AI Mode Capabilities

This page lists the website features an AI assistant can inspect and manage through AI Mode.

Availability depends on the installed Lay Theme version, active Add-ons, WordPress permissions and the features enabled on the connected website. For setup and the design workflow, see the AI Mode overview and the AI Mode tutorial.

Capabilities Overview

Website & Content	Create and manage WordPress content.
Gridder	Build and modify layouts, Rows and elements.
Custom Fields	Create structured, editable content.
Custom Elements & Views	Build reusable components and automatic frontends.
Site Structure	Manage post types, taxonomies, menus and roles.
Design & Settings	Change the Site Title, menus, styles and global settings.
Media	Import, inspect and reuse Media Library files.
Analysis & Safety	Check dependencies, validate changes and undo plans.

Website & Content

Inspect the site context, including the Lay Theme version, language, timezone, front page, available content types, active features and Add-ons.
Read Pages, Projects, News posts, Deck slides, WooCommerce Products and supported Custom Post Types.
Create, edit, publish, save as draft or move supported content to the WordPress Trash.
Manage titles, slugs, dates, excerpts, featured images, parent items, menu order, categories, tags and supported Custom Taxonomies.
Manage Project settings and page-specific CSS.
Create and configure Page Overlays, including responsive animation, size, spacing and close-button settings.
Enable Fullscreen Slider for individual Pages when the Add-on is active.
Set an existing Page as the website's front page.
Resolve a URL on the connected website to its content item and complete Lay Theme composition.

Gridder

Inspect complete Desktop and Custom Phone Gridder documents, Rows, elements, layers and responsive sync state.
Change columns, gutters, frames, page backgrounds, Row backgrounds and page-specific Gridder settings.
Create or remove a Custom Phone Layout when explicitly requested.
Sync or unsync individual elements between Desktop and Custom Phone layouts.
Insert, duplicate, move, update and delete Rows.
Change Row layout, height, gutter, background color, background media, link, classes, HTML ID and inline presentation settings.
Insert, update, duplicate, move and delete native Gridder elements.
Move elements between layers, enable Place Freely for supported elements, insert elements into Stacks and insert an element from the other responsive layout.
Replace element media while preserving its existing layout and settings.
Change the Desktop or Custom Phone page frame and the spaces used by automatic Phone layouts.
Create and delete Text Animation, Scroll Animation, Float Physics and Build Animation presets.
Validate element placement and collisions using the same layout rules as the Gridder.

Supported native elements:

Button, Text, Image, .mp4 Video, YouTube/Vimeo, Embed, HTML and Shortcode.
Horizontal Line, Vertical Line and Stack / Group.
Project Thumbnail, Product Thumbnail and Add to Cart Button.
Element Grid, Thumbnail Grid, Product Thumbnail Grid, Carousel, Marquee and News.
Project Index, Product Index, Social Media Icons, Table, Accordion and Text Footer.

Some element types require an unlocked Lay Theme license, WooCommerce or an active Add-on.

Custom Fields

Create, update and remove native Lay Theme Custom Field groups.
Assign fields to post types, individual posts, Custom Taxonomies, individual terms, post templates, post statuses or user roles.
Read and update Custom Field values for posts and managed taxonomy terms.
Define required values, defaults, placeholders, editor widths, validation rules and conditional visibility.
Create multilingual Text and Textarea fields when qTranslate-XT is active.
Create post relationships with one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, many-to-many or many-to-any cardinality and optional inverse relationships.
Create structured collections with Groups and Repeaters.
Bind the content of existing native Gridder elements to typed Custom Fields while preserving the Gridder layout and renderer.

Available field types:

Heading, Text, Textarea, WYSIWYG, Code, Number, URL and Email.
Checkbox, Select, Radio, Multi Check and Color.
Date, Time, Date & Time and Timezone.
oEmbed, Post, Relationship, File, Image and Gallery.
Repeater and Group.

