Is my virtuemart plugin overridable?

In VirtueMart we use the joomla template system to create the overrides of a plugin. This is very helpful if you want to adjust the output of the product view visible to your shoppers.

To check if your plugin is overridable, please check your installation. Search for your plugin in the path

/root/plugins/group/name

for example

/plugins/vmcustom/textinput

When the plugin has a second folder with the same name in it, then it is using the overridable pattern. For example

/plugins/vmcustom/textinput/textinput

How to override

Copy the second folder to

/templates/[yourtemplate]/html/[group]/[name]

You can see the group of your plugin, when you enter the extension list. Or it is just the uppermost folder the plugin is using. We use:

  • vmcalculation
  • vmcustom
  • vmpayment
  • vmshipment
  • vmshopper
  • vmuserfield

So the right path for the textinput plugin would be

/templates/[yourtemplate]/html/vmcustom/textinput