Ripple
A picture that behaves like still water: rings spread from wherever the pointer or your finger moves across it, and one drops in on its own now and then. Needs the EtchPress Runtime; without it, or where the browser has no WebGL, it is simply the picture.
Live preview
The lake at the bottom of the Lakeside garden.
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
A hero picture that answers the pointer. A feature image on a case study. A product shot with some life in it. A portrait or a place.
Props
image and alt; caption (text, optional); ratio (select: the picture's shape); strength (select: gentle, medium, strong)
States shown
Pointer or finger moving across the picture: rings spread from it and fade; a vertical swipe still scrolls the page. Left alone: a ring every few seconds. Reduced motion, no runtime, no WebGL, or a picture served from another site without permission to read it: the plain picture.
How to change it
Content and options are 5 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 .ripple. Its behaviour is a small script that travels with the component; no plugin and nothing to install.
ACSS tokens used
space-xs, space-s, radius, text-s, text-dark-muted.
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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