Every source. Dated. Open it yourself.
Every dated claim on this site traces back to one of these: the vendor's own pages, docs and changelog, its livestreams and emails, community posts, and public price lists. Public ones link out. Private ones are quoted by date, never republished.
Vendor blog and marketing pages
11 sources
Etch Studio pages and docs
5 sources
- Etch Platforms & Plans page (etchbuilder.io/pricing)
Lists Studio at $59/month and says EtchWP customers get a reduced rate, without naming it. Archived while logged out.
Archived - Etch Studio checkout (studio.etchbuilder.io/purchase)
Showed $49/month on 2026-09-22 and $59/month on 2026-11-01.
Public changelog
1 source
- EtchWP changelog
Release cadence evidence — verify directly. See release table below. The archived copy shows releases through 1.7.1 (Oct 19, 2026).
Archived
YouTube streams
3 sources
- WDD LIVE 128: Burnout, Replacing WordPress, & the State of Etch
Primary source for 16 stream quotes — each cited with timestamp.
- Etch Studio is BONKERS
Video plus the vendor's replies under it, read 2026-10-30. Replies quoted by date only.
Email broadcasts
5 sources
Quoted by date and subject; the messages themselves are not republished because they are private correspondence.
- EtchWP (details drip)
- How are you feeling about web design & AI lately?
- Do you think I can build a vibe coded app empire?
- Etch Can Now Use Any AI Model in Any Harness (Power Use)
- We're Ending LTDs for All Products on July 15th
Community discussion
11 sources
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.
- Etch community — AI Posts & Comments Get Deleted
Vendor's own deletion rule, quoted by date. No names, no screenshots. A product-comparison thread from the same week did not stay up.
- YouTube comment — new features come to WordPress anyway
Screenshot captured 2026-09-22, relative timestamp 2d. Product sentence only. Other commenters are not named.
- What's Going On with the Etch WP Team? (UltimateWB)
Competitor blog. Departure and deleted-comment claims are not independently confirmed.
- Oh My Etch
Separate paid plugin. Operator named on its terms of service.
- Etch community — Studio relationships demo (staff post)
Staff says relationships come to Etch Studio first. Quoted by date.
- Etch community — Studio pricing discussion
Members on the monthly price and what lifetime deals cover. Paraphrased, no names.
- Etch community — Etch Studio Pricing Announcement
Support quotes $49/month as the discounted rate for current EtchWP users.
- Etch community — New Etch Studio Signup Pathway for Existing Customers
Founder post ($59 public price, $49 existing-customer link) and founder replies on Oct 15 (deadline, stays active), Oct 18 ("svelte + surreal") and Oct 23 ($99 "eventual plan"). Founder lines quoted; members paraphrased.
- Existing-customer checkout link (Digital Gravy via Polar)
Posted by the founder in that thread; showed $59 minus a $10 "EtchWP Existing Customer" discount. The link itself is not republished.
Public price lists
5 sources
Checked on 2026-11-01 for the Etch Studio price page and the real-cost article. Prices change; open the page for today's numbers.
Technical docs
4 sources
Cited by the Tailwind or BEM guide.
EtchWP releases, June to October 2026
14 releases from the public changelog
1.5.2
7 new · 0 improved · 0 fixes
Taxonomies in Content Hub, field types, AI Assistant page inspection, public API component props
1.5.3
0 new · 2 improved · 3 fixes
2 improvements, 3 fixes
1.5.4
2 new · 0 improved · 0 fixes
AI Assistant component inspection, public API copy/paste
1.6.0
6 new · 1 improved · 2 fixes
Etch-Native Asset Manager, taxonomy CRUD, AI Presence Overlay for connected harnesses
1.6.1
5 new · 1 improved · 1 fix
AI Assistant permissions by domain, post updates in Build mode
1.6.2
6 new · 2 improved · 3 fixes
Etch Intelligence loop editing, inline taxonomy/term editing, nested asset collections, compression presets
1.6.3
0 new · 0 improved · 2 fixes
2 fixes plus 1 feature flag
1.6.4
1 new · 1 improved · 4 fixes
Image custom field type, 1 improvement, 4 fixes
1.6.5
0 new · 0 improved · 3 fixes
3 fixes. Zero new features.
1.6.6
0 new · 0 improved · 3 fixes
3 fixes. Zero new features. One day before the Studio reveal.
1.6.7
1 new · 1 improved · 3 fixes
etch.environment exposed in public API, AI-bridge command copied to clipboard, 3 fixes
1.6.8
2 new · 2 improved · 1 fix
isTruthy/isFalsy dynamic-data modifiers, tr; shortcut for to-rem, faster builder on large pages, 1 fix
1.7.0
5 new · 1 improved · 0 fixes
Yoast SEO and Rank Math analyze rendered Etch content, Etch images in SEO image sitemaps
1.7.1
0 new · 0 improved · 3 fixes
3 fixes
Kept as a convenience. Check the changelog itself before quoting a number. See every release, charted →
How we handle private sources
- EmailsQuoted by date and subject; the messages themselves are not republished because they are private correspondence.
- Community postsStatements from the vendor's community platform are paraphrased or briefly quoted without names, avatars, or screenshots.