Testimonials Plugin
The Think Up! Design Testimonials Plugin
A Testimonial Rotator for WordPress
A simple to use responsive testimonials rotator that uses WP’s native text widgets and a sidebar.
There are a lot of testimonial plugins out there, but everyone I tried didn’t have the simplicity I was looking for, was too bloated or just didn’t plain work.
The Problem: Entrepreneurs and small businesses need a quick easy solution to add client testimonials to their website. It needs to be responsive to suit today’s web and it needs to be simple, because small business folks don’t have a lot of time.
The Solution: Don’t re-invent the wheel with a massively powerful testimonials rotator, just use what’s available. Enter Think Up! Testimonials!
The Plugin
Think Up Testimonials is a testimonial rotator which uses WordPress’ native text widgets and a sidebar created by the plugin. The plugin output is a responsive testimonial rotator (slider) which is powered by the Woo Flexslider JS.
Installation
- Upload the
thinkup-testimonials
folder to the/wp-content/plugins/
directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Usage
Put your testimonials into individual text widgets with the following markup.
<h3>Your nice quote from someone saying how great you or your business are.</h3><h2>~ Nice Person's Name</h2>
Place the text widget into the sidebar called ‘Think Up Testimonials’. To output the testimonial rotator on the front end, insert the function thinkup_testimonials(); into your theme template files anywhere you want the rotator to appear. (It’s not necessary that it be in the WP loop.
Screenshots
- Front end display of Think Up! Testimonials. Styles inherited from theme.
- Simple text widget with markup stored in Think Up! Testimonials sidebar.