Evidence
Sources and citations
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Every dated claim on this site should trace here or to a vendor URL. This page is the credibility proof: what was cited, when, and where you can verify it yourself. See methodology for the sourcing standard.
Vendor
Vendor blog and marketing pages
- Why Etch — data liberation, export, git-able
- Features — full data liberation
- Is Etch a WordPress Page Builder?
- Who is Etch For?
- The WordPress Architecture Crisis — 2025-07-15
- Etch July 2025 Availability — 2025-07-28
- Etch v1.0: What Users Need to Know — 2025-09-18
- Etch v1.0: The Official Release (Era 4) — 2026-01-30
- Auto Block Authoring
- The Perfect Loop Architecture
- The Pros & Cons of CSS Styling Inputs
Changelog
Public changelog
- EtchWP changelog
Release cadence evidence — verify directly. See release table below.
Streams
YouTube streams
- Etch Goes Stratospheric: Use Any AI Model in Etch From Any Capable IDE — 2026-06-10
Wayback: web.archive.org/web/20260622183538/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt_whK0s7k0
- WDD LIVE 128: Burnout, Replacing WordPress, & the State of Etch — 2026-08-25
Primary source for 16 stream quotes — each cited with timestamp.
Email broadcasts
Quoted by date and subject; the messages themselves are not republished because they are private correspondence.
- EtchWP (details drip) — 2024-08-15
- How are you feeling about web design & AI lately? — 2026-05-05
- Do you think I can build a vibe coded app empire? — 2026-06-03
- Etch Can Now Use Any AI Model in Any Harness (Power Use) — 2026-06-11
- We're Ending LTDs for All Products on July 15th — 2026-07-01
Community
Community discussion
Statements from the vendor's community platform are paraphrased or briefly quoted without names, avatars, or screenshots.
- r/WordPress pre-sale thread (Sep 5, 2024)
Substantive comments only; no names, no insults reproduced.
- Fiction vs Non-Fiction Marketing (third-party summary)
Release cadence
EtchWP release table (Jun–Sep 2026)
From the public changelog at etchwp.com/changelog. Verify directly; this table is maintained as a convenience.
| Version | Date | New | Fixes | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5.2 | 2026-06-19 | 7 | 0 | Taxonomies in Content Hub, field types, AI Assistant page inspection, public API component props |
| 1.5.3 | 2026-06-24 | 0 | 3 | 2 improvements, 3 fixes |
| 1.5.4 | 2026-06-26 | 2 | 0 | AI Assistant component inspection, public API copy/paste |
| 1.6.0 | 2026-07-01 | 6 | 0 | Etch-Native Asset Manager, taxonomy CRUD, AI Presence Overlay for connected harnesses |
| 1.6.1 | 2026-07-02 | 5 | 0 | AI Assistant permissions by domain, post updates in Build mode |
| 1.6.2 | 2026-07-08 | 6 | 0 | Etch Intelligence loop editing, inline taxonomy/term editing, nested asset collections, compression presets |
| 1.6.3 | 2026-07-20 | 0 | 2 | 2 fixes plus 1 feature flag |
| 1.6.4 | 2026-07-29 | 1 | 4 | Image custom field type, 1 improvement, 4 fixes |
| 1.6.5 | 2026-08-10 | 0 | 3 | 3 fixes. Zero new features. |
| 1.6.6 | 2026-08-24 | 0 | 3 | 3 fixes. Zero new features. One day before the Studio reveal. |
| 1.6.7 | 2026-09-03 | 1 | 3 | etch.environment exposed in public API, AI-bridge command copied to clipboard, 3 fixes |
Policy
Standing notes
- Quoted by date and subject; the messages themselves are not republished because they are private correspondence.
- Statements from the vendor's community platform are paraphrased or briefly quoted without names, avatars, or screenshots.