From 69794e859120ad5772d499f2e64431d00ac84669 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Unai Abrisketa <uabrisketa@epages.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:29:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Remove newsletter section and related styles from footer

---
 _includes/sections/footer.html          | 13 +-----
 _sass/2-components/_all-components.sass |  1 -
 _sass/2-components/_footer.sass         | 13 ------
 _sass/2-components/_newsletter.sass     | 61 -------------------------
 4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 87 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 _sass/2-components/_newsletter.sass

diff --git a/_includes/sections/footer.html b/_includes/sections/footer.html
index f0512c7d30..288b0dee66 100644
--- a/_includes/sections/footer.html
+++ b/_includes/sections/footer.html
@@ -48,18 +48,7 @@
       </nav>
     </div>
 
-    <div class="row row--newsletter">
-      <form action="https://epages.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=4f7bef41ef50d55ff51b4972b&amp;id=58c9bec70d" method="post" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" class="form form__row newsletter" target="_blank" novalidate>
-        <label class="newsletter__label" for="mce-EMAIL">Newsletter</label>
-        <div class="newsletter__wrapper">
-          <input type="email" value="" name="EMAIL" class="newsletter__input" id="mce-EMAIL" placeholder="Email address*" required>
-            <!-- real people should not fill this in and expect good things - do not remove this or risk form bot signups-->
-          <input type="submit" value="Subscribe" name="subscribe" class="newsletter__button">
-        </div>
-      </form>
-    </div>
-
-    <div class="row  row--impress">
+    <div class="row row--impress">
       <ul class="list">
         <li class="list__item">&#169; {{ 'now' | date: "%Y" }} ePages GmbH</li>
         <li class="list__item  list__item--spacer">&middot;</li>
diff --git a/_sass/2-components/_all-components.sass b/_sass/2-components/_all-components.sass
index 15163579f8..4a927f6af2 100644
--- a/_sass/2-components/_all-components.sass
+++ b/_sass/2-components/_all-components.sass
@@ -19,6 +19,5 @@
 @import 'authors'
 @import 'separators'
 @import 'sidebars'
-@import 'newsletter'
 @import 'quotes'
 @import 'cookie_notice'
diff --git a/_sass/2-components/_footer.sass b/_sass/2-components/_footer.sass
index 1e04ffabef..58bf43d410 100644
--- a/_sass/2-components/_footer.sass
+++ b/_sass/2-components/_footer.sass
@@ -45,19 +45,6 @@
         &:hover, &:focus
           transition: $base-transition
           color: $white
-    
-    &--newsletter
-      margin-bottom: 2rem
-
-      a:not(:first-child)
-        margin-left: 1rem
-
-      .icon
-        color: transparentize($white, .6)
-
-        &:hover, &:focus
-          transition: $base-transition
-          color: $white
 
     &--links
       margin-bottom: 3.5rem
diff --git a/_sass/2-components/_newsletter.sass b/_sass/2-components/_newsletter.sass
deleted file mode 100644
index 7da8b0601c..0000000000
--- a/_sass/2-components/_newsletter.sass
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-.newsletter
-  max-width: 650px
-
-  +grid-media($grid-huge)
-    display: flex
-    align-items: center
-
-  &__label
-    color: $white
-    font-weight: bold
-    font-size: 1.1em
-    width: 100%
-    display: inline-flex
-    flex-shrink: 1
-    margin-bottom: .5em
-
-    +grid-media($grid-huge)
-      width: auto
-      padding-right: 1.5em
-      margin-bottom: 0
-
-  &__wrapper
-    display: flex
-    flex-direction: column
-
-    +grid-media($grid-medium)
-      flex-direction: row
-      justify-content: space-between
-
-    +grid-media($grid-huge)
-      width: 100%
-
-  &__input
-    background: none
-    border: .1rem solid $white
-    color: $white
-    box-sizing: border-box
-    padding: .4em 1em
-    outline: none
-    width: 100%
-    margin-bottom: .5em
-
-    &::placeholder
-      color: $white
-      font-size: .9em
-
-    +grid-media($grid-medium)
-      margin-bottom: 0
-      margin-right: 1%
-      width: 66.4%
-
-  &__button
-    background-color: $dev-darkslategray
-    color: $white
-    padding: .5em 1em
-    border: 0
-    width: 100%
-    min-width: 17.5rem
-
-    +grid-media($grid-medium)
-      width: 32.6%