Posts cover front page, Pattern Paste Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/posts-cover-front-page.html Library (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/) Blog (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/posts/) Catalogue access Standard # Posts cover front page A newspaper front page set on one photograph: a heavy veil of your theme's contrast colour over the picture, a masthead ruled across the top, the lead story low in the left two thirds with a kicker, a display headline that links to the post, a standfirst and a byline, and a ruled right column headed "Also in this issue" listing three more stories between hairlines. The column drops under the lead on a phone. Hand-written entries in core blocks, not a query loop. 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. The signature moment ## The front page is one photograph A posts section usually gives every story its own thumbnail and lets the grid do the work. Here there is one picture and it is the whole page: the lead story, the masthead and the three stories under "Also in this issue" are all set on the same veiled photograph. The lead is display type, low and wide; the column is small, dense and fenced by hairlines. The collision of one headline against three quiet entries, on one ground, is the composition, and it holds in greyscale. Theme handoff ## What comes from where ### Theme and pattern Inherits: every colour (veil contrast, type, links and rules base), the typeface, the spacing scale. Decides: the veil's opacity, the type ramp, the headline measure, the cover's minimum height. The headline is h1: this is a page opener. 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 A full-bleed core/cover set like the front of a newspaper: a heavy veil of your theme's contrast colour over one photograph, a masthead ruled across the top, the lead story in the lower left two thirds and a ruled column of three further stories on the right. Hand-written entries in core blocks, not a query loop, so it works on a static front page and every word is yours to edit. ### The signature moment: the front page is one photograph A posts section usually gives every story its own thumbnail and lets the grid do the work. Here there is one picture and it is the whole page: the lead story, the masthead and the three stories under "Also in this issue" are all set on the same veiled photograph. The lead is display type, low and wide; the column is small, dense and fenced by hairlines. The collision of one headline against three quiet entries, on one ground, is the composition, and it holds in greyscale. Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first ### Variations - Stories on the floor: the lead headline runs wide across the cover and the three further stories become a ruled row of three core/columns along its floor, each entry ruled above and below, stacked into a ruled list below 782px. Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast ### What it inherits, what it decides Inherits: every colour (veil contrast, type, links and rules base), the typeface, the spacing scale. Decides: the veil's opacity, the type ramp, the headline measure, the cover's minimum height. The headline is h1: this is a page opener. Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints ### Type on the photograph Type sits on the image only because the veil makes the ground a known quantity: contrast at dimRatio 80 under base type. The standfirst and entries are body size, so they need the full 4.5:1, which the checker measures by compositing the veil over a white and a black photograph. Lower the veil below 80 and that stops being true. ### Type and hierarchy - The lead headline is display: a bare clamp(2.75rem, 7.4vw, 10.5rem), off the theme's ladder, because its size is the composition. It is held to a measure of clamp(18rem, 56vw, 68rem) so it breaks into a block. - The column's three titles are h3 on the x-large rung, so the column is a second mass beside the headline; in the floor row they drop to large. The standfirst is body copy on medium; the masthead, kickers, byline and dates are labels with their own clamp() floored at 15px. - Only the lead headline is a link. Its wrapper states the link colour as the base chain, so a theme's accent link colour never lands on the veil, and textDecoration: none: it reads as a link by position, and an underline at display size is heavy. The three story titles are plain text, as in the catalogue's other post patterns; a one-line title link is under the 44px tap target. - Hierarchy comes from size and the rules alone: nothing is set in capitals. ### Layout - The inner stack is a vertical flex group with space-between and a minimum height of clamp(36rem, 52vw, 60rem) (never vh): masthead at the top, the story row at the foot. - The story row is core/columns, 62% and 38%, each column aligned to the bottom. Below 782px it stacks and the column drops under the lead. - The cover keeps its default layout; inner groups state zero side padding. - Rules are currentColor, so they are always the colour of the type. ### What a buyer changes first The photograph: choose Replace on the cover. Then the lead story and its link, and the three entries. Add or remove an entry by duplicating or deleting its group; the last one carries the closing rule. ### The hand-off row A short row on your theme's paper under the cover, a label and one paragraph at a 34rem measure, so the cover reads as a section and shows where it ends. ### Included images The copied markup includes a WordPress Photo Directory example photograph. The public image URL keeps the example visible after pasting. Select the cover and choose Replace to use your own Media Library file. See image credits (https://patternpaste.com/image-credits/) for the source and license. Pasting an image URL does not import a Media Library attachment. 15KB of core-block markup, 6 blocks (column, columns, cover, group, heading, paragraph), 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. #### Pair with 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)Header Nav bar A header bar on one line: a heavy, tightly tracked wordmark at the left edge against tiny widely tracked links at the right, one solid action beside them, and a hairline under the whole bar. The links are your WordPress menu, a core navigation block that folds to a menu button on a phone so the bar stays one line. Compact by construction, so it reads as the top of a page and never as a hero. States no colour and no font of its own. (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/nav-bar.html)Footer Footer cover colophon A footer that ends the page on a photograph: a full-bleed cover under a heavy veil of your theme's contrast colour, a display-size sign-off high on it with an outlined contact button and one line of copy, four short link columns lower down, and along the very floor a hairline and the small print. The columns wrap two across on a phone. Includes a replaceable example photograph. States no colour and no font of its own. (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/footer-cover-colophon.html) #### Before you 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, cover, group, heading, paragraph Core only yes Chains 45, deepest 3 rungs currentColor yes color base, black, contrast, role-label, white spacing 10, 20, 30, 40, 60, 70 font-size medium, x-large Continue exploring ## Next in Blog Explore all 7 Blog patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/posts/)Also in Cover (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/cover/) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Blog Blog Standard ### Post query list A live Query Loop as a dated index: each post is a ruled row where its date hangs outside the measure in its own left column, with the title and an excerpt set against it. 12 blocks · 1 variation Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/post-query-list.html) Night rows (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/post-query-list.html#variant=night-rows) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Blog Blog Standard ### Post featured lead Two Query Loops read as one section: the newest post opens at display size with its featured image, its byline and an excerpt, and the three behind it sit in a rail beside it as ruled date-and-title lines with no picture at all. 12 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/post-featured-lead.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Blog Blog Standard ### Post grid A run of writing as three openings across: each is a 3:2 image frame inset in its own mat, a hairline drawn beneath it that runs wider than the picture, and under the rule a tracked kicker, a title set tight and a date. 4 blocks · 1 variation Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/post-grid.html) Night openings (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/post-grid.html#variant=night-openings)