Delete Template 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 →Delete Template
DestructiveMoves an HFE template to the trash (does not permanently delete it).
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
Validates the given post ID is a real 'elementor-hf' template via validate_template(), then calls wp_trash_post() to move it to trash. It returns success plus a confirmation message. The ability's registration metadata marks it destructive and instructs the calling assistant to confirm the template name/ID with the user before proceeding, even though the action is recoverable via templates-restore.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"Delete the "Old Header" template, ID 210."
Inputs
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| template_id | integer | Yes | The template post ID to trash. |
Returns
An object with success (boolean), template_id, and a confirmation message.
Permission
Requires current_user_can('manage_options'); execute() also calls validate_template(), returning 404 if the post isn't a valid 'elementor-hf' template. No check_modifications_allowed call is present.
More Ultimate Addons for Elementor abilities
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.