Cross currents, Pattern Paste Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/gallery-cross-currents.html Core Patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/) Gallery (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/gallery/) Catalogue access Standard # Cross currents Two offset rows compare four distinct photographs beneath a three-part editorial introduction. States no colour and no font of its own. ## All patterns Search patterns Loading patterns… The signature moment ## Two offset photographic currents The composition survives without motion or an authored palette. The base takes the host theme's ground, ink and typeface. The Styled variation carries the Designed kind's palette and heading face. All photographs are native image blocks, so buyers can replace them. The moving gallery becomes a still composition, with every photograph visible. 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 Two offset rows compare four distinct photographs beneath a three-part editorial introduction. ### The signature moment: two offset photographic currents The composition survives without motion or an authored palette. The base takes the host theme's ground, ink and typeface. The Styled variation carries the Designed kind's palette and heading face. All photographs are native image blocks, so buyers can replace them. The moving gallery becomes a still composition, with every photograph visible. Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints ### At narrow widths Core columns stack into a readable sequence. Captions stay beside their own photographs, and no image or label depends on animation. ### Included images - https://pd.w.org/2026/07/7116a6528e441a032.66277945-1536x1152.jpg - https://pd.w.org/2022/08/54462fd3d5b483bf5.04025184-1536x1024.jpg - https://pd.w.org/2026/08/3156a90fd6b4fd602.65145321-1246x1536.jpeg - https://pd.w.org/2026/09/3356a9fa86b7e6fb9.62588164-1536x1152.jpeg These are reviewed public URLs in the image registry. Pasting an image URL does not import it into the Media Library. Questions ## Cross currents: common questions Does Cross currents need a plugin? No. It is built only from core WordPress blocks (column, columns, group, heading, image and paragraph), so it pastes into the block editor with nothing to install. Will Cross currents match my theme? Choose by variation. Cross currents takes your theme’s palette; Indigo And Seaglass brings its own colours. How many variations does Cross currents have? 2: Cross currents and Indigo And Seaglass. 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 Cross currents free? It is included with a subscription, with every Core Pattern and variation. 50 Core Patterns are free to copy without one. 8.4KB of core-block markup, 6 blocks (column, columns, group, heading, image, paragraph), and nothing else: paste it into the block editor and it becomes editable blocks wearing your theme. Subscribe to copy it, £119 a year (https://patternpaste.com/account/#plan) What you copy is yours forever. Cancel whenever. Back to Core Patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/) Catalogue access ### £119 a year All patterns, variations and theme downloads. What you copy is yours forever. Cancel whenever. Subscribe, £119 a year (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. #### 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)Editorial 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. (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/article-footer.html)Contact Contact cover ledger A full-bleed contact cover: a display heading in the top left, and a ruled ledger of address, hours, phone and email in the far lower-right corner, label left and value right between hairline rules, with the photograph running between them. A heavy veil of your theme's contrast colour keeps every line legible whatever photograph you choose. The ledger drops under the heading on a phone. Includes a replaceable example photograph. States no colour and no font of its own. Ships with a short hand-off row on your theme's paper below it. (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/contact-cover-ledger.html) #### Before you paste 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. 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 Gallery Access Subscription Plugin None, core blocks only Variations 2 Colour From your theme or its own palette Type From your theme or its own type Motion None Blocks column, columns, group, heading, image, paragraph Presets color 4, spacing 5, font-size 1 WordPress 7.0+ Continue exploring ## Next in Gallery Explore all 25 Gallery patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/gallery/) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Gallery No plugin needed ### Colour parade Five numbered colour studies pair square photographs with oversized numerals and short captions. Gallery Preview pattern (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/gallery-colour-parade.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Gallery No plugin needed ### Gallery ledger A gallery set as an index rather than a grid: four ruled rows, each with a small numeral in the left margin, one panoramic 21:9 frame in the middle and a title with a tracked meta line on the right. Gallery Preview pattern (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/gallery-ledger.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Gallery No plugin needed ### The long way round Five travel photographs make a still filmstrip with alternating landscape and portrait frames, each with its own caption. Gallery Preview pattern (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/gallery-long-way-round.html)