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EtchPress Runtime 0.18.0: the whole site, the search result, the pictures
Latest- The whole site: Rewrite the words across every page built in Etch, one page at a time, each backed up first and saved after, with Stop and Put every page back.
- The search result: the page's title and description for search, written from its own words and your facts, with a preview and character counts, saved in the SEO plugin your site uses or by EtchPress when it has none, and Put the previous back.
- Pictures: choose a block's pictures from your media library and have the alt text written by looking at each one; Apply puts both in the block and the alt text in the media library too.
- A library item on a site built from a kit keeps its own design: when the kit already has styles under the same names (both carry a plan card), the item gets its own family of class names (plan-card-lib), and a second insert of the same item asks nothing.
- The library's sample words read as any business: section intros, cards, heroes, the footer, the patterns and the page templates no longer talk about lawns, patios, clinics or court cases. Interactive demos keep their themes.
- The composer fixes small rule slips itself (a class without a style record, a margin where the parent has a gap) instead of asking the model again, and says so in its report.
- Insert from a plan writes every line. The composer now knows how many cards each part holds (a team grid has six), and any line its words did not reach is written for your brief before the insert finishes, with a placeholder in brackets where a fact is missing. Before, Insert all could leave a part's sample people or answers on your page.
EtchPress MCP 0.4.0: sections and components your agent writes
- A new tool, etchpress_section_rules: the exact rules EtchPress checks a written section against, the same ones the composer gives its own model. etchpress_place_section takes a component too: props, a repeater with a loop, conditions for the optional parts, one instance with the words.
- The words your agent writes into a part reach the page (they were written where Etch does not read), and a text behind a switch, such as a lead or a button label, shows once it is filled.
EtchPress MCP 0.3.0: the copy rules in your agent
- A new tool, etchpress_copy_rules: the EtchPress copy rulebook (clearer, for intent, for search, more human) and the facts sheet to fill first, so a rewrite invents nothing. Your agent reads it, then rewrites a block with etchpress_texts and etchpress_set_texts; a page block by block, a site page by page.
EtchPress Runtime 0.17.0: the words, rewritten under one rulebook
- Compose gains Words: the selected block, or the whole page block by block, rewritten in one of four modes: clearer, for intent, for search, or more human, with an instruction if you like (shorter, warmer, in Spanish). The rules are the new etchpress-copy skill, in your skill download too, so your agent writes the same way.
- Nothing is invented: Facts about this site, filled once (the business, the place, who it is for, the services, the proof, the offers, the voice), is all the rewrite may add. A text that would lose a number, a name or its length comes back as it was, and the panel counts those.
- Write a new section instead now writes a real Etch component when the brief is a list of things: props, a repeater with a loop, conditions for the optional parts, a select for the style, one instance with the words in it. The composer checks every expression against the props, and the panel checks on the canvas that the component registered and the loop drew every item.
- Compose works with Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Fable 5.1. Those models refuse the answer format the composer asked for, so every request on them failed; it now asks the way Anthropic documents for them, and the panel's message names the real cause when a provider refuses.
- The words Compose writes into a part reach the page. They were written where Etch does not read, so the canvas and the page kept the part's sample words. The same fault kept Swap, keep my texts from carrying a text you had edited in a component since 0.11.0; it carries them now.
- A written section that fails its checks is taken off the canvas, with any component it brought. It stayed on the page while the panel said nothing was placed.
- A composed section keeps its own design on a site built from a kit: a class name the site already uses gets a fresh one (plans becomes plans-2), so the kit's styles no longer take over. The contrast check now reads every colour format a palette uses.
- Another like it keeps the kind and family of the part it replaces, and says so when the library has nothing else. Plans write a bracketed placeholder ([price], [feature]) for anything the brief and your facts do not say, instead of another business's sample words.
- Compose asks for a section unless you say a page, every time it opens, with one line on what each asks for. On a test site the place says plainly that the test provider is answering.
- The panel's two groups of places are EtchPress and Your site, and the line under the grid reads as a sentence: which block the next insert follows, and the prefix its classes carry.
EtchPress MCP 0.2.0: the composer in your agent, on your own plan
- Four new tools for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients: compose from the library (the parts that fit a brief and the words to write into them, inserted with the words in place), place a section the agent wrote after EtchPress checks it, and read and rewrite a block's words. The model is your agent itself, on your Claude or ChatGPT plan: no API key.
