From the course: Magento Community Edition 2 Essential Training
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Blocks and widgets
From the course: Magento Community Edition 2 Essential Training
Blocks and widgets
- [Voiceover] Now before we can place our about page in some visible area of the site, we need to learn the basics about blocks and widgets. Click over here on content, then as we've seen under elements, along with pages the other two types of content elements are blocks and widgets. Now blocks and widgets are very similar in they're one of the things that where you have to kind of watch and play around with it to learn the difference. It's really hard to describe the differences between these things because they're very tightly intertwined and in some cases, almost interchangeable. Additionally, you can have widgets that contain blocks and you can even have blocks that contain widgets. So we're just going to take a very simple example here. Before we do that, let's click on our account name and open up the customer view in a new tab and we'll just click on coffee. And let's say that over here somewhere we want a little block that says if you're having trouble finding what you want…
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