Can we group Widgets on page builder

Hello Community,

I have one question. Is there any way to group the widgets on page builder mode while author configures content??

As the number of widgets grows it becomes difficult to find the widgets for author. So to improve the author experience i would like categories the widgets into blocks. For Example [for images, for navigation, for banners, etc...]

Another Use case would be grouping the reusable content types or page content type while creating those.

Pretty sure Kentico does not have built in feature or anything related to it. Any suggestions or advice would be helpful

Environment

  • Xperience by Kentico version: [31.6.2]

  • .NET version: [10]

  • Execution environment: [SaaS]

Tags:
UX Page Builder

Answers

Hi,

You're right - there's no built-in way to group or categories widgets in the Page Builder picker. I checked the widget registration reference to be sure, and the RegisterWidget attribute only exposes Identifier, Name, ViewComponentType, PropertiesType, CustomViewName, AllowCache, Description and IconClass. There's no category/group parameter, so the picker stays a single flat list:
https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/development/builders/page-builder/widgets-for-page-builder#register-widgets

A few things that help in practice, though:

  1. Restrict widgets per area/zone. You can pass an AllowedWidgets allowlist to EditableAreaOptions (and combine it with widget-zone restrictions in your sections). It won't group the widgets, but it shortens the list to only what's relevant for that spot, which usually solves the "too many widgets to scroll through" pain for authors:
    https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/development/builders/page-builder/create-pages-with-editable-areas#add-editable-areas-to-views
  2. Naming + icons. A consistent naming prefix (e.g. Image – Gallery, Nav – Mega menu, Banner – Hero) plus distinct IconClass values makes the flat list far easier to scan.
  3. For the reusable content-type grouping part of your question - that's driven by your content type / reusable field schema setup rather than the widget list, so the same picker limitation applies there.

I also had a look through the current Kentico roadmap and didn't see widget categories on there, so if this is important for your authors it'd be worth raising with Kentico (via support or your account contact) so it can be considered for a future refresh.

Hope that helps.

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