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 Colour in Season fits
The opening of a museum, gallery or venue season page, where a still headline and visit buttons sit above a moving row of photographs.
Use it for
- Museum season launch
- Gallery exhibition home page
- Arts venue programme hero
- Cultural festival opener
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.
- 8imagesall required
- 1headingrequired
- 4text linesall optional
- 2buttonsboth required
- 8itemsAdd 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 photograph ribbon moves on its own under still visit buttons; grab it to drag either way. Clicking a row pauses it and a pause button stops it.
- 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
Colour in Season: common questions
What is Colour in Season for?
The opening of a museum, gallery or venue season page, where a still headline and visit buttons sit above a moving row of photographs. Typical uses: museum season launch, gallery exhibition home page, arts venue programme hero and cultural festival opener.
Does Colour in Season need a plugin?
Yes. Designed Patterns come with a subscription, which includes the Pattern Paste plugin that runs them; Colour in Season 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 Colour in Season?
As pasted it has 8 images, 1 heading, 4 text lines and 2 buttons, 4 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 Colour in Season 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.
