Cinema Stories
A cinematic split story slider with monumental titles, immersive photography and a numbered reader-controlled index for an independent film journal.
Preview patternAbout this pattern
Where Open Horizons fits
A travel or destination home page opening, where a row of places sits side by side and the reader widens the one that interests them.
Use it for
- Tour operator home page
- Destination guide hero
- Retreat locations overview
- Hotel group properties
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.
- 4imagesall required
- 5headingsall required
- 15text lines11 optional
- 4buttonsall optional
- 4itemsAdd 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
Clicking a numbered panel widens it and reveals its story while the others narrow. Arrow keys, Home and End move between panels, which only change on reader input.
- 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
Open Horizons: common questions
What is Open Horizons for?
A travel or destination home page opening, where a row of places sits side by side and the reader widens the one that interests them. Typical uses: tour operator home page, destination guide hero, retreat locations overview and hotel group properties.
Does Open Horizons need a plugin?
Yes. Designed Patterns come with a subscription, which includes the Pattern Paste plugin that runs them; Open Horizons 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 Open Horizons?
As pasted it has 4 images, 5 headings, 15 text lines and 4 buttons, 15 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 Open Horizons 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.
