked for that account.
4. Downgrade a paid account back to the default/Hacker plan through the
Stripe webhook flow.
5. Confirm `help_center` is disabled right after the downgrade fallback
is processed and the account can no longer access the Help Center.
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Co-authored-by: Muhsin Keloth <muhsinkeramam@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Sojan Jose <sojan@pepalo.com>
* feat: start sitemap
* feat: add base url and last mod to sitemap
* fix: typo
* test: sitemap generation
* test: add draft articles
* fix: escape dots in regex matching
* feat: perpend protocol to the url
* feat: use ChatwootApp.help_center_root
* feat: don't parse the URL
* fix: function declaration
- Support rendering articles over frontend URL
- Support rendering articles over help center URL
- Support rendering help center home page in the custom domain root
