Editorial lap: WordPress Block Pattern, Pattern Paste Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/editorial-lap.html Core Patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/) Editorial (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/editorial/) Catalogue access Standard # Editorial lap A two-frame editorial spread where an inverted headline slab laps up over the first photograph and breaks out of its column. Includes replaceable example images. ## All patterns Search patterns Loading patterns… Start here ## What you change first - The two photographs. Select them in the editor; the crops are already set. - The headline. Keep it to six or seven words. - Issue 01. It is an eyebrow, so it wants to be short and specific: a date, a location, a series number. - The lap depth. margin-top on the slab, currently clamp(-4.5rem, -6vw, -2.25rem). The signature moment ## The slab laps the photograph and breaks its column The headline sits on a solid slab that overlaps the bottom of the first frame by a negative top margin, and pushes past the left edge of its own column into the section's padding. Two rules are broken deliberately and in one gesture: the type crosses the image boundary, and the panel escapes the grid. At phone width the slab runs past the screen's left margin entirely, so the device survives the stack rather than collapsing into a caption. Theme handoff ## What comes from where ### From your theme - Typeface. - Palette. - Spacing scale. - The hairline ### Set by this pattern - The lap. - The crops and the drop. - Proportion. 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 two-frame editorial spread: a wide photograph with an inverted headline slab lapping up over its lower edge, and a second, smaller frame dropped down the page beside it with a caption and a note. Core blocks only, so there is nothing to install and nothing to keep updated. ### The signature moment: the slab laps the photograph and breaks its column The headline sits on a solid slab that overlaps the bottom of the first frame by a negative top margin, and pushes past the left edge of its own column into the section's padding. Two rules are broken deliberately and in one gesture: the type crosses the image boundary, and the panel escapes the grid. At phone width the slab runs past the screen's left margin entirely, so the device survives the stack rather than collapsing into a caption. The type never touches the photograph. That is the constraint the design is built around, not a detail. A photograph's luminance is unknowable in the same way an accent slug's is: a buyer swaps in their own image and any headline set directly on it can land white-on-white with nothing to warn them. So the headline sits on a slab whose ground is your contrast and whose text is your base, a pairing every block theme is obliged to keep legible, and the photograph does the atmosphere while the slab does the reading. Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first ### The six variations Each is a complete, separately measured markup file. Pick one in the switcher and copy that; they are not settings on a single pattern. - Inverted slab. The slab is your contrast carrying your base. Highest contrast and the most graphic of the three: the headline reads as a mark laid on the photograph. - Paper slab. The same lap in reverse weight, a sheet of your base held by a hairline in currentColor. The hairline is doing real work: in a theme whose page ground equals base, it is the only thing that keeps the panel's edge visible where it hangs off the photograph. - Mirror masthead. Frames swapped, the lap breaking right instead of left, and the headline set in caps with open tracking at a smaller size. The same device reading as a magazine opening rather than a banner. - Display shout. The type axis: an eyebrow down at 11px with very open tracking against a headline up to 88px with tight negative tracking, and a deeper lap so the overlap still reads under a taller slab. Same colours. - Night section. The colour axis: the whole section inverts to your contrast and the slab stays a sheet of your base. Every block theme has both of those, which is why this is the colour change on offer and a tint is not: base-2 was measured resolving to plain white in both Twenty Twenty-Four and Twenty Twenty-Five, so a "tinted" variation changed nothing you could see. - Ink and sand. The odd one out, and labelled as such in the switcher: it states its own colours rather than inheriting yours, so it is ink on sand in every theme and matches none of them. Measured rgb(22,33,43) on rgb(231,220,199) in all four test themes, 48/48 contrast pairs, lowest 12.02. Take it if you want this palette exactly; take any of the others if you want your site's. Five of the six inherit identically; what changes between them is the composition, the weight and the voice. The sixth is a different promise. ### What you change first - The two photographs. Select them in the editor; the crops are already set. A wide, calm lead image works best, because the slab covers its lower third. - The headline. Keep it to six or seven words. Longer and the slab grows taller than the frame it laps, which reverses the relationship the pattern is built on. - Issue 01. It is an eyebrow, so it wants to be short and specific: a date, a location, a series number. - The lap depth. margin-top on the slab, currently clamp(-4.5rem, -6vw, -2.25rem). Less negative for a gentler overlap; do not make it positive, or the pattern becomes an image with a box under it. Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast ### What it inherits from your theme - Typeface. No font family is stated anywhere. The headline takes your display face, and it is tested in a serif theme and a sans one: Twenty Twenty-Four sets it in Cardo, Twenty Twenty-Five in Manrope. - Palette. The section ground is your base, the body text your contrast, and the slab inverts the pair. Each is a fallback chain ending on a colour WordPress itself guarantees, so the section paints in a theme with a full palette and still paints in a theme with none. - Spacing scale. Section padding, the gap between frames and the drop on the second column use core spacing presets, so they resize at your theme's rhythm. - The hairline above the caption is a core separator, so it takes your theme's own rule styling. ### What it decides for itself - The lap. The overlap and the leftward break are clamp()ed so they scale from a restrained inset on a phone to a deep overlap on a wide screen, rather than stepping at a breakpoint. They are the pattern, so they are not negotiable to the theme. - The crops and the drop. 3/2 against 1/1, and the second