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 Ways of Seeing fits
Suits the top of an archive or collection page, where a wide moving band of images sets the tone before the listings below.
Use it for
- Photography archive landing page
- Museum collection overview
- Magazine image library
- Exhibition microsite 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.
- 6imagesall required
- 1headingrequired
- 9text linesall optional
- 1buttonrequired
- 6itemsAdd 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
A wide angled band of photographs drifts in opposing lanes and responds to page scrolling. A pause button stops it; with reduced motion the photographs form a still grid.
- 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
Ways of Seeing: common questions
What is Ways of Seeing for?
Suits the top of an archive or collection page, where a wide moving band of images sets the tone before the listings below. Typical uses: photography archive landing page, museum collection overview, magazine image library and exhibition microsite opener.
Does Ways of Seeing need a plugin?
Yes. Designed Patterns come with a subscription, which includes the Pattern Paste plugin that runs them; Ways of Seeing 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 Ways of Seeing?
As pasted it has 6 images, 1 heading, 9 text lines and 1 button, 9 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 Ways of Seeing 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.
