Bulk Toggle All Widgets 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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DestructiveActivates or deactivates every HFE widget at once.
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
Reads the action input ('activate' or 'deactivate'). When activating, it iterates all widgets and marks each non-Pro widget active in the '_hfe_widgets' option (Pro widgets are skipped). When deactivating, it marks every widget as 'disabled' regardless of type. The option is saved once at the end and the number of widgets affected is counted and returned. Marked destructive since deactivating all widgets can break the frontend.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"Deactivate all HFE widgets at once — I'm troubleshooting a conflict."
Inputs
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| action | string | Yes | Whether to activate or deactivate all widgets. Enum: activate, deactivate. |
Returns
An object with success (boolean), action (string), and count (integer number of widgets affected).
Permission
Requires current_user_can('manage_options'); metadata instructs the caller to warn the user before a bulk deactivation, but there is no additional server-side confirmation gate in execute().
More Ultimate Addons for Elementor abilities
Activate Widget
Enables a specific HFE widget by its slug.
Add Column to Section
Adds a new column to an existing section or container in an Elementor post, redistributing column widths automatically.
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.
Clear Elementor Cache
Clears the Elementor CSS cache globally to regenerate all stylesheets.
Create Page
Creates a new Elementor-ready page or post with optional page template.