Gallery marquee photos, Pattern Paste Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/gallery-marquee-photos.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 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. Landscape pictures alternate with pairs of portraits in the same slot, so the wall reads as mixed crops rather than one repeated shape, and the band's edges are cut clean rather than faded. The pointer drives it: the left of the wall runs it back, the middle holds it still, the right hurries it along, and a tap or a focus holds a row. A thin row of two small lines underneath ends the section. Includes replaceable example images. Needs the companion plugin, which comes with your access; without it, or without motion, the heading is followed by the twenty photographs as a plain stack. States no colour and no font of its own. Start here ## What you change first - The pictures. Select an image and choose Replace. - The heading and the line beside it. The line says out loud what the pointer does, because a control nobody knows about is a control nobody uses. - The two small lines under the wall. - Item height. The pairs are sized for 240px rows: if you change the height, set each portrait to half of 1.6 times the new height, less 4px. - The heading level. The heading is an h2 for a section inside a page. The signature moment ## A wall of photographs in motion Nothing sits between the pictures: no caption, no card, no plate, only an 8px seam of your section's ground. Three rows run in alternate directions, and each row mixes single landscapes with pairs of portraits in the same slot, so the band reads as a wall of mixed crops rather than one shape repeated. The edges are a hard cut, not a fade: pictures slide in and out at the frame's edge like prints under a guillotine. Theme handoff ## What comes from where ### From your theme The ground behind the wall and in every seam is your section's base; the heading and the orientation line are contrast on it, text at 4.5:1 and the heading on the x-large rung. The two small lines under the wall reach for role-label and fall back to contrast. The faces are your theme's. Nothing states a colour or a family, and no text ever sits on a photograph. ### Set by this pattern - Row height 240px, gap 8px - One slot, two shapes. - Fifteen items, five to a row - Speed 0.5. - Fade off. 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 Three full-bleed rows of photographs running opposite ways under a short heading, with nothing in the rows but the pictures. ### The signature moment: a wall of photographs in motion Nothing sits between the pictures: no caption, no card, no plate, only an 8px seam of your section's ground. Three rows run in alternate directions, and each row mixes single landscapes with pairs of portraits in the same slot, so the band reads as a wall of mixed crops rather than one shape repeated. The edges are a hard cut, not a fade: pictures slide in and out at the frame's edge like prints under a guillotine. ### Why this is not gallery-marquee-frames or hero-marquee-ribbon gallery-marquee-frames is two rows of plated landscape cards with dissolved edges and a caption under each picture: a run of labelled things. This one has no plate, no caption and no fade, three rows and an 8px gap, so it is one surface of photography rather than a row of objects. hero-marquee-ribbon is one row of tall portraits under a page-opening headline; the pictures are a ground for the pitch. Here the pictures are the section, the heading is one short row, and three counter-running rows at a lower height make a wall instead of a ribbon. Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first ### What you change first - The pictures. Select an image and choose Replace. "Fill items from media library" in the block's toolbar deals one picture per item, so it fills the landscapes and the first picture of each pair; replace the second portrait of a pair by hand. Write alt text for your own; the example text describes the examples. - The heading and the line beside it. The line says out loud what the pointer does, because a control nobody knows about is a control nobody uses. If you take that sentence out, turn Scrub off in the inspector too. - The two small lines under the wall. The hold hint stays true whatever you change; every row can always be stopped. - Item height. The pairs are sized for 240px rows: if you change the height, set each portrait to half of 1.6 times the new height, less 4px. Speed if 0.5 is too slow for yours. - The heading level. The heading is an h2 for a section inside a page. If this opens the page and your theme prints no title, make it an h1. Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast ### What it inherits from your theme The ground behind the wall and in every seam is your section's base; the heading and the orientation line are contrast on it, text at 4.5:1 and the heading on the x-large rung. The two small lines under the wall reach for role-label and fall back to contrast. The faces are your theme's. Nothing states a colour or a family, and no text ever sits on a photograph. ### What it decides for itself - Row height 240px, gap 8px, stated, so the band is exactly three rows and two seams, 736px, at every width. - One slot, two shapes. The block gives every picture item the same landscape slot, 1.6 times the row height (384px). A single landscape fills it at 16:10; a pair of portraits fills it as two 188 by 240 pictures with the same 8px seam between them. That is how the rows mix crops without the block learning a second width. - Fifteen items, five to a row: ten landscapes and five pairs, dealt so every row carries at least one pair and no two pairs meet. The block copies each run until it outruns the frame, so there is never bare ground. - Speed 0.5. Three rows moving at once is a lot of picture; slower than the other galleries so each one can be recognised before it leaves. - Fade off. The edges are cut, so the full-bleed wall ends where the page ends. Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints ### What needs the plugin The running, the pointer control and the press-to-hold. Everything else is core blocks: with the plugin inactive, or with motion switched off in the block's inspector, the heading is followed by the twenty photographs as a plain stack. A reader who asks their system for reduced motion always gets the still wall. ### Included images The copied markup includes WordPress Photo Directory example photographs. The public image URLs keep the examples visible after pasting. Select an image 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. 15KB 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. 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 - Photographers and studio portfolios - Travel, venue and destination pages - Hotel and restaurant mood galleries - Event recaps told in pictures - Brand pages that lead with photography #### 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 12, deepest 3 rungs currentColor no color base, black, contrast, role-label, white spacing 30, 40, 50, 70 font-size medium, x-large 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 mounts Twelve pictures hung in drawn frames, running two rows deep past the section with the pointer driving them. 5 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/gallery-marquee-mounts.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) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Logos Logos Needs plugin ### Logo marquee strip A masthead over one quiet row of fourteen client marks: a label, a line of heading and one line of orientation, then a 120px band running across the section under them. 5 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/logo-marquee-strip.html)