Guide: contents above, Pattern Paste Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/article-guide-index.html Library (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/) Single articles (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/single-articles/) Catalogue access Standard # Guide: contents above A complete five-chapter guide with a linked contents box above the reading column. Subheadings, practical lists, a captioned photograph and a quotation show how longer blog content can vary without losing its rhythm. Core blocks only, with editable sample content and no plugin required. Inherits your theme’s colours and typeface. Start here ## What to change first Replace the sample text, then add or remove complete sections in List View. Replace any example photograph through the Image block. Photographs in the payload are included public source URLs with descriptive alternative text; no foreign attachment ID travels with them. Edit the alternative text to match your replacement. Check long headings and paragraphs on a phone. The contents links use core buttons styled as text links with generous tap areas. Update a heading’s HTML anchor and its matching contents link together. The contents is not generated automatically. If inserting the pattern twice on one page, give each copy unique anchors. The signature moment ## A compact contents box opens into the full reading column A complete five-chapter guide with a linked contents box above the reading column. Subheadings, practical lists, a captioned photograph and a quotation show how longer blog content can vary without losing its rhythm. Theme handoff ## What comes from where ### From your theme The theme supplies the typeface, heading leading and weight, link treatment, and spacing scale. Colours use contrast and base fallback chains ending in core black and white. Incidental uppercase labels start with role-label. Structural borders use currentColor. No accent carries text. ### Set by this pattern The composition and its relative widths are authored. Body copy uses the medium preset with a readable clamp fallback and 1.6 line height. Section headings use x-large; smaller headings use large. All headings state their own ink chain. Narrow groups keep the theme's content measure. Columns stack below WordPress's mobile breakpoint; automatic grids reflow according to their minimum track width. There is no fixed-height reading area. Full pattern notes ## Why it works, and how it is built Open a topic for the complete design reasoning, editing guidance and implementation notes. Design rationaleComposition, intent and nearest alternatives ### Overview A complete five-chapter guide with a linked contents box above the reading column. Subheadings, practical lists, a captioned photograph and a quotation show how longer blog content can vary without losing its rhythm. ### The signature moment: a compact contents box opens into the full reading column A complete five-chapter guide with a linked contents box above the reading column. Subheadings, practical lists, a captioned photograph and a quotation show how longer blog content can vary without losing its rhythm. Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first ### What to change first Replace the sample text, then add or remove complete sections in List View. Replace any example photograph through the Image block. Photographs in the payload are included public source URLs with descriptive alternative text; no foreign attachment ID travels with them. Edit the alternative text to match your replacement. Check long headings and paragraphs on a phone. The contents links use core buttons styled as text links with generous tap areas. Update a heading’s HTML anchor and its matching contents link together. The contents is not generated automatically. If inserting the pattern twice on one page, give each copy unique anchors. Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast ### What it inherits The theme supplies the typeface, heading leading and weight, link treatment, and spacing scale. Colours use contrast and base fallback chains ending in core black and white. Incidental uppercase labels start with role-label. Structural borders use currentColor. No accent carries text. ### What it decides The composition and its relative widths are authored. Body copy uses the medium preset with a readable clamp fallback and 1.6 line height. Section headings use x-large; smaller headings use large. All headings state their own ink chain. Narrow groups keep the theme's content measure. Columns stack below WordPress's mobile breakpoint; automatic grids reflow according to their minimum track width. There is no fixed-height reading area. ### Display type Small labels and narrow supporting copy keep a clamp from 15px to 16px. Uppercase labels use 0.08em tracking. No heading uses a display size outside the theme's ladder. ### Contrast and verification All reading text, labels and links are held to 4.5:1. Large headings are held to 3:1. The scoped verify:pattern run checks editor validity at both supported WordPress targets, responsive layout, colour contrast and theme renders. The verification sheet is under .wp-verify/sheets/article-guide-index/sheet.png. Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints ### Where to paste it Paste into a post or page's content area. This is an editable content pattern, not a Single Post template. Your theme supplies the post title, date and site header; this payload has no duplicate h1 or dynamic post-context requirement. It works with ordinary core blocks and needs no companion plugin. ### Sample content The sample is a full guide to planning a useful corner. Five descriptive contents links match five chapter anchors; lists, a figure and a quotation give the guide distinct content shapes. Edit the links and chapter anchors together when changing the structure. 27KB of core-block markup, 9 blocks (button, buttons, group, heading, image, list, list-item, paragraph, quote), and nothing else: paste it into the block editor and it becomes editable blocks wearing your theme. Start free trial to copy (https://patternpaste.com/account/#plan) What you copy is yours forever. Cancel whenever. Back to the library (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/) Catalogue access ### £70 a year Save £50 Or £10 a month All patterns, variations and theme downloads. What you copy is yours forever. Cancel whenever. Start with three days of full access on sign-up, no card. Start free trial (https://patternpaste.com/account/#plan) Sign in (https://patternpaste.com/account/) Everything you copy is yours to keep, forever, on any site; access to the rest of the library runs while you subscribe. Cancel any time; access runs to the end of the period you have paid for, and there is no pro-rata refund. Prices are in pounds and are the full price in the UK, the US and eleven other countries; elsewhere the checkout adds your local VAT or sales tax. The terms name every country. #### Use it for - Guides with a table of contents - Knowledge base articles #### Before you paste Requires a block theme on WordPress 6.7 to 7.0. 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. How we test patterns (https://patternpaste.com/how-we-test/) Sample images stay in the copied blocks. Replace them in WordPress; pasting does not upload them to your Media Library. Video variations need your own clip. Image credits (https://patternpaste.com/image-credits/). #### What's inside Blocks button, buttons, group, heading, image, list, list-item, paragraph, quote Core only yes Chains 74, deepest 3 rungs currentColor yes color base, black, contrast, role-link, white spacing 40, 50, 60 font-size large, medium, x-large Continue exploring ## Next in Single articles Explore all 13 Single articles patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/single-articles/) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Single articles Single articles Cover Standard ### Article cover chapter A full-bleed article cover with an oversized chapter number beside the title, standfirst and author, date and reading-time facts. 6 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/article-cover-chapter.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Single articles Single articles Standard ### Guide: contents beside A full five-chapter reference article with descriptive contents links and a short note in the left rail. 10 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/article-guide-sidebar.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Single articles Single articles Standard ### How-to article: sequence A complete five-step photography tutorial with an introduction, preparation checklist, illustrated instructions, a comparison note and a final review. 6 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/article-howto-sequence.html)