Offbeat Project Deck
Oversized type, tilted project cards and a tactile selector. A layered portfolio with an acid-yellow authored look, or the colours and type of your own theme.
Preview patternAbout this pattern
Where Elsewhere Journal fits
Suits a journal or blog landing page, where a few featured stories get large titles and tall photographs before the full archive.
Use it for
- Travel journal features
- Magazine featured stories
- Blog homepage highlights
- Guidebook chapter teasers
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
- 6text linesall optional
- 3buttonsall required
- 3itemsAdd item or Remove last item; 1 always stays
Section settings
- Appearance: Designed or Use my theme
- Animate changes
- Drag to browse
- Loop slides
- Unlock layout
How it behaves
It still works when things are switched off
Drag, swipe or use the arrow buttons to move through a continuous loop of stories, with the next one in view. Left and Right arrow keys browse when the rail has focus.
- 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
Elsewhere Journal: common questions
What is Elsewhere Journal for?
Suits a journal or blog landing page, where a few featured stories get large titles and tall photographs before the full archive. Typical uses: travel journal features, magazine featured stories, blog homepage highlights and guidebook chapter teasers.
Does Elsewhere Journal need a plugin?
Yes. Designed Patterns come with a subscription, which includes the Pattern Paste plugin that runs them; Elsewhere Journal arrived in plugin 0.33.0. 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 Elsewhere Journal?
As pasted it has 3 images, 4 headings, 6 text lines and 3 buttons, 6 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 Elsewhere Journal 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.
