title: "Registering Locations" post_status: publish comment_status: open taxonomy: category: - elementor-developers-docs post_tag: - Themes - Src - Repos

Registering Locations

To support Elementor locations, the theme needs to register supported locations in the functions.php file. Theme developers can support all core locations, some locations or create new locations.

To register new locations, we need to hook to the elementor/theme/register_locations action and use either the register_all_core_location() method to register all the locations, or the register_location() method to register new locations.

Registering All Locations

Registering all core locations is done using the following code:

function theme_prefix_register_elementor_locations( $elementor_theme_manager ) {

    $elementor_theme_manager->register_all_core_location();

}
add_action( 'elementor/theme/register_locations', 'theme_prefix_register_elementor_locations' );

Registering Some Locations

Registering some of the core locations is done using the following code:

function theme_prefix_register_elementor_locations( $elementor_theme_manager ) {

    $elementor_theme_manager->register_location( 'header' );
    $elementor_theme_manager->register_location( 'footer' );
    // $elementor_theme_manager->register_location( 'single' );
    // $elementor_theme_manager->register_location( 'archive' );

}
add_action( 'elementor/theme/register_locations', 'theme_prefix_register_elementor_locations' );

Registering New Locations

Registering new locations is done using the following code:

function theme_prefix_register_elementor_locations( $elementor_theme_manager ) {

    $elementor_theme_manager->register_location(
        'main-sidebar',
        [
            'label' => esc_html__( 'Main Sidebar', 'theme-name' ),
            'multiple' => true,
            'edit_in_content' => false,
        ]
    );

}
add_action( 'elementor/theme/register_locations', 'theme_prefix_register_elementor_locations' );

Let’s see what each argument does:

• label (string) – The location label in Elementor.
• multiple (bool) – Determines whether or not to display multiple locations. If set to true, it will display the entire template belonging to this location. If set to false it will display only the best match. The default is false.
• edit_in_content (bool) – Determines whether or not to edit the template in the content area. If set to true the template can be edited in the content area. If set to false it cannot. The default is true.