elementor/get-official-pattern-guidance returns canonical Elementor pattern and layout guidance: widgets, patterns and layouts, grounded in Elementor’s documentation.
It is the reference for how Elementor intends things to be built.
At a glance
| Ability | elementor/get-official-pattern-guidance |
| Toolset | Elementor — toolset/elementor |
| Group | Elementor › Discovery & Guidance |
| Requires | Elementor, active on the site |
| Capability | manage_options |
| Safety | Read-only — changes nothing |
| Repeatable | Idempotent — running it twice leaves the same result |
| Ships in | AcrossAI Abilities Manager 0.0.34 and later |
How it works
Elementor can express the same layout several ways, and they are not equivalent. A three-column row can be a grid container, a flex container with three children, or three nested containers — and they behave differently at breakpoints, in the editor, and when somebody comes to change them.
The guidance is about which mechanism fits which intent. Symmetric peer columns want grid; content that should reflow wants flex; a hand-built accordion wants the Accordion widget instead.
That last category is the one worth taking seriously. A great deal of Elementor work recreates native widgets out of containers — tabs, accordions, icon lists, calls to action — and the hand-built version is always heavier, less accessible and harder to maintain than the widget it imitates.
Reading this before authoring is what keeps generated work idiomatic rather than merely functional.
Input
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
topic | string | No | Narrow to widgets, patterns or layouts. |
What comes back
| Name | Type | What it is |
|---|---|---|
guidance | object | The guidance, grouped by topic. |
success | boolean | Whether the call completed. |
message | string | A one-line summary of what happened, suitable for showing a human. |
error_code | string | Present only on failure — a stable machine-readable reason, such as a missing field, a wrong field type or an unmet confirmation. |
Example
Ask your assistant:
What is the right way to build a three-column layout in Elementor?
It resolves to one call:
{
"ability": "elementor/get-official-pattern-guidance",
"parameters": {
"topic": "layouts"
}
}Worth knowing
- The same layout expressed differently behaves differently at breakpoints.
- Hand-built versions of native widgets are heavier and less accessible.
- Read before authoring, not after.
- Read-only.
Related abilities
- Get Elementor Official Widget Catalog — the widgets it refers to
- Find Elementor Template For Pattern — whether the site already has one
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