Find Element 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 →Find Element
Read-onlySearches elements on a page by type, widget type, or settings content and returns matching elements.
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_find_element requires post_id, loads the page data, and recursively calls search_elements() to filter elements by element_type (container/widget), widget_type, presence of a setting_key (optionally matching a given setting_value), and case-insensitive text search across string setting values; matches are collected with a preview of up to 5 string settings (truncated at 100 characters) and returned along with a total count.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"Find all 'button' widgets on page 42 whose text contains 'Buy Now'."
Inputs
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| post_id | integer | Yes | The post/page ID to search. |
| widget_type | string | No | Filter by widget type (e.g. "heading", "button"). Leave empty for all. |
| element_type | string | No | Filter by element type (container or widget). |
| search_text | string | No | Search for text content in settings values (case-insensitive). |
| setting_key | string | No | Filter by setting key existence (e.g. "title_color"). |
| setting_value | string | No | Filter by setting value (requires setting_key). |
Returns
Returns matches (an array of objects with element_id, elType, widgetType, settings_preview) and a count of matches.
Permission
Checks current_user_can('edit_posts') via check_read_permission.
More The Plus Addons for Elementor abilities
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Add Code Snippet
Creates a site-wide Custom Code snippet using Elementor Pro, injecting CSS/JS/meta into the head or body on all pages.
Add Container
Adds a new Elementor flex container to a page or nests it inside another existing container.
Add Container
Adds a flex or grid container to a page, optionally nested inside a parent container.
Add Custom CSS
Adds custom CSS to a specific element or to the entire page (requires Elementor Pro).
Add Custom JavaScript
Adds a custom JavaScript snippet to a page by inserting an HTML widget containing a <script> tag; works with free Elementor.