Notes from the Table
Warm, conversational guest notes in tactile apricot cards, with compact attribution and continuous motion.
Preview patternAbout this pattern
Where The Reviews fits
A publication or cultural brand's home or subscribe page, where a few large quotations carry more weight than a grid of star ratings.
Use it for
- Magazine subscribe page
- Book or author landing page
- Gallery or theatre home 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.
- 5headingsall required
- 10text lines2 optional
- 4itemsAdd item or Remove last item; 1 always stays
Section settings
- Appearance: Designed or Use my theme
- Animate changes
- Marquee speed
- Pointer interaction: hover or drag
- Pause button
- Cursor controls
- Unlock layout
How it behaves
It still works when things are switched off
The quotations travel on their own; moving the pointer left or right steers their speed and direction, the centre holds them, clicking pauses, and a pause button stops them.
- 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 Reviews: common questions
What is The Reviews for?
A publication or cultural brand's home or subscribe page, where a few large quotations carry more weight than a grid of star ratings. Typical uses: magazine subscribe page, book or author landing page and gallery or theatre home page.
Does The Reviews need a plugin?
Yes. Designed Patterns come with a subscription, which includes the Pattern Paste plugin that runs them; The Reviews arrived in plugin 0.28.2. 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 Reviews?
As pasted it has 5 headings and 10 text lines, 2 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 Reviews 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.
