Hero wall split

Copy on one side, the wall on the other. The left column is a label, a display headline, a paragraph and two buttons, all ordinary core blocks. The right column is patternpaste/iso-wall with nothing in its introduction: a contained isometric panel of forty-two picture tiles, 620px tall and exactly as wide as the column it sits in, drifting on its own clock while the copy holds still. The first composite in the catalogue whose wall is not full-bleed.

Every other wall in the catalogue takes the whole width and puts the words on top of it or above it. This one puts the wall in a column, at the column's width, with hard edges, the way a product shot sits beside a headline on a landing page. The reader's eye has one still thing to read and one live thing to watch, side by side, and neither is under the other. On a phone the columns stack and the panel becomes a band under the copy, which is the field the catalogue already ships, so the composition degrades into a known one.

It has to work standing still, and it does. With no script the plane still carries its angles from the stylesheet, so the panel is a still isometric field of the same forty-two tiles at the same 620px. With the plugin gone entirely the copy is followed by the forty-two tiles as a plain stack of images and headings, in the order they were typed.

• The wall is contained. The block carries no align, because a child of a core/column cannot be full-bleed and a stated "align":"full" there would be a class that does nothing. The block sizes itself from its own box: the card is a container-query clamp and the lane maths reads the frame's width, so a 58% column is simply a narrower frame. Nothing about the block knows it is in a column.
• The introduction slot is empty. The masthead is not in the block. It is the other column, so the block's <header> is never rendered and the panel starts at its own top edge. The field and the clients wall both put the copy in the intro, above the frame, spanning the band.
• Hard edges, on purpose, and a hairline round them. The block has no border support, so it sits inside a core/group carrying a 1px border on the role-rule chain, which is the same hairline every plate in the catalogue draws and falls through to contrast on a theme without the role. patternpasteFade is left off. A fade says the wall goes on past the section; a panel says the wall is this big and sits here. In a column the top and bottom edges are the panel's own outline, and blurring them would make it look like a mistake in the column's ground.
• No hand-off row. A full-bleed band needs something under it to show where the section ends. A panel inside a column ends where the column does.
• Swapping the sides is not a variation. Select the copy column and use the move arrow in its toolbar; the wall column moves the other way. That is one click, so a second payload for it would be a copy of this one.

1. The photographs. Every tile includes an image block with an example photograph with a 16:9 crop set; click each and choose from your media library. The block's own toolbar has "Fill tiles from media library", which deals a multiple selection into the tiles in order and saves forty-two trips through the modal.
2. The words. One word a tile, because a tile is read at an angle and a phrase ladders. Add tiles by duplicating a tile group and remove them by deleting one; the lanes follow. Work in sevens, so no lane is a tile short.
3. Which side the wall is on. Select the copy column and press the move arrow in its toolbar. The columns swap and nothing else changes.
4. The panel's height. patternpasteHeight in the block's inspector, 620 here. It is the frame at every width, and because the columns are centred on each other it is also what decides how tall the section is.
5. The copy. Label, headline, paragraph, two buttons. The headline holds three lines at 1400 with five or six words; the paragraph is two sentences and wraps to about four lines in the column.
6. Motion. The block's inspector has the switch, "Animate this block", the pin toggle, and the tilt, spin, speed, drift, raise and lift dials. Leave the pin off: a pinned wall inside a column would hold the screen while the copy beside it stood still. Off, the section is the still panel with nothing missing.
7. The heading levels. The headline is an h1 and every tile's title is an h3, because a wall of tiles is not a wall of sections. Where this lands on your page is yours to check: if the page already has an h1, or the section sits under an h2, change the headline's level in the block toolbar so the outline reads in order.

• Typeface. Nothing states a family. The label, the headline, the paragraph, the tile words and both buttons take whatever your theme sets.
• Palette. The band is your base with your contrast as its text, the one pair every block theme is obliged to keep legible. The label leads on role-label, which only our theme tool defines, and falls through to contrast everywhere else. The buttons are your theme's button, including the outline style, which is a core block style every theme draws.
• The wall's surfaces. The block states no colour of its own: every tile face, hairline and shadow is currentColor mixed down, so the panel follows your text colour, including in a dark style. The frame's ground is the band's.
• Spacing. Band padding, the gap between the columns, the rhythm inside the copy and inside each tile all use core spacing presets. The band's horizontal gutter is the same clamp(1.25rem, 4vw, 4rem) the block uses for its own.

• The columns are 42 and 58. The copy wants a measure of about thirty words a line at 1400, and the wall wants every pixel it can get, because the resting magnification binds on the frame's width. Wider copy makes the panel a crop; narrower copy wraps the headline into four lines.
• The headline is display, sized for a column. clamp(2.5rem, 4.6vw, 4.5rem), a step under the field's, because it has to hold three lines inside 42% rather than one line across the band.
• The panel is 620px. Taller than the field's 520 because it stands beside a stack of copy rather than under one line, and the two columns are centred on each other, so the panel's height is what sets the section's. Stated, because a solved band would resize as the theme's widths did and the copy column would drift off centre with it.
• The depth, and why it is forty-two. Seven lanes of six, no lane short. The frame here is narrower than the field's, so the same count reads as a rack; at twenty-eight it was a crop of five tiles, and still a crop of six at tilt 34 in a 560px panel, because the frame is nearly square and the lane has to run its diagonal, the band undone through the tilt as well as the width. Below six deep the still render zooms into a crop of three tiles, and because the height is stated the zoom is the only thing that can give.
• The motion. Idle drift at 40, above the block's own 26, because a field has no scrub to fall back on and a panel that is not moving beside still copy is a photograph. The angles are the block's own.

This pattern embeds patternpaste/iso-wall, a dynamic block registered by the companion plugin, which comes with your access. Install it before pasting, or the block shows the missing-block placeholder in the editor. On a live page with the plugin deactivated the front end still shows the label, the headline, the paragraph, both buttons and all forty-two tiles as a plain stack of core blocks in the same two columns; only the frame, its isometric styling and its drift go. Nothing you typed lives in the block itself. A visitor who has asked for reduced motion gets the still panel, with every tile in it, at the same 620px.

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 for the sources and licenses. Pasting an image URL does not import a Media Library attachment.