Stat ticker: WordPress Block Pattern, Pattern Paste Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/stat-ticker.html Core Patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/) Stats (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/stats/) Catalogue access Standard # Stat ticker A high-density horizontal data ribbon framed by top and bottom hairlines, dividing four key metrics with vertical currentColor hairlines. Designed to sit flush under a hero or between content sections for rapid empirical validation. ## All patterns Search patterns Loading patterns… Start here ## What you change first - The four metric labels, numerals and short captions. The signature moment ## High-density data ribbon The section provides maximum empirical validation in minimum vertical height. Framed by top and bottom currentColor hairlines, four data cells sit inline, demarcated by vertical hairlines. Each cell carries an uppercase tracked category slug, a bold display number on a tight 0.85 line-height, and a one-line context note. Theme handoff ## What comes from where ### From your theme - Typeface. - Palette. - Spacing scale. ### Set by this pattern - The compact four-column ribbon format. - The vertical hairline column divider layout. - The crisp typographic scale. 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 high-density horizontal data ribbon framed by top and bottom hairlines, dividing four key metrics with vertical currentColor hairlines. Designed to sit flush under a hero or between content sections for rapid empirical validation. ### The signature moment: high-density data ribbon The section provides maximum empirical validation in minimum vertical height. Framed by top and bottom currentColor hairlines, four data cells sit inline, demarcated by vertical hairlines. Each cell carries an uppercase tracked category slug, a bold display number on a tight 0.85 line-height, and a one-line context note. ### Why this is not the other stats patterns - stat-row is a full section with larger display numerals and short baseline ticks. - stat-quadrant is a square 2x2 grid window. - stat-monument is a large asymmetric section with an editorial lede. - stat-ticker is an ultra-compact ribbon designed specifically to slot between major sections or immediately below a hero. Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first ### The variations - Night ticker. The entire ribbon inverts to your contrast ground with base text and currentColor rules. ### What you change first - The four metric labels, numerals and short captions. Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast ### What it inherits from your theme - Typeface. No font family is stated anywhere. - Palette. Ground and text resolve to base and contrast chains. - Spacing scale. Margin and padding presets derive from core tokens. ### What it decides for itself - The compact four-column ribbon format. - The vertical hairline column divider layout. - The crisp typographic scale. ### Contrast All text and figures are contrast on base (or base on contrast in Night ticker). Display figures meet 3:1 criteria; all labels and body copy meet 4.5:1. ### Display type Off the theme's ladder on purpose, because the size is the composition: - paragraph at clamp(2rem, 3.4vw, 2.75rem) Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints ### Mechanics worth knowing - Top and bottom bounding rules. Defined as borders on the inner wrapper group, running the full constrained width. - Vertical cell hairlines. Columns 2, 3, and 4 carry border-left: 1px solid currentColor with internal padding, creating seamless column dividers. - All rules use currentColor. The entire structure responds to theme palette shifts without broken borders. Questions ## Stat ticker: common questions Does Stat ticker need a plugin? No. It is built only from core WordPress blocks (column, columns, group and paragraph), so it pastes into the block editor with nothing to install. Will Stat ticker match my theme? Yes. It names no colour or font of its own: every colour, size and space is a preset from your theme, so it takes your theme’s palette and type when pasted. How many variations does Stat ticker have? 2: Data ribbon and Night ticker. Each is its own markup; choose one in the toolbar above the preview before you copy. Is Stat ticker free? It is included with a subscription, with every Core Pattern and variation. 62 Core Patterns are free to copy without one. Which WordPress version does it need? Requires a block theme on WordPress 7.0 to 7.1. 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. 10KB of core-block markup, 4 blocks (column, columns, group, paragraph), and nothing else: paste it into the block editor and it becomes editable blocks wearing your theme. Subscribe to copy it, £49 a year (https://patternpaste.com/account/#plan) What you copy is yours forever. Not for you? We refund within 14 days. Back to Core Patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/) Catalogue access ### £49 a year All patterns, variations and theme downloads. What you copy is yours forever. Not for you? We refund within 14 days. Subscribe, £49 a year (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. Not for you? Tell us within 14 days of a payment and we refund you. After that, cancelling stops the next renewal and access runs to the end of the year you have paid for. 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)Features Appointment letter checklist What to bring to a first appointment, set as the confirmation letter itself: a card with the booking's details written into ruled blanks (date, time, who, where, length and fee) and a checklist of empty squares to tick the night before, beside a short introduction. States no colour and no font of its own. (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/appointment-letter-checklist.html)Testimonials Quote wall Eight short testimonials at reading size in three columns of unequal width, three, two and three, each quote hanging under a currentColor hairline with a small portrait and its name tracked beneath it, eight distinct faces. The rules line up once across the top of the wall and never again, so the section reads as a mass of voices rather than as a row of cards. States no colour and no font of its own. (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/quote-wall.html) #### Before you paste Requires a block theme on WordPress 7.0 to 7.1. 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/) ## Specifications Section Stats Access Subscription Plugin None, core blocks only Variations 2 Colour From your theme Type From your theme Motion None Blocks column, columns, group, paragraph Presets color 5, spacing 2 WordPress 7.0+ Continue exploring ## Next in Stats Explore all 14 Stats patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/stats/) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Stats No plugin needed ### Stat stack Five figures read down instead of across: each one is a full-width ruled row with a wide-tracked label and a line of basis on the left, and the figure set at display size and flush right, so the figures line up into one hard vertical edge down the whole section. Stats Preview pattern (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/stat-stack.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Stats No plugin needed ### Stats cover floor A tall full-bleed cover with the heading high in the frame, a long stretch of photograph beneath it, and four figures standing in a ruled strip along the cover's bottom edge. Stats Preview pattern (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/stats-cover-floor.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Stats No plugin needed ### Arisings recycled figures A figures section on an inverted slab where one number carries it: a percentage set at display size over a heading that finishes the sentence and a short note, beside a tall photograph. Stats Preview pattern (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/arisings-recycled-figures.html)