Unable to try style variations for premium themes

[fditrapani]

Quick summary

During onboarding, I was unable to try the style variations on a premium theme. The copy incorrectly tells you that you can try it out and when you press decide later, it does nothing. If I try with a Free theme, then it works.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a94fba85-2950-4904-9576-7acef7133198

See discussion: p9Jlb4-f6u-p2#comment-14380

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a new site by visiting /start
2. Pick a free domain + plan
3. Pick a personal theme
4. Select a Style variation
5. Press Unlock theme
6. Press Decide later

Now try with a Premium theme for the expected behaviour.

What you expected to happen

The copy says I can try the theme before upgrading so I would expect to be able to try it.

What actually happened

Nothing

Impact

All

Available workarounds?

Yes, easy to implement

If the above answer is "Yes...", outline the workaround.

Upgrade the plan or switch to a Free theme.

Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)

No response

Logs or notes

No response

[fditrapani]

One option here would be to update the copy and call to action for premium themes so that it doesn't imply that you can try the theme. The other one is likely bigger left to allow people to try premium themes along with premium styles.

[github-actions[bot]]

OpenAI suggested the following labels for this issue:

• [Feature Group] Appearance & Themes: The issue pertains to how themes are presented and interacted with during user onboarding.
• [Feature] Design Picker: This feature is directly related to selecting themes and variations, which is the core subject of the issue.
• [Feature] Premium Automattic Themes: Since the issue specifically involves premium themes, this label addresses the context of the problem.
• [Feature] Plans & Upgrades: The issue involves functionality that hints at needing to upgrade a plan to access certain features.

[dsas]

This is due to the global styles gating changes. For themes gated behind the Premium plan we don't mention global styles and don't show the global styles modal - because they're included with the Premium plan. We should do the same for themes gated behind the personal plan.

[github-actions[bot]]

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[rcrdortiz]

We have deployed a fix for the issue.

[fditrapani]

Thanks for the quick updates!