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Built-In Widgets in Kentico MVC?


In Kentico Portal Engine, you have a huge list of widgets (aka, web parts) to choose from. I could be wrong, but it seems like these cannot be used when content editors are working with the "Pages" tab for MVC-based websites (i.e., not Portal Engine, which uses Web Forms).

Does Kentico have a suite of widgets that can be used with MVC? Maybe it's just some setting or setup step that I'm missing so they become available? I would like to avoid building everything from scratch.

Background: I'm new to Kentico (I'm going through the training courses), so I may have some of these terms mixed up (e.g., I think widgets are configured web parts, but I'm not super sure). Using Kentico 12.

Edit: Since Zan RAKOTO asked, I am more curious in general, but as a starting point I'd be curious if there are blog widgets out of the box or via some marketplace (e.g., blog article listing, search, category filter, year/month filter, newsletter signup form, social icon links to share an article, author list, image, rich text, and so on).


Solution

  • The Kentico MVC installation does not have standard widgets. You need to create them yourself.

    You can take a look at the kentico marketplace. There you can find some standard widgets that can be installed. You can also take a look at the Dancing Goat example for some widgets that you can use.