EtchPress Runtime 0.16.0: Compose, from the library
- The panel gains Compose: say what the section or the page is for and the composer chooses the library parts that fit and writes their words. You see the plan as cards with each part's picture before anything lands; Insert puts the part on the page with the words in it, Another like it asks for a different part, Insert all builds a page in order.
- It runs on your own model key (Claude, OpenAI or OpenRouter), kept encrypted on your site and never sent to EtchPress. Administrators only. Every part it places is one of the library's: measured, in your tokens and prefix, light and dark, and Cmd+Z takes it back.
- When the library has no part that fits, Write a new section instead has the model write one under the house rules (your prefix on every class, tokens only, light and dark); it is checked twice as code and once more on your canvas (contrast, headings, width) before it stays, and a section that fails is not placed. Rewrite the selected block's words changes the words of any block to an instruction: shorter, warmer, in Spanish, for a plumber in Austin.
EtchPress Runtime 0.15.0: the agents, inside the panel
- The panel gains Agents, under Your site: the commands that connect Claude Code, Codex or Cursor to this site's library through the EtchPress MCP, with your licence key and this site's prefix already filled in, a Copy button on each, Etch's Connector step, and where the skill goes. Administrators only; the key never sits in the page.
EtchPress Runtime 0.14.2: a built kit looks like its demo on a site that had items before
- Building a kit on a site that already held library items or another kit could leave some of the kit's styles as the site had them, so a dark band could show dark text. A whole-site build now brings those style records to the kit's, and says how many.
The site: the words caught up with the panel, and new art
- Every page was read against what shipped this week. The home, pricing, kits and docs pages now describe how a kit reaches a site: the panel builds it, adds a second beside it or starts over, and the install page gains the EtchPress Runtime step. The agents page's three setup commands copy cleanly again.
- New art from our designer: the Components and skill icons on the home page, her discount robot on the community pages, and the library hero as she drew it.
EtchPress Runtime 0.14.1: the light and dark switch on built kits
- A kit built from the panel now carries its motion stylesheet beside its look, so the light and dark switch in its header works as on the demo. Before, the switch set the choice and nothing changed.
- Start over also removes the content types, taxonomies and templates an earlier kit left behind, and Open the home page reloads the builder so its own lists show the new kit's pages, templates and content types.
EtchPress Runtime 0.14.0: add a kit, or start over
- A kit's Setup now offers two doors on a site that already has pages or a kit. Add the kit keeps what you have and names any kept page that belongs to another kit. Start over lists what goes to the Trash, replaces your Automatic.css settings with the kit's (backed up first), and builds the demo from empty, so you can try one kit after another.
- The kit's Home becomes the front page when the front page is empty. Before, an empty page held the front and the demo home never showed.
EtchPress Runtime 0.13.0 and the Brand guide
- Page: Brand guide, a new page template: your client's logo and mark on light and dark, clear space, the colours with their HEX, RGB and range, the typefaces and every text size, all read live from the site, so it is never out of date.
- Share a page with a link, from This page in the panel: the page goes private and only people with the link can open it, with your header and footer, never indexed or cached. New link retires the old one; Stop sharing puts the page back.
- The library is at 119 items. Skill 0.9.9 carries the Brand guide in its library reference.
EtchPress Runtime 0.12.0: kits and starts you can see
- Each kit in the panel is one decision: its picture, who it is for and what is in it, then Build this site. Insert one page shows every page of the kit as a picture, in the kit's own order, with the header, footer and templates below.
- A kit's Setup leads with building the whole site and ends with what to do next: open the home page, or view the site. Taking only the look stays one step below. On a site that already has pages, the design system import starts switched off and says why.
- Starts, and the card that greets an empty page, show every page as a picture, and the card leads with the kit already on your site.
- The search looks in the place you are in and matches every word anywhere in a name, family or description. When nothing matches, it points you to Starts and Kits.
- After an insert in full screen, See it on the page steps the panel aside and selects what landed. A library card's Insert stays quiet until you point at the card, and the item's name opens its preview.
EtchPress Runtime 0.11.1: a steadier panel
- The panel always shows the library the first time you open it, with your site's class prefix, even after the empty-page card has appeared.
- When a component is already on your site in another version, the question opens over the whole panel and the answer that changes nothing of yours comes first: Keep both adds the new version beside yours, so pages from different kits work on one site.
- If an earlier insert was never saved, Etch can leave one of its components without some classes. The panel now notices and offers to repair it.
- This page finds what you inserted after you reload the builder, so Update, Swap and Remove keep working on pages you saved days ago.
- A kit's header goes to the top of the page and its footer to the end, and the panel says where. A click while something runs says what to wait for, errors say what happened and what to do, and Windows is told Ctrl+Z.
