Get Element Schema 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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Read-onlyReturns the available settings schema for a widget type, or for the section/container/column layout element type, so an AI can discover valid setting keys before building.
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
Given a required type ('widget', 'section', 'container', or 'column'), and (when type=widget) a widget_type slug plus an optional tab filter ('content', 'style', or 'all', default 'all'), the handler either returns the widget's schema after confirming the widget is allow-listed, or for layout types introspects Elementor's element controls directly, building a schema map of control id to {type, label, section, tab, default, options, depends_on} while skipping internal/hidden controls. It performs no writes and requires Elementor to be active for layout schema requests (500 error otherwise).
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"Get the content and style settings schema for the navigation-menu widget so I know what keys I can set."
Inputs
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| type | string | Yes | Type of element to get schema for: "widget", "section", "container", or "column". |
| widget_type | string | No | Widget type slug, required (in practice) when type=widget, e.g. "heading", "navigation-menu". |
| tab | string | No | Which settings tab to include: "content", "style", or "all" (default). |
Returns
Returns type, widget_type (if applicable), title, tab, layout_mode, and a schema object mapping each setting/control key to its type, label, default, options, and toggle dependencies.
Permission
permission_callback requires current_user_can('edit_posts'). No specific post is involved, so no validate_elementor_post()/check_modifications_allowed() gating applies; only the widget allow-list check and, for layout types, an Elementor-active check.
More Ultimate Addons for Elementor abilities
Activate Widget
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Add Column to Section
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Add Section/Container
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Build Complete Layout
Builds a complete Elementor layout — sections, columns, and widgets — from a single JSON structure, replacing all existing content on the target post.
Bulk Toggle All Widgets
Activates or deactivates every HFE widget at once.
Clear Elementor Cache
Clears the Elementor CSS cache globally to regenerate all stylesheets.