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.

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List Available Widget Types

Read-only

Lists 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

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"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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