diff --git a/Bartender4.toc b/Bartender4.toc
index 90c257f..13da278 100644
--- a/Bartender4.toc
+++ b/Bartender4.toc
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
 ## X-Curse-Repository-ID: wow/bartender4/mainline
 
 ## Title: Bartender4
-## Notes: Simple and Advanced combined - Bartender4 ActionBar AddOn
+## Notes: Simple and Advanced combined - Bartender4 ActionBar AddOn (CoA fork: [aura:Name] / [form:Name] paging)
 
-## Version: 4.4.2-2-g3b02ee4
+## Version: 4.4.2-2-g3b02ee4-coa1
 
 ## Author: Nevcairiel
 ## X-Email: h.leppkes at gmail dot com
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ ButtonBar.lua
 StateBar.lua
 ActionBar.lua
 
+## CoA patches ##
+CoAAuraConditionals.lua
+
 ## Buttons ##
 ActionButton.lua
 PetButton.lua
diff --git a/CoAAuraConditionals.lua b/CoAAuraConditionals.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..646fc60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CoAAuraConditionals.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+--[[
+    CoA Bartender4 patch — translate [aura:Name] / [form:Name] /
+    non-numeric [stance:Name] in paging conditionals into [stance:N].
+
+    Why: Blizzard's secure macro parser (SecureCmdOptionParse) only
+    accepts a numeric index for [stance:] / [form:] and has no [aura:]
+    keyword at all. Addons cannot register new conditionals into the
+    secure parser. So the only honest place to do this is *before* we
+    hand the string to RegisterStateDriver — we resolve form names to
+    indices via GetShapeshiftFormInfo() and rewrite the keyword.
+
+    Scope: only shapeshift forms are resolvable this way. That covers
+    Druid, Warrior stances, Death Knight presences, Priest Shadowform,
+    and every CoA custom-class form (Venomancer, Wildkin, etc.) since
+    those all live in the shapeshift bar. Non-form auras (regular
+    buffs) cannot be expressed as a stance index and would need a
+    synthetic state-driver attribute — out of scope here.
+
+    Usage in Bartender4 paging:
+        [aura:Beetle Form]6;1   -- equivalent to [stance:1]6;1 (if Beetle Form is form 1)
+        [form:Beetle Form]6;1
+        [stance:Beetle Form]6;1
+        [stance:Beetle Form/Wasp Form]6;1   -- slash-list works too
+        [noaura:Beetle Form]2
+
+    All three keywords (aura, form, stance) are accepted equivalently
+    when the value is a non-numeric form name. Numeric values pass
+    through unchanged. Unresolvable names are left as-is so the failure
+    is visible at conditional-parse time rather than silently swallowed.
+]]
+
+local Bartender4 = _G.Bartender4
+if not Bartender4 then return end
+
+local KEYWORDS = { "nostance", "noform", "noaura", "stance", "form", "aura" }
+local KEYWORD_OUT = {
+    stance   = "stance",  form   = "stance",  aura   = "stance",
+    nostance = "nostance", noform = "nostance", noaura = "nostance",
+}
+
+local function shapeshiftIndexByName(name)
+    if type(GetNumShapeshiftForms) ~= "function" or type(GetShapeshiftFormInfo) ~= "function" then
+        return nil
+    end
+    local n = GetNumShapeshiftForms() or 0
+    local lname = name:lower()
+    for i = 1, n do
+        local _, fname = GetShapeshiftFormInfo(i)
+        if fname and fname:lower() == lname then
+            return i
+        end
+    end
+    return nil
+end
+
+local function translateValueList(values)
+    local parts, anyTranslated = {}, false
+    for v in values:gmatch("[^/]+") do
+        local trimmed = v:match("^%s*(.-)%s*$") or v
+        if trimmed:match("^%d+$") or trimmed == "" then
+            parts[#parts + 1] = trimmed
+        else
+            local idx = shapeshiftIndexByName(trimmed)
+            if idx then
+                parts[#parts + 1] = tostring(idx)
+                anyTranslated = true
+            else
+                parts[#parts + 1] = trimmed
+            end
+        end
+    end
+    return table.concat(parts, "/"), anyTranslated
+end
+
+function Bartender4:CoATranslateConditionals(s)
+    if type(s) ~= "string" or s == "" then return s end
+    for _, kw in ipairs(KEYWORDS) do
+        local outKw = KEYWORD_OUT[kw]
+        s = s:gsub(kw .. ":([^,%]]+)", function(value)
+            local newValue, didTranslate = translateValueList(value)
+            if didTranslate then
+                return outKw .. ":" .. newValue
+            end
+            return nil
+        end)
+    end
+    return s
+end
+
+-- Re-apply paging when shapeshift form set changes (new form learned,
+-- spec respec, etc.) so freshly-resolvable names take effect without
+-- a /reload. Skipped during combat lockdown — RegisterStateDriver is
+-- secure and the SetAttribute calls inside UpdateStates would taint.
+local refresh = CreateFrame("Frame")
+refresh:RegisterEvent("UPDATE_SHAPESHIFT_FORMS")
+refresh:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD")
+refresh:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_REGEN_ENABLED")
+local pendingRefresh = false
+refresh:SetScript("OnEvent", function(self, event)
