Get All Active Templates is a WordPress ability from Ultimate Addons for Elementor — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.

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Get All Active Templates

Read-only

Returns all active templates (header, footer, before-footer) in one call.

Requires the Ultimate Addons for Elementor (Header Footer & Elementor) plugin on WordPress 6.9+ (the WP Abilities API). No ability registers unless the plugin's 'Enable AI Tools' master switch (uae_mcp_settings.enable_abilities) is turned on in settings. Most abilities require the 'manage_options' capability; a smaller set of read/discovery abilities (template and page listing, the Elementor builder read/list/schema abilities, active-template lookup, display-rule locations, and design tokens) instead require only 'edit_posts' or 'read'. Abilities that act on a specific page, post, or template additionally check the current user's per-object 'edit_post' (or 'delete_post') capability on that item. Separately, every non-readonly (Write or Destructive) ability is gated behind a site-wide 'Allow Modifications' setting at registration time: if it is off, none of those abilities are even registered with the WP Abilities API, regardless of capability checks — this covers all template/page CRUD, widget/extension toggles, display-rule updates, theme/settings changes, and the Elementor builder writes alike, not just the builder ones. Eight of those abilities (the seven Elementor page-builder writes — build, insert-widget, update-widget, remove-element, move-element, add-section, add-column — plus pages-create) additionally re-check this same setting explicitly inside execute() as a redundant safeguard.

What it does

This ability returns the currently active header, footer, and before-footer templates configured in Header Footer & Elementor settings, replacing what used to require three separate calls. For each of the three slots it reads the corresponding HFE setting and, if a template id is set, looks up its title. If no template is assigned to a slot, that slot returns null. Because an AI assistant gets all three active templates together, it can immediately answer what is live on the site or decide which templates need edits.

See it in action

You ask your AI assistant

"Which header, footer, and before-footer templates are currently active on my site?"

Returns

An object with header, footer, and before_footer keys, each either null or an object containing template_id (integer) and title (string) for the currently active HFE template in that slot.

Permission

Requires current_user_can('read'); no additional execute-time gating.

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