Portfolio slider editorial, Pattern Paste Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/portfolio-slider-editorial.html Interactive (https://patternpaste.com/interactive/) Content Slider (https://patternpaste.com/interactive/content-slider/) Catalogue access Needs plugin (https://patternpaste.com/docs/install-pattern-paste/) # Portfolio slider editorial An editorial portfolio section with four broad image-led project cards and compact caption and project metadata beneath each image. Needs the companion plugin, which comes with your access; without it the masthead is followed by the four projects as a plain stack, and without motion they remain a horizontally scrollable native row. States no colour and no font of its own. Start here ## What you change first - Replace all four images and their alt text from the Media Library. - Change the project titles, discipline, client and year in each named Slide group. - Preserve the short caption shape; long case-study summaries belong on the linked project page. - Change the h2 level to fit its page. AI tools can safely reorder or rewrite Slides because the block uses ordinary WordPress groups, images, columns and text. The signature moment ## An oversized project image leads a horizontal sequence of compact editorial captions Each project is encountered as an image first, then resolved by a deliberately smaller title and two-line metadata note. Alternating image crops create a broad/narrow editorial rhythm without changing the track itself. Theme handoff ## What comes from where ### From your theme Typeface and palette. The section uses the guaranteed base and contrast chains, and every heading remains on the theme's size ladder. ### Set by this pattern Four projects at 72% width with a generous gap. The alternating 16:9, 4:3, 3:2 and 16:9 crops make the images change pace while the captions retain one 65/35 structure. 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 ### The signature moment: An oversized project image leads a horizontal sequence of compact editorial captions Each project is encountered as an image first, then resolved by a deliberately smaller title and two-line metadata note. Alternating image crops create a broad/narrow editorial rhythm without changing the track itself. ### Why this is not testimonial slider proof or feature slider walkthrough The testimonial pattern makes words and a metric collide inside equal cards; the walkthrough is one linear explanation where every stage splits image and copy and the numbers set the order. This sequence is image-led, gives each project a different crop, and keeps the caption quiet enough to behave like a magazine folio. Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first ### What you change first - Replace all four images and their alt text from the Media Library. - Change the project titles, discipline, client and year in each named Slide group. - Preserve the short caption shape; long case-study summaries belong on the linked project page. - Change the h2 level to fit its page. AI tools can safely reorder or rewrite Slides because the block uses ordinary WordPress groups, images, columns and text. Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast ### What it inherits from your theme Typeface and palette. The section uses the guaranteed base and contrast chains, and every heading remains on the theme's size ladder. ### What it decides for itself Four projects at 72% width with a generous gap. The alternating 16:9, 4:3, 3:2 and 16:9 crops make the images change pace while the captions retain one 65/35 structure. Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints ### What needs the plugin The plugin adds the horizontal row, arrows, counter and keyboard navigation. Without the plugin, the four native Groups form a plain stack; with reduced motion, they remain in the touch-friendly horizontal row without smooth transitions. There is no autoplay and no content is hidden. ### What is not proved The projects and client names are illustrative. 6.9KB of core-block markup, 7 blocks (column, columns, group, heading, image, paragraph, patternpaste/content-slider), 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 - Studio portfolios - Selected-work sections - Image-led case study indexes #### 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 column, columns, group, heading, image, paragraph, patternpaste/content-slider Core only NO Chains 8, deepest 3 rungs currentColor no color base, black, contrast, role-label, white spacing 30, 80 font-size large, x-large Continue exploring ## Next in Interactive Explore all 36 interactive patterns (https://patternpaste.com/interactive/)Also in Gallery (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/gallery/)Also in Editorial (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/editorial/) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Hero Hero Needs plugin ### Hero slider cover A full-width hero slideshow with three bright edge-to-edge photographs and compact opaque panels, each carrying a headline, concise introduction and action. 7 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/hero-slider-cover.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Testimonials Testimonials Needs plugin ### Testimonial slider proof A testimonial section with three generous quote-and-metric cards, one main card and the next card held visibly at the edge. 5 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/testimonial-slider-proof.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Hero Hero Logos Needs plugin ### Hero wall clients A proof-led hero featuring twenty-eight partner brand icon marks on a gently inclined, continuous drifting plane. 10 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/hero-wall-clients.html)