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July 19, 2009

Testimonials Manager for WordPress

Filed under: Free WordPress Plugins,WordPress Plugins — Tags: , , , — Gobala Krishnan @ 3:05 am

Testimonials Manager is a WordPress plugin that allows you to manage and display testimonials for your blog, product or service. It can be used to build your portfolio or to encourage readers to subscribe / buy your products.

This is without doubt the best testimonial plugin for WordPress – it’s simple but powerful and flexible. Version 2 is redesigned and improved to allow more options when adding, managing and displaying testimonials.

Add and Edit Testimonials Easily

To add a new testimonials, just enter the Name, Website and Website URL as well as the full testimonial. Version 2 comes with a built in text editor, using TinyMCE. You can use Gravatars or upload a custom user image. All uploaded images will be automatically re-sized based on your settings.

Add New Testimonial

You can then view all your testimonials in a screen that is pretty similar to how you manage WordPress comments, and choose to Edit or Delete testimonials:

Manage Testimonials

Display Full Testimonials Page

All your testimonials can be displayed according to order on a full page. All you need to do is paste the following code in any WordPress page where you want your testimonials to appear:

Your full testimonials page will look like this:

I was struggling to get the testimonials on my website until I found Testimonial Manager. This plugin makes it very easy to add new testimonials and it looks good on the site immediately!

Yvon Kruger
Fit in 90 Dagen
Testimonials Manager is an awesome plugin. Best of its kind that I have found.

Scott Bernadot
Bernadot.com
I have several niche blogs. Sometimes I leave comments unapproved for weeks, because I don’t have time to decide about the borderline ones. (The obvious spam I delete immediately.)

The Comment Policy plugin gives everyone clear warning and should make life much easier!

Kathleen Gresham
Web Fresh Leads
Thanks for the great plugin. It works perfectly! Love the fact that there's a widget AND being able to have a testimonials page. Ive tried at least two other plugins, and they dont match the functionality of Testimonials Manager.

Mark
Testimonials Manager is cool! It saves me alot of time designing a testimonial page.
Plus, it is so easy to manage.

Dr. L M Foong
SWOT Analysis Template
avatarThe Testimonials Manager plugin works a treat!! I've used mine in the sidebar on one of my blogs; extremely easy to set up and it really looks the part!

Phil Henderson
Local Search Marketing
Powered by the Testimonial Manager Plugin for Wordpress.

As of version 2, we added pagination and the ability to sort the order of testimonials that appear of the full page. Now you can have the latest testimonials displayed first, on page 1.

Edit Style and Settings

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Testimonials Widget

Rotate Testimonials Using Sidebar Widgets

Most importantly, you can rotate a predefined number of testimonials in your sidebar using WordPress widgets. Just drag and drop the Testimonials Manager widget in the correct sidebar, then give it a title and set the amount of testimonials to rotate.

The widget will automatically detect pages with the shortcode and link to it automatically with a “Read More” link. If you’ve put the code in more than one page, you can choose which page to link to.

Of course, you can also edit the appearance of the widget using the Custom CSS box. Make your testimonials scream out loud if you want to, or subtly remind your readers why they are subscribed in the first place.

From Version 2 onwards, you can have as many widgets as you want on different sidebars, depending on the design of your blog. Plus, the widget now uses true randomization instead of “linear” randomization.

Update:

This plugin is no longer supported, as we’ve grown jaded and annoyed with the WordPress plugin submission system.

We’re now focusing our efforts on maintaining our PLR WordPress Videos site, where you can get private label access to more than 100 WordPress, blogging and social media video tutorials. You can then rebrand it and sell it as your own product.

For more information, visit: http://www.plrwpvideos.com

413 Comments

  1. What a great idea. I have a few niche blogs where this will enable me to add lots of social proof.

    Thanks

    John

    Comment by John Taylor — July 19, 2009 @ 10:11 am

  2. What a superb idea and it makes it even easier to use WP as a site builder.

    Thanks!

    Alex

    Comment by Alex Newell — July 19, 2009 @ 10:20 am

  3. And also if you’re using WordPress to sell products – i.e the salesletter themes everyone seem to be selling these days

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — July 19, 2009 @ 10:22 am

  4. Great plugin, I would like to use this plugin to my testimonial page. Thank you very much

    Comment by Putra Eka — July 19, 2009 @ 10:29 am

  5. Superb Idea, Great work.
    I just test it, and love it.
    Thank you Krishnan.

    Comment by Imp. Winartho — July 19, 2009 @ 10:49 am

  6. This plugin is cool! It saves me alot of time designing testimonial page.
    This plug in is so easy to manage.
    Great plugin

    Comment by Dr. L M Foong — July 19, 2009 @ 11:04 am

  7. Just downloaded

    Haven’t looked at the code yet, but is there a way to specify testimonials or a range, or series such as 1,4,5

    This would make it a little easier to handle split-testing

    The obvious thing that seems to be missing is a way for users to enter testimonials.

    Without a way to enter testimonials, wouldn’t it be easier just to set up a page, and use some kind of spruced up comment system, and a widget that uses queries based upon comments on a single page?

    Comment by Andy Beard — July 19, 2009 @ 11:27 am

  8. What a great idea for plugin! Thank You :)

    Comment by IngaOz — July 19, 2009 @ 11:35 am

  9. @ Andy Beard – Currently the sidebar testimonials are rotated randomly. Testimonials on full page appear in order entered. And yes, you’ll need to manually enter them. I see what you’re trying to say though, it would be an interesting idea but I’m not sure if it will make it more user friendly.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — July 19, 2009 @ 11:37 am

  10. How kind of you to have offer this plugin free, the plugin is so great and easy to use. Thank you.

    Comment by Atlis Lo (Beaulife) — July 19, 2009 @ 11:48 am

  11. wow! that is one handy plugins especially when I want to make a minisite from wp. :)
    thanks

    Comment by Kuasa Blog — July 19, 2009 @ 12:18 pm

  12. Great idea for a plugin… gonna test it out on a few of my sites… like the widget idea… Thanx!

    Comment by Linda — July 19, 2009 @ 12:30 pm

  13. Well that was good timing I have to say.Only this morning I was looking for a plug-in
    Looks very clean and easy to use. Many Thanks Again

    Comment by Mark Ratheram — July 19, 2009 @ 12:34 pm

  14. Hi Gobala,

    This looks a really great plugin.

    However, is it possible to create different testimonials for different products?

    E.g. Say I have two ebooks, can you specify testimonials for ebook 1 and ebook 2 and display them on different pages?

    David

    Comment by David Walker — July 19, 2009 @ 12:37 pm

  15. hi gobala,

    Thanks for the update. Indeed a good plugin for those who are promoting their own products on their blog.

    cheers!

    Adwin Ang

    Comment by Adwin Ang — July 19, 2009 @ 12:42 pm

  16. Cool plugin…this will add a bit more stickiness to your wp blog, Thanks

    Comment by Bill Masson — July 19, 2009 @ 12:46 pm

  17. This plugin is the same as WP-Testimonials, which has been out 2 years.

    Comment by JTPratt — July 19, 2009 @ 1:48 pm

  18. Great WordPress plugin that increase popularity and branding yourself as expert in the niche you promoted. This will increase loyalty and readership!

    To your success,
    Bryan Hee

    Comment by Bryan Hee — July 19, 2009 @ 2:04 pm

  19. Gobala,

    is there I can put this on my sidebar ?

    Also, would you have background themes for the plugin like which custom background you want to have that will make your blog look cool and sleek .. the plugin must match up with the theme as well..

    Thanks.

    Ronak Shah
    http://twitter.com/ronakshah

    Comment by Ronak Shah — July 19, 2009 @ 2:08 pm

  20. I mean I know this can be put on the sidebar but is there a way this can match up the theme.. Can I customize the background colors of the plugin to match my theme?

    Thanks.

    Ronak.

    Comment by Ronak Shah — July 19, 2009 @ 2:10 pm

  21. Hey – its a great plugin, already put it into my site – ONE problem though – I can’t seem to be able to upload any profile pictures. Gravatars work, but when I select a picture from my desktop to upload, nothing happens… any ideas??? (I have also make sure they are all the right size)

    thanks!

    Nathan

    Comment by Nathan — July 19, 2009 @ 2:11 pm

  22. Hi Gobala,

    Thanks for developing such a great plugin for WordPress community..i believe this plugin will be a hit among the internet marketing community or freelancer who would like to promote themselves in their respective blogs.

    I would suggest you to submit all plugin you or Incomattic have developed into WordPress Plugin Directory which will reduce your server bandwidth (as plugin is hosted on wordpress.org) and drive more targeted traffic to this site (for backlink and PR) as well…

    I think Andy Beard’s idea is great. Since the plugin is able to display testimonial on page, but it would be great if there is a submit testimony section after the testimonial display as the site owner do not need to key in manually.

    Besides that, the submit section can be enhance with more security features like anti spam and captcha protection. After submission, all testimonial can be classified as pending for moderation. And site admin just need to approve the testimonial, just like comment in WordPress. :)

    What do you think about this then? Looking forward to hear from you. Malaysia Boleh….

    Comment by Simon Lim — July 19, 2009 @ 2:28 pm

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  24. Thanks for the new plugin, G!
    This is going to work great on
    my WP based websites!

    Howard

    Comment by The Apocalypse Channel — July 19, 2009 @ 4:00 pm

  25. This is a brilliant idea. Just download it. Need to find some good salesletter theme for this..

    Thanks.

    Nasrun

    Comment by Ahmad Nasrun — July 19, 2009 @ 5:26 pm

  26. I do not understand wordpress that much, I just followed instructions to set up this blog
    as a affiliate, I’am still a newbie in this internet world and the process is slow in learning
    and I don”t have alot of extra money to invest in learning to move ligthing fast.

    Comment by Isaac Cameron — July 19, 2009 @ 7:51 pm

  27. I agree with Andy about the addition of the ability for members to submit testimonials like they do comments would help.

    Place the boxes you have on the admin page on the Testimonial page with captcha protection and add a tag for submit a testimonial that can be added to any paage or post where a product is being sold and the testimonial submissions might increase.

    Jerry

    Comment by Jerry - ItsAboutCash — July 19, 2009 @ 7:55 pm

  28. Wow, this is a wonderful addition for WordPress fans. Thanks for offering it for free.

    Comment by Rhonda — July 19, 2009 @ 8:31 pm

  29. This is a great idea as this can be used to increase the social acceptance of any blog! Thanks for doing all the good work and sharing with all of us.