column pushed down the page, which is what makes the two frames read as a spread rather than a row. - Proportion. The scale collision between a tracked-out Issue 01 at 13px and a headline at up to 60px is the pattern's, because that ramp is the design. ### Display type Off the theme's ladder on purpose, because the size is the composition: - h2 at clamp(2.5rem, 6vw, 5.5rem) Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints ### Images: what ships and what does not The pattern includes two example photographs with the crop and layout already set. On paste the same images remain visible. Choose Replace on either image to select your own file while preserving the composition. The copied markup references public image URLs. See image credits (https://patternpaste.com/image-credits/) for sources and licenses. Replace these remote examples with your own Media Library files when you want to host the images yourself. The crops are the pattern's decision: 3/2 on the lead frame, 1/1 on the second, both object-fit: cover. Whatever proportions your photographs are, they are cropped to those, so the composition survives contributors uploading whatever they have. ### Included images The copied markup includes WordPress Photo Directory example photographs. The public image URLs keep the examples visible after pasting. Select an image or cover and choose Replace to use your own Media Library files. See image credits (https://patternpaste.com/image-credits/) for the sources and licenses. Pasting an image URL does not import a Media Library attachment. Questions ## Editorial lap: common questions Does Editorial lap need a plugin? No. It is built only from core WordPress blocks (column, columns, group, heading, image, paragraph and separator), so it pastes into the block editor with nothing to install. Will Editorial lap match my theme? Choose by variation. Inverted slab, Display shout, Mirror masthead, Night section and Paper slab take your theme’s palette; Ink and sand brings its own colours. How many variations does Editorial lap have? 6: Inverted slab, Display shout, Ink and sand, Mirror masthead, Night section and Paper slab. Each is its own markup; choose one in the toolbar above the preview before you copy. Can I use my own images? Yes. Sample images stay in the copied blocks. Replace them in WordPress; pasting does not upload them to your Media Library. Is Editorial lap free? It is included with a subscription, with every Core Pattern and variation. 62 Core Patterns are free to copy without one. 5.7KB of core-block markup, 7 blocks (column, columns, group, heading, image, paragraph, separator), and nothing else: paste it into the block editor and it becomes editable blocks wearing your theme. Subscribe to copy it, £49 a year (https://patternpaste.com/account/#plan) What you copy is yours forever. Not for you? We refund within 14 days. 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The terms name every country. #### Pair with Hero Hero aperture An opening section on your theme's own paper: a tracked line, a display headline, one short paragraph on a reading measure, and then a picture that stops short of the edge on every side. The signature is the margin: the image is a window cut in the page rather than a band across it, and the paper around it is what you notice. A small opaque plate in the picture's bottom-right corner carries the caption, so no type ever sits on the photograph. The still-image version includes an example photograph; select your own clip for the video version. States no colour and no font of its own. (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/hero-aperture.html)Blog Post featured lead Two Query Loops read as one section: the newest post opens at display size with its featured image, its byline and an excerpt, and the three behind it sit in a rail beside it as ruled date-and-title lines with no picture at all. It reads your own posts, so the lead changes the moment you publish; the preview on this page shows sample posts from our demo site, not yours. States no colour and no font of its own. (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/post-featured-lead.html)Call to action Callout response clock A call-out section where the day is drawn to scale: a label, heading and a call button over one framed bar of three segments whose widths are their hours, 8am to 6pm, 6pm to midnight and midnight to 8am. Each segment carries its hours, how long we take to arrive at display size and the call-out fee under a hairline, and one line under the bar gives the hourly rate after that. On a phone the bar stacks into three rows that still name their hours. States no colour and no font of its own. (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/callout-response-clock.html) #### Before you paste 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. 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/). ## Specifications Section Editorial Access Subscription Plugin None, core blocks only Variations 6 Colour From your theme or its own palette Type From your theme Motion None Blocks column, columns, group, heading, image, paragraph, separator Presets color 5, spacing 5, font-size 2 WordPress 7.0+ Continue exploring ## Next in Editorial Explore all 13 Editorial patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/editorial/)Also in Gallery (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/gallery/) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Editorial No plugin needed ### Editorial cover contents A screen-height cover like a magazine's: a heavy veil of your theme's contrast colour over the photograph, a display headline hung in the lower left and a numbered contents list in a narrow column at the top right, each entry a number, a title and one line between hairline rules. Editorial Preview pattern (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/editorial-cover-contents.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Editorial No plugin needed ### Figure break A reading column interrupted by one wide photograph: the prose holds a strict measure, the figure breaks out to twice that width, and its caption hangs from a small index at the figure's left edge before the column resumes. Editorial Preview pattern (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/figure-break.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Editorial No plugin needed ### Newsprint columns A magazine body: a running head on a rule, a wide headline, then the prose packed into two true text columns under it with numbered footnotes gathered on a rule at the foot. Editorial Preview pattern (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/newsprint-columns.html)