In the site admin, open Widgets to manage widget areas and the items assigned to them.
Checked against the product’s code on 7 November 2026.
Widgets is EmDash’s manager for content placed in named areas, such as a sidebar. A widget area shows on the public site only where the site’s layout displays it by name. On Praxis that is mainly the sidebars and footers of pages moved from WordPress. A new area you create here is not shown anywhere until a layout uses its name.
Add an area and a widget
Section titled “Add an area and a widget”Changes save at once. Visitors see the change within the hour, usually much sooner. While the site’s server is down, visitors may see the previous version of a page for up to a day.
- Open Widgets.
- Choose Add Widget Area.
- Give the area a Name (lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens only).
- Give it a Label people will read.
- Add a Description if useful.
- Choose Create.
- Drag a kind from Available Widgets into the area. The widget is added at once, named after its kind.
- Open the widget.
- Change its Title.
- Fill in its content or settings.
- Choose Save.
A content widget contains editable text and blocks. A menu widget chooses an existing Menu. A component widget chooses a Component made available by the site and its offered settings. The available components depend on the site.
Change order or remove content
Section titled “Change order or remove content”Drag a widget by its reorder handle to change its order within the area.
To edit it again:
- Open the widget.
- Change the intended value.
- Choose Save.
Deleting a widget removes it from that area. Deleting the area also deletes all its widgets. Both confirmations describe permanent removal, so review them before accepting. Widget changes have no draft or Publish step. They take effect when saved, though cached pages can take longer to show them.
Ask the copilot
Section titled “Ask the copilot”Ask it to list the areas, inspect an area’s widgets or add a supported widget. Writes to widget areas and widgets pause for approval. Some changes have a checked Undo; deletion has no automatic Undo. Read the exact receipt.
Your next step
Section titled “Your next step”Inspect a page whose layout displays the widget area you changed. Use EmDash site settings to review the related site configuration.