- Docked, every place in the panel is in reach, and an insert started from the empty-page card reports its progress in the card.
EtchPress Runtime 0.11.0: a kit's whole site in one click
- Build the whole site: in the EtchPress panel, open a kit's Setup and one click makes your Etch site the kit's demo. The design system, the kit's content types and fields, its demo entries, its forms when SureForms is active, the header, the footer, every template and every page, section by section. Photos are placeholders for your client's own. Pages that already hold content are left alone, and a copy of each template it replaces is kept.
- Every kit card offers its site parts on their own: the header, the footer, the index template and its other templates.
- The panel gains Starts: every kit page and the library's page templates, filtered by the kind of site you are building, plus the pages you saved. Save this page as a start keeps a page on your site to use again; download it to take it to another site.
- Open an empty page and a small card offers a few starts beside the canvas. It never takes your cursor; it appears once for a given page, Not now hides it there for good, and a setting switches it off.
- Take any insert off again: This page lists a kit page or a start as one entry, and Remove takes all of it off. If you changed a section since it went in, the panel names it and asks first. Bring it back puts everything back in place.
- Showpieces that follow the pointer now answer across their whole surface inside a scaled container, and the card deck flicks in both directions.
- With a class prefix, Automatic.css's scheme and animation classes keep their names, so dark bands and entrance effects stay as designed.
Every kit, complete
- Every kit download but the SureCart shop now carries its demo entries: the services, reviews, team members, areas and menu items its pages list, so those lists fill the way they do on the demo.
- Download again from your account: Landscaping, Law Firm, Cleaning, Consultant, Studio and Portfolio are 0.2.4; Home Services, Clinic, Restaurant and Launch 0.2.5; the SureCart shop 0.1.2.
- Every class a kit uses now arrives with the paste. Before, a class without styles of its own could drop out, so a band could lose its dark background or a button its shape.
The library, one page per family
- The library page opens with a short introduction, and the sidebar stays with you as you scroll.
- 87 of the 118 items now run their real element in the card, and every card shows the whole element, scaled to fit, in the arrangement it was designed for: a row of cards stays a row.
- The library now reads as ten families: Buttons, Texts, Cards, Navigation, Backgrounds, Media, Sections, Pages, Showpieces and Widgets. Each family has its own page, and a sidebar with search, counts and the Free filter stays beside you.
- A card is the demo first: the element itself, running in the card, with the family icon, the item's name and a Docs button underneath, and nothing else.
- The live cards answer the way the element does: buttons that answer your pointer, a dock, an accordion that opens, a before-and-after you drag. A demo's links never leave the page, and every demo follows the site's light and dark.
- Docs opens beside the grid: what the item is, what to build with it and its props, with the item page one click further. Close it and you are exactly where you were.
- The card holds the element itself on every device now. Clips remain where a clip tells the story better: an endless effect loops while it is on screen, a one-shot scene plays once when it comes into view and its badge replays it.
- A small new word on the card marks items released in the last seven days.
The library goes live
- Twenty-four hover items now run live in their library cards: the real component, and your own pointer drives it. Live only where a pointer can hover and motion is welcome; everywhere else the cards keep their stills and clips, exactly as before.
- New marks every item released in the last seven days, on the library cards and in the panel.
- Every preview picture is captured again at double resolution, so the panel's large preview and the variant switcher read sharp on retina screens.
- The panel's preview now plays an item's clip for the default variant; picking another variant shows that variant's still.
EtchPress Runtime 0.10.0: the design travels with the paste
- The design now arrives with the insert. The panel's first insert adds the EtchPress look stylesheet: every token's designed value at zero specificity, plus the shapes of the ACSS button and band classes items use. On a site that defines nothing yet, a fresh Etch install, a stock site, the paste renders as designed; your Automatic.css still wins everywhere it defines a token, and deleting the stylesheet undoes all of it.
- Kits have a Setup view in the panel. One click adds the kit's stylesheet: its tokens and its button and band shapes, all at zero specificity, so your own settings always beat it and deleting the stylesheet undoes it.
- On an Automatic.css site, an administrator can import the kit's whole design system from that same view: the palette, type, spacing, radius and buttons the demo runs, fonts installed too. Your current settings are backed up first, and one click restores them.
- Insert exactly as designed: a new setting. Each insert then carries the library's design values scoped to that block alone, even where your site's tokens differ; remove the mark or the stylesheet and your tokens take over. Nothing of yours is ever written.
