Dynamic content means a field that is filled in by your site rather than typed by you: the post title, the featured image, the author’s link.
The Dynamic Tag extension in The Plus Addons for Elementor adds its own groups of tags to Elementor’s dynamic picker, so any Elementor field that supports dynamic values can show live data.
Requirement – This extension is a part of The Plus Addons for Elementor, make sure it’s installed & activated to enjoy all its powers. Some tag groups need The Plus Addons for Elementor Pro.
Before You Start
- Edition: Free, with Pro groups — with the free plugin you get the Plus – Post and Plus – Site tags. The Plus – User, Plus – Archive, Plus – Dynamic Categories, Plus – WooCommerce and Plus – ACF groups are listed in the free plugin too, but their entry reads PRO Feature (Locked) until The Plus Addons for Elementor Pro is active.
- Extension to enable: Dynamic Tag, switched on under The Plus Addons > Extensions. With it off, no Plus tag is registered at all.
Add a Dynamic Value to a Text Field
- Add a widget to the page — for example Elementor’s Heading widget.
- Click the cylinder icon at the end of the Title field. A list opens with the available tags, grouped by source.
- Pick a tag under Plus – Post or Plus – Site, for example Post Title.
The field now shows the tag’s name with a wrench icon instead of your text, and the widget shows the live value.
The wrench icon opens that tag’s own settings. Under Advanced you can add text Before and After the value, and a Fallback used when there is nothing to show — we checked both: a title rendered with the before and after text around it, and an empty site tagline rendered its fallback instead.
Add a Dynamic Link
Link fields work the same way. Click the cylinder icon on a Link field and pick a URL tag, such as Post URL, Post Term URL, Post Author URL or Site URL.
Add a Dynamic Image
Image fields list the image tags: Post Featured Image, Post Author Avatar, Post Category Image, Site Logo and Site Icon in the free plugin, plus the Pro groups’ image tags.
What It Looks Like on the Page
On a published post with an image widget, a heading and a button all bound to Plus tags, the page shows the post’s featured image, its title and a button pointing at the post’s own URL — no text was typed into any of the three widgets.
The Tag Groups
| Group | What it covers | Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Plus – Post | Post ID, Post Title, Post Excerpt, Post Content, Post Category, Post Tags, Post Author Name, Post Slug, Post Date, Post Time, Post Terms, Post Status, Post Type, Post Category Description, Post Tag Description, Post Category Post Count, Post Tag Post Count, Post Featured Image Data; images Post Featured Image, Post Author Avatar, Post Category Image; URLs Post URL, Post Term URL, Post Author URL | Free |
| Plus – Site | Site Title, Site Tagline, Current Date Time; images Site Logo, Site Icon; URL Site URL | Free |
| Plus – User | User Info, User Meta, User Avatar, User URL, User Login/Logout URL | Pro |
| Plus – Archive | Archive Title, Archive Meta, Archive Description, Archive Image, Archive URL | Pro |
| Plus – Dynamic Categories | DC Term Title, DC Term Description, DC Term Count, DC Term Image, DC Term URL | Pro |
| Plus – WooCommerce | Product ID, Product Title, Product Price, Product Category, Product Description, Product Short Description, Product SKU, Product Slug, Product Tags, Product Type, Product Sale, Product Rating, Product Shipping, Product Attribute, Product Purchase Note, Product Stock Status, Product Stock Quantity; image Product Featured Image; URLs Product URL, Product Category URL, Product Tag URL, Product Add to Cart URL, Product Checkout URL, Back to Shop URL | Pro |
| Plus – ACF | ACF Field, ACF URL Field, ACF Image Field, ACF Gallery Field — each with a Key list of your own fields | Pro |
The WooCommerce group appears when WooCommerce is active, and the ACF group when a plugin providing ACF-style fields is active. We listed these groups from the registered tags; their output was not part of this test.
How It Behaves
- Which tags a field offers depends on the field type. A text field lists text tags, a link field lists URL tags, an image field lists image tags.
- Post Status prints the display label, Publish, not the stored value publish.
- An image tag with nothing to show falls back to Elementor’s grey placeholder image rather than printing nothing: we saw that with Site Logo on a site with no logo set.
- Archive tags are meant for archive templates. On a single post, Archive Title printed Post: followed by the post title, because WordPress still has an answer for what the current archive is.
Limitations
- Plus – User tags show nothing to logged-out visitors. We loaded the same page twice: logged in, User Info printed the display name and the email; logged out, both were empty. Test in a private window before you rely on them.
- The free plugin lists the Pro groups, but the only entry inside them is PRO Feature (Locked), which you cannot use.
- With the Dynamic Tag extension switched off, none of these tags exist — Elementor’s picker only shows its own options.
Troubleshooting
I don’t see any Plus groups in the picker
Switch Dynamic Tag on under The Plus Addons > Extensions, then reload the editor.
The group is there but every entry says PRO Feature (Locked)
That group needs The Plus Addons for Elementor Pro. The Plus – Post and Plus – Site groups keep working without it.
A user tag is empty on the live page
There is no logged-in user. Plus – User tags render nothing for visitors who are not signed in.
The field shows nothing at all
Open the tag’s settings with the wrench icon and set a Fallback under Advanced, so the widget has something to show when the value is empty.
