List 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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List Widgets

Read-only

Lists all HFE widgets (e.g. Site Logo, Nav Menu, Breadcrumbs) along with their slug, title, category, and enabled/disabled status.

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

Enumerates every registered HFE widget and returns, for each, its slug, class name, title, description, active/pro status, category, icon, and doc/demo URLs. Takes no input parameters. Intended to be used before activating or deactivating any widget so the caller knows the correct slug and current state.

See it in action

You ask your AI assistant

"Show me all the HFE widgets available on this site and which ones are currently active."

Returns

An object with a 'widgets' array (each item has slug, class_name, title, description, is_active, is_pro, category, icon, doc_url, demo_url) and a 'count' integer.

Permission

Requires current_user_can('manage_options'); no additional execute-time gating is performed.

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