DaveE

Hi Stefan,

Unfortunately, it isn’t really easy to explain without some knowledge of code. In your situation I’d recommend finding a developer who can help you or trying another plugin/option for your situation.

Sorry I can’t be more help!

Hi sjteef,

If I understand your question correctly, you’d like to be able to adjust what posts are returned based on a a custom post meta key/value? If that is the case, there is a filter available on the FPW query: dpe_fpw_args. You’d need to adjust the query variables to use custom meta values as parameters of the query.

The code would look something like this (only an example):

add_filter( 'dpe_fpw_args', 'fpw_custom_args' );
function fpw_custom_args( $args ) {
		$args['meta_key'] = 'my_custom_key';
		$args['meta_value'] = 'my_custom_value';
	}
	return $args;
}

In the future, I’m planning to add another widget specifically for querying by custom meta values; but as it stands now, FPW doesn’t support this natively. You’ll have to use the filter and write the parameters yourself.

Thanks for using the plugin!

Hi again,

I’m looking into the issues surrounding multilingual widget for FPW. There a lot to consider here. I’m hoping to understand the needs/wants for the widget when using tools like Polylang. Would you be open to helping me understand the use-case a bit more?

Just a heads up that the latest version of FPW now supports “Modified Date” for the order by option.

Hi sajtdavid,

This is now fixed in the just released v3.4. Cheers!

Hi sajtdavid,

Thanks for this! I had a couple others mention that the translations weren’t working and your post pointed me in the right direction for fixing it. I’ve got the code corrected and will be pushing a new version in the next day or so.

I’m not sure if we’re communicating clearly here. In your site’s folder structure, you should have: /wp-content/themes/[your-theme]/flexible-posts-widget where [your-theme] would be the folder of your currently active theme.

Inside that folder would be any custom templates you’ve created. So, if I have a template named my-widget.php the path to that file would be: /wp-content/themes/[your-theme]/flexible-posts-widget/my-widget.php

Also, you could try to remove any setting for the custom HTML template from your widget, just to see that the widget is getting the output from the default template properly.

I can guarantee that the custom template functionality is working correctly. I’m using it on many sites currently and I have updated them using the same process any others.