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I Built 3 Elementor Widgets in Minutes Using Angie AI

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The video introduces Angie AI, a powerful tool specifically designed for WordPress and Elementor users who want to bypass traditional hours of coding when building custom widgets. The creator demonstrates how this free plugin can generate fully functional, customizable elements from simple text prompts in just minutes. After installing the plugin via the standard WordPress dashboard or directly from elementor.com, users gain access to a sidebar interface that allows them to visualize and construct complex layouts without writing code. The tool even integrates with image libraries like Unsplash to automatically source placeholder graphics, streamlining the design process significantly for those looking to replicate specific website sections quickly. To illustrate its capabilities, the creator tackles three distinct challenges: replicating a tabbed section layout from Gymshark, creating an interactive promo code scratch card, and building a dynamic countdown timer. For each task, he provides a basic prompt describing the desired functionality—such as toggling between tabs for men's and women's categories or revealing hidden discount codes—and Angie AI instantly generates the corresponding widget. These generated components are not static; they can be easily edited within Elementor to change headings, update text content, swap images, and adjust specific settings like dates on a timer, proving that the AI creates robust starting points rather than just rough drafts. The video concludes by highlighting an advanced feature called Super Admin Mode, which allows users to execute PHP code directly against their live site for bulk actions. This capability is particularly useful for managing complex setups involving WooCommerce or Advanced Custom Fields, enabling tasks like updating prices across multiple products simultaneously with a single command. While the creator notes that some generated elements might initially appear as snippets rather than draggable widgets in certain instances, the overall workflow remains highly efficient. The demonstration confirms that Angie AI offers a transformative approach to Elementor development, combining speed and automation while still providing developers full access to edit the underlying HTML, CSS, and PHP if deeper customization is required.
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Hey, welcome. Building custom Elementor [music] widgets used to mean hours of coding, tweaking, and testing. But, I recently started testing [music] Anji, an AI gigantic AI built specifically for WordPress and Elementor, and the results have generally surprised me. In this video, I'll walk you through how I built three fully customizable widgets, a top section layout, a promo code scratch card, and a countdown timer, [music] all generated from simple prompts. Plus, I will show you the new feature called Super Admin Mode that allows you to run PHP code and take direct actions on your live site. If you build with Elementor, you're going to want to see this. Hey, before we get started, I wanted to say that Anji is completely free, and you can use it on any WordPress website. In order to get it, you can go to elementor.com and then click on products and then Anji. From here, you can either download it straight away, or the easiest way would be to simply go to your dashboard and then go to plugins, add new plugin, and search for Anji. Make sure that you're using the one from elementor.com, and you should be good to go. Once you install it, you should see Anji here on the left side, and you should be able to see what you can build with Anji. Saying this, I can show you some of the prompts. So, Elementor has an Anji prompt library here that you can check out. It's under elementor.com/anji-prompt-library, and you can see some of the examples here like creating a new page, installing a plugin, creating a virtual product, and so on. You can basically copy those prompts and try to replicate what they've done. And as you can see, this one requires advanced custom fields, which is pretty cool. Close this, and I just wanted to mention that if anybody is looking to get Elementor, I would appreciate it if you use my link in the description below. I will also leave you a coupon code that will give you a further discount. And if you go under pricing, I just want to explain that you can either buy a single license, which is what I have here. I'm using one. Or you can get building for clients, which is basically unlimited websites. And this gives you all the cool new AI stuff. And also image optimization, site accessibility, priority support, email deliverability, and site management. These are some of the new features. And I've already done a video on this. If you wish to check it out, it's on my channel. And let's go to the website. So, today I'm going to be using a website that I developed in the previous video. If you wish to check it out, I'll also link this in the description below. I've basically done a step-by-step tutorial on