Testimonial marquee, Pattern Paste Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/testimonial-marquee.html Interactive (https://patternpaste.com/interactive/) Marquee (https://patternpaste.com/interactive/marquee/) Catalogue access Needs plugin (https://patternpaste.com/docs/install-pattern-paste/) # Testimonial marquee Twelve client quotes, each with a small round photograph, the name and the company, running two rows deep in opposite directions with the pointer driving them. Each quote is a sentence or two on a card the block draws from your own ink, slow enough to be read as it passes. Includes replaceable example images. Needs the companion plugin, which comes with your access; without it, or without motion, the heading is followed by the twelve quotes as a plain stack. States no colour and no font of its own. Start here ## What you change first - The quotes. Four lines fit a card: a quote longer than that is cut at the card's foot, so if yours are longer, raise Item height in the block's Motion settings. - The photographs. Select an image and choose Replace, or select the block and use "Fill items from media library" to deal twelve at once. - The names and companies, one line under each quote. - The heading and the lede. The lede says what the pointer does, because a control nobody knows about is a control nobody uses; take the sentence out and you have taken the control out. - Speed, Top speed and Still band if the band feels too slow or too eager. - The heading level. The heading is an h2; change the level if your page needs another. The signature moment ## Two rows of voices pass each other Every other testimonial section in the catalogue picks its quotes and holds them still. This one is the crowd: twelve voices, never all on screen at once, the top row running one way and the bottom row the other, so the band reads as a room of people talking rather than one block sliding past. Point at the left of the band and the voices run back; hold the middle and they stop, so one can be read; push right and they hurry. On a phone a finger swipes a row along. Theme handoff ## What comes from where ### From your theme Everything you can see. The band's ground is your base, the ink your contrast, and the card behind each quote is the block's plate: your own ink mixed down to seven per cent, with a hairline of the same at sixteen. The quote is your body size (medium), the name your small size, the heading your x-large, all in your theme's face. The eyebrow and the names reach for role-label and fall back to contrast. Nothing states a colour or a family; text measured at 16:1 against the ground in Twenty Twenty-Five. ### Set by this pattern The card size (360 by 200px), the 24px gap, the 3.5rem round photograph and the slow speed. The photograph's circle is a border radius on the image block. 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 Twelve short client quotes, each with a small round photograph, running two rows deep in opposite directions past a band, with the pointer driving them. ### The signature moment: two rows of voices pass each other Every other testimonial section in the catalogue picks its quotes and holds them still. This one is the crowd: twelve voices, never all on screen at once, the top row running one way and the bottom row the other, so the band reads as a room of people talking rather than one block sliding past. Point at the left of the band and the voices run back; hold the middle and they stop, so one can be read; push right and they hurry. On a phone a finger swipes a row along. ### Why this is not testimonial-slider-proof or testimonial-ratings testimonial-slider-proof gives three long quotes a card each and lets the reader step through them; it is for the quotes that have to be read in full. testimonial-ratings lays six out still, to be compared. This one is volume: many voices, each a sentence or two, where the number of people saying it is the point. If a single quote has to carry the sale, use the slider. It is also not logo-marquee-strip. That is one quiet row of marks; this is two rows of people, with a face and a name on every card. Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first ### What you change first - The quotes. Four lines fit a card: a quote longer than that is cut at the card's foot, so if yours are longer, raise Item height in the block's Motion settings. - The photographs. Select an image and choose Replace, or select the block and use "Fill items from media library" to deal twelve at once. - The names and companies, one line under each quote. - The heading and the lede. The lede says what the pointer does, because a control nobody knows about is a control nobody uses; take the sentence out and you have taken the control out. - Speed, Top speed and Still band if the band feels too slow or too eager. - The heading level. The heading is an h2; change the level if your page needs another. Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast ### What it inherits from your theme Everything you can see. The band's ground is your base, the ink your contrast, and the card behind each quote is the block's plate: your own ink mixed down to seven per cent, with a hairline of the same at sixteen. The quote is your body size (medium), the name your small size, the heading your x-large, all in your theme's face. The eyebrow and the names reach for role-label and fall back to contrast. Nothing states a colour or a family; text measured at 16:1 against the ground in Twenty Twenty-Five. ### What it decides for itself The card size (360 by 200px), the 24px gap, the 3.5rem round photograph and the slow speed. The photograph's circle is a border radius on the image block. Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints ### Why the numbers are what they are - A stated card, 360 by 200px. A marquee item with a stated width is a card whose words wrap inside it, so each quote is a real sentence or two, three or four lines at your body size. 360px keeps one whole card on a 390px phone; 200px holds four lines and the name. A longer quote wants a taller Item height, since the card clips what does not fit. - Speed 0.5, the slowest of the marquee composites, because a quote has to be read before it leaves the frame, where a logo only has to be recognised. - Twelve cards dealt six to a row: enough that the loop does not visibly repeat inside a 1920px frame, few enough that every voice is real copy. ### What needs the plugin The running, the pointer control and the tap-to-stop. With the plugin inactive, or with motion switched off in the block's inspector, the heading is followed by the twelve quotes as a plain stack, each with its photograph and name. Nothing you typed lives in a block setting. A reader who asks for reduced motion always gets the still band, and every row can always be stopped with a tap, Enter or Space. ### Included images The copied markup includes Pattern Paste example portraits. 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. 26KB of core-block markup, 5 blocks (group, heading, image, paragraph, patternpaste/marquee), 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. 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The terms name every country. #### Use it for - Agency and studio home pages - Product launch pages with many happy customers - Service businesses collecting short reviews - Course and community sign-up pages - A social proof band between two denser sections #### 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)Stats Stat callout A high-impact framed spotlight plaque: a central marquee figure and bold executive statement sit above a ruled three-part corroboration shelf enclosed within the same 1px currentColor architectural frame. States no colour and no font of its own. (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/stat-callout.html)Pricing Pricing cover menu A screen-height cover with three plans set on it like a restaurant menu: a heavy veil of your theme's contrast colour over the photograph, a display headline in the lower left and a narrow ruled price list in the right-hand column, each plan a name and its price on one line and a sentence beneath, hairline rules between, one button under the list. The list drops beneath the headline on a phone. Includes a replaceable example photograph and placeholder prices. 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/pricing-cover-menu.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 group, heading, image, paragraph, patternpaste/marquee Core only NO Chains 34, deepest 3 rungs currentColor no color base, black, contrast, role-label, white spacing 50, 80 font-size medium, small, x-large Continue exploring ## Next in Interactive Explore all 36 interactive patterns (https://patternpaste.com/interactive/)Also in Testimonials (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/testimonials/) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Features Features Needs plugin ### Services marquee ticker Six numbered services set at display size in one ruled line across your page ground, a drawn dot between each, with a short intro above the band and a hand-off row of ordinary copy below it, so it reads as a strip between two sections. 4 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/services-marquee-ticker.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Testimonials Testimonials Needs plugin ### Testimonial marquee editorial Eight client quotes set large in one slow line across an inverted band, with no card behind them: a drawn dot between voices, and a small round photograph with the name under each quote. 5 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/testimonial-marquee-editorial.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Editorial Editorial Needs plugin ### Case scrollspy anatomy A case study told as a photo essay: a compact masthead, then four sections that each open on a large captioned photograph and several paragraphs of story, ending in a results ledger. 7 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/case-scrollspy-anatomy.html)