Testimonials Widget free WordPress plugin
Description
Testimonials Widget free WordPress plugin
Our famous Testimonials Widget Premium plugin is now part of the Testimonials Widget plugin. All the premium features are included in this plugin.
Let others prove you’re a credible business through their own words to help you improve your conversion rates and increase lead generation. Testimonials Widget Premium is the most incredibly full-featured WordPress testimonials plugin with forms, lists, ratings, shortcodes, sliders, widgets, & more.
Testimonials Widget Premium lets you randomly slide or list selected portfolios, quotes, reviews, or text with images or videos on your WordPress site. You can insert Testimonials content via shortcode, theme functions, or widgets with category and tag selections and having multiple display options such as random or specific ordering.
Additionally, Testimonials Widget Premium offers caching, excerpts, ratings, read more links, more selection options, and advanced capabilities like using custom post types as testimonials. Additionally, testimonials support ratings and users can submit their own testimonials via a front-end form shortcode or widget.
Testimonials Widget Premium is Beyond a Simple WordPress Testimonials Slider!
Carousel, fade, and slide transitions
Filter slideshow content by WordPress’ categories, tags, or post ID
Random display
Read more and single view compatible
Shortcode compatible – slide content that is rendered using shortcodes. e.g. Worpdress Galleries and Gravity Forms
Simply styled for easy theme adaption
Slide images – responsive image slideshow
Slide mixed content – responsively slide images, text, and video together
Slide text – useful for rotating testimonials
Slide videos – video slideshow
User submitted content compatible
Widget and shortcode ready
Introduction to Testimonials Widget Premium plugin for WordPress
View a Live Testimonials Demo
General Information
More than one testimonials shortcode or widget instance can be displayed at a time on a page. Additionally, with shortcodes and theme functions, you can display a short or long list or rotation of testimonials anywhere you need.
Through categories and tagging, you can create organizational structures. Using categories for products, projects and services you can then apply tagging for further classification.
As an example, create a Portfolio category and then use tags to identify web, magazine, media, public, enterprise, or other niches. Then configure the Testimonial instance to show only Portfolio testimonials with the public and enterprise tags. In another Testimonial instance, you can also select only Portfolio testimonials, but then allow web and media tags.
For easy custom styling, each testimonial widget has its own CSS class identifier.
Widgets display content sans wpautop formatting. This means there’s no forced paragraph breaks unless the content specifically contains them. If needed, you can enable wpautop via the “Keep whitespace?” option.
The single testimonial view supports image, author, title, location, email, company and URL details.
User submitted testimonials are marked as “Pending” in WordPress Admin > Testimonials listing. Testimonials are saved to the testimonials-widget custom post type.
As per Google’s quality guidelines, marking up irrelevant or misleading content, such as fake reviews or content unrelated to the focus of a page may lead to review stars removed.
Premium Shortcodes
[[testimonials]] – Testimonials listing with paging
[[testimonials_archives]] – A monthly archive of your site’s testimonials
[[testimonials_categories]] – A list or dropdown of testimonials’ categories
[[testimonials_count]] – Count of testimonials
[[testimonials_form]] – Testimonials entry form
[[testimonials_links]] – List of testimonial author and title linking to full entry
[[testimonials_recent]] – Your site’s most recent testimonials
[[testimonials_slider]] – Displays rotating testimonials or statically
[[testimonials_tag_cloud]] – A cloud of your most used testimonials’ tags
Premium Theme Functions
Shortcode Examples
Read EXAMPLES.
View Testimonials Widget demo.
Shortcode and Widget Options
Please keep in mind that inheritance affects options. This means that changes made to Testimonials > Settings will not affect current widget instance options. You must change the widget instance manually. However, if you create a new widget instance, then the global settings will apply.
Further, global settings are the baseline for shortcodes. If you want to alter the shortcode appearance, then alter the shortcode options directly.
Details on the Shortcode Attributes tab at WordPress Admin > Testimonials > Settings. Alternately, read OPTIONS.
Testimonials RSS Feed URLs
URL slug ‘testimonials’ is the default, but is customizable otherwise.
http://example.com/?feed=testimonials
http://example.com/feed/testimonials
http://example.com/testimonials.xml
Testimonials Widget Premium Migration Helpers
Testimonials Widget pre 2.0.0 – Install and activate Testimonials Widget 2.19.0 before installing the latest Testimonials Widget for automatic upgrading.
GC Testimonials
Testimonials by WooThemes
100+ Premium Features
“Read more” link column on testimonial posts admin page
Email-based support with responses and resolution within 1- and 3-business days respectively
Adjustable animation speed
Admin interface to add, edit and manage testimonials
Admin mode only anti-spam debug help text
Akismet, math-based CAPTCHA, and many anti-spam traps
Alternate destinations for “Read more” links
Alternating .even and .odd CSS classes for styling testimonial list entries
API to manipulate testimonials output and selection
Archive Page URL and Testimonial Page URL are prevented from being the same or matching existing pages.
