Both, content provider and widgets, are plugins. You can easily add your own content providers or widgets. Widgetkit is very modular and extendable by design. And of course all widgets are fully responsive. If you use a theme which is already using UIkit, like all Warp 7 themes, it is even better because Widgetkit will automatically match the style of the theme. For example, the new Slideshow is just 3.2 KB gzipped and the additional special effects are just 2.5 KB. This is great because UIkit is extremely fast and lightweight. Widgetkit 2 is completely based on our popular front-end framework UIkit. In this example the Slideshow uses the Swipe animation and autoplay is enabled. A more advanced shortcode with some custom options would look like this. The Slideshow will be rendered using the default options.
In this example, we render the content with the ID 1 with the Slideshow widget. A Widgetkit shortcode needs 2 things: the ID of the content that you want to display and a widget. The usage of shortcodes is really simple. Widgetkit 1.x already supported shortcodes but this time Widgetkit is designed around the shortcode concept. Basically you insert a shortcode in a WordPress post or Joomla article, and it is replaced with a widget, for example a slideshow which loads dynamic content from your CMS. Shortcodes are a very popular concept from WordPress, which allows you to easily publish dynamic content without any programming knowledge. You don't have to go somewhere else anymore. This is awesome because you can edit the widget right inside your posts where it is used. To edit a widget you have to open the post and edit the shortcode there. This means there are no widget instances anymore. To create a widget, you just pick a widget type and your content and place it as shortcode in your posts. On the other hand there are the widgets with their display options. You edit the content in a nice user interface with preview thumbnails, drag & drop sorting and much more. We provide a nice gallery-like overview of your content. You can create custom content or use existing content like WordPress posts or Joomla articles with Widgetkit. In Widgetkit 2 you create your content separately. One of the main architectural changes compared to Widgetkit 1.x is the decoupling of content and widgets. Once this is done, you insert your widget as a shortcode into your content. First, you choose a widget then pick the content you want to display and, if necessary, change a couple of widget options. There now is a Widgetkit button that opens Widgetkit in a lightbox and lets you insert your widget in 3 easy steps. We integrated Widgetkit into the WordPress and Joomla editor, right where you write your content. Widgetkit 2 comes with a beautifully designed user interface, which allows you to easily create your widgets.
Let's take a closer look at all the cool new stuff. The initial release comes with a Slideshow, Switcher, Map, Grid and Grid-Stack widget and supports to loading content from WordPress, Joomla, ZOO, K2 and Woocommerce. Widgetkit 2 is a feature-rich widget builder which helps you to quickly create any type of page you like without any coding skills. Today we are very proud to present the next generation of our very popular Widgetkit extension: Widgetkit 2! We completely rethought the way of creating widgets and their content.
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