- The panel wears the EtchPress mark, in the toolbar and its own header, and every place has an icon.
- Cards say more at a glance: Free on free items, Plugin on showpieces whose motion runs with this plugin. The library gains a Free filter and a reload button.
- More air in the settings and in the docked layout: each setting's description sits clear of its control, and the search field has room before the filters.
EtchPress Runtime 0.9.0: the panel becomes a manager
- The EtchPress panel now takes the whole window, with its places down the side: Library, Kits, Starred, Recent, This page and Settings. The docked column is still one click away, and the panel remembers which you prefer.
- A card's picture opens a large preview, and picking a variant switches the picture live, drawn in your builder's own light or dark.
- Before you press Insert, the line under the grid names the block the item will follow and the prefix its classes will carry.
- Star an item and it waits under Starred; Recent keeps what you inserted last, newest first.
- This page lists what the panel put on the open page, with the version and variant of each. When the library moves on, an Update button brings that copy to the current version, in place. Inserts made from 0.9.0 on are tracked.
- Swap, keep my texts: change a section to another variant of the same item, and the texts you edited travel to the new one. Cmd+Z twice brings the old one back.
- Settings, in the panel: close after an insert, select what was inserted, card size, and the layout it opens with.
- The panel follows Etch's interface, light or dark. Starred, Recent, the settings and the records stay on your own site, and deleting the plugin removes them.
EtchPress Runtime 0.8.8, and a menu for your account
- Every motion item moves after a plain paste on WordPress: the Runtime plugin now carries the EtchPress Motion stylesheet and loads it on every page. In Etch Studio, add the Motion stylesheet item once, as before.
- With a class prefix, Neon tide's dust, Fill text, Line reveal, Reveal text and Swap link stood still or lost their style, because the elements their scripts create kept the old class names. Copy them again and they follow your prefix.
- The EtchPress panel in Etch now notices when a component on your site holds an older script than the library's, and offers to update it everywhere. A plain paste still keeps the copy your site has: insert from the panel, or delete the old component first.
- The panel picks up the class prefix your site's EtchPress parts already use, so an insert updates them instead of arriving as a second copy beside them.
- Copy follows the variant you pick in an item's playground: choose Light, waves and dust and that is what you paste. The line under the button names it. In Etch, the EtchPress panel has the same choice on each item.
- The library inside Etch: open the EtchPress panel from Etch's left bar, search every item and kit page, and insert it where your selection is, renamed to your prefix. Cmd+Z undoes it.
- Effects that stack their own layers keep that stacking inside themselves, so nothing draws over your header. The pan and gallery scenes stop at their last card.
- When an item carries Etch's own navigation, the panel never offers to replace yours.
- Signed in, the header shows your initial with a menu: your plan, the dashboard, your licence key and log out. Members no longer see the lifetime offer.
- A new account's set-a-password box now sits at the top of your account page, and the checkout's card form follows the dark theme.
- The EtchPress MCP 0.1.0 is on npm: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents find EtchPress items and kit pages and put them into the page open in Etch, with your class prefix. Setup is in the docs, under AI agents.
- A new docs page, The panel in Etch, with screenshots of each part. The docs menu now keeps the panel, the skill and the MCP together under Tools.
- The home page shows the panel and the MCP at work: screenshots from the Etch builder, and a recording of an agent putting a pricing table into an open page.
Ten kits patched, Motion stylesheet 1.9.0 and fourteen items with current cards
- Fourteen patterns and page templates now carry the current Review, Blog, Process, Service and Team cards, with their size setting. Before, inserting one of them after the card itself asked whether to update the card.
- Motion stylesheet 1.9.0, the version Neon tide needs for its waves and rising dust. Install it again, or update it from the EtchPress panel in Etch.
- Launch, Portfolio, Restaurant and Studio kits: a placeholder picture in their scroll scenes showed as a broken image. Fixed in WordPress and in Etch Studio.
- Every kit's components now say which kit they come from, in plain words, in Etch's component panel.
- New versions: Landscaping, Law Firm, Cleaning, Consultant, Studio and Portfolio 0.2.1; Home Services, Clinic, Restaurant and Launch 0.2.2. Download your kit again from its page.
- Skill 0.9.8 carries the new versions in its library reference.
Library fixes, a glowing pricing variant, new placeholder art and a full-screen phone menu
- Ring 1.0.1 and 1.0.2: the cards have the same rounded corners as the rest of your cards, the photos inside them are rounded to match, and the row of cards can be reached and scrolled with the keyboard.
