List Available Widget Types 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.
Install Free Plugin →List Available Widget Types
Read-onlyLists all Elementor widget types available for insertion, optionally filtered by source plugin.
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
Returns the full allow-listed widget catalog (each entry with slug, title, source), and if the optional source parameter is anything other than 'all' (options: header-footer-elementor, elementor, ultimate-addons-for-elementor), filters the list down to that source plugin only. This is a discovery-only call, used before builder-build/builder-insert-widget to find valid widget_type slugs; it performs no writes.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"List all the available widget types from Ultimate Addons for Elementor that I can add to a page."
Inputs
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| source | string | No | Filter by source plugin: "all" (default), "header-footer-elementor", "elementor", or "ultimate-addons-for-elementor". |
Returns
Returns widget_types (an array of objects each with slug, title, source) and a count of matching widgets.
Permission
permission_callback requires current_user_can('edit_posts'). No post-specific or modifications-allowed gating applies since this call reads static widget metadata only, not a specific post.
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Activate Widget
Enables a specific HFE widget by its slug.
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.