🔗 Ability to disable features (Announcement Popups, Elementor AI) (Duplicate of #22853)

[valmirselmani]

Prerequisites

• I have searched for similar features requests in both open and closed tickets and cannot find a duplicate.
• The feature is still missing in the latest stable version of Elementor ( Elementor Pro )

What problem is your feature request going to solve? Please describe.

I would like to have the ability to disable certain features, in this case now the announcement popups and Elementor AI.
It confuses our clients, some of which aren't very technical.

I have already received several calls about what these popups mean and why AI appears everywhere in the editor.

Announcement Popups
The "Activate Containers for Brilliant Layouts" popup is displayed even for users who have no rights to change Elementor settings.

Describe the solution you'd like

Add two more controls for Announcements and Elementor AI to the Features tab in Elementor Settings. You can leave it enabled by default as long as I have the option to disable it.

Describe alternatives you've considered

If it's too much work to do this in the UI, at least give us the option to disable these features via WordPress hooks and filters.

Additional context

No response

[robaxx]

Of course these things must be able to be controlled. On my multisite WP it's already bad enough, but Imagine running an intranet with WordPress publishing (as I once did) and these things are automatically rolled out to my users by Elementor without any control over them. At a minimum, put them in the role permissions feature so they can be disabled by default for non-admin roles and enabled as needed. It's already too late here though.

[marks7777]

YESS!

[rwkyyy]

God please make this a must for future releases, same for Apps!

[ronnyadsetts]

+1 Yup. Came here, annoyed by AI links everywhere and having to support this on the Elementor Pro websites we build. Time to look for an alternative page builder solution? Maybe the only way Elementor will listen to paying customers is if we stop paying?

[black-eye]

Yes, please. In addition to mentioned above, there are new nags for their Image optimization plugin (which shows even if other plugin for this purpose is installed).

The same goes for the features which went to the core and is impossible to disable them, like Notes in the last version.

[mcrowell]

+1 - Please give us agency owners a way to disable these popups.

[necrosoul]

Agree. AI for now is useless thing. Better if they include some new functions.. like NOTES.
Or to integrate FEP (floating elementor panel) cause this is useful.

[wpturnedup]

+1 Unless you want more and more agency owners (like myself) to think about better alternatives (i.e., Elementor competitors), more controls need to be made available.

[awebguy99]

Yes, these popup ads (AI, Image Optimization etc) are becoming ridiculous, especially for an Elementor PRO subscriber!
Elementor devs, you need to add an option disable, even if it's just for Pro sites.

[robaxx]

Imagine if one had this installed on an Intranet... it shows a serious lack of understanding IT and business.

[MogulChris]

I also find this advertising intrusive. You don't even own the content curled out by the (pretty bad) AI features.

[c2wd]

I can't upvote this enough. Really getting tired of the annoying AI pop-ups everywhere. Just noticed another one the other day when I created a new page and added a new container "ELEMENTOR AI - Give your workflow a boost. Build containers with AI and generate..."

Enough already with the AI push!

[bhambrabland]

Yes, for advanced users managing our own client builds, I'd like to be able to remove all these ads and popups. I don't need to see them.

[squadcar]

These two functions will remove the vast majority of the AI prompts and controls (from @perks98 & @c2wd over here)

function remove_ai_control( $element, $section_id, $args ) {

	foreach( $element->get_controls() as $control ) {
		$element->update_control( $control['name'], [ 'ai' => false ] );
	}
}
add_action( 'elementor/element/before_section_start', 'remove_ai_control', 10, 3 );

function remove_elementor_ai_script_from_editor() {
	if ( \Elementor\Plugin::$instance->editor->is_edit_mode() ) {
        	wp_dequeue_script( 'elementor-ai' );
    	}
}
add_action( 'elementor/editor/after_enqueue_scripts', 'remove_elementor_ai_script_from_editor' );

[Thelastpoet]

@squadcar can this be used to remove any other controls and sections on the Advanced Tab?

[squadcar]

The first one yes, although I'd check the developer docs to make sure you're not messing up any dependancies. That said, it's not my code, I just copied and pasted it :)

[mikedoyledesign]

Just echoing my agreement here. PRO is not the place for this - we are and have been paying for a lean website builder. Offer upgrades on your own website dashboard or on elementor FREE, but leave them out of PRO.

[nicholaszein]

This Discussion was referenced in the following issues and discussions:

Issues

• ❌ 📚 Add filters and hooks to the Hints API #25739
• ❌ Continuous annoying "Elementor AI" popups and upsells #25792
  Discussions
• 🔗 Posibility to switch OFF Elementor AI (Related to #22796) #22853
• 🔗 Ability to turn AI Feature Off (Duplicate of #22796) #23263
• 🔗 Allow paying premium users / agencies to disable the nag screens of Elementor (Duplicate of #22796) #27354

[wpturnedup]

Which comments are you referring to? This thread does not contain anything offensive or disrespectful. If you think that is the case, I'd recommend Elementor find others to oversee the posts here because the sensitivity level is too high. People could have been way more explicit if they could say how they really felt.

I've been thinking about publishing a video on this topic because the way it has been handled is not good. Now, I'm definitely going to do the video just out of principle.

If you want to block me, be my guest. Contributing here is fruitless anyway.

[nicholaszein]

A word of advice, and a warning: Offensive or Disrespectful remarks, or any behavior that does not align with the Code of Conduct will grant the author a block from contributing or participating in this repository. Please, be respectful. Keep the conversation amicable and civilized. I have no pleasure in having to block users. I am a user myself. But I will do it if I see any comment breaking the Code of Conduct.

[muzKore]

Can we please have new features added to the feature page (like AI has) and if I disable it, disable all of the nags and buttons. That makes sense and I have no idea why I continue to see nags.