Custom Elements & Views

Create, update and delete reusable Custom Elements built with Liquid-compatible HTML, responsive CSS and JavaScript.
Add structured fields, Repeaters, preview images, responsive spacing and supported script dependencies to Custom Elements.
Insert Custom Element instances into the Gridder and update their field values and spacing.
Find every page and responsive layout that uses a shared Custom Element.
Preview affected pages and instances before changing or deleting a shared Custom Element.
Create automatic Custom Views for a post type, individual post, Custom Taxonomy or individual term.
Place a Custom View instead of the Gridder, before the Gridder or after the Gridder.
Create WooCommerce Custom Views before a Product, inside the Product Summary, before or instead of Related Products, after the Product Summary or after the Product.
Render posts, terms, Custom Fields, dynamic content collections and WooCommerce product data through Liquid.

Site Structure

Create public, REST-visible Custom Post Types with a Gridder or fields-only editor.
Switch a managed Custom Post Type between Gridder and fields-only mode without deleting its content or old layout data.
Unregister a managed Custom Post Type while preserving its posts, fields and Gridder data.
Create hierarchical or tag-like Custom Taxonomies and assign them to writable post types.
Create, update and safely delete taxonomy terms.
Unregister a managed Custom Taxonomy while preserving its terms, fields, layouts and content relationships.
Create and rename WordPress navigation menus and assign them to registered theme locations.
Create, update, order, nest and reversibly remove post, taxonomy-term and custom-URL menu items.
Create restricted non-administrator roles for managed post types and control creating, editing, publishing, deleting and reading private content.
Assign or remove those roles for existing non-administrator users without exposing passwords or email addresses.

Design & Settings

Create a custom design for the existing Desktop and Mobile Site Title with scoped Desktop, Tablet and Phone CSS.
Create custom designs for the existing Primary, Second, Third, Fourth and Mobile Menus with scoped Desktop, Tablet and Phone CSS.
Read and change documented Customizer settings through their registered choices, validation and sanitization.
Read and change Lay Options, Footer settings and settings belonging to active Lay Theme Add-ons.
Create, update, rename, apply and delete individual Text Formats.
Manage the complete Text Format, Button Style and Link Style collections.
Apply common Text Editor formatting such as registered formats, font, size, color, bold, italic, underline, links, lists, alignment, line height and indentation without rewriting the complete HTML.
Ensure reusable local Webfont faces exist and reuse matching font files.
Inspect active Carousel, Lightbox, Scroll Slider, Fullscreen Slider, Imagehover and 3D Logo Add-ons and manage their documented settings.

Media

Search and inspect the WordPress Media Library.
Import files from public or temporary signed HTTPS URLs.
Deduplicate imported files by SHA-256 and reuse an existing attachment when the same file is already present.
Update a media item's title, alternative text, caption and description.
Use Media Library attachments in Gridder elements, Custom Fields, Custom Elements and Custom Views.

Analysis & Safety

Build a bounded site graph connecting content, parent items, featured images, terms, Custom Elements, menus, menu targets and the front page.
Find where Text Formats, Link Styles, Button Styles, Webfonts, media and Custom Fields are referenced.
Inspect the complete composition of a page, including its editor mode, Custom Views, Custom Fields, Rows and elements.
Identify resources with no references in documented Lay Theme surfaces as review candidates.
Find broken Custom Field media, broken relationships and invalid Custom View assignments.
Check Gridder layout health, compare Desktop and Phone behavior and preview the effect of changed Gridder Defaults.
Preview dynamic content queries and editor-mode migrations before building or changing a layout.
Validate every proposed change and report its complete normalized effects and warnings before applying it.
Process large imports in sequential batches and read back the result after each batch.
Record the latest 200 applied plans in AI Mode Change History.
Undo the newest eligible AI Mode plan while the affected website data has not been changed afterwards.
Move deleted content to the WordPress Trash instead of permanently deleting it.
Keep AI Mode itself administrator-only while allowing restricted roles to edit selected managed content types.

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