    Comment by Barry — July 19, 2009 @ 8:38 pm

  30. Hey Bro,
    Thanks for the great plugin!
    I’ll definitely find some good ways to use it!
    thanks again!

    Comment by Eruwan Gerry — July 19, 2009 @ 11:49 pm

  31. @ Ronak – Yes you can customize the appearance of the testimonials to match your blog style.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — July 20, 2009 @ 1:00 am

  32. @ Jerry – We definitely have that in production, I just wanted to test first if the idea is viable. Next update we’ll include a form for users to add their own testimonials.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — July 20, 2009 @ 1:02 am

  33. @ Simon – Yeah we’ll list it in the WordPress.org directory soon

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — July 20, 2009 @ 1:03 am

  34. @ JTPratt – Yes I used to have a copy of WP-Testimonials, but like you said it went extinct more than 2 years ago. A lot of my favorite plugins have also since gone the way of the dinosaurs :)

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — July 20, 2009 @ 1:05 am

  35. @ David – Not at the moment. You’ll have to put all the testimonials together. However if you use HTML you can link the product name in your testimonials to the actual website, if that helps.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — July 20, 2009 @ 1:07 am

  36. @ Nathan – I belive you select the picture first, then when you click on “Create Testimonials” the picture will be uploaded.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — July 20, 2009 @ 1:10 am

  37. @ gerry – You’re welcome, this is just a first attempt

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — July 20, 2009 @ 1:13 am

  38. great plugin. Just added this plugin to my blog and it’s working fine.

    Thank You
    Sridhar

    Comment by Paruchuri Sridhar — July 20, 2009 @ 4:22 am

  39. Hello Krishnan _nice Plugin but dear i am unable to use it as widget.Plz if u can help me?Actually i m new to wordpress

    Comment by Bhaskar Relan — July 20, 2009 @ 5:33 am

  40. Great idea for a plugin. I’ve got a number of idea for how to use this that will add benefits to my readers and save me lots of time. Thanks.

    Comment by Aaron — July 20, 2009 @ 3:05 pm

  41. Is it possible to show the Rotate Testimonials Using Sidebar Widget in a page template rather then in the sidebar?

    Comment by Martina — July 21, 2009 @ 8:03 am

  42. Great idea for wordpress users. But sometime I meet a difficult to arrange this wordpress format. Nothing for blogspot??

    Comment by Samsul — July 21, 2009 @ 8:39 am

  43. Thanks Gobala for this great Testimonial-Plugin. Good work and regards from Germany!
    Tobias

    Comment by Tobias | Informationsprodukte — July 23, 2009 @ 7:09 am

  44. @ Tobias – Cheers!

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — July 23, 2009 @ 7:10 am

  45. @ Samsul – What is blogspot?
    :) :)

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — July 23, 2009 @ 7:11 am

  46. @ Martina – You mean to rotate the testimonials in the full testimonials page? Sure we’ll consider that in a future update

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — July 23, 2009 @ 7:12 am

  47. @ Jerry – Great suggestion, will do that in future update

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — July 23, 2009 @ 7:22 am

  48. Great plugin !!! This is what I need for my new business.
    Thanks Gobala :)

    Comment by Riva Sinjal | AWC — July 23, 2009 @ 9:25 pm

  49. Smashing job Gobala, does what I needed quickly and without fuss. Congratulations and thank you, Tom

    Comment by Tom Rattray — July 24, 2009 @ 12:13 pm

  50. No i mean, I want to add it to the template I use for my homepage so I can have a box with rotating testimonials, but I don’t want or have a sidebar on my homepage

    Comment by Martina — July 29, 2009 @ 12:19 am

  51. @ Martina – You said “but I don’t want or have a sidebar on my homepage”. Do you (a) not want a side bar or (b) dont actually see one? All WordPress blog themes have sidebars and support widgets, unless your theme is way too old.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — July 29, 2009 @ 5:04 am

  52. Thanks Gobala, will be a useful addition to the ever growing array of plugins that’s making wordpress so dominant.

    Andrew
    PropertyNow
    Australia

    Comment by real estate — July 29, 2009 @ 8:16 am

  53. Gobala,

    When creating my first testimonial, and hitting “Create Testimonial”, I get the following error:


    Fatal error: Call to undefined method TestimonialOptions::finished() in /home/myuser/public_html/wp-content/plugins/testimonials-manager/testimonial_manager.php on line 144

    This is activated on the single main blog on a WPMU installation.

    Comment by Adam W. Warner — August 3, 2009 @ 4:55 pm

  54. I have deactivated all plugins and no luck. I am running WPMU 2.8.2

    Comment by Adam W. Warner — August 3, 2009 @ 5:48 pm

  55. Hey Gabala,
    I’m having issues when trying to upload a picture for the testimonial, I get the following error message:
    Fatal error: Call to undefined method TestimonialOptions::finished() in /home/***/public_html/wp-content/plugins/testimonials_manager/testimonial_manager.php on line 212
    Line 212 is empty, the line above that is: $data = get_option(‘testimonials_manager’);
    Any ideas?
    Cheers.

    Comment by Matt — August 4, 2009 @ 12:18 am

  56. Looks like Matt is having similar issues. Just for some further information, I was trying to upload a 48×48 photo at the time of my original error, but when testing, I also tried the Gravatar method with the same result.

    Comment by Adam W. Warner — August 4, 2009 @ 1:03 pm

  57. Adam, I found that simply resizing the avatar to 47*47 for example gets around the issue ;)

    Comment by Matt — August 5, 2009 @ 8:45 am

  58. Matt -

    Perfect! Thanks for the heads up, worked great here…:)

    Comment by Adam W. Warner — August 5, 2009 @ 1:16 pm

  59. @ Matt / Adam – Currently the image size is fixed, but should automatically resize it anyways. We’ll check on the error.. Hopefully in the next update we’ll allow images of any size to be used.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — August 5, 2009 @ 2:20 pm

  60. @ Adam- We never designed it for MU, so it’s pretty much an afterthought. Perhaps in the next update we”ll take a look at MU

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — August 5, 2009 @ 2:25 pm

  61. This is powerful! I want to know as soon as users can submit the testimonial themselves, and allow admins the ability to approve/deny before posting live.

    Prompting users to crop a distorted photo themselves would also be handy.

    Comment by courtney engle — August 5, 2009 @ 5:16 pm

  62. Update to latest version of Testimonials Manager plugin, version 1.1. The picture upload issues fixed also the CSS styling updated to suit most of the themes.

    Comment by muhammadnur — August 6, 2009 @ 3:21 am

  63. Works great, thank you

    Comment by baron — August 7, 2009 @ 11:30 am

  64. Hi Gobala – Been looking for something like this, it is great, thank you.

    Is the rotating sidebar testimonials easy to make into a rolling sidebar that scrolls through all the testimonials? If so, how do I do this? (I have 5 testimonials in total, only 3 showing – would like the widget to roll through all 5 but showing only 3 at a time)

    Thank you

    Comment by Terry — August 7, 2009 @ 12:00 pm

  65. This is an awesome plugin. Best of its kind that I have found. Thank you Gobala!

    Comment by Scott Bernadot — August 7, 2009 @ 7:54 pm

  66. This is a great plugin and am glad you took the time to develop it.

    Two ways I think this could be improved is
    1. if the widget display was able to be randomized
    2. the addition of a “title” or “quote” per testimonial was implemented. The title/quote would be displayed where the widget was enabled, then a link back to that specific full testimonial where ever [show_testimonials] is inserted.

    Comment by Jake — August 8, 2009 @ 9:49 pm

  67. @ Martina – Ok I get it, basically instead of using the widget function, you want a code to paste into anywhere in your template that will sort of do the same thing? We can’t do that at the moment unfortunately.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — August 9, 2009 @ 4:42 am

  68. Is there a way to cue the plugin through PHP? Im trying to add the testimonials to a tabbed widget.

    Thanks!

    Comment by Larry Vallely — August 10, 2009 @ 7:27 am

  69. Not at the moment :(

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — August 10, 2009 @ 8:48 am

  70. Im having a problem with the sidebar widget rotating. I have two testimonials in my page but haven’t seen anything change ( always shows the top most testimonial )

    Any help would be great! :)
    Thanks Gobala
    my site is 911-Foreclosure

    Larry

    Comment by Larry Vallely — August 11, 2009 @ 9:15 pm

  71. Weird hoodoo voodoo…

    Alls working now! thanks for the great plugin

    -Larry

    Comment by Larry Vallely — August 11, 2009 @ 9:17 pm

  72. If my theme is not widgetized, how to add the following php code (usually to the sidebar.php file) ?

    *sorry for my english..i from indonesia*

    Comment by kepedihan — August 15, 2009 @ 2:45 pm

  73. Sorry, the shortcode is only for the post. The only way to display the testimonials on the sidebar is by making your theme widgetized. You can read http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgets_API to learn how to make your theme widgetized.

    Comment by Muhammad Nur — August 19, 2009 @ 3:29 am

  74. Works great… but It seems I can only add the widget to one sidebar… my site has 3 different sidebars so far. Once I add to say the “homepage sidebar” and I go back into the widget panel there is no longer an option to add it to the “internal pages” sidebar.

    Comment by Shane — August 21, 2009 @ 5:33 pm

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  77. Hi, I just installed this great plugin. How can I reformat the layout? I’d love to make the image a bit larger in my design.

    Thanks!

    Comment by Frank Wolf — August 27, 2009 @ 4:03 pm

  78. I have a problem. I moved my wordpress installation to a new server. My Testimonials Manager stopped working. It was blank (no testimonials). So I tried adding some – it said “added successfully” but didn’t add anything.

    I deactivated the plugin and deleted it and made sure the directory was actually GONE under wp-content/plugins. I reinstalled the plugin and activated it. I then tried creating the testimonials again with no luck. Same problem – it says “successfully added” or something similar but NOTHING! :( Any ideas???

    Help please!

    Comment by Kaj — August 28, 2009 @ 3:35 pm

  79. Great plugin, thanks for sharing this. I’d like to suggest an added feature — this plugin would be even better if you could enter a short version of the quote to be used in the sidebar sort of like the “excerpt” feature of a WordPress post. This way the widget could rotate several short testimonials and then on the full testimonials page the client’s full testimonial would be visible.

    Comment by Nathan Sudds — August 30, 2009 @ 11:15 pm

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  81. Love the plug in, but I only want one to display at a time in the widget, and then rotate. Is this possible and if so, how? thanks!

