#Extending UUserWidget
Are you really making a regular UCompoundWidget into a blueprint?!
Or are you using UUserWidget?
in the later case see this tutorial by WCode
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My response is still valid for anyone reading your question in regards to Bluepirnts in general
But for slate you should see the Slate tutorials on the wiki and the above tutorial