Pages built with Uncanny Page Builder don’t have to be frozen snapshots. Live elements pull real data from your WordPress site — your latest posts, an up-to-date menu, the current year in your footer, content that adapts to who’s viewing — so the page stays current on its own.
Adding live elements works the same way as adding any other elements to a page with Uncanny Page Builder — through natural-language conversation.
What live elements can show
Uncanny Page Builder ships with 91 built-in live elements.
Highlights by category:
- Site identity: site title, tagline, logo, copyright year, privacy policy link.
- Personalized content: welcome logged-in visitors by name, display user avatars, or place a login or registration form inside a designed page.
- Conditional sections: show content only to logged-in users (or only to guests), only to specific roles, or only on certain kinds of pages.
- Current page details: title, date, author box, featured image, reading time.
- Post lists and grids: recent posts, popular posts, related posts, child pages, user directories, galleries, and flexible post queries with filtering and ordering.
- Navigation: menus that stay in sync with your site, breadcrumbs, page lists, tag clouds.
- Forms and sharing: search forms, social share links, embeds from approved providers.
- Site statistics: total posts, users, or comments.
For the complete catalog — and a semi-technical look at how live content works under the hood — see the Live content reference guide.
Live elements in practice
Here are some of the most useful patterns, with example requests you can adapt.
A footer you never touch again
Copyright years go stale every January. Bind them instead:
“Add a footer with our logo, the site name, the current year, and a link to our privacy policy.”
The year, name, logo, and privacy link all stay correct on their own — set it once as a shared footer and every page follows along.
A homepage that keeps itself fresh
Instead of manually updating a “news” area every time you publish:
“Add a ‘Latest from the blog’ section showing my three most recent posts, with featured images.”
The section re-renders with your newest posts automatically. Related patterns: most-commented posts for a “Popular this month” strip, or sticky posts for pinned announcements.
One page, two audiences
Membership and community sites can serve members and visitors from the same URL:
“In the hero, welcome logged-in members by name. For logged-out visitors, show a signup pitch with a registration form instead.”
Conditional sections handle the split, and visitor-aware elements personalize the details. (These are live-only elements — they need the plugin active, and personal details are never stored in the page itself.)
An about page with a real team directory
“Add a ‘Meet the team’ section showing our site’s users as cards with name, photo, and bio.”
New team member gets a WordPress account? They appear on the page. No more out-of-date staff lists.
Article pages that fill themselves in
Building a layout you’ll reuse across posts? Bind the details:
“Add an author box at the end with the author’s photo, bio, and a link to their other posts, plus a ‘Related articles’ grid below it.”
Title, date, reading time, featured image, categories — all of it can come from the post being viewed, so one layout serves every article.
Headers that know where they are
Because navigation menus are live, a menu in your shared header stays in sync when you reorganize your site — and Uncanny Agent can edit the menu itself through conversation. Conditional elements make global parts context-aware, too:
“In the header, show the ‘Back to home’ link on every page except the front page.”
Social proof with real numbers
“Add a line to the signup section: ‘Join 12,000 registered members’ — but use our real member count, rounding to the nearest hundred.”
The count comes from your site and grows as your membership does.
Catalog-style pages for any content type
The post query element can list any content type on your site — courses, products, events — as designed card grids with filtering and ordering. Items appear as generic cards (title, image, link); live elements don’t pull plugin-specific data like prices or course progress into page sections.
What happens if the plugin is deactivated
Your existing content and design stay intact — that’s the no-lock-in promise. Most live elements keep showing their last-published content and simply pause updating until the plugin returns. Some elements are live-only (for example, login forms, visitor-specific content, and filtered post queries) and need the plugin active to display.
One more privacy note: Page Builder never freezes visitor-specific information into your pages — personal details stay private by design.
Related: Live content reference guide, Reusable sections, headers, and footers, and Downloading, exporting, and moving your pages.
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