Overview: Widget designers
Widgets have properties that you set to widget the functionality of a widget. If you want to display blog post using the Blog posts widget, you need to tell the widget which blog to use, how many posts to display on one page, and how to display them.
You configure a widget in two ways:
Using the widget designer
To use the widget designer, you must perform the following:
- In Sitefinity CMS backend, open for editing the page that contains the widget.
- Click the Edit button in the upper-right corner of the widget.
The widget designer appears. If the widget does not have a designer, the advanced configuration mode of the widget appears. The advanced mode contains an editable list of all public widget properties. - To switch between Simple and Advanced modes, use the button in the lower-right corner of the widget.
If the widget does not have a widget designer, the button is not available.