using the new Elementor V4 editor. Now, once we have Anja installed, click on the Anja button here, and it should open on the left side. The first challenge would be to replicate a section that I found on the Gymshark website. So, I'm going to go to the Gymshark website, scroll down to the bottom, and the one that I want to replicate is this section here. I basically want to have a section with a title and two tabs, women and men. So, I'm hoping that these images we can update, we can change the text, and we can toggle between those two. That's the first challenge. So, I'm going to take a screenshot. And then I'm going to close this and go back to Anja here. I'm going to upload my image. Let me upload my screenshot that we just took. I'm going to copy and paste a very basic prompt, which is going to say, "Create a section where the user can toggle between tabs. I need four columns like the screenshot. I need to be fully responsive." Now, this is not going to fit my website exactly because, as you saw, they have white background and so on. But that doesn't really matter. I just wanted to see whether we can replicate this as much as we can. So, I'm going to press go here. I'm probably going to speed up the video here just because it could take a couple of minutes. Okay, this is actually pretty cool. It's searching images from Unsplash, which is basically a website for free images. And I'm hoping that it will use those images for the example. I think that would be pretty cool if it does. Okay, something is happening now. It's deploying the training tabs widgets to WordPress. And as you can see, it's switched on the test mode, which is great. So, we can now hopefully test it in a second. Here we go, deployed. And let's see what happens now. Awesome, the training tabs are created. And now we need to reload the page. Okay, so to see the results, we need to go to Let me minimize this. We need to go to edit with Elementor. And if we scroll down here on the left side, you we should see the Angie widget. As you can see, this is currently a draft. We haven't published it. But if I go here at the bottom, for example, let's drag this in. And as you can see, it's actually done a pretty good job so far. Okay, so let's have a look at what we can do. So, we can definitely change the heading here, which is cool. So, we can change the tabs and we can add more with comma. Oh, okay, that's pretty cool. And then we have the items. So, as you can see, running woman, let's click on this. Okay, so we can change the title on every single tab here. So, we have running, and I can do running 1 2 3, and it changes. We can also update the category tab, which So, this one goes in the woman, which is actually really good. And we can update the image from here. I'm actually really impressed with this. So, what I'm going to do is first of all, publish this. publish widget on page. Okay, that makes sense. And now I just wanted to test this to see whether it actually works on the front end. So, I'm going to go to the website. Let's go down to the bottom. Uh this is looking pretty cool. If I do a right click on inspect, let's scale this down so to see how it works. Okay? So, my other cards, yep. And if I scroll if I scale it down, you'll see whoops. Yeah, the sh- all the images are shifting and that's why it's shifting. But basically, I believe that this is pretty good. So, this was the original. And as you can see, this is the one that Angie created, which is pretty cool. Now, let's ramp it up a bit and let's create something a little more specific. All right, the second thing that I'm going to try to build now is a promo code scratch card. Basically, I want a little promo code that pops up and I can scratch it. The idea is that we can actually change the promo code. So, let's say save 20, we can maybe change to save 50 and so on. I'm going to copy this and let's see whether we can do this. So, I'm going to go back to Angie and paste the code and see what happens. So, I'm assuming that this is going to take a little longer. And again, I'm probably going to speed up the video and let's see what we get. And one thing that I I should have probably mentioned earlier is that we can continue change stuff on this widget with Angie. We can just basically, like any AI chat out there, we can just prompt it to change something for us and that would be absolutely fine. All right, this was a little bit too quick. So, let's reload and let's see what we get. I'm going to be very impressed if this is already done. Oh, wow. Okay. Scratch to reveal your exclusive offer. So, let me do that. Oh, yeah. All right, this is actually pretty cool. This took less than a minute. Let me copy this. Copy it. And now I'll paste it here. Oh, wow. Okay. This is really impressive. So, let me close this and publish to live. And now let's go to the website. And now let's see if it works. Oh, we're still in test mode. Okay, it still worked. It popped out, and I can just reveal it. Okay, maybe I need to do more. Save 20%. Nice. All right, this is all great, but we didn't actually check the widget. So, let me click with Elementor, and let's see whether we can update some