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Modify built-in widgets

Sitefinity CMS enables you to modify existing built-in widgets to better serve your requirements and needs. What you do is extend the default functionality of a widget by implementing a custom logic and then map the modified widget in the backend, so that Sitefinity CMS redirects to your custom widget instead of the regular one.

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Extend the model of built-in widgets
Add hierarchical tree view in the Categories widget
Associate Comments and Reviews widgets with an item
Change star symbol in Reviews widget
Custom filtering of MVC Events widget
Extend an Sitefinity CMS MVC Events widget by extending the business logic behind some of the filtering options for listing events.
Customize form widgets
Extend MVC forms. Use fields to collect user input and elements to display helper information in the form or to validate input.
Add custom fields to the Navigation widget
Customize your Navigation widget by creating custom fields for pages and displaying them and their values in the Navigation widget

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