Social Embed 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.
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WriteAdds the The Plus "Social Embed" widget (tp-social-embed) to an Elementor container, embedding content from a social platform such as Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, Instagram, YouTube, or Google Maps.
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_social_embed_ability first checks that Elementor is active and that the tp-social-embed widget type is registered, then requires post_id, parent_id, and EmbedType, and confirms the target post exists via get_post. It loads the post's current Elementor element tree with tpae_mcp_get_elementor_page_data, builds a settings array from EmbedType (sanitize_key), CommentURL (esc_url_raw), and AppID (sanitize_text_field), merges in any raw settings via tpae_mcp_merge_widget_settings, then constructs a new widget element with a freshly generated element ID and widgetType tp-social-embed. It inserts the widget into the specified parent container at the given position using tpae_mcp_insert_elementor_element (failing if the parent is not found) and saves the updated tree with tpae_mcp_save_elementor_page_data.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"Add a YouTube social embed widget for this video URL to my landing page's hero container."
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. |
| EmbedType | string | Yes | Social platform to embed (facebook, twitter, vimeo, instagram, youtube, googlemap) |
| CommentURL | string | No | URL of the post/content to embed |
| AppID | string | No | Facebook App ID (required for Facebook embeds) |
| 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 the new element_id, the widget_type (tp-social-embed), and the post_id the widget was added to.
Permission
Requires the current user to have the edit_posts capability, and if a post_id is supplied, also requires edit_post capability for that specific post.
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