Support: Remove duplicate rules

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CSS: Remove duplicate :root, body declarations and redundant selectors

• Remove redundant :root, body declarations.
• Deduplicate #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form legend selector.
• Remove redundant .bbpress #bbpress-forums .bbp-topics ul.sticky rule.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Style
  • Simplified support-theme styling by removing repeated color declarations and superseded forum rules.
  • Updated sticky-topic icon appearance and positioning, and adjusted borders and spacing in reply and topic-edit forms.
  • Consolidated screen-reader text styling with additional resets for consistent presentation.
  • Removed an earlier search-form positioning rule, changing how search forms are positioned.

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Walkthrough

The support theme stylesheet removes repeated WordPress admin theme-color declarations, a redundant bbPress legend selector, and a bbPress sticky-topic background rule. The closing-brace line is replaced without changing the CSS rule structure.

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Support theme stylesheet

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Remove repeated declarations and bbPress rules wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/pub/wporg-support-2024/style.css	Removes repeated WordPress admin theme-color declarations, a redundant bbPress legend selector, and a bbPress sticky-topic background rule. The closing-brace line is replaced without changing the CSS rule structure.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~4 minutes

Change: Refactor

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 3411f

This cleanup preserves the admin theme colors, legend styling, and sticky-topic highlight. No change-specific issue remains to block merging.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3411f

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: wordpress.org

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — wordpress.org (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/pub/wporg-support-2024/style.css: Removed the top-level :root, body declarations for the two WordPress admin theme-color variables.
• observed — Modified behavior in wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/pub/wporg-support-2024/style.css: Removed the redundant comma-terminated bbPress form legend selector; the following legend selector remains.
• observed — Modified behavior in wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/pub/wporg-support-2024/style.css: Removed two repeated :root, body declarations of the WordPress admin theme-color variables before the typography rules.
• observed — Modified behavior in wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/pub/wporg-support-2024/style.css: Removed a repeated :root, body declaration of the WordPress admin theme-color variables before the paragraph rules.

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