    Comment by Mark Cohen — September 4, 2009 @ 2:29 am

  82. I love this idea!

    Comment by Mark Cohen — September 4, 2009 @ 1:26 pm

  83. Is there a way to display your testimonial widget in other areas other than the dynamic sidebar? For instance, say I am using it in the sidebar on all the pages, but I want to display it in a different area on the index page that doesn’t use the sidebar.

    Any advice is appreciated,
    -FS

    Great plugin by the way.

    Comment by Franklin S. — September 4, 2009 @ 8:06 pm

  84. @ Franklin – We’ll develop a code for that purpose in the next version.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — September 5, 2009 @ 10:15 am

  85. @ Mark – Yes of course you can by selecting the number of items to rotate as 1..

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — September 5, 2009 @ 10:16 am

  86. @ Frank – You can edit the custom CSS

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — September 5, 2009 @ 10:18 am

  87. oh, duh, thanks :-)

    Comment by Mark Cohen — September 5, 2009 @ 1:44 pm

  88. Thanks Gobala,
    I think I am going to try creating a second sidebar that only shows your widget. Hopefully it works.

    Comment by Franklin S. — September 8, 2009 @ 2:40 pm

  89. Thanks for the great plugin!

    How about making it possible for visitors to add testimonials as well?

    Thanks!

    Comment by cass — September 13, 2009 @ 10:28 am

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  93. Hi there
    Thanks for the great plugin. It works perfectly! Love the fact that theres a widget AND being able to have a testimonials page. Ive tried at least two other plugins, and they dont match the functionality of Testimonials Manager.
    One question though: Is there a way (or could it be considered) to sort the testimonials, and rearrange them according to importance ?
    Thanks again!

    Comment by Mark — September 22, 2009 @ 7:56 am

  94. Hi Mark, we’ll be improving the plugin based on feedback, look our for the next version.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — September 22, 2009 @ 9:45 am

  95. I was going to ask the same :-)

    I also wonder about the Gravatar image. How should I know what Gravatar email-address someone uses?

    “You can display a use image using Gravatars (enter Gravatar user email)”

    Xarah

    Comment by Xarah — September 22, 2009 @ 9:34 pm

  96. Great plug-in and nice effort.

    How can I custom reorder my testimonials? Right now, it is auto numbering and the first entered stays on top. I want to re-order the testimonials in the page based on importance of the testimonial every time.

    Again, thank you for your time and support on this.

    Comment by Siva — September 23, 2009 @ 9:40 pm

  97. u mmm – what is the short code to make a page a testimonials page ? i can’t see it??

    Comment by Jessamy — September 24, 2009 @ 5:17 am

  98. Hi Gobala, I just installed and configured the testimonials manager plugin for my new site redesign. Out of control! This plugin is super powerful and it works.
    THANK YOU

    Comment by Satya Colombo — September 24, 2009 @ 7:44 am

  99. I stumbled across this plugin at just the right time, and it’s does exactly the job I need, thank you!

    A couple more suggestions / requests whilst you work on other suggested improvements.
    1) As well as Gravatar, could you add an option for a Twitter username to be entered, and the image pulled via twivatar.org ?
    2) Instead of div class=”testimonial”, could the div be changed to the more semantic blockquote element? And the Name be displayed as a Cite element?
    3) Add default behaviour, that if a web address is added, but no company name, then the company name is shown as the web address?
    4) With lots of testimonials, pagination could really do with being added to the Testimonial Manager Admin page. Perhaps also a search facility may be useful too.

    I look forward to future versions of this plugin.

    Comment by Gary — September 27, 2009 @ 2:08 pm

  100. Hi,

    Thanks so much for this plugin, but I’m having the same problem as Kaj mentioned:
    after moving the site the plugin stopped working.

    The sidebar widget works, but the full testimonial page doesn’t, it just displays:

    [show_testimonials]

    in text…

    Would love to hear your solution,
    Alex

    Comment by Alex — September 29, 2009 @ 1:03 pm

  101. Gravatars will only work if you know the email address of the person, which you should be able to get if he / she emailed you the testimonial, or if you’re extracting a blog comment to be used as your testimonial..

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — September 29, 2009 @ 2:11 pm

  102. Can you try putting the code using the HTML view in the editor, that may work..

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — September 29, 2009 @ 2:19 pm

  103. Hi Gary, we’ll definitely look at some of your suggestions, cheers!

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — September 29, 2009 @ 2:21 pm

  104. Hi Gobala,

    Tried that, thanks…but same result.
    Do you want me to grant access to check for yourself?

    Best,
    Alex

    Comment by Alex — September 30, 2009 @ 5:50 pm

  105. Hey Gobala:

    Great plugin! Finding a decent Testimonial plugin is hard for some reason. I actually found another one and had to modify the code to make it work. I emailed their team, they say they fixed it, but it’s never been updated to the repository!

    Just checking – in the Widget, I don’t see a link to the person’s website. Am I missing something?

    Comment by Jeff Rose — September 30, 2009 @ 7:08 pm

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  108. Hi Jeff, yes you can add a url as well as the company name. The company name will be hyperlinked to the URL like the testimonials you see on this site.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — October 2, 2009 @ 4:25 am

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  110. Hi Gobala,

    Any further action on my ideas? – Am just about to set it up on a client’s site, and didn’t want to have to make all the core code changes if a new version was coming out imminently with some or all of my suggestions!

    Thanks,

    Gary.

    Comment by Gary — October 15, 2009 @ 3:32 pm

  111. Lovely plug in!

    It would be even better if it were possible to do simple formatting — bold, paragraph breaks, italic.

    Comment by Bob Stilger — October 15, 2009 @ 8:56 pm

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  113. Hi Gary, I don’t think we’ll be coming out with a new version soon as there are other important projects to do. Will definitely be one up when WP 2.9 is out.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — October 16, 2009 @ 4:28 pm

  114. Is there a way of making the most recent testimonial appear at the top?

    Comment by Jim — October 22, 2009 @ 9:12 am

  115. i have problem to install this plug in.. can you help me

    Comment by samsuga — October 23, 2009 @ 6:53 pm

  116. Hi Gobala,
    My clients are homeowners and they typically don’t have websites. I would prefer them to enter their name (or first name + last initial), their city state and their comment. Can your plugin be modified to easily add/remove and name fields? If so, it would be exactly what I am looking for.

    Comment by Dave — October 28, 2009 @ 1:59 pm

  117. Awesome, way better than some other plugins I’ve tried.

    Would it be possible to have the widget show only the first 100 words (or specified number) of each testimonial? Some are long and take up the whole sidebar…

    Thanks!

    Comment by Michael — November 3, 2009 @ 3:57 pm

  118. @ Michael – We’ll add that to the growing list of suggestions, lol..

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — November 3, 2009 @ 5:34 pm

  119. @ Dave – Any field you leave blank will not appear in the testimonial. So if your client does not have a website, leave the website field empty, or replace it with the City / State instead

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — November 3, 2009 @ 5:35 pm

  120. @ Jim – We’ll add that to our list of features to add..

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — November 3, 2009 @ 5:37 pm

  121. Thanks for the great plugin. I have similar problem as Alex. There is nothing after the following lines if I do the view source. Is something crashing?

    No.
    Testimonials
    Tools

    Comment by Kiran — November 9, 2009 @ 7:30 pm

  122. What a great plugin.Thank you so much for this helpful plugin.

    Comment by Bilal Ahmad — November 14, 2009 @ 2:45 pm

  123. How do I add the ability for the user to add a testimonial themselve instead of me having to add them in for them?????

    Comment by Roger — November 14, 2009 @ 11:09 pm

  124. Adding the ability to let the user enter their own testimonial would make the page more user friendly, not to mention a site expeience! It’s doesn’t seem any different to adding a comment, you basically enter the same type of fields.

    Comment by Roger — November 14, 2009 @ 11:17 pm

  125. How can I make mine appear like yours in the sidebar? My font is aligning to the right for some weird reason.

    Comment by Chad — November 17, 2009 @ 7:11 pm

  126. Nevermind…thanks for the great plugin!

    Comment by Chad — November 17, 2009 @ 8:01 pm

  127. Great plugin! By far the best & easiest testimonials plugin I’ve found.

    Suggestion for the next version… I am using a combination of pages & posts on my site, but cannot put the widget in both places. The theme I am using has several different widgetized areas, so being able to use it multiple times (3??) would be great.

    Thanks and keep up the great work!

    Paul

    Comment by Paul — November 17, 2009 @ 8:51 pm

  128. Hello

    I just test plugin, everything works
    but there is a problem, a big problem!
    I get more to modify the pages!
    I can create a page but NOT edit page

    plz help me

    Comment by smilovsky — November 18, 2009 @ 5:11 pm

  129. i need the php code for put in the sidebar. can help me pls..

    Comment by Aguk — November 21, 2009 @ 3:57 am

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  131. Hi this plug is great. But is it possible to have two testimonial pages with different quotes on each page?

    Comment by Rod — November 23, 2009 @ 11:28 am

  132. Hi
    How do I enable a person with ‘editor’ permissions to update the testimonials? It seems to only be available for admins?

    Comment by cazza — November 24, 2009 @ 11:15 am

  133. Thanks for a great and simple plug in. Is there a way i can remove the Powered by the Testimonial Manager Plugin for WordPress..?

    Thanks

    Comment by Payam — November 24, 2009 @ 9:57 pm

  134. I third the suggestion! Great plugin anyway!

    Comment by Donovan — November 25, 2009 @ 4:55 am

  135. I’m loving your awsome plugin. Fantastic idea. Thank you.
    Is their a way to shorten the ammount of text on widgets? My sidebars are really bottom bars below the main content. I have some long testimonials and it really draws out the length of my page. Can I use and excerpt and the viewer chooses to read more via a link that takes them to the testimonals page.
    It would also give the viewer a chance to see more testimonials.
    Thank you again.

    Comment by Liam — November 25, 2009 @ 10:52 am

  136. i need the php code for put it in the sidebar. very urgent
    can any one help me pls..

    Comment by Ajit — December 4, 2009 @ 12:55 pm

  137. Cool plugin – I like the fact that the testimonial text is part of the page html – good for SEO

    Thanks!

