Team Spotlight
A plum-and-mint team introduction with expressive initials, personal quotes and a selectable roster. Switch profiles, or let your own theme set the tone.
Preview patternAbout this pattern
Where Faces & Stories fits
For a feature on contributors or interviewees, when each face opens into a longer story without leaving the page.
Use it for
- Contributor profiles
- Interview series page
- Community spotlight
- Team stories section
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
- 4expandable answersall required
- 4peopleAdd person or Remove last person; 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 button on each card opens the full story in a modal lightbox; Close, a click outside or Escape returns focus to the card. Stories are native disclosures without script.
- 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
Faces & Stories: common questions
What is Faces & Stories for?
For a feature on contributors or interviewees, when each face opens into a longer story without leaving the page. Typical uses: contributor profiles, interview series page, community spotlight and team stories section.
Does Faces & Stories need a plugin?
Yes. Designed Patterns come with a subscription, which includes the Pattern Paste plugin that runs them; Faces & Stories 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 Faces & Stories?
As pasted it has 4 images, 5 headings, 15 text lines and 4 expandable answers, 11 of them optional and removable. The people 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 Faces & Stories 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.
