Compact Grid Card

About this block

Compact Grid Card shows eight projects in a four-column grid, each a square Placeholder thumbnail with the project name and year in a tight baseline row below. Years run from 2021 to 2025 and tabular-nums keeps the column of dates aligned. There is no role line and no tag set: the card trades detail for density so an entire back catalogue is scannable in one view.

Projects are one flat array. The square aspect ratio and the name-plus-year floor are the distinctive choice: anything more per card breaks the four-up rhythm and turns a tight archive into a list.

When to use

Reach for this block as an archive or all-work page where the count matters as much as the individual entries. The installer swaps the Placeholder tiles for real thumbnails and keeps the year column accurate.

A natural flow around it on a Portfolio Pro page:

Before

• Featured work grid

After

• Contact band
• Footer

What you can display

One strong use is the full project archive. Other layouts:

• Photography index. Series name and shoot year in a tight four-up grid.
• Writing catalogue. Article title and publication year for a prolific writer.
• Side-project log. Small personal builds shown at a glance without a long project page per entry.

Tip: four columns is the density sweet spot; going to five makes the names too short to be readable on mobile.