Kentico Xperience’s MVC support has come a long way since the old days. With the MVC widgets, content editors can have more fun assemble a page using components. As a solution architect, I get asked a lot about how to make decisions on creating widgets. In this article, I’m going to compare two ways of creating MVC widgets to get the same output. The results may be the same, but the decision makings are different.

Hi, I need to create a widget, where editors can define a list of Tabs (e.g. 1 to 5 Tabs), and I need them to be able to add a nested widget into every individual Tab. So I am wondering, is there a...

Cannot save an mvc widget on version 12sp.After moving the widget to a different zone, no actions can take place on the page until the site is completely refreshed: cannot save/reject, cannot go to...

As developers convert websites from Portal Engine to MVC, Many have said there should be a way to allow front end developers to create virtual widgets in MVC, similar to Portal. That way, front end developers can work more independently, instead of relying on backend developers to build MVC widgets and push code changes. With that thought in mind, here is the working concept for allowing front end developers to build virtual widgets without backend code changes.

I have a page container folder called CTA-List, and the allowed child types of that folder are of type CTA_item.I am creating a widget, and I want that widget to be able to select one list of the t...

Hello,I am using Kentico 12.0.61. I was wondering if there is a way to make widgets portable? I currently have a project with multiple widgets that I want to use in a completely new project. Can I ...

Is there any good resource for creating NuGet packages for widgets.The general resources for creating NuGet packages are fine for simple libraries. But I am in need of a guide to describe how to s...

I have a widget that allows someone to enter some code for google tags on only specific pages. I need to inject some specific code into the head depending on the page the widget is placed on. You c...

Learn some tips and best practices when developing and integrating MVC Widgets into your Kentico 12 MVC site.

Hi!Do you guys have any idea if it is possible to set a property on a child object of a property class on a MVC widget?If I take the example of SlideShowWidgetProperties in Kentico 12 training kit,...