Gallery marquee mounts, Pattern Paste Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/gallery-marquee-mounts.html Interactive (https://patternpaste.com/interactive/) Marquee (https://patternpaste.com/interactive/marquee/) Catalogue access Needs plugin (https://patternpaste.com/docs/install-pattern-paste/) # Gallery marquee mounts Twelve pictures hung in drawn frames, running two rows deep past the section with the pointer driving them. Every frame is core block markup and nothing else: a group border in your own ink around a mount painted in your base colour, alternating a heavy solid frame with a lighter double rule, and a title and a date under each one inside the mount. The block's own plate is switched off, so what you see framing each picture is the pattern rather than the block. Includes replaceable example images. Needs the companion plugin, which comes with your access; without it, or without motion, the masthead is followed by the twelve framed pictures as a plain stack. States no colour and no font of its own. Start here ## What you change first - The pictures. Select the block and use "Fill items from media library": pick twelve at once and they are dealt into the frames in order. - The frame. Select any item group and change its border in the block settings: width, style, radius. - The mount. The item's padding is the mount's depth. - The titles and dates. An h3 and a paragraph inside each mount. - Item width and height if your pictures are landscape rather than portrait. The signature moment ## The frames are the markup Every other pattern that needs a frame ships a picture of one. These are drawn: a group border in your own ink around a mount painted in your base colour, with the title and the date sitting inside the mount under the picture. The block's own plate is switched off, so what you see framing each picture is the pattern, not the block. Change the border width and you have changed the frame. Theme handoff ## What comes from where ### From your theme Everything, including the frames. The border is currentColor, so it is whatever your theme sets as text on this section; the mount is your base and the section is your base too, so the mount reads as the frame's inside rather than a second colour. The titles are your face, the dates take role-label and fall back to contrast. Nothing here states a colour or a family, which is why the frames survive a theme swap: they are a shape and a weight, not a palette. ### Set by this pattern Each slot is 260 by 340, stated, so the row is level and every picture is cropped to the same portrait shape whatever was uploaded. The gap is 36px, wider than the other marquees, because framed pictures need air between them or the frames read as one long rule. Two rows, running opposite ways, at 0.6 of the block's own speed: slower than the plated band, because a hung picture is meant to be looked at. The band is exactly its two rows plus the gap. There is no separate band height to set: the row height is the one number. 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 Twelve pictures hung in drawn frames, running two rows deep past the section with the pointer driving them. ### The signature moment: the frames are the markup Every other pattern that needs a frame ships a picture of one. These are drawn: a group border in your own ink around a mount painted in your base colour, with the title and the date sitting inside the mount under the picture. The block's own plate is switched off, so what you see framing each picture is the pattern, not the block. Change the border width and you have changed the frame. Two treatments alternate along the run: a heavy 12px solid frame and a lighter 5px double rule with a deeper mount. Nothing states a colour to do it, so a gallery on a dark theme is the same hang in reverse. ### Why this is not gallery-marquee-frames That one is a plated band: the block draws a card behind each picture and the pictures are landscape, cropped to one shape so the row reads as a run. This one turns the plate off and lets the markup dress each picture instead, in portrait, with a caption and a date inside the mount. The first is a moving strip of images; this is a wall being carried past you. If you want the same look standing still, it is a grid; the point of putting it on a marquee is that a hang is longer than a screen. Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first ### What you change first - The pictures. Select the block and use "Fill items from media library": pick twelve at once and they are dealt into the frames in order. A title you have already written is never overwritten. - The frame. Select any item group and change its border in the block settings: width, style, radius. double and solid are two of eight styles core offers, and the pattern uses them to alternate; set them all the same for a uniform hang. - The mount. The item's padding is the mount's depth. 18px and 22px here; more makes a museum, less makes a snapshot. - The titles and dates. An h3 and a paragraph inside each mount. If an h3 in a gallery upsets your page's heading order, change the level. - Item width and height if your pictures are landscape rather than portrait. The band follows the row height, so that is one number. Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast ### What it inherits from your theme Everything, including the frames. The border is currentColor, so it is whatever your theme sets as text on this section; the mount is your base and the section is your base too, so the mount reads as the frame's inside rather than a second colour. The titles are your face, the dates take role-label and fall back to contrast. Nothing here states a colour or a family, which is why the frames survive a theme swap: they are a shape and a weight, not a palette. ### What it decides for itself Each slot is 260 by 340, stated, so the row is level and every picture is cropped to the same portrait shape whatever was uploaded. The gap is 36px, wider than the other marquees, because framed pictures need air between them or the frames read as one long rule. Two rows, running opposite ways, at 0.6 of the block's own speed: slower than the plated band, because a hung picture is meant to be looked at. The band is exactly its two rows plus the gap. There is no separate band height to set: the row height is the one number. Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints ### What needs the plugin The running, the pointer control and the press-to-hold. The frames need nothing: they are core block borders and they are there with the plugin inactive, with motion switched off, and for a reader who asks for reduced motion. In that state the masthead is followed by the twelve framed pictures as a plain stack, still framed, still captioned. ### 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. 26KB of core-block markup, 5 blocks (group, heading, image, paragraph, patternpaste/marquee), 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. 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The terms name every country. #### Use it for - Exhibition and collection hangs - Artist and illustrator portfolios - Print shops and edition listings - Museum and archive openers - Photography series with titles #### 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 Install the Pattern Paste plugin first, then paste. This section embeds one of its blocks: the plugin comes with your access, downloads from your account, and takes a minute. Paste without it and the section arrives as a plain stack of your headings, text and images, with none of the motion. How to install it (https://patternpaste.com/docs/install-pattern-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 group, heading, image, paragraph, patternpaste/marquee Core only NO Chains 82, deepest 3 rungs currentColor yes color base, black, contrast, role-label, white spacing 50, 80 Continue exploring ## Next in Interactive Explore all 36 interactive patterns (https://patternpaste.com/interactive/)Also in Gallery (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/gallery/) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Gallery Gallery Needs plugin ### Gallery marquee frames Two rows of framed pictures running opposite ways past a band of two 300px rows, with the pointer driving them: the left of the frame runs them backwards, the middle holds them still so a picture can be read, and the right hurries them along. 5 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/gallery-marquee-frames.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Gallery Gallery Needs plugin ### Gallery marquee photos A wall of photographs in motion: a short heading row, then three full-bleed rows of pictures 240px high running in alternate directions with 8px between them and nothing else in the rows, no captions, no cards and no plates. 5 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/gallery-marquee-photos.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Hero Hero Needs plugin ### Hero marquee ribbon A page-opening hero: a label, a display headline across the width, a paragraph and two buttons as ordinary core blocks, standing still above one full-bleed ribbon of twelve tall portrait pictures, 440px high, that runs edge to edge beneath them with no plate or caption between the pictures. 7 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/hero-marquee-ribbon.html)