- Button: magnetic 1.0.3: the brand tone is your accent colour with your darkest text on it, the same pair as your accent buttons, readable in both colour schemes.
- Plan card 1.2.0: a Glow on hover setting lights the card's foot in your brand colour, and the Most popular chip sits centred on the card's top edge.
- Pricing table 1.1.0: a new variant whose cards glow at the foot when hovered. The Pricing page template shows the centred chip too.
- A new placeholder illustration wherever an item shows a stand-in image, with a wide version for wide slots. The copy you paste carries a matching drawing.
- Library previews and clips are clean at the top edge: 42 of them had a thin dark line.
- Skill 0.9.7 carries these versions in its library reference.
- The site: the menu on a phone covers the whole screen, the library's cards have a soft grey body in the light theme, the kits page has shorter descriptions, and the robots loop without a jump.
Library: Search palette, Logo marquee 1.1.0 and skill 0.9.6
- A new component: a search box that opens a search window over the page. Type to narrow a list you fill in its settings, move with the arrow keys, open a result with Enter, close with Escape. Cmd K or Ctrl K opens it from anywhere. No plugin and no search index.
- The library is at 118 items. Skill 0.9.6 carries it in its library reference.
- Logo marquee 1.1.0: the loop never jumps or runs short. The logos are spaced so the track wraps on exactly one set, and on a wide screen the set repeats until it fills the band.
Clinic kit 0.2.1
- The app's search box works: it is the new Search palette over every service, clinician and clinic, and a symptom like rash or back pain finds the right service.
- The partner logos show their names again, as round marks, and read in the dark theme. The logo band above the footer loops without a jump or an empty stretch.
- The filter's list is no longer cut off and scrolls inside itself. The floating tiles appear on a phone too, and the hero's app tile looks right in the dark theme. Download Clinic again from the kit page.
SureCart shop kit 0.1.1
- The SureCart shop kit's "You may also like" list gets room between the cards, one corner per card and collection tags that read on a dark ground. Paste the kit's stylesheet again; nothing else changed.
- The shop demo (Northpage) has every question list and closing band centred, plain legal pages with an "On this page" list, a compact gift-wrap offer at the bag and its name on the sign-in page.
Clinic kit 0.2.0: light and dark
- Clinic comes in a light and a dark theme. It follows your visitor's device, and a button in the pill header switches it. The footer stays ink in both.
- A contact page of its own: three doors to the fastest answer, the message form with the emergency line beside it, then the three clinics with their hours. The questions were already centred.
- The forms read in both themes, and the booking form's visit type is a choice list. Download Clinic again from the kit page.
Law Firm kit 0.2.0: light and dark
- Law Firm comes in a light and a dark theme. It follows your visitor's device, and a button in the header switches it; on a phone it sits in the menu. The announcement strip stays dark in both.
- A contact page of its own: the office set like a letterhead beside the reception photo, four things to bring to the first meeting, then the message form with the conflict note. The questions sit in one centred column.
- The forms read in both themes, and the consultation form's matter is a choice list. Download Law Firm again from the kit page.
Home Services kit 0.2.1: light and dark
- Home Services comes in a light and a dark theme. It follows your visitor's device, and a button in the header switches it; on a phone it sits in the menu. The charcoal header, the photo hero and the dark page openings stay dark in both.
- A contact page of its own: the dispatch number at display size with an open-now line, what is a call and what is a message beside the form, then how fast a van gets to each area. The questions sit in one centred column.
- The forms read in both themes, the orange buttons keep their ink text in the dark theme, and the booking form's time window is a choice list. Download Home Services again from the kit page.
Landscaping kit 0.2.0: light and dark
- Landscaping comes in a light and a dark theme. It follows your visitor's device, and a button in the header switches it; on a phone it sits in the menu.
- A contact page of its own: the map and the towns in the opening, what each season is for, then three ways in beside the form. The questions sit in one centred column.
- The forms read in both themes, and the estimate form's budget and timing are choice lists, so screen readers and keyboards get every option. Download Landscaping again from the kit page.
Restaurant kit 0.2.1: light and dark
- Restaurant comes in a light and a dark theme. It follows your visitor's device, and a button in the header switches it; on a phone it sits in the menu.
- A visit page of its own: the address set large beside the hours, how to get here in four tiles, then a note to the kitchen beside the form.
- Menu and Private dining open with a photo. About centres its opening and its statement, sets the six farms beside their produce and the team four across. The questions sit in one centred column.
- The kitchen scene on Home no longer runs past its last picture into an empty stage; the fix comes to your site with the next EtchPress Runtime release. Download Restaurant again from the kit page.
Consultant kit 0.2.0: light and dark
- Consultant comes in a light and a dark theme. It follows your visitor's device, and a button in the header switches it; on a phone it sits in the menu.
- A contact page of its own: the first thirty minutes of the call set out as an agenda beside the form. The questions sit in one centred column.
- The forms read in both themes, the phone field's country code included. Download Consultant again from the kit page.
Cleaning kit 0.2.0: light and dark
- Cleaning comes in a light and a dark theme. It follows your visitor's device, and a button in the header switches it; on a phone it sits in the menu.
- A contact page of its own: a large call-or-text button, the three promises beside the form, then the service area. The questions sit in one centred column.
- The forms read in both themes, the phone field's country code included. Download Cleaning again from the kit page.
Studio kit 0.2.0: light and dark
- Studio comes in a light and a dark theme. It follows your visitor's device, and a button in the header switches it. The lime stays the button colour in both; as text it becomes a deep olive on paper.
- A contact page of its own: the email set large, the studio's details as rows, the magnetic button to the start form, the message form beside them. The questions sit in one centred column and the client row runs edge to edge.
- Button: magnetic 1.0.2 in the library keeps its brand tone dark with white text on sites with a dark colour scheme. Download Studio again from the kit page.
Portfolio kit 0.2.0: light and dark, and new pages
- Portfolio comes in a light and a dark theme. It follows your visitor's device, and a button in the header switches it. On a phone the switch sits in the menu.
- The pictures in the hero now land around the headline and never on it, so the words stay readable. Image trail 1.1.0 in the library.
- The selected work deck goes both ways: drag left for the next piece, right for the one before, or use Previous and Next. Card deck 1.1.0 in the library.
- Each discipline page is a chapter now: the name large, every piece as a spread with its picture, client and year, and the full index below. The contact page is a letter, with what to send beside the form.
- The designer appears on the home page, the hero buttons sit centred, the questions sit in one centred column, and the closing button reads on its dark band. Download Portfolio again from the kit page.
- The two library changes move with EtchPress Runtime 0.8.0, out with the next runtime release.
Launch kit 0.2.1: light and dark
- Launch now comes in a light and a dark theme. It follows your visitor's device, and a sun and moon button in the header switches it and remembers the choice. Every colour is an ACSS token with a value for each theme, so your client's brand colour works in both.
- A new product picture by our designer: the laptop with its green glow, in the hero and in the scene that grows into the headline.
- The changelog page is a timeline with a filter by area, the about page shows the whole team of six, and the pricing questions sit in one centred column.
- Fixes from our own review: the use-case row runs edge to edge at every width, its second line is readable, pinned pictures and jump links stop below the header, the menu button shows on dark grounds, and the hero buttons centre on a phone.
- The forms on Contact and Waitlist are drawn the way our own contact form is: the fields, choices and button take the kit's colours and read in both themes, whatever theme your visitor's device is set to. Every kit gets the same form styling at its next release.
- Every kit's guide now includes the step to paste global.css into an Etch stylesheet. Download Launch again from the kit page.
Studio, Portfolio and Launch kits 0.1.0
- Three kits for 2026: Studio (Kestrel Studio, a dark agency site, ten pages), Portfolio (Inês Carvalho, one designer's work on paper, seven pages) and Launch (Relay, a software product's site with a changelog and a waitlist, nine pages). Live demos at studio, portfolio and launch.etchpress.com.
- Each is built from library showpieces: the liquid backdrop, the hover-preview list, the pan and draw scenes and the client wall in Studio; the image trail, card deck, fan, lens and scramble line in Portfolio; the velocity row, grow, dock, steps and dots scenes and the ring cards in Launch. They move with EtchPress Runtime 0.7.0 or later and are complete without it.
- Every package was pasted onto a bare site before release: header, footer and every section arrive, nothing unstyled.
- Shared fixes that reach every kit at its next release: the form's submit button reads the kit's on-primary colour, and the placeholder pictures no longer carry a landscaping caption.
Neon tide, and the home page's new sea
- New in Backgrounds (then called Effects): Neon tide, a section background that behaves like a night sea. Four blurred waves roll along the bottom, fine dust rises, and the whole scene leans toward your pointer in real 3D while your content stays still. Dark as our designer drew it; light is its own version on the paper. Tone, motion and tilt as props, your content in a slot. Needs the Motion stylesheet 1.9.0, which ships with it.
