The Dispatch, Designed Pattern, Pattern Paste Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/dispatch/ Designed Patterns (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/) Hero (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/?category=hero) Needs the plugin # The Dispatch An editorial magazine cover with a dramatic masthead, image-led changing stories, a readable issue index and overlapping cover lines in warm paper, ink and vermilion. ## All patterns Search patterns Loading patterns… About this pattern ## Where The Dispatch fits The front page of a magazine or journal site, where one cover holds several lead stories and a numbered index lets readers pick. ### Use it for - Online magazine home page - Quarterly journal issue page - Newsletter archive front - Editorial blog landing page 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. - 3 images all required - 4 headings all required - 16 text lines 13 optional - 4 buttons all required - 3 items Add item or Remove last item; 1 always stays ### Section settings - Appearance: Designed or Use my theme - Animate changes - Unlock layout How it behaves ## It still works when things are switched off A numbered index of tabs changes the cover story, image and cover lines in place. Arrow keys, Home and End move through the index. 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 ## The Dispatch: common questions What is The Dispatch for? The front page of a magazine or journal site, where one cover holds several lead stories and a numbered index lets readers pick. Typical uses: online magazine home page, quarterly journal issue page, newsletter archive front and editorial blog landing page. Does The Dispatch need a plugin? Yes. Designed Patterns come with a subscription, which includes the Pattern Paste plugin that runs them; The Dispatch arrived in plugin 0.25.0. 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 The Dispatch? As pasted it has 3 images, 4 headings, 16 text lines and 4 buttons, 13 of them optional and removable. The items are a repeatable set: the item controls add one or remove the last. The layout stays protected while you edit. Unlock layout, in the section’s settings, lets you insert, move and remove any block. Will The Dispatch 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. Back to Designed Patterns (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/?category=hero) One-time setup ## Install once, then paste Install and activate the Pattern Paste plugin on your WordPress site. Then paste this section into the block editor. Get the plugin (https://patternpaste.com/account/#themes)Installation guide (https://patternpaste.com/docs/install-pattern-paste/) ## Specifications Section Hero, Editorial, Blog Needs Pattern Paste plugin Since Plugin 0.25.0 Appearance Designed or your theme Motion Optional, off for reduced motion Themes Any block theme WordPress 7.0+ Tested In WordPress, 10 checks (https://patternpaste.com/how-we-test/) Continue exploring ## More in Hero Explore this category (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/?category=hero) Hero Needs the plugin ### Cinema Stories A cinematic split story slider with monumental titles, immersive photography and a numbered reader-controlled index for an independent film journal. Preview pattern (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/cinema/) Hero Needs the plugin ### Open Horizons An expansive destination hero of visual panels that open on reader input to reveal editable place stories and links. Preview pattern (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/horizon/) Hero Needs the plugin ### Before and After A photographic colour-grade study with editable native images and an elastic divider that bends under your hand, carries a flick and springs straight. Preview pattern (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/compare/)