Post Navigation 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 →Post Navigation
WriteAdds the The Plus "Post Navigation" widget (tp-post-navigation) to an 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
The execute_callback tpae_mcp_add_theplus_post_navigation_ability requires Elementor to be active and the tp-post-navigation widget to be registered, then loads the target post's Elementor page data. It builds a new widget element of type tp-post-navigation with a navigation style, previous/next link label text, and whether navigation is restricted to the same category, plus any raw settings supplied, then inserts it into the specified parent container at the given position and saves the page data. It validates that post_id and parent_id are provided, that the post exists, and that the parent container is found before saving.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"Add a next/previous post navigation widget at the bottom of the article, restricted to the same category."
Inputs
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| post_id | integer | Yes | Elementor page/post ID |
| parent_id | string | Yes | Target Elementor container ID |
| position | integer | No | Insert position. Use -1 to append. |
| style | string | No | Navigation style (enum: style-1, style-2, style-3, style-4) |
| prevText | string | No | Previous post link label |
| nextText | string | No | Next post link label |
| showcsttexonomy | string | No | Restrict navigation to same category (enum: yes, no) |
| settings | object | No | Raw Elementor/The Plus control settings to merge into the widget at creation time. Use control keys from sprout/get-theplus-widget-schema. |
Returns
Returns element_id (string), widget_type (string), and post_id (integer) of the created widget.
Permission
tpae_mcp_add_theplus_post_navigation_permission requires the current user to have the edit_posts capability, and if a post_id is supplied and greater than 0, also requires edit_post capability for that specific post.
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