Get Widget Examples is a WordPress ability from Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.
Install Free Plugin →Get Widget Examples
Read-onlyGet a canonical JSON node example for one or a few widgets, derived live from each widget's own registered schema.
Requires the Pagelayer plugin on WordPress 6.9+ (or another source of wp_register_ability()) for the Abilities API — registration is skipped entirely via a function_exists() guard when it isn't available, and ability categories similarly require wp_register_ability_category(). Most abilities require the 'edit_posts' capability; update-global-styles, create-menu, and delete-menu require 'manage_options'. search-images additionally needs a Pexels API key configured on the Pagelayer AI Agents settings page, and get-library-sections/import-library-section call Pagelayer's own hosted library API. Four near-duplicate abilities (get-widget, get-widgets-summary, edit-layout, navigator) are registered in source with mcp_public:false — fully callable over the REST Abilities API but intentionally left out of the advertised MCP tool list as duplicates of get-widget-schema, list-widgets, update-page, and get-page respectively — and are excluded from this listing.
What it does
Returns a ready-to-use example node (tag, attrs, content) for the requested widget tag(s), generated from each widget's live schema so it can never drift from the real field names — a hand-maintained example list previously went stale (e.g. pl_iconbox's real fields are service_heading/service_text/service_icon_color, not title/desc/icon_color). Pass a single widget for one example or up to 8 tags via widgets for several in one call; calling with neither returns a message directing the caller to list-widgets first rather than dumping all roughly 125 examples (about 9k tokens).
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"Give me an example node for the pl_iconbox and pl_btn widgets."
Inputs
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| widget | string | No | Single widget tag. |
| widgets | array | No | Up to 8 tags in one call. |
Returns
An object with examples (map of widget tag to its example node), or an error message when neither widget nor widgets was supplied.
Permission
Requires the 'edit_posts' capability.
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