custom template for a widget

Hi @zied86.

You’re headed down the right path. Check out “How can I modify the widget design or output?” on the FAQ page. You’ll see that there is a safe way to create a new template in your theme using that fpw_views folder.

However, I would encourage you to try to use CSS or a filter first if possible as those are the most future-friendly ways of modifying the plugin. (I will do my absolute best to make the templating work in the future, but new features will almost certainly require modifying the template.)

So take a look at that FAQ answer and let me know if you have any other questions.

Glad to help!

What are you actually trying to do? Are you saying that the existing templating structure for the plugin isn’t working for you?

Is the issue that you need multiple different widget layouts for different pages? Maybe a link or screenshot might help show me the problem?

Each widget gets a class specific to the page it features, so you can get a long way with CSS or use a conditional statement in the widget layout based on the page id.

Ok. Thanks for the details.

Unfortunately, you’re right that right now this plugin does not support multiple templates. You could technically do this in the current single widget layout template with conditionals (pseudo-code), but I wouldn’t recommend it as that would be hard to maintain.

if( in_array( $featured_page_id, array( 12, 47, 93 ) ) {
    /* custom widget layout #1 */
} elseif( in_array( $featured_page_id, array( 43, 32 ) ) {
    /* custom widget layout #2 */
}

I may add more advanced templating at some point in the future, but I’ll be honest and tell you that it probably won’t be high on the priority list. However, I’ve added it to the features poll, so make sure to go there and vote for it and any other features you would like.