- The home page: the hero now runs on that sea in both schemes, the library band carries our designer's wash, the Studio section gained its folder, six kits show with a way to all eight, and the four What-you-get icons were redrawn.
- Skill 0.9.5: the library reference knows Neon tide.
A builder fix for 37 items and seven kits
- Some components showed blank in the Etch builder after you pasted them, and Etch logged an error: Section intro, FAQ item, plan cards, the headers and every pattern or kit built from them. Their on and off settings, such as Show lead or Start open, are now stored the way Etch expects. Published pages were never affected.
- New kit versions with the fix: Cleaning 0.1.2, Clinic 0.1.4, Consultant 0.1.1, Home Services 0.1.4, Landscaping 0.1.4, Law Firm 0.1.4 and Restaurant 0.1.1. Download them again from the kit pages. Library items copy the fixed version already.
Class prefix
- Every item can now be copied with your client's class names. Type a prefix such as acme above the Copy button and the item arrives as acme-hero, acme-hero__title and so on, components included. Your ACSS classes keep their names.
- The prefix is remembered in your browser, so every Copy button uses it until you change it.
- Members now have a Copy button on every item page. Before, premium items could only be copied from the home page.
Skill 0.9.4
- The skill's library reference knows Aurora band's Dusk and Lagoon palettes and the Neon ring card's light and follow-the-page tones, so your AI can ask for them by name.
- Download it again from your account.
A new home page background
- The opening section of the home page has a new moving background drawn by our designer: three soft glows of cyan, teal and green drifting along the bottom, with a light version of its own on a pale mint ground.
- The same background is in the library: Aurora band 1.2.0 has a third palette, Lagoon, in light and dark.
- The EtchPress Motion stylesheet 1.8.0 carries its drift. Copy the new version from the library before you use Lagoon.
Dusk for Aurora band and a light Neon ring card
- Aurora band 1.1.0 has a second palette, Dusk: a purple and a teal glow rising along the bottom of a dark ground, with a fine grain over it. Drawn by our designer. It works in light and dark.
- Neon ring card comes in light too, or follows the page's light or dark scheme (1.1.0). In 1.2.1 the light card leans like the dark one with sharp text, the ring meets the edge cleanly, and a soft green shadow lifts it. The dark card is unchanged and stays the default.
- The EtchPress Motion stylesheet 1.7.0 carries Dusk's drift. Copy the new version from the library before you use Dusk.
- The home page now uses both: Dusk behind the opening section, and the neon ring on the cards.
Neon ring card and skill 0.9.3
- Neon ring card: a dark content card that leans toward the pointer while its border becomes a green to cyan ring that follows the cursor. Drawn by our designer. Nine options: the ring's three colours and thickness, four colours inside the card, and how far it leans.
- The library is at 116 items. Skill 0.9.3 carries the new card in its library reference.
Two new library items and runtime 0.7.0
- Neon comet cards: feature cards on a dark ground that light on hover with a green to cyan ring and two comets travelling the border.
- Scroll scene: pan, a showpiece: a row of large picture cards travels sideways while the section holds, with the picture, the caption and a ghost numeral moving at three speeds.
- Both drawn by our designer. The library is at 115 items, with thirty-one showpieces.
- EtchPress Runtime 0.7.0 adds the pan scene. Skill 0.9.2 carries both in its library reference.
The site
- A new home page that leads with the kits: whole client sites you paste in.
- One price: lifetime access is $375, paid once. There is no yearly plan. The price rises as kits and features ship, and each rise is announced here before it happens.
- The docs have search (Ctrl or Cmd K), an On this page list and a breadcrumb.
Restaurant kit 0.1.0
- An eighth kit: Alder Table, six pages for a restaurant, cafe or bar, with a live demo at restaurant.etchpress.com.
- The menu is a content type: the owner adds a dish, its price and its section in WordPress, and the Menu page and the home page tabs follow.
- Built from library items: Scroll scene: pan for pictures from the kitchen, Segmented panels for the menu tabs, Widget: hours, Highlight and Image reveal.
- The pan scene is a showpiece and moves with EtchPress Runtime 0.7.0 or later. Without it the pictures are a row to swipe.
Consultant kit 0.1.0
- A seventh kit: Calloway Advisory, eight pages for a consultant or advisory firm, with a live demo at consultant.etchpress.com.
- Built from library items: Headline: cascade for the home page headline, Logo marquee, Stacking card for the services, Fill text, Widget: stat with trend for results and Counter.
- Case studies as their own content type, each with its result, and a call request form.
- The headline is a showpiece and moves with the EtchPress Runtime plugin. Without it the headline is plain and complete.