of the details. So, here it is. Um I don't know. Okay, scratch card promo widget is live. Published under WordPress. Available in snippet library. Let's go to the snippet library. Here it is. We can click edit. Okay, and here it's giving us the snippet. And you can actually see how this was made. I didn't expect that I was going to be able to maybe have a as a widget that I can drop it on the page. But nevertheless, this was really good. And if you see here, you can actually edit the PHP code that is generated. You can edit the HTML here. You can edit the CSS, which is great for developers. And you can also edit the promo code, which is pretty good. The only downside from this is that it didn't do as a widget, which I maybe should have mentioned, and then I would have been able to drag and drop it and change detail like the card that we had here basically. But nevertheless, this is pretty cool. Let's move on to the last challenge, which is a countdown timer. Uh this countdown timer essentially uh let's say we have a product launch. I want it to go down to a specific date, hours, minutes, and seconds. And I want to be able to update that uh date and so on. So, I'm going to copy this prompt. And then, this one we have widgets, so I'm hoping I can just drag and drop it. So, let's go to Angie, and let's create a new chat, and let's paste it here, and let's go. Okay, it's already done. This is impressive. Let's reload. And now, let's close this. Let's go to widgets. Countdown timer. Okay, this is exciting. Let's drag it somewhere. Let's just drag it in here. I like the animation. I think that's really good. And if I click on it, you see that we can change the headline. We can change the date. Oh, yeah, it even has a date picker, which is pretty cool. Let's change it to the 14th. Okay, it changes straight away. And then, the end message is sale is life. All right, I think this is super impressive. Let's publish it, and let's see the full website now. So, if I go here, and yep, we should have that scratch card super quickly. I'm going to scratch it off. Save 20, copy the code. No worries. Let's go down, and let's see this one. Absolutely fine. And the countdown timer is absolutely fine. If I was to look this on mobile, let's say, right click and see it on mobile. Let's go to the bottom, and this is actually working really well. Before we finish this video, I wanted to add this new mode called super admin. And I believe that this is going to be super useful, especially for websites that have WooCommerce installed or advanced custom fields. I wanted to try myself, so what I've done is I basically added advanced custom fields to my website and I created a custom taxonomy called products. In those products, essentially, if I go to product details here, you will see that I have a couple of labels like the price, short description, category, in stock, and product image. Went to the products here and I added two products just for this example. And if I was to go to the front end of the website, I actually built this with Angie as well. This is using the advanced custom field. It has fully working search, so if I do wood, it is going to pop up with the wooden chess set, which is great really. But this is not what I wanted to show you. The example that I wanted to show you in this case is that you can do bulk actions. So, for example, if I was to open Angie here and let's say I wanted to make every single product on sale I wanted to change all the pricings, we can actually do that, which is great. So, what you need to do, let me see if I can zoom in a little bit more. And here we go. If you have a look at the pricing, they're different at the moment, but what we can do is switch from an agent to super admin. And from here, we'll need to obviously allow this. So, enter super admin mode and now we can say something like update all advanced custom field products to have the price of 22.99, for example. And now I'm going to press go and let's see whether the pricing updates. We need to approve the action. Okay, it says update advanced custom field product price, which is correct. I didn't give it that, but I actually found it in my database and it's going to update it to 22.99. And let's see whether this works. Okay, it says that it's done. The page didn't refresh itself, so I believe that if I do let's refresh it from here manually. And as you can see, the pricing is now 22.99 for both products. Now, as you can see, this could be really, really useful because you'll be able to do bulk actions, you'll be able to target different products. Essentially, this is going to be great for advanced custom fields, in my opinion, and especially WooCommerce. And of course, you can do so much more than this, but this was just a quick example. So, Angie is super impressive so far and is still in beta. I think that's going to be everything from this video. Let me know what you think of Angie in the comments below, and I'm looking forward to see what they're going to bring in future. Make sure that you like this video, subscribe to my channel if you want to see more videos like this, and hopefully I'll see you in the next one. Bye.