# Article footer > The close of an article: a portrait of the author beside their name, the biography under both inside a currentColor slip held to the middle half of the measure, and the previous and the next post hanging off the two outer edges so the section reads as a doorway rather than a footer. The name, the biography and the two neighbours are dynamic core blocks, so they are the post's own and the preview here is sample data; the portrait is an ordinary image block you swap for your author's own. The previous and next links only resolve on a single post template, which is where this pattern belongs. Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/article-footer.html Section: Editorial Access: Included in Pattern Paste access. Needs: Requires a block theme on WordPress 7.0 to 7.1. Classic themes and page builders are outside our supported setup. Adaptive patterns use the block theme’s colour, spacing and typography presets; styled variations declare their own colours or type. Blocks: column, columns, group, image, paragraph, post-author-biography, post-author-name, post-navigation-link Keywords: author bio, author portrait, post navigation, previous post, next post, article footer, byline ## Variations (2) ### Between the exits (the default) Identical markup in every theme. Previous at the left edge, the portrait and bio slip in the middle, next at the right edge, all under one currentColor rule that closes the article above them. ### Bio leads Identical markup in every theme. The composition changes rather than the colour: the slip moves to the left and takes two thirds of the measure, portrait and all, and the two exits stack in one narrow ruled column at the right, so the section reads as a card with an index beside it. --- ## It shows YOUR post, and the preview is our sample content Every fact in this section EXCEPT the portrait is resolved by WordPress from the post it is placed on: the author's name, the author's biography from their user profile, and the titles of the two neighbouring posts. The preview on the product page is our preview site's seeded content ("Dana Rivera", and a biography that says so). Nothing there is in the pattern itself. **The portrait is the one thing that is.** It is an ordinary `core/image` with a URL and no attachment id, so it copies with the blocks and shows our sample face until you replace it. It is deliberately not `core/avatar`: that block prints whatever the author's Gravatar is, which on most sites is a grey mystery-person tile or nothing at all, and a bio card whose face is a silhouette is worse than one with a real photograph you chose. The trade is that the portrait does not follow the author from post to post; if your journal has several authors, see "What to change first". **It belongs at the foot of a single post template.** Two things follow, and both are stated here because neither reports itself: - The bio blocks read the post from block context, which a single post template or a query loop supplies. Pasted into a post's own body they print nothing. - **`core/post-navigation-link` renders only on a singular request.** Its first line is `if ( ! is_singular() ) { return ''; }`, so on an archive, on a static page, in a query loop, or in any preview that is not a real single post view, the two links produce no output at all. That is WordPress, not this pattern, and it is why the two exits are built as labelled slots with rules of their own: the composition still reads where the links are absent, and it fills in on the buyer's actual post page. Measured on WordPress 7.0. ## The signature moment: the exits are at the edges **The bio is boxed and the way out is not.** The card is a slip bounded by a 1px `currentColor` hairline, held to the middle half of a 1240 measure, with a portrait at its head so the boxed thing is visibly a person. The previous and next posts sit at 22% each, hard against the two outer edges, unboxed, each a 13px tracked label over its own short rule with the neighbouring post's title under it. Between them and the card there is nothing. So the section reads as a doorway rather than as a footer: one thing to look at, two ways out of it, and a lot of air saying which is which. The whole band is closed at the top by one more `currentColor` rule, which is what makes it the END of the article rather than a section after it. ## What it inherits from your theme - **The typeface.** No font family is stated. - **Your colours.** The band asks for `base` and the type for `contrast`, each ending on a colour WordPress guarantees. Every rule in the pattern, the band's top rule, the card's border and the two rules under the exits, is `currentColor`, so all four are exactly the colour of the text. - **Your spacing scale.** Measured at 1400: 365px in Twenty Twenty-Four. ## What it decides for itself - **Full bleed with a 1240px measure**, and a 22 / 50 / 22 split, so the two exits sit further out than anything else in the section. - **The card is the only bordered thing.** Its border is what sets the person apart from the two exits, and it is why they need no box of their own. - **The portrait is a 5.5rem square, and the squareness is in the file.** It uses `portrait-16-head`, a head-and-shoulders crop made for this job, so the block asks for `aspectRatio: 1` on an image that is already 1:1 and nothing is cut. Do not point this block at a full-length portrait and leave the ratio at 1: `core/image` writes no `object-position`, so a cover crop is always taken from the centre, and the tall studio portraits in this catalogue frame the head in the top third, which a centred square crop removes. Swap the ratio with the photograph, or crop the photograph to a square first, as this one is. The portrait sits in the same `wrap` flex row as the label and the name, so at 390 it drops to its own line rather than squeezing the name. - **The navigation links state their own link colour.** An anchor carries a colour rule of its own that beats an inherited one, so both blocks set `style.elements.link.color.text` as well as their text colour and the two titles are the same ink as the bio. ## What to change first 1. **The labels.** "← Previous" and "Next →" are ordinary paragraphs above the dynamic links, so they take any wording, and the arrows are characters you can delete. The link itself prints the neighbouring post's title, because both blocks ship `showTitle: true` and no label of their own. 2. **The portrait.** Replace the image with your author's own, square and cropped to the head, and write the alt text to match. On a single-author journal that is the whole job. On a multi-author one you have two honest options: delete the image, which leaves the name and bio reading as they did before, or keep this pattern for the posts of one author and paste a second copy with a second portrait for the next. Nothing here picks a face by post. 3. **The bio.** It comes from the author's profile, so it is edited in Users rather than here. If your authors have no biography, delete the block: an empty one prints nothing and leaves the card looking short. 4. **The card's width.** 50%. A long biography wants more; the exits then get narrower, which is the trade the composition is making. 5. **The top rule.** Take it off and the section stops closing the article. 6. **The finish.** Ship the base for a symmetrical close, and `bio-lead` where the author matters more than the neighbours. ## Notes - Core blocks only: group, columns, column, paragraph, image, post-author-name, post-author-biography, post-navigation-link. No plugin, no script. - The portrait travels as a URL on our host with no attachment id, so nothing in the buyer's media library is referenced and no foreign id is copied.