Social scatter, Pattern Paste Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/social-scatter.html Library (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/) Gallery (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/gallery/) Catalogue access Standard # Social scatter A copy column with a label, a large heading, a paragraph and one button beside four photographs in two columns, each column one tall frame and one short one, the second column dropped lower so the cluster reads pinned to a wall rather than laid on a grid. The frames take the larger share of the row. For a social feed, a studio diary or a follow call. Includes replaceable example photographs. States no colour and no font of its own. The signature moment ## The frames are pinned, not gridded Each column holds one tall frame and one short one, in opposite order (2:3 over 5:4, then 4:3 over 3:5), and the second column starts lower than the first, by a padding that grows from 4rem to 10rem with the screen. Nothing lines up across the pair, top or bottom, so the cluster reads as photographs pinned to a wall rather than a feed laid on a grid. The drop is spacing on a core group, not CSS, so it survives the editor and any theme. Theme handoff ## What comes from where ### Theme and pattern Inherits: every colour (ground base, text contrast, the button from your theme's button style), the typeface, the spacing scale. Decides: the 5:7 split, the frame shapes, the column drop, the gaps, the 32rem copy measure and the 1240px band. The heading is on the theme's ladder, one rung above an ordinary section h2 (xx-large): it has to hold its own beside a cluster of four photographs, and at x-large the frames swallowed it. Body copy is medium; the label states its own size with a 15px floor. All text is contrast on base, held to 4.5:1. 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 two-part section on your theme's paper: a copy column (label, heading, paragraph, one filled button) and a cluster of four photographs in two columns, the frames taking the larger share. For a social feed, a studio diary, or a call to follow. ### The signature moment: the frames are pinned, not gridded Each column holds one tall frame and one short one, in opposite order (2:3 over 5:4, then 4:3 over 3:5), and the second column starts lower than the first, by a padding that grows from 4rem to 10rem with the screen. Nothing lines up across the pair, top or bottom, so the cluster reads as photographs pinned to a wall rather than a feed laid on a grid. The drop is spacing on a core group, not CSS, so it survives the editor and any theme. Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first ### Variations - Frames left: the cluster on the left with its left column dropped, the copy on the right. Stacked, the photographs come first. Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast ### What it inherits, what it decides Inherits: every colour (ground base, text contrast, the button from your theme's button style), the typeface, the spacing scale. Decides: the 5:7 split, the frame shapes, the column drop, the gaps, the 32rem copy measure and the 1240px band. The heading is on the theme's ladder, one rung above an ordinary section h2 (xx-large): it has to hold its own beside a cluster of four photographs, and at x-large the frames swallowed it. Body copy is medium; the label states its own size with a 15px floor. All text is contrast on base, held to 4.5:1. Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints ### How it holds at every width The row is a core columns block at 41.66% and 58.34%, vertically centred. It stays side by side down to a tablet and stacks below 782px, copy first. The cluster itself is a two-column grid at every width, so on a phone the frames stay two across and the drop still shows. ### What a buyer changes first The photographs: select each image and choose Replace. Then the heading and the button's link, which ships empty. ### 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. 5.8KB of core-block markup, 8 blocks (button, buttons, column, columns, group, heading, image, 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. 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. #### 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 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 button, buttons, column, columns, group, heading, image, paragraph Core only yes Chains 10, deepest 3 rungs currentColor no color base, black, contrast, role-label, white spacing 20, 40, 50, 60, 70 font-size medium, xx-large Continue exploring ## Next in Gallery Explore all 21 Gallery patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/gallery/)Also in Call to action (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/cta/) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Gallery Gallery Standard ### Ragged grid A two-by-two photograph grid in which every frame keeps a different proportion: square, three-by-two, four-by-five and sixteen-by-nine. 5 blocks · 1 variation Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/ragged-grid.html) Ink rag (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/ragged-grid.html#variant=ragged-ink) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Gallery Gallery Standard ### Stagger pairs Three stacked rows of two photograph frames each, split roughly 64/36, with the wide frame changing sides from row to row and a hairline ruling the joins. 5 blocks · 1 variation Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/stagger-pairs.html) Reversed stagger (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/stagger-pairs.html#variant=stagger-reversed) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Gallery Gallery Standard ### Wall labels Five portrait frames hung in one row at deliberately unequal widths, bottom-aligned so their tops are ragged and their bases sit on one line, each with a small museum wall label beneath it: a tracked uppercase title and a line of medium and year. 5 blocks · 1 variation Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/wall-labels.html) Labels above (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/wall-labels.html#variant=labels-top)