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Install Etch, ACSS and the EtchPress Runtime.

From a fresh WordPress site to a kit built in the Etch builder.

  1. Install the Etch plugin and the Etch themeDownload both from your Etch account, upload them under Plugins and Appearance, and activate them. Enter your Etch licence so it can update.
  2. Install Automatic.css 4Upload and activate it, enter its licence, and open the ACSS dashboard once so it generates its stylesheet.
  3. Turn on colour scheme support if you want dark modeIn the ACSS dashboard, under colour scheme. Every EtchPress item has a dark version that follows this setting.
  4. Install the EtchPress Runtime pluginYour account, Downloads: the plugin zip. Plugins, Add New, Upload Plugin, activate it, then paste your licence key under Settings, EtchPress Runtime. It carries the library panel, the showpieces and the Motion stylesheet.
  5. Open the builderEdit any page with Etch and press Ctrl+Shift+L: the EtchPress panel. Kits, a kit's card, Build this site builds the whole site; Library inserts one section where you are.

Etch and Automatic.css are made by Digital Gravy. EtchPress is an independent project and does not include either one.

Before you paste a kit

A kit expects its own ACSS settings: palette, type scale, spacing and buttons. Import the kit's settings file first, then paste. The next page walks through it.

Before you paste a library item

Nothing to prepare. Library items use ACSS defaults, so they take on whatever settings your site already has.