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Widgets

You will rarely need this page.

In EmDash, Widgets is where you drop small boxes into a sidebar: a search box, a tag list, a list of recent posts.

Your website has no sidebars, and it does not read this screen. Anything you build here shows up on this screen and nowhere else.

Go to Manage, then Widgets, and this is what you get.

The Widgets screen. A list of available widgets on the left, and on the right a panel reading No widget areas yet. Create one to get started.

The list on the left is what EmDash offers. The panel on the right is what your website uses.

There is nothing to do here. Adding a widget area changes nothing that a visitor can see.

To change what is actually on a page, open the page itself and add a block. Pages covers that.

Checked against EmDash 0.34.0 and Lookout Ridge IT template 0.11.8 on August 21, 2026.