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Sitefinity CMS comes with a set of built-in widgets, which can be directly used in the pages you create. You can also create your own user or custom widgets and use them side by side with the default ones.

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Build a page widget
Build Web Forms page widget manually in code, or use Sitefinity CMS Thunder to generate a scaffold for the widget.
Build a form widget
Build Web Forms form widget manually with code, or use Sitefinity CMS Thunder to generate a scaffold for the widget.
Build a custom field control
To build custom field control, inherit from FieldControl rather than SimpleView. Build the control manually in code, or use Sitefinity CMS Thunder to generate a scaffold.
Create a NewsRotator widget
Create Web Forms NewsRotator widget that presents most recent news items and their cover pictures as a slideshow.
Create a date picker widget
Create custom form widget that defines RadDatePicker control used by users to choose a date.
Create a custom widget to display responsive images
Build a custom widget that displays responsive images.
Build an AccordionNewsList widget using Sitefinity CMS’s built-in jQuery
Use Sitefinity CMS built-in jQuery to create custom widget that displays news items in a jQuery UI accordion. Load CSS and JS resources from CDN.
Tutorial: Create a Content block widget that displays shared content | WebForms
Enable template editing through the UI
Make custom widget templates editable through UI. Implement and make the template persistent, add and register a custom resource class, register the template.
Create a Book widget with Kendo Grid
The following sample demonstrates how to use Kendo Gird in a Sitefinity Feather widget. This sample uses Kendo through wrappers for ASP.NET MVC.

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