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 direct child elements of a specific Elementor container.
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
This ability locates the container by container_id, confirms it is a container element, then rebuilds its children array in the order given by element_ids (any children not listed are appended after the specified ones, preserving their relative order). It saves the reordered page data. It returns a WP_Error if the container is not found, is not actually a container, or if any of the supplied element_ids is not a direct child of that container.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"Reorder the children of container abc123 on page 42 so element c2 comes before element c1."
Inputs
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| post_id | integer | Yes | Elementor page/post ID. |
| container_id | string | Yes | The ID of the container whose children should be reordered. |
| element_ids | array | Yes | Ordered list of the container's direct child element IDs (items are strings). |
Returns
An object with a success boolean indicating whether the reorder completed.
Permission
Requires the current user to have the 'edit_posts' capability, and if a post_id is supplied, also 'edit_post' capability for that specific post.
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