title: "Add Items to an Existing Category" post_status: publish comment_status: open taxonomy: category: - elementor-developers-docs post_tag: - Finder - Src - Repos

Add Items to an Existing Category

In some cases, developers would like to add new items to existing finder categories. You can do that using the elementor/finder/categories filter hook.

Add Items

In the example below, the developer is adding the theme-template item to the create category. This will allow users to easily add new theme templates:

public function add_new_finder_items( array $categories ) {

    $categories['create']['items']['theme-template'] = [
        'title' => esc_html__( 'Add New Theme Template', 'textdomain' ),
        'icon' => 'plus-circle-o',
        'url' => $this->get_admin_templates_url() . '#add_new',
        'keywords' => [ 'template', 'theme', 'new', 'create' ],
    ];
    return $categories;

}
add_filter( 'elementor/finder/categories', 'add_new_finder_items' );

The filter hook accepts the $categories parameter, which is basically an array of finder categories. We can filter categories from this array and return an updated array.