The Long Way Round
A borderless travel filmstrip with alternating landscape and portrait crops, a cobalt-and-tangerine authored palette and a continuous ribbon you can drag in either direction.
Preview patternAbout this pattern
Where Offbeat Project Deck fits
For a portfolio home or work index, when a handful of projects should feel like physical cards picked from a layered stack.
Use it for
- Design studio portfolio
- Selected work section
- Creative agency homepage
What you can edit
Every word, image and link is a WordPress block
Select any of them in the block editor and change it in place. Colours, type and spacing use the blocks’ own controls.
The layout stays protected while you edit. Unlock layout, in the section’s settings, lets you insert, move and remove any block.
- 3imagesall required
- 4headingsall required
- 9text linesall optional
- 4buttonsall required
Section settings
- Appearance: Designed or Use my theme
- Animate changes
- Unlock layout
How it behaves
It still works when things are switched off
Numbered buttons bring one project card to the front; its image and caption rise into place and the choice is announced with its title.
- Motion off or reduced motion
- It shows its final state at once; anything a visitor can press or drag still works.
- JavaScript off
- All content stays visible and readable; controls the script adds are hidden.
- Plugin missing or older
- It pastes as plain WordPress blocks, in reading order, without the designed layout.
Questions
Offbeat Project Deck: common questions
What is Offbeat Project Deck for?
For a portfolio home or work index, when a handful of projects should feel like physical cards picked from a layered stack. Typical uses: design studio portfolio, selected work section and creative agency homepage.
Does Offbeat Project Deck need a plugin?
Yes. Designed Patterns come with a subscription, which includes the Pattern Paste plugin that runs them; Offbeat Project Deck arrived in plugin 0.23.0. Without the plugin, or on an older version, it pastes as plain WordPress blocks: the content reads in order, without the designed layout.
What can I edit in Offbeat Project Deck?
As pasted it has 3 images, 4 headings, 9 text lines and 4 buttons, 9 of them optional and removable. The layout stays protected while you edit. Unlock layout, in the section’s settings, lets you insert, move and remove any block.
Will Offbeat Project Deck match my theme?
Choose Designed to keep its own palette and type, or Use my theme to let it follow your theme’s colours and fonts. Either works in any block theme on WordPress 7.0 or later. Choose Use my theme in the preview above to see it follow a theme before you copy.
Can the motion be switched off?
Yes. Turn off Animate changes in the section settings, and visitors who ask their device for reduced motion get the same: the section shows its final state at once and anything they can press or drag still works. With JavaScript off, all content stays visible.
