Helpful Widgets

October 28, 2025 ยท View on GitHub

Adds multiple helpful widget content types. These are basic widgets that are added by built-in Orchard Core recipes though in case of using a custom setup recipe these can be added by this feature too.

ContainerWidget

Works as a container for further widgets. It has a FlowPart attached to it so it can contain additional widgets as well.

It has a TitlePart, which doesn't get displayed on the front end. You can use it to make the admin editor more organized. This title is also added as a class and data-attribute to the widget's wrapper element. For example, if the title is "About this project", then the wrapper will look like this:

<div class="widget widget-container-widget widget-align-justify widget-container-widget-title-about-this-project" data-title="About this project">

HtmlWidget

Adds HTML editing and displaying capabilities using a WYSIWYG editor.

LiquidWidget

Adds Liquid code editing and rendering capabilities.

Renders a Bootstrap navigation menu as a widget using the provided MenuItems.

Note

The menu is populated from INavigationProvider implementations that create the menu items programmatically. If you use Lombiq Base Theme for Orchard Core, it has MainMenuNavigationProvider. This automatically translates an existing content item with a MenuItemsListPart and the main-menu alias into compatible navigation, so you can edit menu items from the content editor.