Save, apply, and move Elementor templates with your AI agent

Elementor’s template library lets you reuse a section, a header, or a whole page layout across your site. WP MCP now gives your AI agent that library: export a page to portable JSON, save a page as a template, apply a template to another page, and import a design from JSON. Every apply is snapshotted, so a layout you drop onto a page is one click from undone.

What you need

• WP MCP installed and connected to your AI client, with its Pro tier active.
• Elementor active. Templates are stored as ordinary elementor_library posts.

Save a page as a reusable template

› Save the current /about layout as a section template called "Team block".

save-as-template copies the page’s element tree into a new library template of the type you choose (section, header, footer, single, archive, popup, and more). Because a template is a normal post, you can remove it later with the standard content tools.

Apply a template to another page

› Add the "Team block" template under the hero on /services.
› Replace the whole /landing page with the "Campaign" template.

apply-template reads the target page first (with an expected hash, so a concurrent edit is refused rather than clobbered), then copies the template in with freshly regenerated element ids so nothing collides with what is already on the page. Append it under a specific container, or use replace mode to swap the whole page. The write is snapshotted, so undo it per change or per session with rollback-operation.

Export and import across pages or sites

› Export /pricing as JSON so I can reuse it.
› Import this exported layout as a template called "Pricing v2".

export-page returns a portable envelope: the content tree, the page settings, and the Elementor version. Hand that envelope to import-template and WP MCP builds a new library template from it, so a design moves cleanly between pages, or between two sites running WP MCP.

Why it is safe

Applying a template is the only one of these that changes an existing page, and it goes through the same snapshot-first path as every other Elementor edit: _elementor_data is ordinary post meta, captured before the write, so a template you apply is always reversible.