Remove Element 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 →Remove Element
DestructiveRemoves a widget or container/section (and all its children) from an Elementor post by element ID.
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 post_id and element_id, the handler loads the post's element tree and strips out the matching element (and everything nested inside it, if it's a container/section), then persists the change. It is explicitly flagged destructive, and its instructions warn that removing a container removes all children, recommending builder-get-structure first to confirm the correct element_id.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"Remove the widget with ID el_456 from post 42."
Inputs
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| post_id | integer | Yes | Any Elementor-enabled post ID (page, post, or HFE template). |
| element_id | string | Yes | Element ID to remove. |
Returns
Returns success and a human-readable message confirming the element and post it was removed from.
Permission
permission_callback requires current_user_can('edit_posts'); execute() also calls check_modifications_allowed() (403 unless 'Allow Modifications' is enabled) and validate_elementor_post() (Elementor-post validation plus current_user_can('edit_post', ID)).
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Activate Widget
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Add Column to Section
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Add Section/Container
Adds a new structural layout element (a section with columns on legacy sites, or a flex container on container-mode sites) to an Elementor post.
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.