Onsite Widgets (NextGen)

You are reading the NextGen Documentation

NextGen widgets are a new and improved way to display UGC content onsite.

From September 23rd 2025, all new widgets created will be NextGen.

Please check your widget version on the Widget List page to see if it is a Classic or NextGen widget.

You can read the Classic Widget Documentation here.

Overview

Nosto's UGC widgets have been developed to provide a variety of key features that make them the best choice for displaying content on a web page. Used by 90% of clients. Serving 16 million requests a day.

Usage

Key Features

• Speed & flexibility of development within the UGC Platform.

• Easy customization of CSS and JS, and now includes Typescript support!

• Access to a powerful Typescript SDK.

• Optimized responsive display.

• Built-in content freshness detection.

• Speed and robustness of content delivery.

• Produces simple and reusable HTML embed code.

• Dynamically embedded into a web component without the need of an IFrame!

• Reporting on tile and widget performance via Google Analytics.