Widgets

Magento provides support for widgets. Though the word "widget" might imply frontend development skills and activities, we will look at them as a part of the backend development flow because creating useful and robust widgets requires a significant amount of backend knowledge.

Magento provides several out-of-the-box widgets; some of them are as follows:

• CMS page link

• CMS static block

• Catalog category link

• Catalog new products list

• Catalog product link

• Catalog products list

• Orders and returns

• Recently compared products

• Recently viewed products

To create a fully custom widget, we start by defining app/code/Foggyline/Office/etc/widget.xml with content, as follows:

<widgets xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module: Magento_Widget:etc/widget.xsd">
    <widget id="foggyline_office"
        class="Foggyline\Office\Block\Widget\Example"
            placeholder_image="Magento_Cms::images/ widget_block.png">
        <label translate...