Post Search 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 Search
WriteAdds the The Plus "Post Search" widget (tp-post-search) 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_search_ability requires Elementor to be active and the tp-post-search widget to be registered, then loads the target post's Elementor page data. It builds a new widget element of type tp-post-search with a form style, search input placeholder text, button label, and icon alignment within the button, 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 search box widget to the sidebar with the placeholder text "Search articles..."."
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. |
| form_style | string | No | Search form style (enum: style-1, style-2) |
| search_field_placeholder | string | No | Search input placeholder text |
| button_text | string | No | Search button label |
| icon_align | string | No | Icon position in button (enum: left, right) |
| 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_search_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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