---
title: Customizing group pages using widgets
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k82/developing-websites/preparing-widgets-for-users/setting-up-widget-zones-on-pages.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k82/community-features/groups/allowing-users-to-create-groups.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k82/developing-websites/preparing-widgets-for-users.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

Group pages can contain areas where administrators of individual groups can edit content using [widgets](https://docs.kentico.com/k82/developing-websites/preparing-widgets-for-users.md). Widgets are page components that display content or provide some type of functionality.

To allow customization via widgets for groups, set up [group widget zones](https://docs.kentico.com/k82/developing-websites/preparing-widgets-for-users/setting-up-widget-zones-on-pages.md) when creating the website's [group page templates](https://docs.kentico.com/k82/community-features/groups/allowing-users-to-create-groups.md).

## Adding content to group widget zones

> **Note:** **Requirements**
>
> - Only _group administrators_ can work with widgets on the pages of a group. Group administrators are members who belong to a group role that is allowed to **Manage the group**. See [Working with groups](https://docs.kentico.com/k82/community-features/groups/working-with-groups.md) for more information.
> - Editing of group widgets only works on pages that are owned by a group:
>   - When [creating groups on the live site](https://docs.kentico.com/k82/community-features/groups/creating-groups-on-the-live-site.md), the system automatically sets group ownership for all of the group's pages.
>   - Website administrators can manually configure the group ownership of individual pages in **Pages -> Edit -> Properties -> General** through the **Owned by group** property.

You can add widgets on pages that contain [group widget zones](https://docs.kentico.com/k82/developing-websites/preparing-widgets-for-users/setting-up-widget-zones-on-pages.md). To edit the content of the zones, view the group's pages _**on the live site**_.

1. Hover over a widget zone on the page.
   - A dotted outline appears around the zone.
2. Click **Add new widget** () in the top left corner of the zone.
3. Select a widget from the catalog (you can only choose widgets that are [allowed](https://docs.kentico.com/k82/developing-websites/preparing-widgets-for-users/configuring-permissions-for-widgets.md) for group zones).
4. Click **Select**.

   - The widget configuration dialog opens (some widgets skip the initial property configuration dialog).
5. Set the properties of the widget. To learn more about specific widget properties, hover over the field captions and read the tooltips.

   > **Info:** For security reasons, the system does NOT resolve [macro expressions](https://docs.kentico.com/k82/macro-expressions.md) placed into the values of widget properties in the configuration dialog.
6. Click **OK**.

The system adds the widget to the page, inside the selected zone. The widget instantly becomes visible for all users who have access to the group's pages. Users who are not administrators of the group can see the content of the widget zones, but cannot manage the widgets.