Etch – the new standardized development environment for WordPress is available immediately and only until 01.09.2025 as LTD (Live Time Deal). From September, will switch to an annual subscription model. So now is the opportunity to secure an LTD version.
Here is the link to purchase: https://etchwp.com?aff=190b6a43 (Affiliate Link)
Note: The development of the product is currently still in progress, the stable version will be released on 01.09.25. However, the alpha version is already very advanced and can already be used with caution for websites.
What advantages does Etch offer?
Etch is not just another page builder for WordPress, but a standardized development environment! The advantages at a glance:
- Etch automatically writes everything you create as native Gutenberg blocks in the WordPress block editor and enables bidirectional synchronization, so changes made in the block editor are automatically synced to Etch. This completely frees your data from Etch and gives your customers a native WordPress editing experience.
- Individually customizable surface. Almost any panel can be moved to a different storage area. The sidebars support multiple panels and different sizes, and your layout settings are saved to ensure maximum consistency. In just a few seconds, you can achieve the exact configuration you’ve always wanted!
- Complete access to the HTML code at last! See, touch and fully edit. Nothing is off limits! Write it by hand, copy it from any external source or make it appear as if by magic with Emmett. Don’t want to see it? Then simply hide it. You have full control.
- Finally – clean, semantic code! No unnecessary wrappers, attributes, auto-generated IDs or auto-generated classes. This is probably the cleanest and leanest code that a visual development environment can currently deliver.
- Etch stores the element styling along with the element itself and only outputs the styling for elements that are present on the page. This is the best way to organize styling on a website and only output critical CSS. Etch also uses a “selector-free” styling system that keeps the styling intact even when classes are renamed. The same applies to Javascript!
- Once you have created the structure, “Auto-BEM” can automatically attach BEM selectors to each element with a single click to ensure maximum scalability and maintainability of your styling and unparalleled efficiency of your workflow.
- Etch is the only visual development environment that allows you to add classes, attributes and attribute values in a single step. You can then use element-level CSS to select which elements to apply styles (including attributes) to. Wait until you see how incredibly powerful this is.
- Style elements with visual style sheets or CSS … or both! Any changes you make in the visual input fields are written to editable CSS, and anything you write in CSS is synchronized with the input fields. You’ll never have to guess where your styles come from again.
- Etch is the only visual development environment that allows you to add classes, attributes and attribute values in a single step. You can then use element-level CSS to select which elements to apply styles (including attributes) to. Wait until you see how incredibly powerful this is.
- Create components with a single click. Edit your components directly on the workspace (no magic areas). Create and assign “props” in seconds. Create variants with conditional logic. Components are saved as synchronized patterns and rendered in the frontend without additional DOM elements. Simply fantastic.
- Use condition elements and logic strings to control the display of any element or its children, or to control attribute values and even inline styles. Full support for compound conditions, conditions, comparisons, nested conditions and math checks in almost any combination.
- Loops for posts, taxonomies, users, raw JSON data and REST API data. Nesting loops. Drag loop data from one loop into another loop. Use conditional logic in loops. Save loop configurations. This is what loops look like in Era 4!
- Etch was developed for the creation of modern, dynamic websites. Whether you use loops or templates, you can retrieve data dynamically from the WordPress database, the block editor and custom fields.
