## Grafton Pro blocks

Product: Grafton - Blog & Magazine WordPress Theme
URL: https://hub.jkdevstudio.com/docs/grafton/topics-authors-and-featured-stories/pro-blocks
Updated: 2026-11-14
Summary: The six blocks Grafton Pro adds: Card stack, Image strip, Category cards, Authors, Mega menu and Search modal, with every setting and its default.

This is a Pro feature. Grafton Pro adds six blocks. Insert them from the block inserter like any other block; their settings are in the block sidebar.

## Card stack

Posts as small cards stacked at an angle. The card the pointer is over comes to the front and straightens. On a phone the stack keeps two cards.

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- **Posts** (default: Latest): Which posts the stack shows: **Latest**, **Featured**, **From categories** or **Most discussed**.

- **Categories**: Shown for **From categories**: pick one or more.

- **Skip** (default: 0): Leave out this many more posts from the start. Posts another section of the page already shows are always left out.

- **Cards** (default: 3): From 1 to 4.

- **Tilt** (default: 4°): How far each card behind the first turns, from -15° to 15°.

- **Spread** (default: 40px): How far each card behind the first moves aside, up to 80px.

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## Image strip

A looping row of pictures that moves on its own. Each block inside is one item: add, remove or reorder images like the blocks of a group.

:::options

- **Speed** (default: 4): From slow (2) to fast (10).

- **Move to the right** (default: off): Reverses the direction.

- **Pause on hover** (default: on): Holds the strip while the pointer is over it. Keyboard focus always holds it.

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For visitors who ask for less motion, the strip stays still and scrolls sideways by hand.

## Category cards

The categories as cards with their picture, name and number of posts.

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- **Categories**: Empty shows every category that has posts, the largest first. Pick some to show only those, in your order.

- **Most shown** (default: 8): From 2 to 24.

- **Columns** (default: 4): From 2 to 6.

- **Show the number of posts** (default: on): The count under each name.

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## Authors

The site's authors as cards with their photo, name, position and number of articles. Photos and positions come from the user profile; see [category pictures, author photos and Featured posts](https://hub.jkdevstudio.com/docs/grafton/topics-authors-and-featured-stories/pictures-photos-and-featured).

:::options

- **Most shown** (default: 8): From 1 to 24.

- **Columns** (default: 4): From 2 to 6.

- **Show the number of articles** (default: on): The count under each name.

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## Mega menu

A menu item that opens a wide panel instead of a plain dropdown. Add it inside a Navigation block. The panel is a template part you build in the Site Editor; the **Pages mega menu** and **Links mega menu** patterns give you a start.

## Search modal

A search button that opens a search over posts, pages and more in a window above the page. Add it to the header, next to the menu.