    Comment by Jocelyn - Portland Wordpress Web Design — December 15, 2009 @ 5:28 pm

  138. Question – the plugin is working great but cannot upload an image. I get the following error: The uploaded file could not be moved to /home/mozakweb/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2009/12.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks

    Comment by Jocelyn - Portland Wordpress Web Design — December 16, 2009 @ 6:45 am

  139. Hi,

    I am getting below error for this plugin in front-end:

    Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in C:\HostingSpaces\skywardi\alookinsidephotography.com\wwwroot\wp-content\plugins\testimonials-manager\index.php on line 31

    I am getting below error for this plugin in admin:

    Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in C:\HostingSpaces\skywardi\alookinsidephotography.com\wwwroot\wp-content\plugins\testimonials-manager\testimonial_manager.php on line 274

    So could you please help?.

    MAHESH

    Comment by mahesh — December 17, 2009 @ 7:40 am

  140. Thanks for the great plugin. It’s just what I was looking for.

    I have some feature suggestions for you.

    Can you add a field for the person’s title? For example,
    Name: Joe Smith
    Title: President
    Website / business name with link

    A more robust solution would be to allow admins to add their own custom fields and titles/labels. There was another person who requested adding city and state. If as the admin, I had the ability to add my own fields and labels, this would extend the functionality greatly.

    The only other thing I think is missing is a form for users to submit testimonials. The submissions would be set to draft status until approved by the admin.

    As a work around, I am going to create a testimonials form using the gravity forms plugin but it would be nice if the form fed right into the testimonials manager plugin back end.

    Let me know if you have any questions and if you foresee any of these suggestions being added to a future version of the plugin.

    Thanks

    Jeff Klein
    Webmaster

    Comment by Jeff Klein — December 24, 2009 @ 6:03 am

  141. I would like to display the testimonials on the complete list page in reverse chronological order so the newest testimonial would be first.

    Ideally you could build a drag and drop manual sort function into the plugin backend but for now, a sort order by date would be fine.

    Thanks

    Comment by Jeff Klein — December 28, 2009 @ 4:59 pm

  142. It’s a great plugin. However, could it add the testimonial order function to the next version?

    Comment by steven — December 31, 2009 @ 3:20 am

  143. Hi Gobala,

    Your plug in looks cool. It installed fine in WP but didn’t create a Testimonial page. So I manually created a page and pasted [show_testimonials] into the blank page. But i cant seem to create blank form so testimonials can be entered… the manager recognizes the page i created saying that there are no testimonials.

    I notice in your doc that you refer to some code to paste but there is no code there… please help…

    Thank u
    Arthur

    Comment by Arthur Klein — January 2, 2010 @ 8:23 am

  144. I think this is possibly the best testimonial plugin out there for WordPress. I installed and tested several others and this one rocks. That said, to be perfect, in my opinion it severely needs the following options:

    1. Ability to SORT testimonials SOMEhow (Pleeeeeeeease!)
    2. Ability to add widget to multiple toolbars.
    3. Ability to control the sizes of the images for each testimonial.
    4. Maybe some kind of auto-rotation of the sidebar testimonials, not just on page refresh, but every few seconds or so (not critical, but would be cool).

    When can we expect some kind of sorting? NObody else seems to have that, this plugin could rule them all.

    Comment by Corey — January 4, 2010 @ 11:27 pm

  145. Can you sort the tesimonials so the most recently added appear at the top? i.e. from newest to oldest

    Comment by Matt — January 8, 2010 @ 1:10 am

  146. Something’s fishy in ie. The first testimonial’s styles are broken for some reason. Any ideas? http://www.adavenkid.com/dev

    Comment by Corey — January 12, 2010 @ 12:42 am

  147. Hello! Thanks for the plugin!

    Can someone please tell me what php code I need to use to have 1 random testimonial appear in my home page template?

    Comment by virg — January 14, 2010 @ 7:00 pm

  148. A hearty vote for the ability to order and reorder testimonials! My client has over 300 of them, and obviously we want the newest ones to display first.

    Another idea: it would be great to have the option to categorize testimonials. My client has several services he offers, and he’d like to be able to put testimonials about, for example, speaking under a ‘speaking’ category, so people looking for particular services could view only the testimonials that pertained to what they are looking for (rather than having to wade through a ton of them)

    Overall though, after looking at so many of these, this is the nicest testimonials plugin I’ve found!

    Comment by Tracy — January 22, 2010 @ 4:33 pm

  149. We will release a new version of Testimonials Manager apporx by end of next week. I can’t promise all the features as requested, but we can definitely add and revamp the sort function, image or Gravatar size, etc.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — January 22, 2010 @ 4:41 pm

  150. Which IE version is that? Sometimes I wish IE just didn’t exist!

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — January 22, 2010 @ 4:43 pm

  151. That’s great! Looking forward to it. Thanks for your continued development of this great plugin.

    Comment by Jeff Klein — January 22, 2010 @ 4:59 pm

  152. We have just uploaded Testimonial Manager Version 2.0 with a lot of significant changes. Feel free to upgrade, try it out and leave feedback.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — January 28, 2010 @ 9:14 am

  153. Hi Gobala, I’ve been using Testimonials Manager on our website for some time now and am delighted with it.

    I’m using WordPress 2.9.1 and this newest update to Testimonials Manager is not working for me. I’ve tried using the automatic upgrade in WP three times now – in between deactivating, deleting (and checking all files are gone from our server) before reinstalling the previous version again from a backup. Each time I’ve tried using the upgrade function in WP, here is what happens:
    1) Plugin supposedly upgrades automatically and reactivates without a problem on the updating progress page that comes up
    2) When I return to the plugin page, it’s still grayed out and says I need to activate it.
    3) When TM is then activated, my Widgets page in the admin area ‘breaks’ .. I can’t edit any of the widgets or move them around.

    As soon as I deactivate the new version of Testimonials Manager and reinstall the old version, everything is working as it should.

    I’ve not yet tried doing a clean install of the new version as this would mean I’d presumably have to re-enter all the testimonials … a LONG job! However I am assuming the automatic update in WP SHOULD work, so thought I’d post this message to you.

    I’m not sure about the Bare Bones Widget that comes packaged with it either .. this produces the same behaviour (supposedly updated, then when back on the plugins page, it says it’s not activated) I’m also not sure what its purpose is other than for widget developers – so I really don’t want to use that plugin as well.

    Hope you can help me …. I love the plugin and would really like to use the functionality of the new version, but at the moment have reverted to the previous version. :)

    Cheers
    Sue

    Comment by Sue James — January 28, 2010 @ 1:16 pm

  154. Just upgraded and can’t get it to work now.
    “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.” It doesn’t show what the error is in the box below though.

    Also, it now addes something called the Bare Bones Widget. Is it supposed to??

    Thanks for looking.
    Cheers!
    Toby Martini

    Comment by Toby Martini — January 28, 2010 @ 2:49 pm

  155. Weird errors when i upgraded. It added a second plugin called “bare bones widget” which doesn’t seem to do anything? Also, is there a way to remove the attribution link? I leave it on one of my sites, but for another one I’d prefer to have it off to keep a cleaner look on a sales page..

    Comment by Bible Money Matters — January 28, 2010 @ 3:09 pm

  156. We’ll check on that right away. You upgraded via the WordPress dashboard right? I mean using the “Automatic Upgrade” function?

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — January 28, 2010 @ 4:38 pm

  157. The new version 2.0 is having some issues: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/357629?replies=1

    Can you put up the prior version or send a link so I can downgrade until the issue is resolved?

    Comment by Andy Ciordia — January 28, 2010 @ 5:24 pm

  158. I’m using WordPress 2.8.6

    Ok, at first glance, this new testimonials manager has now risen to the top and killed all the other ones out there. That said, there are a few bugs. First I will list what I think are amazing improvements and then the bugs:

    1. Ability to set the image size within the admin for custom photos. Brilliant.
    2. Display order, ascending or descending. AWESOMENESS
    3. WYSIWYG editor for testimonials. Very cool.

    BUGS!

    1. The ascending descending dropdown doesn’t save my choice when I hit ‘save’! But it still works, when I select descending. But if I save again, it goes back to ascending.
    2. Custom CSS – if you delete all the custom css and hit save, it just comes right back again.
    3. That’s about all I’ve noticed since this morning.

    Comment by Corey — January 28, 2010 @ 5:52 pm

  159. I did Automatic once. Failed.
    Uninstalled.
    Grabbed the zip from your site and installed via upload. Failed.

    Cheers!
    Toby

    Comment by Toby Martini — January 28, 2010 @ 7:07 pm

  160. Yes, i upgraded through wordpress dashboard. If I try to delete the additional plugin, it tries to delete the testimonials plugin as well.

    Comment by Bible Money Matters — January 28, 2010 @ 7:22 pm

  161. Yeah. The plugin is a no-go.

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/357629?replies=2

    Comment by Lisa Morosky — January 28, 2010 @ 9:03 pm

  162. I’m having this same problem … took a screen-shot if you want it.
    Code at top of WP dashboard: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /wp-admin/includes/post.php on line 1475

    Comment by Chase Mann — January 28, 2010 @ 10:20 pm

  163. Me too. After upgrading via Dashboard, a new plugin, “Bare Bones Widget,” appeared, which also had its own upgrade notification. I attempted to upgrade it, but failed. I subsequently reverted to the previous Testimonials plugin. Let us know when you work that out. Thanks!

    Comment by Eric Hassler — January 28, 2010 @ 11:50 pm

  164. Hi

    We’re using testimonials mangaer which is great BTW.

    Question though. We’re just redesigning our site and have copied the database to a dev server while we do the update work but none of the testimonial files have copied over.

    Where is the testimonial file stored?

    Thanks

    Comment by Gary — January 29, 2010 @ 1:12 am

  165. We’ll get a fixed version up today, I believe the Bare Bones widget is sample code we forgot to remove, it will be gone in the next update.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — January 29, 2010 @ 4:07 am

  166. We’ll iron out the bugs today. Cheers.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — January 29, 2010 @ 4:26 am

  167. Thanks for all your good work!

    Comment by Bob Stilger — January 29, 2010 @ 8:04 am

  168. We’ve released an update (2.0.1) which fixes all the bugs previously mentioned, especially the Bare Bones widget and also automatic upgrades via WP Dashboard. Please try again.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — January 29, 2010 @ 8:40 am

  169. And another update 2.0.2 for another minor bug. Enjoy.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — January 29, 2010 @ 9:10 am

  170. Sadly 2.0.2 doesn’t work for me either. :( It’s producing the same problems I mentioned in my earlier comment about the first version 2 of Testimonials Manager. When I update and reactivate Testimonials Manager, the drag and drop functionality in the widgets admin page and the left hand admin menu is gone. And the small down arrows to open the menu lists or to edit individual widgets do not work either.

