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.
You add live elements the same way you add anything else to a page with Uncanny Page Builder: by describing what you want to Uncanny Agent.
What live elements can show
Uncanny Page Builder includes 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 closer look at how live content works, 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 stay correct on their own. Save it as a shared footer and every page that uses it follows along.
A homepage that keeps itself fresh
Instead of updating a “news” area by hand every time you publish:
“Add a ‘Latest from the blog’ section showing my three most recent posts, with featured images.”
The section shows 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.”
When a new team member gets a WordPress account, they appear on the page, so the staff list never goes out of date.
Article pages that fill themselves in
When you build a layout to 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, and categories can all 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 shared 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, rounded 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 with a title, image, and link: live elements don’t pull plugin-specific data such as prices or course progress into page sections.
What happens if the plugin is deactivated
Your page designs stay intact if Uncanny Automator is deactivated: the layout, text and images you built remain. Live elements do not: while the plugin is deactivated, every live element is left out of the page, and the live elements return when the plugin is active again. The “Offline snapshot” column in the Live content reference guide describes something different: which elements are included, with their values at the time of the download, when you download a page as HTML.
Related: Live content reference guide, Reusable sections, headers, and footers, Downloading, exporting, and moving your pages
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