Creating a widget from Blank Canvas (Developer Guide)

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.

Creating a widget from blank canvas can be quite technical in nature.

It is recommended that you utilise a developer, or a team of developers to create a blank canvas widget.

You can utilise the tabs on the left hand side, in order - to setup a development environment to begin your UGC Blank Canvas widget. The guides should run you through how to create a basic widget start to finish.