Insert Template 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 →Insert Template
WriteInsert a previously saved local template into a target page at a given parent container and index.
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
Looks up a template by name in the pagelayer_template_library option, regenerates fresh pagelayer-id values for every node in the copy so it doesn't collide with the original, and splices it into the target post's layout — either at the top level or inside a named parent_id container, at an optional index. Persists the merged layout and re-serializes it to block content.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"Insert the "Hero Standard" template into page 130 at the top."
Inputs
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| name | string | Yes | Template library name. |
| post_id | integer | Yes | Target post/page ID. |
| parent_id | string | No | Container node to insert into. |
| index | integer | No | Position within the target container. |
Returns
An object with success:true, or a WP_Error if the named template or the target parent isn't found.
Permission
Requires the 'edit_posts' capability.
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