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A row of tall picture panels: the one you point at opens wide and shows its title, text and link, and the others narrow to slivers. Tap to open on a phone, where the panels stack and open downward. Needs the EtchPress Runtime; without it it is a grid of cards.

ComponentInteractiveShowpiecesNeeds the runtime: plugin or Etch Studio

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Motion

What we do

Five things, done properly.

  • A paver terrace with trimmed hedges, planters and a lawn beyond

    Patios and paths

    Stone laid on a proper base, level through winter.

    See the work
  • A forest lake between wooded cliffs under a pink sunset sky

    Planting

    Beds drawn for four seasons, not one.

    See the work
  • Sprinklers watering a wide lawn at dusk

    Irrigation

    Drip and spray, started each spring and checked each autumn.

    See the work
  • A finished paver patio with an outdoor kitchen

    Outdoor kitchens

    Built in with the terrace, wired and plumbed.

    See the work
  • Gloved hands planting seedlings in a raised bed

    Kitchen gardens

    Raised beds and the first season's planting.

    See the work
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Panels

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

Services or categories on a home page. A portfolio with a few hero projects. Team or locations. Product ranges.

Props

eyebrow (text, optional); title (text, optional); panels (repeater: image, alt, title, text, linkLabel, href); open (select: how wide the open panel is)

States shown

Pointer over a panel, a tap, or keyboard focus: that panel opens, its picture settles and its text fades in; the others close. One panel is always open. Reduced motion and no runtime: a grid of cards, every text visible.

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 .panels. Its behaviour is a small script that travels with the component; no plugin and nothing to install.

ACSS tokens used

space-xs, space-s, space-m, space-l, radius, h4, text-s, primary-dark, text-dark-muted, focus-width, focus-color.

ACSS requirements

ACSS 4 defaults. Needs the EtchPress Runtime, 0.6.0 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 1.0.0, October 3, 2026: First release, with the EtchPress Runtime 0.6.0.

Tested with

Etch 1.6.8 and ACSS 4.0.1. Version 1.0.0.

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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