The Reviews
Monumental editorial quotations in a stark newsprint ribbon, pairing oversized serif type with compact issue-style credits.
Preview patternAbout this pattern
Where Notes from the Table fits
Near the booking or menu link of a restaurant or hospitality site, where a passing row of guest notes adds warmth without taking over.
Use it for
- Restaurant home page
- Café or bar guest notes
- Guesthouse reviews 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.
- 5headingsall required
- 14text lines6 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 cards drift past on their own and can be grabbed and dragged either way. Clicking a row pauses it; the pause button shows on keyboard focus, and motion stops for reduced motion.
- 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
Notes from the Table: common questions
What is Notes from the Table for?
Near the booking or menu link of a restaurant or hospitality site, where a passing row of guest notes adds warmth without taking over. Typical uses: restaurant home page, café or bar guest notes and guesthouse reviews section.
Does Notes from the Table need a plugin?
Yes. Designed Patterns come with a subscription, which includes the Pattern Paste plugin that runs them; Notes from the Table 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 Notes from the Table?
As pasted it has 5 headings and 14 text lines, 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 Notes from the Table 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.