Author field can override testimonial title
Auto rotate testimonials by page
Auto-suggest for category and tag options
Automatic linking of email and URL fields via author or company fields
Built-in update notification
Cache per page when you use custom testimonials instance per page
Caching of testimonials queries and content to decrease server load time improve page loading speed by 1/10 to 1/2 a second
Capable of handling multiple widgets per page or post
Carousel mode for rotating multiple testimonials at the same time
Clear cache when WP Super Cache, FlexiCache, Hyper Cache, DB Cache Reloaded Fix does
Clickable widget titles
Collapse and expand long testimonials using Readmore.js “Read more” and “Close” links.
Commenting on testimonial single-view pages
Compatible with WordPress multisite
Configuration based validation for easy extending or overriding
Content truncation respects HTML tags
CSS based testimonials submissions form layout
Custom CSS in footer for HTML validation
Custom text or HTML for bottom of widgets
Custom widget bottom text
Customizable archive and testimonial URLs
Customizable testimonial data field testimonial_extra
Default post author, category, and status options for user testimonial submissions
Deletes old and related testimonial cache entries automatically
Deletes testimonials-widget custom post type entries and settings on uninstall
Disable caching for widget, shortcode or theme functions
Disable donate and purchase related text and links
Disable self-generated quotation marks
Displays ratings to grant testimonials more emphasis!
Easy to configure Next and Previous page indicators
Edit page columns are sortable for custom fields
Editors and admins can edit testimonial publisher
Email notification for user submitted testimonials
Excerpts for widget view, with read more link to complete testimonial
Fields for author, testimonial, image, title, location, email, company and URL details
Fields for rating, item reviewed, and item URL per testimonial
Filters for caching and more link control, text replacement, and more
Flush URLs on deactivation
Form “Testimonial” header text is customizable to “Specials” or other terms
Front-end entry form for user supplied testimonials. Live form demo
Gravatars saved as featured images
IDs column shown in testimonials edit page
IE7 CSS hacks for quotes and join parts
Image, email based Gravatar, category and tag enabled
Internal version tracking for compatibility checks and automatic settings update
Localizable via languages/testimonials-widget.pot
Minimalist CSS styling for easier theming
Multiple paging options for testimonials listings
Multiple user-entry forms on same page are allowed
On testimonial submission error, focus on first required field
Optional commenting on testimonial single-view pages
Performance optimizations
Plugin version tracking to ensure compatibility
Premium tab on settings screen for site-wide option defaults
Ratings can be set to no, minimal, or maximal values
Read more links for testimonials exceeding the character limit
Require minimumal testimonial rating for display
Respects meta capabilities
Right Now Dashboard widget displays “Pending Testimonials” counts
Rotation JavaScript in footer than body
Search for testimonials by title, excerpt, content, or meta fields
Select only testimonials with excerpts, images or of arbitrary maximum and minimum length
Select post, page and other custom post types for content rotations slider
Settings and URL based cache clearing
Settings export/import
Settings page contextual help
Settings screen for site-wide option defaults
Shortcode helpers on category and tag admin screens
Shortcodes allowed inside of testimonials content
Shortcodes and theme functions for listings and rotation
Shortcodes and theme functions for testimonials count and testimonial link list
Shortcodes, theme functions, and widget user testimonial submission form
Show excerpts with list and single views
Show unique testimonials when displaying multiple testimonial instances
Simple, single rating per testimonials
Single testimonial view includes image, author, title, location, email, company and URL details
Sticky testimonials for implied importance in listings
Supports WP-PageNavi
Testimonial content supports HTML
Testimonial links listing with image, author, title, location, company, and URL fields
Testimonial, email, and URL fields are clickable – URL requires http:// or https:// prefix
Testimonials archive view
Testimonials output is completely customizable via filters
Testimonials specific RSS feed via customizable URL slug
Testimonials support styling based upon CSS classes for category, tags and post id
Testimonials widget displays static and rotating testimonials
Unique CSS class per widget
Upload images by browsing or URL
URLs can be opened in new windows
Use custom taxonomy or WordPress’s own for categories and tags
Uses bxSlider for transitions
WordPress Admin > Testimonials > Clear Cache menu link
WordPress Multilingual enabled WPML
WPML compatible
Testimonials Widget Premium Doesn’t Work For You?
Our 30 day money back guarantee gives you time to make sure your purchase is perfect. If you need to return it for any reason, we’ll happily provide you with an exchange or full refund. No questions asked.
Your license for support and updates will be revoked though.
API
Read API.
Conflicts
ReOrder Post Within Categories – Uses custom ordering table
Deprecation Notices
Read DEPRECATED.
Localization
Dutch by Bjorn Robijns
Hebrew by Ahrale
You can translate this plugin into your own language if it’s not done so already. The localization file testimonials-widget.pot can be found in the languages folder of this plugin. After translation, please send the localized file for plugin inclusion.
How do I localize?
Notes
Default and Gravatar image size is based upon Thumbnail size in Media Settings
When plugin is uninstalled, all data and settings are deleted if “Remove Plugin Data on Deletion” is checked in Settings
Recommendation
Use Jonathan Lundström’s Drag & Drop Featured Image to speed up loading of the featured image
Thank You
A big, special thank you to Joe Weber of 12 Star Creative for creating the Testimonials Widget banner. It’s fantastic.
A cool thanks to RedRokk Library for the redrokk_metabox_class. It makes configuring meta boxes for your posts, pages or custom post types a snap.
Current development by Axelerant.