Cleaning kit 0.1.1
- The style guide page named another kit's fonts and accent colour. It now names its own: DM Sans, Outfit and yellow. Nothing else changed.
Cleaning kit 0.1.0
- A sixth kit: Tidewell Cleaning Co., eight pages for a home and office cleaning business, with a live demo at cleaning.etchpress.com.
- The first kit built from library items: Plan card for pricing, the checklist widget for what a visit includes, and the Scroll scene: steps showpiece for how it works.
- The package was pasted onto an empty site before release: eleven pieces, eleven components, nothing missing.
Kits 0.1.3
- Landscaping, Home Services, Law Firm and Clinic: the package now includes the header, the quote band and the footer as pieces you paste, with their styles. Earlier packages left them out. If you downloaded a kit before today, download it again.
- Home Services: the header stays on one line at laptop widths.
- Tested with Etch 1.6.8.
Docs
- A docs section with ten pages and a sidebar: installing Etch and ACSS, using a kit, kits in Etch Studio, the library, showpieces, the runtime on WordPress and in Etch Studio, the skill and troubleshooting.
- The FAQ on the home page and the pricing page opens one answer at a time.
- Fresh pictures of all five kit demos.
EtchPress Runtime 0.6.1
- A security review of the plugin: an independent read of the code and WordPress.org's own Plugin Check. No holes found.
- The plugin now says plainly what it stores and what it sends: your licence key, to SureCart, from your dashboard only. Deleting the plugin removes the key.
- Every release checks that the bundled libraries are byte for byte the ones their authors published.
- Library: Header: masthead 1.0.1.
Showpieces, runtime 0.6.0 and skill 0.9.1
- Thirty showpieces. Ten are new: four scroll scenes (steps, draw, fan and curtain), Panels, Falling tags, Ring, Lens, Canvas and Ripple.
- EtchPress Runtime 0.6.0, the plugin the showpieces need on WordPress. Updates reach your dashboard with the licence key from your account.
- The library is at 113 items.
- Every showpiece was checked again in a narrow column on a wide screen, the way a sidebar or a two-column layout holds it.
- Tested with Etch 1.6.8 and ACSS 4.0.1.
Showpieces and the EtchPress Runtime
- A second kind of library item, for motion CSS alone cannot do: living backdrops, scroll scenes, a card deck, a dock, text that answers the pointer. Twenty at launch, included in every plan.
- Each one works with a mouse and with a finger, and has a still version for anyone who asks for less motion or has no runtime.
- The runtime is a plugin on WordPress and a set of files for Etch Studio. Both are in your account.
- Neon art cards, the first item drawn by our designer.
Library 82 items and skill 0.6.0
- One card family: eight cards share the same rules for spacing, corners and type, so they sit together on a page.
- Eight widgets, six buttons, three text effects and the first scroll scene.
- Six glow buttons and a showcase carousel.
- Every item page now says what you can build with it, how to change it and what changed in each version.
SureCart shop kit
- A fifth kit: shop, product and collection pages for SureCart, with a live demo at shop.etchpress.com.
- Real photographs across the library, and lighter preview images everywhere.
Site 1.2
- Library: 42 items. Eight page templates (Home, About, Services, Service, Pricing, Contact, Blog archive, Blog post), each a whole page in one paste.
- Naming: what was called a layout is now a pattern, the same three kinds Etch's own pattern library uses: components, patterns, templates. Nothing else changed; every link still works.
Site 1.1, kits 0.1.1 and the library
- Four kits available: Landscaping, Home Services, Law Firm and Clinic, each with a live demo and a downloadable package (0.1.1: every condition in the packages now carries its rule).
- The library: 26 items with live playgrounds, every variant and state switchable in light and dark at three widths. Eight are free.
- Pricing: one offer. Founding lifetime at $300, for a limited time; no annual plan.
- Accessibility: zero axe violations on every page of the site and every item page, light and dark.
Site 1.0 and skill 0.1.0
- Skill 0.1.0: page-building-101, etch-build, acss-4 and design-principles in one folder for Claude Code and Codex.
- Library: the first six patterns (hero split, pricing three plans, services grid, FAQ accordion, footer with columns, testimonials wall). Two are free.
- Kits: Landscaping in build, seven pages with header, footer and forms.
- Founding lifetime pricing opens at $300.
Nothing in this area yet.
Versions: the site, each kit, the skill, the EtchPress Runtime, the MCP and the Motion stylesheet carry their own version. Every item page lists the Etch and ACSS versions it was tested with.