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When creating websites with Kentico CMS, I often find myself adding default web part properties so that I can specify default web part values or access them in the widgets. That is why I added a small update to my
Widgetizer script. The script allows you to add all the default web part properties by simply clicking a button!
The image below illustrates this:
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here to download the Widgetizer v1.1 package. Simply replace the existing files and your good to go!
I have created a downloadable package for my latest tweaks: "Widgetize!" and "Copy web part".
This tweak is similar to the "Widgetizer!" script and allows you to copy web parts from one page template to another.
This tweak will allow you to create configured widgets from your configured web parts.
The following steps will show you how to clone the "Editable text" web part and change it's code to display default texts (e.g. {%DocumentName%} macro for the title) for your editors.
The guys at Kentico released a first ctp version of the upcoming 6.0 version which is scheduled for this September. This version was offered to all the attendees of the UK and Irish partner conference. Although I did not attend this conference, I could not resist to download and play with it.
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a tip and trick on how to adjust the default properties of web parts and widgets. I wrote the post so that I could easily locate the xml files whenever I needed them. Since that time I have often used the post, but didn’t want to go to the actual files to find the id’s and types of the properties. That’s why I...
This tip and trick is something I find very useful when working with web parts and widgets. You are probably aware of the dialogs that you get when adding or modifying web parts and widgets. These dialogs consist out of default properties which apply to all web parts and widgets and some custom properties which can be set per web part and widget...