How to Override a Customer Module Widget Templates in Magento 2 using Plugin

If you are building a module and you encounter a block that cannot be referenced by name then you probably need to create a plugin to overwrite the template. This can be achieved in three simple steps.

STEP 1 :

Copy telephone.phtml template to your custom module (in my case it’s Bajaj_Customer)

/vendor/magento/module-customer/view/frontend/templates/widget/telephone.phtml

to

/app/code/Bajaj/Customer/view/frontend/templates/widget/telephone.phtml

STEP 2 :

Now we need to create a Plugin class.

/app/code/Bajaj/Customer/Plugin/Customer/Block/Widget/Telephone.php

<?php

namespace Bajaj\Customer\Plugin\Customer\Block\Widget;

class Telephone
{
    public function beforeToHtml(\Magento\Customer\Block\Widget\Telephone $subject)
    {
        $subject->setTemplate('Bajaj_Customer::widget/telephone.phtml');
    }
}

STEP 3 :

Update di.xml 

/app/code/Bajaj/Customer/etc/di.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:ObjectManager/etc/config.xsd">
    <type name="Magento\Customer\Block\Widget\Telephone">
        <plugin name="module_customer_block_widget_telephone_override_template"
                type="Bajaj\Customer\Plugin\Customer\Block\Widget\Telephone"/>
    </type>
</config>

 

Similarly you can override any templates defined in the widget folder.

 

Thank you 🙏 !