    I’m not sure if this is due to a clash with another plugin – I’ve not tested that yet. I thought I’d send this post to see if anyone else is having the same issue.

    With the old version everything in the admin area is functioning as it should. So I’ve reinstalled that and am again ignoring the update notification on the plugins page for the time being. :)

    Sorry to be a pain! :) Thanks for all your great work with this plugin .. I hope I can get the new version to work for me.

    Cheers
    Sue

    Comment by Sue James — January 29, 2010 @ 12:08 pm

  171. I’m not sure if that issue is caused by Testimonials Manager. I have a couple of blogs without the plugin, where I have the same problems as you mentioned.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — January 29, 2010 @ 12:58 pm

  172. I can’t be sure either. :) But on the five wordpress sites (our website, our three blogs, and another site I manage for a nonprofit organisation) this is the first time I’ve seen this problem. And it has only happened when any of the Testimonials Manager 2.x have been installed on our site. I’ve tried updating to 2.0.0 then 2.0.1 then 2.0.2. Each time the problem (no drag and drop and no access to drop down menus in the admin area) has reappeared. Uninstalling the 2.x version and reinstalling an earlier 1.x version of Testimonials Manager has fixed the issue so everything works normally again.

    Comment by Sue James — January 29, 2010 @ 1:08 pm

  173. The 2.0.2 plugin: “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”

    Comment by Andy Ciordia — January 29, 2010 @ 2:52 pm

  174. Reading through the error log I saw this after a failed activation:
    [28-Jan-2010 17:19:45] PHP Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, ‘filter_testimonial’ was given in /public_html/blog/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 166

    Comment by Andy Ciordia — January 29, 2010 @ 3:26 pm

  175. New version working for me!
    Thanks for a great plugin and for being quick to address problems.

    Cheers!
    Toby Martini

    Comment by Toby Martini — January 29, 2010 @ 3:29 pm

  176. For everyone using the older version of the plugin, can you do this:

    1) Deactivate the plugin and remove it completely via FTP
    2) Upload the new version 2.0.2 and activate it

    Im afraid it may not be enough to overwrite previous files with new ones, as we’ve moved things around quite a bit with this version. So I recommend deleting the old files completely first and install a fresh copy.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — January 29, 2010 @ 4:13 pm

  177. Nice plugin.

    It would be useful if you can add an option to move the testimonials up/down to change their order of display.

    Thanks

    Comment by Nagarajan — January 29, 2010 @ 4:19 pm

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  179. Just updated to 2.0.2 and the current version is causing an issue with TinyMCE Advanced 3.2.7 (current build). Deactivating either plug-in clears the error.

    Webpage error details

    User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)
    Timestamp: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:18:02 UTC

    Message: Object required
    Line: 22
    Char: 3
    Code: 0
    URI: http://www.address.com/wp-content/plugins/tinymce-advanced/js/tadv_replace.js?ver=20080425

    Comment by Justin Terriaco — January 29, 2010 @ 6:19 pm

  180. Hi Gobala

    I tried the steps you suggested – deactivated, deleted all files from our server then did a clean install of the new version.

    However I’m still having the same problem in the widget admin area with 2.0.2 … No drag and drop for the widgets or boxes and no drop down arrows working for either the sidebar boxes or the widgets themselves.

    It appears to affect the widget screen only. Other admin areas (as far as I checked) worked as they should. For some strange reason, this new version of Testimonials Manager is impacting on the drag and drop features for widgets. The pre 2.x versions don’t have that effect.

    I’m using the Thesis 1.6 theme, by the way, on WordPress 2.9.1

    Comment by Sue James — January 30, 2010 @ 5:15 am

  181. Deleted, verified removed, installed new, same fatal error message.

    Comment by Andy Ciordia — January 31, 2010 @ 2:50 am

  182. Again if I might ask for a previous version, we’ve had this breakage now for a few days and I’d like to at least have the old plugin running unless the db has changed so significantly that our trial upgrades has broken the path.

    Comment by Andy Ciordia — February 1, 2010 @ 1:45 pm

  183. @Andy: You can still obtain an older version from the wordpress plugin directory.

    I’ve tried installing the plugin on a number of blogs but I can’t reproduce the error both Sue and Andy are getting.

    Comment by militarysmurf — February 3, 2010 @ 3:01 am

  184. Thanks for your support militarysmurf – visuals that come to mind with that name make me smile :)

    Andy appears to be getting a different problem than I am. In his case he’s getting a fatal error when trying to activate the plugin.

    In my case the 2.x versions have installed and activated (either via the WordPress Admin auto update feature, or via a clean install) without a problem.

    It is the subsequent impact on the drag and drop features in WP (most particularly in the Widget area) that is a problem for me. The new versions of TM disable drag and drop and those drop arrows to the right of the title bars for widgets or any other menus and boxes on the screen.

    Previous versions (1.x) all work with no problem.

    Not sure if this clarification will help at all, but thought I’d add it just in case. :)

    Cheers
    Sue

    Comment by Sue James — February 3, 2010 @ 3:07 am

  185. I installed your testimonial plug-in and it is working great. However, I would like to turn on the randomization. Do you have that capability?

    Thanks,

    C

    Comment by C Evans — February 4, 2010 @ 2:46 pm

  186. Sorry, I would like to turn “OFF” the randomization. :)

    Comment by C Evans — February 4, 2010 @ 2:47 pm

  187. Accidentally upgraded the plugin on another site and got this error:
    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class pagination in /wordpress/wp-content/plugins/testimonials-manager/testimonial_manager.php on line 963

    Comment by Andy Ciordia — February 4, 2010 @ 7:34 pm

  188. Hi, I’ve got 2.0.2 running on a WP 2.9.1 installation and all seems fine.

    My question is – could you provide a list of the CSS selectors, so we know how to style it without having to comb through the code to find them? That would be super helpful.

    Thanks for the great plugin!

    Comment by Valerie — February 6, 2010 @ 3:18 am

  189. Further to the issue I mentioned re TM 2.x disabling drag and drop of boxes/widgets and down arrows on those in the Widget admin area, I did some extensive testing. Here’s what I found.

    I disabled/reenabled all other plugins, singly, all together and in batches to see if any of those were causing a clash with TM to produce the error. No joy. It appears to be TM 2.x only that is the problem.

    I also ensured I had deleted the TM widget from the sidebar, just in case leaving that in place was causing the issue, in spite of deactivating and deleting TM from the server. Again this made no difference either way.

    I also ensured I’d not only deactivated and deleted TM but that it was removed completely from the server.

    I discovered that the data remained in the database, so even tested by removing that via PHPadmin.

    In every case, the Widget admin area suffered the same effect.

    I’m afraid that’s about the limit of my testing knowledge, unless you can suggest something else I should try?

    I’d love to know if anyone else is using TM 2.x successfully with the Thesis theme on a WordPress blog – or anyone could tell me how I may test if it’s the theme itself with which the latest version of TM is clashing.

    Cheers
    Sue

    Comment by Sue James — February 8, 2010 @ 12:25 am

  190. Loving the plugin but i had a quick question. I’m trying to rifle through all the code to see how the items are stacked in the widget. right now there is no space between each testimonial and it read strange… would like to set it up so there’s a space between each post… is that possible?

    Cheers!

    Comment by Bryan Pritchard — February 9, 2010 @ 6:11 pm

  191. I thought we were able to remove the whole “powered by” thing before. Can we no longer do this with version 2?

    Comment by AJ — February 9, 2010 @ 11:32 pm

  192. Thanks for this amazing plugin.
    I’m currently working with on a theme which isn’t Widget-aware.
    Is there code that I can paste into the sidebar.php file to enable it?

    Thanks in advance!

    Comment by Christopher Lee — February 10, 2010 @ 4:53 am

  193. Hi, just upgraded to 2.02 and got the fatal error thing everyone else is talking aobut. Before I go and uninstall and reinstall and follow the advice I see in previous posts I have a question: where are my old testemonials located so I can go get them? I would hate to think that they vanished.

    Comment by Ron — February 11, 2010 @ 5:33 pm

  194. Hi,

    I am having trouble with the plugin. I have a page with the [show_testimonials] tag on it and it shows them but have the following error about them

    It is necessary to specify the limit of items to show per page ($class->limit(10))
    It is necessary to specify the limit of items to show per page ($class->limit(10))

    Tried short codes but no good what am l doing wrong help please

    Comment by Mirko — February 11, 2010 @ 10:49 pm

  195. This looks like a great plug-in. The only thing I am wondering is if there is an interface for a web visitor or member of your site to leave their own testimonial without having to be logged in to the backend of the wordpress site.

    Comment by Jeff — February 12, 2010 @ 5:33 pm

  196. Hi there
    I have had a look at all testimonial plugins available from the WP plugin page and have decided that yours seems to be the best. The only reason I kept on checking the others is that one option that is really important to me is that visitors can add their own testimonial, these should then appear as pending in the testimonials manager admin panel.

    My work around at the moment is that I’ve added a MM form (a great plugin if you require more then one contact form on your site) for people to submit their own testimonial. Currently my testimonial are managed as part of my ZenCart shopping cart, which allows people to submit their own and I usually get 1 – 2 testimonials a week.

    So this would be an important feature for me.

    Regards

    Wolf

    Comment by Wolf — February 14, 2010 @ 7:53 am

  197. I’m just installed WP 2.9.1, Thesis 1.6 and Testimonials Mgr 2 and all is working fine.
    If you want to have a look at it it’s at:
    http://budgethnadles.com.au/blog
    Please note that the site is under construction and my current site is at http://budgethandles.com.au

    Wolf

    Comment by Wolf — February 14, 2010 @ 8:09 am

  198. We will add a submission form soon, as part of an overall application that works with wordpress.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — February 16, 2010 @ 5:32 am

  199. In the settings page, can you check if you have specified the number of testimonials to show per page? Don’t leave that blank

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — February 16, 2010 @ 5:35 am

  200. Great plugin but is it possible to just display a ‘teaser’ (i.e., part of the testimonial) displayed in the widget and the full testimonial appear when they click to read more? Thanks.

    Comment by Ben — February 16, 2010 @ 9:39 am

  201. Hello Gobala,

    How to change which page we want to display the full testimonials?

    Thanks for the great plugin btw!

    Comment by Kamal Arifin — February 16, 2010 @ 2:39 pm

  202. I agree the teaser ideas would be a big enhancement. Because testimonials are of various lengths, when you display multiple testimonials in the sidebar widget, a long testimonial can mess up the page layout. It would be really helpful to be able to limit the testimonials to a certain number of words or characters and then provide a link to view the complete testimonial. Another option would be to highlight a particular portion of the testimonial. Kind of a pull quote from the full testimonial if you wanted to spotlight a particular sentence or two.
    Thanks for your continued development of this great plugin.

