Testimonials by Woothemes Plugin is a free plugin that works great on any theme, not just Woothemes. Its simple coding also allows the plugin to match the style of your theme. It gives you the option to add a testimonial page using a shortcode and also has a great widget for your sidebars or widgetized areas.
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Nice one Bob. It’s so new it doesn’t show up on WooThemes Plugin page yet! I like it. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, I’ve noticed that… actually surprised it didn’t show up there before .org…
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This is great! Thank you.
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Bob,
I’m trying to set up a WordPress Testimonials page using Testimonials by Woothemes, but each testimonial comes out in a single block paragraph, instead of the individual paragraphs I’m entering. Is there any way to have multiple paragraphs with this plugin?
So are you using the shortcode for the page? I know that it uses you themes style sheet, but you should still be getting separate testimonials. Can you post the URL of that page?
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I would like to the testimonials to show one at a time (changing) on the front page, but it seems no matter what I plug in there is a giant gray box with nothing else. Any thoughts on how to fix this?
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Hey Jennifer, first, you will need to make sure it’s set for just 1 testimonial and that the drop down box for “order by” choose random order. This should change the testimonial on reload of the page. If not, try it a couple of times.
Now as far as a gray box, that’s weird. So you have some testimonials set up obviously? Not sure if it’s conflicting with your theme or another plugin. Do you have a URL that shows what it is looking like?
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Hi Bob! Thanks for your response. I turned off all the other plugins, and that helped a little. I also moved it into the sidebar. But it’s still showing up as blank. (We do have a title showing, so that’s progress)
http://cyclechina.com/four-day-mystical-yangshuo-outdoor-adventure/
Ideally I wanted to have a strip across the main page that slides different reviews. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find the short code for that.
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Yeah, it should be showing them if you have put some in under “testimonials” in the dashboard. Weird. And unfortunately there is not shortcode for this plugin to have them show up in slides, you will need to find another plugin for that.
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Hi Bob,
I would like the Testimonials to be on a vertical layout like the one on this demo, http://demo2.woothemes.com/?name=theonepager
How would I do that?
Thanks!
Hi Aicee, I don’t think that can be done with this widget, and not sure I know of one that does that. It looks custom to me, just saying. One thing you might consider is how I did mine on this page http://www.bobwp.com/build-your-wordpress-blog-online-class/
What I did was create the whole thing in another program and saved it as a jpg and inserted. Since I’m not a coder, and don’t like much messing with it, this gives me a nice layout without having to worry something will screw up. Hope that helps.
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