File structure
The structure of apps, plugins, widgets & design themes
The power of Webasyst is in its apps. The apps that you have installed in your account define what you can do with them; e.g., create websites, publish blogs & photos, track tasks, send email campaigns, etc.
To extend the functionality of one app, you can install plugins for it. Plugins are like mini-apps inside an ordinary app making it more powerful and functional.
You can also add extra features to all apps at once by installing system plugins. There are 3 kinds of them: shipping plugins (to calculate the shipping cost), payment plugins (to enable receipt of payments), and SMS plugins (to send text messages via SMS providers and other similar services).
Apps can be used to display web pages on your site: online stores, photo galleries, knowledge bases, blogs, etc. For convenient management of the web page design are used special sets of templates with visual appearance settings, which are called design themes.
A separate kind of software products is widgets — miniature information blocks displayed in the built-in Webasyst dashboard and in Webasyst TV panels. There are 2 types of them.
App widgets can be installed only in addition to the apps they belong to. For instance, you can use Blog app’s widgets only if you have that app installed in your account.
System widgets do not depend on any particular apps and can be used regardless of what apps you have installed.
All these different kinds of products may use any of the Webasyst framework’s common functionality that is available to them:
