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Orbit

Pictures circle a heading on two tilted rings, nearer ones larger and in front, the far side passing behind. It turns slowly by itself; dragging it, with a mouse or a finger, spins it. Needs the EtchPress Runtime; without it the pictures sit in a row under the heading.

ComponentInteractiveShowpiecesNeeds the runtime: plugin or Etch Studio

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The crew

Nine people, one standard.

The same crew designs, builds and looks after every garden.

  • A woman in navy scrubs, portrait on a dark background
  • A man in a navy suit and white shirt, portrait on a dark background
  • A woman in navy work coveralls, portrait on a dark background
  • A young man in a navy suit and white shirt, portrait on a dark background
  • A friendly teal robot avatar with the EtchPress mark on its chest
  • A friendly teal robot avatar with the EtchPress mark on its chest
  • A friendly teal robot avatar with the EtchPress mark on its chest
  • A modern patio under a pergola with a living green wall and white chairs (after)
  • A forest lake between wooded cliffs under a pink sunset sky
  • A woman in navy scrubs, portrait on a dark background
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Orbit

Before you copy

This is a showpiece. It pastes into Etch like any other item and it is complete without anything else, but its motion comes from the EtchPress runtime: a small script that loads only on the pages that use a showpiece.

Etch for WordPress: download the EtchPress Runtime plugin from Downloads in your account, install it and activate it. Paste your licence key under Settings, EtchPress Runtime, and it updates from the Plugins screen like any other plugin.

Etch Studio: download the EtchPress runtime files from Downloads in your account, unzip them and drop them into your project's Asset Manager, then paste the item. Studio ships the files it needs with your site.

What you can build with it

The people behind a company, around its name. Integrations around a product. Clients or partners around a claim. A community section.

Props

eyebrow (text, optional); title (text); text (text, optional); items (repeater: image, alt)

States shown

Turning at its own pace; dragged: it spins with the hand and coasts back to its pace. It runs only while on screen. Reduced motion and no runtime: the heading over a row of pictures.

How to change it

Content and options are 4 props in the component's settings panel. Colour, type, spacing and radius follow your Automatic.css settings, so a change to the site's palette or scale changes this too. For anything else, edit the classes in the Style Manager, starting with .orbit. Its behaviour is a small script that travels with the component; no plugin and nothing to install.

ACSS tokens used

space-xs, space-m, space-xl, text-s, text-l, primary-dark, text-dark-muted, box-shadow-1.

ACSS requirements

ACSS 4 defaults. Needs the EtchPress Runtime, 0.5.0 or later: the EtchPress Runtime plugin on WordPress, or the runtime's files dropped into the project's Asset Manager in Etch Studio. Without it you get the still version.

Version history

Version 1.0.1, October 2, 2026: The pictures stay inside the stage at every width. Sizes now follow the width of the place it sits in, not the screen, so it fits a narrow column on a wide screen. Version 1.0.0, October 1, 2026: First release, with the EtchPress Runtime 0.5.0.

Tested with

Etch 1.6.7 and ACSS 4.0.1. Version 1.0.1.

Needs the EtchPress runtime

The plugin on WordPress, or the runtime's files in Etch Studio. Without it you get the still version.

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