Reorder Elements is a WordPress ability from The Plus Addons for Elementor — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.
Install Free Plugin →Reorder Elements
WriteReorders the children of a container by providing an ordered array of element IDs.
Requires the The Plus Addons for Elementor plugin (which registers under the 'tpae' ability category) on WordPress 6.9+, with Elementor active. Every ability requires the current user to have the 'edit_posts' capability (and 'edit_post' for the specific post being modified); abilities that create or edit content also verify Elementor and, where relevant, the target The Plus widget are available. A subset of abilities (theme templates, template conditions, dynamic tags, popups, and some custom-code abilities) only register when Elementor Pro is active, and many widget abilities load only in the free plugin when the Pro add-on is inactive.
What it does
execute_reorder_elements requires post_id, container_id, and element_ids, loads page data, finds the container and validates it is of elType 'container', builds a lookup of its current children by ID, validates that every provided element_id is an actual direct child (erroring otherwise), rebuilds the children array in the given order (appending any children not explicitly listed at the end), applies this via the recursive reorder_children() helper, saves the page, and returns success=true.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"Reorder the children of container xyz789 on page 42 so element C comes before elements A and B."
Inputs
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| post_id | integer | Yes | The post/page ID. |
| container_id | string | Yes | The parent container element ID. |
| element_ids | array | Yes | Ordered array of child element IDs in the desired order. |
Returns
Returns success (boolean).
Permission
check_edit_permission requires current_user_can('edit_posts') and, when post_id is given, current_user_can('edit_post', post_id).
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