Fix /designs grid: accept ?category= as alias for ?cat=

b47680da1b96a7532fd0eb15d5ceb314b2f30607 · 2026-05-30 12:29:56 -0700 · Steve

External/shared links using ?category=<slug> were silently ignored and the
grid rendered the unfiltered whole catalog (2026-05-30 audit finding). Now
reads req.query.cat || req.query.category. Local fix, node -c clean.
NOT yet deployed — deploy-kamatera.sh failed on a data/elements symlink rsync
conflict; needs a deploy retry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Files touched

M server.js

Diff

commit b47680da1b96a7532fd0eb15d5ceb314b2f30607
Author: Steve <steve@designerwallcoverings.com>
Date:   Sat May 30 12:29:56 2026 -0700

    Fix /designs grid: accept ?category= as alias for ?cat=
    
    External/shared links using ?category=<slug> were silently ignored and the
    grid rendered the unfiltered whole catalog (2026-05-30 audit finding). Now
    reads req.query.cat || req.query.category. Local fix, node -c clean.
    NOT yet deployed — deploy-kamatera.sh failed on a data/elements symlink rsync
    conflict; needs a deploy retry.
    
    Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 server.js | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/server.js b/server.js
index d1a0dfe..4f2e319 100644
--- a/server.js
+++ b/server.js
@@ -6200,7 +6200,10 @@ app.get('/designs', (req, res) => {
   // no new design has landed since their last crawl.
   if (maybe304(req, res, CATALOG_LAST_MODIFIED)) return;
   const sort = req.query.sort || 'newest';
-  const cat  = req.query.cat  || '';
+  // Accept ?category= as an alias for ?cat= — external links / sister-site nav
+  // / shared URLs commonly use the long form; without this they were silently
+  // ignored and the grid rendered the UNFILTERED whole catalog (2026-05-30 audit).
+  const cat  = req.query.cat || req.query.category || '';
   const q    = (req.query.q   || '').toLowerCase().trim();
   const page = Math.max(1, parseInt(req.query.page || '1', 10));
   const PER  = 60;

← 167dee0 Force-publish 190 clean drunk-animals from 5/29 to live (Ste · back to Wallco Ai · room mockups: fix framed-panel defect — clean full-wall temp fff1c63 →