templates

Hi Mark,

You’re doing nothing wrong and I’m sorry if it’s been overly frustrating. I didn’t design that process very well or provide any instructions.

An update is going out today that works better and makes this process much easier. It’s significantly different and I will post complete instructions later.

It hasn’t been overtly frustrating. the plugin works very well.

I made a new template in the plugins folder itself for now and just have to be careful when updating.

Thanks for your answer and I will await the update

I will publish a full tutorial soon but here’s a quick how-to.

The templates are now stored in /templates by group. Three template types are recognized: content.php. widget.php, and form.php. Each may have one stylesheet and the basename must match; e.g. content.css.

(There are Sass files in /templates-scss if you’re so inclined.)

In the View editor, “Display” and “Slideshow” modes will build a list of content and widget templates, and “Form” mode will list form templates only.

To add custom template(s), create a subfolder named /strong-testimonials in your theme. Then, like the plugin structure, create a subdirectory under that per group, even if a group is only one template.

For example, to create a custom template for use in a page using the default as a base:

{plugin}/templates/default/content.php --> {theme}/strong-testimonials/my-custom-template/content.php
{plugin}/templates/default/content.css --> {theme}/strong-testimonials/my-custom-template/content.css

Name that subdirectory “default” in your theme to override the plugin default.

If not overriding the plugin default, when copying any template to your theme, be sure to change the Template Name and Description in the file header (both used in the View editor).

Furthermore, each template has a unique CSS class on the strong-view container div. If not copying the associated stylesheet, you probably want to remove that class to be safe and maybe add your own unique class.

If you are copying the associated stylesheet, rename that class in the template and stylesheet to prevent conflicts in case you use a plugin template on the same page.

High CSS specificity is the only way I’ve found to use multiple templates.

Hi, Thanks for the tutorial but I cant seem to make it work, I used the standard names in the copied templates and my own names but it doesn’t make any difference. It keeps using the template in the plugin directory and not the one in the theme.

One thing I also noticed is that even if you use the standard templates the featured images don’t show up anymore in the testimonials after the latest update

Is this a live site that I can see a test page?

Please walk me through the steps you took.

Hi,

forget about the featured image not working. I had taken the photo field out of the fields by accident.

I did the following I made a sub directory in my theme-folder named strong-testimonials. I made a sub directory named templates inside of that one and inside that directory I made a sub directory with the name of the template. Inside I put the three files named content.php, form.php, then I changed the names of the templates like this:

content.php

<?php
/**
 * Template Name: Richard
 * Description: The Richard template.
 */
?>

form.php

<?php
/**
 * Template Name: Richard Form
 * Description: The Richard form template.
 */
?>

I am using the latest update: 1.25.5 . when I place the same files in the template directory of the plugin it works fine. But the plugin doesn’t “see” the files in the template directory.

The site is currently not online so I don’t have an url

In the theme, strong-testimonials is the templates directory. It doesn’t match the plugin structure exactly but I couldn’t see a reason for an extra subdir.

{plugin}/templates/default/content.php --> {theme}/strong-testimonials/{template-name}/content.php

Ah thanks , that works. can’t believe I didn’t try that before