    Comment by Jeff Klein — February 16, 2010 @ 4:58 pm

  203. This plugin is working great for me now. Thanks!

    I have a feature request:
    Please make it so that the testimonial person’s website opens in a new browser window
    OR
    Give us the option to make it appear in current or new window.

    Thanks!
    Toby

    Comment by Toby Martini — February 16, 2010 @ 7:31 pm

  204. Re my issue with TM 2.x ‘breaking’ the drag and drop for widgets (though it works fine for other admin areas) I’ve discovered a workaround.

    In the Widgets Admin area, I went to ‘screen options’ and enabled accessibility mode for widgets. This disables the drag and drop functionality, putting an ‘add’ or ‘edit’ link on each widget, allowing me to work with them as usual. (Inactive widgets only show an ‘edit’ link, but after clicking that, on the following screen is an option to place the widget into the preferred sidebar, so that’s fine too)

    Not perfect … but a workaround I can live with, given the fact that in my opinion TM is the best testimonial plugin I’ve found. :)

    I am assuming, given other responses here, that the clash is with the Thesis theme rather than WordPress itself. I do hope later updates to TM will fix this incompatibility issue, but in the meantime I can at least upgrade it and still have a functional widget admin area.

    Cheers
    Sue

    Comment by Sue James — February 17, 2010 @ 12:47 pm

  205. I keep getting No verification code generated when I submit a testimonial, any ideas? Thanks

    Comment by Randy Hamilton — February 17, 2010 @ 4:53 pm

  206. Hi there,

    Great plugin but is there any way I can remove the “Powered by…” advertisement?

    Comment by Scott — February 18, 2010 @ 5:52 pm

  207. Can you please add some functionality in the following manner. I like that I can personally go in and add testimonials, but I’d like a place for my customers to actually leave the review, and the admin approving or denying it.

    Comment by Benjamin S. — February 18, 2010 @ 7:35 pm

  208. Not sure if this is a Widget / plugin problem or theme problem. Currently I have the Testimonials plugin and widget enabled published to “Wide Sidebar Top” Unfortunately the separation between “posts” are not displaying the box around each entry. This causes no break between entries. Check out link below to see an example. You’ll notice the name and location of person is right above the next quote.

    Beta Site: http://freestyle3d.helishit.com/

    Currently using the supplied custom CSS code.

    Any suggestions?

    Comment by Ron D — February 19, 2010 @ 2:53 pm

  209. First up thanks for a great plugin – its awesome. I’ve a couple of requests for your eventual consideration.

    - Teasers would be nice, allow me to limit testimonials to 100-200 chars in the sidebar.
    - Featured testimonial – some testimonials shine – it would be nice to feature them in the sidebar and testimonial page.

    Thanks for a great plugin.

    Comment by Mark Levison — February 19, 2010 @ 5:46 pm

  210. Great plugin. I noticed that the Testimonial Admin menu on left only shows if you are logged in as Administrator. Is there a way of having it display for role of ‘Editor’? I’d rather not change the core WP code if possible.

    Cheers,
    Shaun.

    Comment by Shaun — February 20, 2010 @ 11:35 am

  211. Hey guys, I love this plugin! We’re using it on our new site and so far its working great. I just have a quick question.

    Is there any built in method to pull 1 specific testimonial by id? We have a portfolio area where we’d like to pull a specific testimonial from the client we’re featuring on the page. We could hardcode it but it would be great to be able to use this plugin using something like getTestimonial(3).

    What do you think?

    Comment by Jared Lindo — February 22, 2010 @ 7:35 pm

  212. I’m having the same problem, although i have to say your testimonials page looks outstanding! Mine looks like A** compared. :) Is there some custom code that came w/it i’m missing or perhaps something u could share?

    Greatly appreciated!
    Cheers
    BRyan

    Comment by Bryan Pritchard — February 23, 2010 @ 2:37 am

  213. Thanks for letting me know, Wolf. It’s really weird as nobody else seems to have the Widget drag and drop problem.

    At least there’s a workaround (see my later comment) though it’s far from ideal, having to manually edit widgets and nominate the sidebar and position, rather than simply dragging them. :(

    It’s possible there’s a clash with another plugin … but I’ve not been able to work out which one. I do know that with TM 2 de-activated, the drag and drop function for the widgets admin area works works fine – but with TM2 activated, it doesn’t work.

    I may have to dig deeper, leave TM2 activated and de-activate each other plugin separately and in turn to see if it’s a compatibility issue with one of them. I’ll try to make time to do that as soon as I can and report the result here. :)

    Comment by Sue James — February 23, 2010 @ 6:01 am

  214. I haven’t solved the same problem that I also have with 2 of my blogs.. :)

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — February 23, 2010 @ 6:08 am

  215. There is a custom CSS box you can tweak to get your desired look. Both for the full page and also the sidebar widget.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — February 23, 2010 @ 6:15 am

  216. Hi Jared,

    If we that the plugin will just become too bulky. The best way to display individual testimonials is to copy and paste :)

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — February 23, 2010 @ 6:16 am

  217. Hi Scott, for now you’ll have to remove that via the WordPress code editor

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — February 23, 2010 @ 6:19 am

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  219. Solution for the fatal error:

    I finally found the fatal error problem. The problem comes from the ext WassUp. Desactivate WassUp, activate Testimonials-manager and reactivate WassUp, it should work.

    Why? I have no idea…

    Steve

    Comment by steve — February 25, 2010 @ 6:17 am

  220. is there a way so i user can fill their testimony and we only approve or edit it?

    if anyone can help me..

    Comment by toba — February 25, 2010 @ 9:15 am

  221. There are some issues with the plugin enqueueing scripts and styles on every page load when the plugin is activated. There are other problems such as some scripts being enqueued unnecessarily (such as common and jquery-color, which are automatically handled by wp-admin/admin.php), calling wp_print_scripts rather than wp_enqueue_script (which can cause the script to be added multiple times), and directly running the admin_print_styles action and calling the wp_admin_css function (both of which are handled by wp-admin/admin-header.php).

    I cleaned this all up to only load the scripts needed and to load them properly. I have both a diff file of my changes and an updated zip file available on my site.

    Comment by Chris Jean — February 25, 2010 @ 4:15 pm

  222. can u tell me how to use to display testimonial randomly in sidebar

    Comment by Rakesh — February 26, 2010 @ 12:42 pm

  223. Is there a template tag that I can use in sidebar.php to display the testimonials ?

    Comment by Gopal Raju — February 27, 2010 @ 2:49 pm

  224. Thanks for the plugin. Work perfectly!

    Comment by TBX — March 2, 2010 @ 2:53 am

  225. Hi.

    I want to put a single random testimonial on my frontpage. How can I do it?

    Comment by Yimbo — March 2, 2010 @ 10:23 am

  226. Hi,
    I have installed testimonial manager. I can’t see any settings or admin menu option to add/update my testimonials. I have seen the testimonials page added and the widget. I am yet to find the menu for entering my testimonials.

    Thanks for your help
    Am

    Comment by Am — March 2, 2010 @ 5:55 pm

  227. Problem! The old version displayed nicely as a page…however now, the name/url of one testimonial displays directly above the testimonial underneath it. There is no separation or spacing between testimonials. Help?

    Comment by Tracy — March 3, 2010 @ 8:49 pm

  228. Great plugin! The only problem I’m having is that it doesn’t save any changes I’ve attempted to make to existing testimonials. The edit screen works fine, but when I press “update”, it reverts back to the original text. I have version 2.0.2. Any ideas?

    Comment by Matt Perry — March 4, 2010 @ 5:04 am

  229. Please view my post as I have pointed out the root of this issue.

    Comment by Justin Terriaco — March 4, 2010 @ 6:12 am

  230. Awesome… Just installed your updated code and it fixed the problem I was having with incompatibility with the TinyMCE Advanced plug-in.

    Comment by Justin Terriaco — March 4, 2010 @ 6:23 am

  231. I think this is a CSS style issue, the theme you are using may have a different style. You’ll need to look at the CSS box and edit your own custom style if the default one isn’t working for you.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — March 4, 2010 @ 6:24 am

  232. Install the updated code that Chris Jean wrote and it will probably fix your problem. Fixed mine.

    Comment by Justin Terriaco — March 4, 2010 @ 6:24 am

  233. The menu should be there if it is properly installed. Make sure you upload the entire folder, not just the files inside of it. And make sure there are no nested folders.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — March 4, 2010 @ 6:25 am

  234. Fantastic! :) Thanks so much Chris. This fixed the problem I was having with drag and drop in the widgets admin area. All working fine now. Hopefully it will be a standard fix in the next update of Testimonials Manager too. :)

    Comment by Sue James — March 4, 2010 @ 8:29 am

  235. Thanks Justin … Chris’s code fixed my problem too. I’m rapt! :)

    Comment by Sue James — March 4, 2010 @ 8:31 am

  236. The previous version displayed fine with this theme (Atahualpa). I’m not sure what I am looking for in the CSS…padding or margins? And do you mean to look in the CSS for the plugin, or for the theme? Thanks :)

    Comment by Tracy — March 4, 2010 @ 3:51 pm

  237. I can’t seem to get the custom CSS working right, I need white text on a black background in the widget area, but the widget doesn’t seem to use the custom CSS code. Any ideas? What code should I be using?

    Comment by Pax — March 4, 2010 @ 6:49 pm

  238. Hi Chris, thanks a lot for your help. We’ll use your edited version as the next version update for testimonials manager, and give you credit for it as well.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — March 5, 2010 @ 4:44 am

  239. I could do with being able to do this too.

    Any advice.

    Thanks
    Phill

    Comment by Phill Hellewell — March 6, 2010 @ 7:12 am

  240. Just upgraded to 2.0.3, and the issue is fixed. Nice work!

    Comment by Matt Perry — March 7, 2010 @ 1:52 am

  241. I’ve figured this one out.

    It’s not necessary to change the core WP code just the Testimonials code.

    Find the Testimonial plugin files in your setup, they should be in a folder called testimonials-manager under plugins (note that this is in wp-content not wp-admin as you might suspect)

    The file you want to edit is testimonial-manager.php

    Around line 75 you will see the start of the code that sets who see’s what.

    You will see the three Testimonail Manager menu items (Manage, Add New and Settings) all set to administrator.

