Create Your Own Widget In Magento

Widgets are one of the most strongest features of Magento store. They are useful for displaying static information or dynamic content from the database. Every content which is displayed in the front end of Magento is generated by content blocks.

Widget development in Magento is a custom front-end extension that gives the facility for non technical users to create dynamic content easily for their website. Every widget has some configuration options. Creating widget in Magento is very similar to creating a module, only difference is that it has some more additional files. In this article, I am going to show you how to develop custom widgets in Magento.

Read Here Complete Tutorial: http://www.cloudways.com/blog/create...idget-magento/

Thank you for sharing the informative post.

Hi, I have created a module in Magento 2. Can you tell me the procedure on how to add this module via Magento 2 CMS?
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From the technical side, a widget is a Magento 2 module, which is designed with a set of advanced configuration options. ...
Click Edit in front of Homepage CMS page.
Expand the Content tab and tap Insert Widget icon.
Select Cloudways Sample Widget from the widget list.

Magento widgets are one of the strongest features of the platform. They are useful for displaying static information or dynamic content from the database. Content blocks generate all the content which appears at the frontend of Magento. Given this, every Magento developer should know how to create custom Magento widget.

Hey, I was planning on making a new version of Drizzts tutorial as he has given anyone permission to update it, with Arghs skinning tutorial as a second option.

Anyone think that wold help?