+    if InCombatLockdown and InCombatLockdown() then
+        pendingRefresh = true
+        return
+    end
+    if event == "PLAYER_REGEN_ENABLED" and not pendingRefresh then return end
+    pendingRefresh = false
+    local mod = Bartender4 and Bartender4.GetModule and Bartender4:GetModule("ActionBars", true)
+    if not mod or not mod.actionbars then return end
+    for _, bar in pairs(mod.actionbars) do
+        if bar and bar.UpdateStates then bar:UpdateStates() end
+    end
+end)
diff --git a/README-CoA.md b/README-CoA.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..74bcd23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README-CoA.md
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+CoA Bartender4
+==============
+
+This is the Children of Ascension fork of [Bartender4][upstream] by
+Hendrik "Nevcairiel" Leppkes, vendored from Ascension's WotLK 3.3.5
+client (`/srv/add01/wow-ascension/Interface/AddOns/Bartender4`,
+upstream version `4.4.2-2-g3b02ee4`).
+
+[upstream]: https://github.com/Nevcairiel/Bartender4
+
+What we patched
+---------------
+
+A single feature: paging conditionals can refer to **shapeshift forms
+by name**, not just by numeric stance index.
+
+```
+[aura:Beetle Form]6;1            -- equivalent to [stance:N]6;1
+[form:Beetle Form]6;1
+[stance:Beetle Form]6;1          -- non-numeric value also accepted
+
+[stance:Beetle Form/Wasp Form]9  -- slash-lists work
+[noaura:Beetle Form]2            -- negation works
+```
+
+Three keywords are accepted equivalently when the value is a non-numeric
+form name: `aura:`, `form:`, `stance:` (and their `no…:` negations).
+All resolve via `GetShapeshiftFormInfo()` and get rewritten to
+`[stance:N]` before the string reaches Blizzard's secure macro parser.
+
+This covers every Venomancer / Wildkin / etc. CoA custom-class form,
+plus stock Druid / Warrior / DK / Priest forms — anything that lives
+in the shapeshift bar. Non-form auras (regular buffs) cannot be
+expressed as a stance index and are out of scope.
+
+Why upstream can't accept this patch as-is
+------------------------------------------
+
+`SecureCmdOptionParse` is hardcoded in the WoW client; addons cannot
+register new conditional keywords into it. Our translation pass runs
+*before* `RegisterStateDriver`, rewriting `[aura:Name]` to `[stance:N]`
+at addon scope. That works on a private server with predictable form
+sets, but upstream serves multiple expansions and clients where the
+keyword `aura` may eventually mean something different (or be reserved
+by Blizzard) — so it stays a fork patch.
+
+Files we touched
+----------------
+
+| File | Change |
+|---|---|
+| `Bartender4.toc` | Version `…-coa1`, loads `CoAAuraConditionals.lua`, Notes appended |
+| `StateBar.lua` | 3-line guard before `RegisterStateDriver` calls our translator |
+| `CoAAuraConditionals.lua` | New file — the translator + `UPDATE_SHAPESHIFT_FORMS` re-apply |
+| `.gitattributes` | `* -text` so we don't normalise upstream CRLF (keeps merges clean) |
+
+Pulling future upstream releases
+--------------------------------
+
+Upstream lives at <https://github.com/Nevcairiel/Bartender4>. The patch
+is small and the touched files are stable, so future merges should be
+mostly painless:
+
+```bash
+git remote add upstream https://github.com/Nevcairiel/Bartender4.git
+git fetch upstream
+git merge upstream/master         # or whatever upstream's default is
+# resolve trivial conflicts in StateBar.lua + Bartender4.toc
+luac -p StateBar.lua CoAAuraConditionals.lua
+```
+
+Deploying
+---------
+
+```bash
+rsync -a --delete \
+  --exclude=.git --exclude=.gitattributes --exclude='README-CoA.md' \
+  /home/sub/repos/coa/coa-bartender/ \
+  /srv/add01/wow-ascension/Interface/AddOns/Bartender4/
+```
+
+Same for `wow-ptr`. After deploy the in-game version string reads
+`4.4.2-2-g3b02ee4-coa1`, so you can confirm the patched copy is loaded.
+
+Verifying it works
+------------------
+
+In-game, run any of:
+
+```
+/run print(SecureCmdOptionParse("[stance:Beetle Form]yes;no"))
+/run print(SecureCmdOptionParse("[aura:Beetle Form]yes;no"))
+```
+
+Both should print **`no`** even when in Beetle Form, because Blizzard's
+parser still doesn't understand the names — but Bartender4's paging
+**will** work, because the translator rewrites the string before
+handing it to the state driver. To verify *that*, set up paging as
+`[aura:Beetle Form]6;1` in Bar 1 → State Configuration → Custom, shift
+into Beetle Form, and watch Bar 1 swap to page 6.
diff --git a/StateBar.lua b/StateBar.lua
index 4f4a6a2..cc3bca0 100644
--- a/StateBar.lua
+++ b/StateBar.lua
@@ -187,6 +187,10 @@ function StateBar:UpdateStates(returnOnly)
 	UnregisterStateDriver(self, "page")
 	self:SetAttribute("state-page", "0")
 
+	-- CoA: rewrite [aura:Name] / [form:Name] / [stance:Name] -> [stance:N]
+	if Bartender4.CoATranslateConditionals then
+		statedriver = Bartender4:CoATranslateConditionals(statedriver)
+	end
 	RegisterStateDriver(self, "page", statedriver or "0")
 
 	self:SetAttribute("_onstate-assist-help", [[