    Just change administrator to editor for the items that you want to make available to your Editors. I left Settings at administrator for my set up.

    Hope this helps

    Phill

    Comment by Phill Hellewell — March 7, 2010 @ 3:29 pm

  242. I have installed your plugin it works

    The trouble is the text is light grey as does not show, how do i change the colour of text

    cheers

    Rowan Shead
    Cashflow Copywriting & Marketing

    Comment by Rowan — March 8, 2010 @ 7:46 am

  243. Just been searching around and found your article. You have some great notes in there and I will be action planning some of your ideas.

    Keep them coming!

    Thanks,
    Bangkok

    Comment by Bangkok Apartments — March 8, 2010 @ 9:47 am

  244. Plugin works except for uploading own images. The files upload to the server okay, but the images aren’t shown in the testimonial page. Can you help…running latest version of plugin and wordpress 2.9.2…thanks =)

    Comment by Jt — March 10, 2010 @ 5:39 am

  245. looking through page src data, the file is looks like “http://sniperdaytrading.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/advert-copy2-t.jpgadvert-copy2.jpg” …so probably something to do with formula to rename file after resizing? Don’t know php at all, but I’m messing with it to see if I can figure it out… =/

    Comment by Jt — March 10, 2010 @ 5:55 am

  246. Can you try a filename with no *dot* in it – for example filename.jpg instead of file.name.jpg

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — March 10, 2010 @ 6:04 am

  247. And also perhaps check the permission settings for the wp-content/uploads folder – perhaps change it to “777″

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — March 10, 2010 @ 6:05 am

  248. OK…wow, well that didn’t take me too long to figure out…just an FYI, in testimonial_manager.php I saw that the output string was putting an extra filetype attribute so I was looking for your definition of that ($filename) and I removed it, and it worked =) I am happy now.
    Below the // Save the data block
    Changed:
    $inputdata['own_avatar'] = $url.$filename;
    to:
    $inputdata['own_avatar'] = $url;

    Comment by Jt — March 10, 2010 @ 6:09 am

  249. Hi ,
    i have installed and activated your testimonials plugin. I need one clarification in displaying style.i need the plugin to display the testimonial with images at first ,ten only the testimonials without images should be listed. What shall i do for that any idea please….

    Comment by prabu — March 10, 2010 @ 7:00 am

  250. I’m sorry but doesn’t work the img!
    i upload picture but doesn’t work, the image can’t display because the name of the image generate from the plug in is for example:” image-t.jpgimage.jpg” can you help me? please?

    Comment by claudio — March 11, 2010 @ 1:01 pm

  251. Hi there,

    I think I found some issues on ramdomize testimonials. I found the code for shuffling on index.php

    switch ($data['dorder']) {
    case ‘random’:
    shuffle($data['data']);
    ;
    break;
    case ‘desc’:
    $data['data'] = array_reverse($data['data']);
    ksort($data['data']);
    ;
    break;
    default: ;
    }

    but the testimonial_manager.php doesn’t have the code for setup the value random. I made some changes on line 734~ on testimonial_manager.php

    734
    735 Ascending
    736 Descending
    737 Randomize
    738

    line 737 added

    Does it make sense? Also the ascending option doesn’t have the code for displaying on index.php.

    I hope this comment help.

    PS. Also, on line 479 loop. The variable $av doesn’t clear on every loop. I found the admin page of testimonial, the blank avatar displays the previous one. I just put clearing code on it.

    476 $url = ‘http://’ . $url;
    477 }
    478 $av = “”;
    479 if ($data['data'][$x]['avatar']) {
    480 if ($data['data'][$x]['avatar'] == “gravatar”) {
    481 $av = get_avatar($data['data'][$x]['email'], 48);
    482 } else {
    483 $av = ”;
    484 }
    485 }

    line 478 added

    GREAT PLUG-IN!

    Comment by Art Shim — March 11, 2010 @ 2:48 pm

  252. Umm… HTML code doesn’t display properly. I believe you know the code for random value.

    Thanks!

    Comment by Art Shim — March 11, 2010 @ 2:49 pm

  253. background color of widget wont change. stays white no matter what color i input

    Comment by Ken — March 11, 2010 @ 4:59 pm

  254. Doesn´t shows the picture!
    How can I resolve this…

    Comment by Josh Arcadia — March 11, 2010 @ 10:20 pm

  255. I’m currently looking for a testimonial management plugin and yours has got me most interested so far.

    One question.

    Can my clients and visitors enter their own on the website for me to later approve and have visible?

    Everything else looks fantastic from what I can tell without actually installing.

    Thanks

    Ian

    Comment by Ian Richardson — March 12, 2010 @ 2:37 am

  256. Just installed the plugin and put up the first testimonial. Tried using the upload function for an image of the client and now all that shows is the word ‘avatar’.

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks

    Ian

    Comment by Ian Richardson — March 12, 2010 @ 4:33 am

  257. I did everything you say and nothing, I can’t see the images, nor on setting nor on frontpage… can’t upload, please update this feature…

    Comment by Josh Arcadia — March 15, 2010 @ 5:56 am

  258. Thanks for the great plugin. I’ve one quick question. How can I change display setting for the Testimonial Persons name. Right now it is just bold…How can I change color or style it better?

    Improvement Suggestion:
    Any chance of creating a function for alternating background color. I think it will make it easier for people to read and will look better as well.

    Thanks again

    Comment by FirePips — March 16, 2010 @ 6:42 am

  259. I’m having a “side effect” issue with Testimonials Manager in that I have tried various social bookmarking plugins on my website and all exhibit the same problem.

    That is if Testimonials Manager is activated they post a random testimonial to the social website e.g. Facebook, rather than the post content or excerpt.

    If Testimonials Manager is de-activated they all work fine.

    Any Thoughts?

    Thanks

    Phill

    Comment by Phill Hellewell — March 17, 2010 @ 7:14 am

  260. please help me, i’m at one walk to paradise…

    Comment by claudio — March 17, 2010 @ 10:05 am

  261. Hi

    I’m using WPMU and when I try to upload a picture with the testimonial it is showing as ‘avatar’. I checked the link location and it seems as though it is adding the image name twice! when i delete the second occurrance in the url bar I see it fine, so the photo works without the extra name – but why is it uploading the file name twice? Please help, I’d like to use with images.

    Comment by seo — March 18, 2010 @ 12:32 pm

  262. Really nice plugin!

    Is there a template tag that I can use in sidebar.php to display the testimonials ? What if my theme doesn’t support widgets?

    Comment by Gopal Raju — March 18, 2010 @ 1:47 pm

  263. Install the plugin Exec-PHP and you can add a textbox on the widgets and make them work as widgets /slap

    Still having the problem that I can’t upload pictures!
    I CHMOD everything 777

    Comment by Josh Arcadia — March 18, 2010 @ 1:58 pm

  264. Can you explain the process?

    Comment by Josh Arcadia — March 18, 2010 @ 2:04 pm

  265. I can’t change the CSS style of the widget either.. it keeps displaying the default background color, no matter what I set the custom css to in the widget. Otherwise this is going to be perfect for a site I am building.

    Comment by kathy — March 23, 2010 @ 7:47 pm

  266. Is there a way to allow users to enter the info thierselves. Would make it much nicer if all we had to do was approve or disaprove the post.

    Mush needed as the site I am developing is growing from sister sites..

    Comment by Robert Dempsey — March 24, 2010 @ 7:13 pm

  267. I installed the plugin on WordPress MU but when I choose a picture to upload it only displays a white placeholder that says “Avatar”. Can you please provide instructions on how to fix this issue. It seems to be a common problem.

    Blessings,
    Wendy

    Comment by Wendy Merritt — March 25, 2010 @ 10:34 pm

  268. Also, the text in the Testimonial box when you are creating a new testimony is white on a white background and therefore you can’t see it unless you highlight it.

    I know I will love this plugin when these two issues are resolved. Thanks :-)

    Comment by Wendy Merritt — March 25, 2010 @ 10:44 pm

  269. I’m sorry, our plugins were never intended for WordPress MU

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — March 26, 2010 @ 2:36 am

  270. Still uploading doesn’t work

    Comment by Josh Arcadia — March 26, 2010 @ 2:48 am

  271. That is if Testimonials Manager is activated they post a random testimonial to the social website e.g. Facebook, rather than the post content or excerpt.

    Comment by Rhinestone jewelry — March 26, 2010 @ 1:15 pm

  272. I installed the plugin on WordPress 2.9.2, but when I choose a picture to upload it only displays a white placeholder that says “Avatar”. Can you please provide instructions on how to fix this issue. Maybe i should replace “avatar” in the custom css with something else?

    Comment by Andreas Orth — March 26, 2010 @ 4:16 pm

  273. I isolated the problem (sort-of) of the unchanging custom CSS. The custom CSS is getting inserted into the header.. and then the default CSS is getting inserted also into the body right above the widget element. I haven’t figured out why this is happening… but atleast it is a start. You can change the custom CSS in the options panel until you are blue (I have) and it will always be overridden by that code that gets inserted into the body.

    Comment by kathy — March 26, 2010 @ 5:13 pm

  274. Sorry guys, I should have explained in my comment above. To fix the issue of the avatar not working when uploading and only showing “avatar” in text when you try is because of an extra bit of code in the php you need to delete. As someone mentioned before the filename gets called twice. To fix it, go into the plugin editor and find the file called “testimonial_manager.php” then go down find the code below and change it. The .$filename is not needed and messing it up. The file actually is uploaded correctly, but just not called correctly.

    Below the // Save the data block
    Changed:
    $inputdata['own_avatar'] = $url.$filename;
    to:
    $inputdata['own_avatar'] = $url;

    Hope this helps.

    Comment by JT — March 26, 2010 @ 5:34 pm

  275. JT, consider yourself kissed! :* Thank you so much! That is exactly what was wrong with it! This plugin does work on WordPress MU you just need to follow JT’s instructions and remove that little piece of nasty code.

    Blessings,
    Wendy

    Comment by Wendy Merritt — March 27, 2010 @ 12:24 am

  276. I want to insert individual testimonials into post and pages is this possible

    Comment by Brent Harte — March 27, 2010 @ 2:46 am

  277. I was having the same issue. It’s a messy fix, but the way to make it work is to rename the image to something like “jan-t.jpgjan.jpg” via FTP (you have to figure out what file name the testimonial manager is looking for). Should be a simple code fix, but I haven’t tried to figure out where it is occurring.

