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What to change first
- The problems and the instructions. Keep each instruction short enough to follow with wet hands.
- The two phone numbers in the legend (07700 900 247 and 0115 496 0247 are reserved example numbers).
- The gas row. 0800 111 999 is the real National Gas Emergency number for Great Britain; keep it, or put your own country's gas line in.
The signature moment
Every problem ends in a verdict: ring now, book it, or do this first
Seven ruled rows sorted by urgency, each three columns: the problem as a card title, what to do now in one or two plain instructions, and a verdict tag at the right. A legend in the header names the three verdicts in words, so the tag never carries its meaning by colour or shape alone. On a phone each row stacks: problem, instruction, verdict.
Theme handoff
What comes from where
From your theme
- Typeface.
- Palette.
- The verdicts.
Set by this pattern
- Sizes.
- The rows.
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
An emergency page for a plumber, an electrician or a heating engineer: the reader has water through the ceiling or a scorched socket and wants to know, in one scan, whether to ring now. It sits in the FAQ section beside faq-index (numbered questions with open answers) and conditions-head-to-foot (a clinic's index by body part), and closes on the call like a CTA.
The signature moment: every problem ends in a verdict: ring now, book it, or do this first
Seven ruled rows sorted by urgency, each three columns: the problem as a card title, what to do now in one or two plain instructions, and a verdict tag at the right. A legend in the header names the three verdicts in words, so the tag never carries its meaning by colour or shape alone. On a phone each row stacks: problem, instruction, verdict.
Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first
What to change first
- The problems and the instructions. Keep each instruction short enough to follow with wet hands.
- The two phone numbers in the legend (07700 900 247 and 0115 496 0247 are reserved example numbers).
- The gas row. 0800 111 999 is the real National Gas Emergency number for Great Britain; keep it, or put your own country's gas line in.
Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast
What it inherits from your theme
- Typeface. The base states no font family.
- Palette. Your page ground and text. Labels take the label role and rules the rule role, both falling to your
contrastcolour. - The verdicts. Ring now is a filled tag in your
contrastwithbasetext; Ring them, then us a 2px solid outline; Book it a 2px dashed outline.
What it decides for itself
- Sizes. The heading is on your
x-largerung and each problem onlarge; the instructions takemedium. - The rows.
core/columnsat 30, 44 and 26 percent, stacking below 782px as WordPress's columns do.
Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints
The Spur look
Part of the Spur Pattern Set, an electrician and plumber in Beeston, Nottingham: switch white ground #f2f3ef, a fuse grey band #e2e7ec, card white #ffffff and a cable black slab #14181c; cable black ink, slate #4a535b for secondary copy, live blue #1747c9 labels and primary buttons, conduit hairlines #c5ccd2, and signal yellow #ffd21a kept for emergencies as a fill under cable black text. Headings and figures are Arial Black at 900; body, labels and buttons Arial. Cards and buttons have 4px corners, tags 2px. Here the rows sit on the fuse grey band: Ring now is a signal yellow tag edged in cable black, Ring them, then us a cable black tag with white text, Book it a dashed live blue outline. Every text pair is measured on the ground it is painted on. Take the base for your theme's colours, or the look's Use my theme chip.
Notes
- Core blocks only: group, heading, paragraph, columns, column. No plugin, nothing to keep updated.
Questions
Emergency triage list: common questions
Does Emergency triage list need a plugin?
No. It is built only from core WordPress blocks (column, columns, group, heading and paragraph), so it pastes into the block editor with nothing to install.
Will Emergency triage list match my theme?
Choose by variation. Triage rows takes your theme’s palette; Spur brings its own colours.
How many variations does Emergency triage list have?
2: Triage rows and Spur. Each is its own markup; choose one in the toolbar above the preview before you copy.
Is Emergency triage list free?
It is included with a subscription, with every Core Pattern and variation. 62 Core Patterns are free to copy without one.
Which WordPress version does it need?
Requires a block theme on WordPress 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.
The markup
Core block markup and nothing else. Copy it, then paste it straight into the block editor: WordPress reads the delimiters and rebuilds the blocks.
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Variation: Spur
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