    Comment by Joseph — March 27, 2010 @ 11:20 pm

  278. I solved that problem adding this code

    $data['data'][$x]['own_avatar'] = substr($data['data'][$x]['own_avatar'],0, strpos($data['data'][$x]['own_avatar'],'.jpg')+4);

    on index.php before
    $result .= '';

    Comment by piojita — March 30, 2010 @ 6:41 pm

  279. on the line 83

    http://cld.ly/351tph

    Sorry for my bad english :)

    Comment by piojita — March 30, 2010 @ 6:43 pm

  280. Um, I tried doing that- removing that bit of code and still no avatar images. Please help!

    Comment by Chaz — March 31, 2010 @ 2:40 am

  281. Yes, that’s exactly what is happening for me too.

    Comment by Phill Hellewell — March 31, 2010 @ 6:13 am

  282. Does this works for WP -MU?
    does the pic need to be .jpg? or can be any format?

    Hate when ppl explain like everybody thinks like them :(

    Comment by Josh Arcadia — March 31, 2010 @ 3:28 pm

  283. Nice plugin !

    In admin, when an Autor logs in, the admin for this plugin is not visible – how can i make it otherwise – so an can view and edit/add testimonials

    Thank in advance

    Comment by Probash — April 1, 2010 @ 4:09 am

  284. Thanks for creating this plugin – It’s been working really well for me.

    I ran into a problem moving the blog from my development folder to my active folder though. After following the instructions from WP, I moved the files and changed all the paths in the SQL database using SCR to restore my uploaded images, etc. Everything transferred and functioned well, except your plugin broke (as well as dynamic content gallery). When I changed everything back to the original paths and folder, it came back to life. Any ideas why changing the paths broke the plugin?

    I know I could always delete and reinstall after moving, but I’ve got a lot of testimonials entered in and I’d hate to manually re-enter them all (especially the image uploading part).

    Comment by Matt Perry — April 7, 2010 @ 9:22 pm

  285. hi, i’m a newbie to all the wordpress coding and stuff, but i follow directions and instructions well to the dot. i have the same problem like most people when uploading images (only showing AVATAR). i tried doing JT’s advice, but first of all, i can’t find the dang file in the edit plug-in site! i think i scanned the whole piece of code 10x already..

    would much appreciate help on getting the images uploaded.

    Comment by Gerald — April 9, 2010 @ 5:55 am

  286. hi gobala, i bought a product from your website http://freelancesuperstar.com ..installed the testimonial manager plug-in, tested it, but couldn’t get to upload an image on it. all it shows is AVATAR. please kindly help me out. thanks.

    Comment by Gerald — April 9, 2010 @ 5:57 am

  287. I figured out what the problem was. After moving the blog, when you change all the URLs in the database using find/replace, it breaks any plugins that use the wp_options table. The data is organized in serialized data strings, and the number of characters in the string also needs to be changed manually. They didn’t mention any of that at http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress.

    Comment by Matt Perry — April 9, 2010 @ 11:55 pm

  288. Anyone solved the problem from the option Uploading Picture? no showing here…

    Comment by Josh Arcadia — April 13, 2010 @ 1:09 am

  289. Love the plugin. It would be very helpful if we could attach a category or tag to testimonials so we can show different sets of testimonials on different pages.

    Comment by B. Alex — April 13, 2010 @ 2:28 am

  290. Hi Gobala,

    I’ve used this plugin for a while on another site & liked it – but I seem to be experiencing a bug in the latest version which I’ve just installed on a clients site, and a new site of my own. When I add or update a testimonial, or upgrade the plugin, it creates a new Testimonials page with each action – so I had to delete about 5 duplicate Testimonials pages the other day.

    Has anyone else been experiencing this problem? If so, could you suggest a fix for me please? (I’m using v2.0.4)

    Thanks in advance
    Tracey

    Comment by Tracey Rissik — April 13, 2010 @ 4:41 pm

  291. Hello,

    Your download link takes me to a 404 page.

    Comment by ryy705 — April 14, 2010 @ 4:48 pm

  292. This is a great plug-in indeed. I am interested in allowing select custom Roles to Add and Manage the Testimonials on this web site. I am just the Admin and will not be dealing with the day to day operation of the site.

    Thank you!

    Jerry

    Comment by Jerry — April 14, 2010 @ 11:33 pm

  293. Gobala – I’m liking the plugin and have used it for a few site so far. However, I haven’t figured out what kind of a licence it’s under. I’ve made a few changes to the source code that I’ve needed and would like to make those changes publicly available (most likely on github, with full attribution to you/profitplugs.com, of course) but am unsure whether that’s OK or not.

    Thanks,
    Phil

    Comment by Phil — April 15, 2010 @ 1:52 am

  294. I too get the same thing happening with my blog so now avoid doing anything with it.

    As I don’t have many testimonials at present I am even considering turning it off.

    Would be really nice if there was a way for people to add their own testimonials, much like adding comments.

    Ian

    Comment by Ian Richardson — April 15, 2010 @ 7:49 am

  295. I see all there comments and nothing in responce. What gives, are you through supporting the Plugin, or away on vacation for 2 or 3 months.

    Comment by Robert Dempsey — April 15, 2010 @ 10:22 am

  296. I posted the same about 2 months ago and no one is answering anything here that I can see.. If you make something for others to use support it.

    Comment by Robert Dempsey — April 15, 2010 @ 12:44 pm

  297. @ Robert Dempsey – Sure, we will update it in a few days or next week. It is after all a free software ($10 in donations so far) and also listed in WordPress.org so you can also seek help from their support forum. We’re tied up at the moment with http://www.blogsell.com

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — April 15, 2010 @ 5:24 pm

  298. @ Phil – It’s under the GPL license, so yes you can modify it and redistribute your version, with credits. If it’s actually just a fix to the current version you can give it to us as we’ll credit you here instead. Running low on manpower at the moment so Testimonials Manager updates will have to wait till next week.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — April 15, 2010 @ 5:27 pm

  299. I’ve fixed all the download links, After we moved to a new server the download manager plugin we were using just stopped working. But all’s well now.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — April 16, 2010 @ 2:43 pm

  300. Hi Gerald, we’ll work on updating the plugin soon.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — April 16, 2010 @ 2:49 pm

  301. Is there a way to limit the amount of the post? I used to [show tesominials] command in part of my wordpress theme but in the section i only want it to show say 2 lines. anymore and it extends my wordpress page down.. how can i liinmt that? then of course if you click read more you can see the full thing which is good

    Comment by mike — April 17, 2010 @ 5:24 am

  302. thanks for this great plugin, it will be perfect if the background color is able to be changed.

    Comment by Xiawa — April 21, 2010 @ 4:42 am

  303. Similar to Mike, can we excerpt the testimonials within the widget? I want to use the widget in the bottom of the blog (not the sidebar), so it’s more important that we can control the number of lines / characters and not show the whole thing.

    Thanks, KJ

    Comment by Karen — April 21, 2010 @ 2:06 pm

  304. Hi Kathy,

    Have you been able to find a workaround for this custom CSS issue for the widget? This is the last tweak I need to get the plugin to work beautifully for my client. Thanks!

    Comment by Kevin Gainey — April 22, 2010 @ 2:08 am

  305. Is there a way to make the pics larger than 48×48? I noticed there is an image size box, but am unable to get the photo to change size.

    Thanks

    Comment by Tony DiLorenzo | ONE Extraordinary Marriage — April 23, 2010 @ 2:53 am

  306. Trying to get the sidebar widget to rotate but it’s not rotating just listing the testimonials in the sidebar.

    http://muscularsolutions.com

    Please help?

    Comment by Michelle — April 23, 2010 @ 12:10 pm

  307. Hi Michelle,

    On your full testimonials page the sidebar seems to be rotating the testimonials well enough. On your home page however it is not working. Can you confirm if your home page is widget-enabled?

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — April 24, 2010 @ 4:24 am

  308. @ Tony – Yes you can use that setting to resize images. However it will not properly resize the older images you uploaded. Older images will merely be stretched to fit the new size.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — April 24, 2010 @ 4:26 am

  309. Hi,

    Is it possible to have my site visitors write the testimonial by filling the form themselves? Ideally it should not be published immediately and I as admin should be able to approve before they appear on the Testimonials page.

    Comment by Sridhar Katakam — April 26, 2010 @ 7:59 am

  310. This plugin is awesome! Thank you for developing it. I have a site in progress that needs some help to align the “Testimonial” from the “Name” and “Website”. Can you please take a look at http://fabricana9.com/hello-world/ ? Please advise.

    Comment by Swarup — April 26, 2010 @ 1:40 pm

  311. HI,
    Plessss tell me how to change the background colour….
    I really love this wiget but my blog bcground is black so im blackout
    plssss,

    Comment by dino — April 27, 2010 @ 4:41 pm

  312. If I choose to rotate ’2′ testimonials in my sidebar, the widget shows both of the testimonials at the same time, and then rotates them. Maybe this is how the plug-in is suppose to work?

    See: Run Coaching

    Is there a way to have the widget show only 1 testimonial, but rotate X number?

    -Scott

    Comment by Scott — April 27, 2010 @ 11:58 pm

  313. Here is the proper link: http://runtofinish.com

    Comment by Scott — April 28, 2010 @ 12:00 am

  314. @ Scott – Yes that’s how it works. You chose how many testimonials to display at any time. It will randomly fill in the spots. Lets say you put “2″ it will only display two testimonials at a time, selecting them randomly from all your testimonials. However if you have only entered two unique testimonials so far, you will see the same ones being displayed over and over again.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — April 28, 2010 @ 3:29 am

  315. That’s a great looking site by the way.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — April 28, 2010 @ 3:30 am

  316. You need to edit the CSS for that. Change background:#F4F4F4 to background:#000000

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — April 28, 2010 @ 3:35 am

  317. @Gobala – Thank you. I thought it only rotated the number of testimonials that were visible in the sidebar, but that is not the case, it works fine. I believe I owe you a donation for the plug-in.

    Comment by Scott — April 28, 2010 @ 12:05 pm

  318. Thank Sir, But nothing was change, just the same,

    Comment by dino — April 28, 2010 @ 1:18 pm

  319. Thank Sir, But nothing was change, just the same, at the side bar wiget

    Comment by dino — April 28, 2010 @ 1:42 pm

  320. I get an error that reads “Unable to create directory /images. Is its parent directory writable by the server?”

    Where is this directory being created?

    Comment by kevin — April 28, 2010 @ 9:33 pm

  321. Actually I’m not sure if the home page is widget enabled or not. I see it rotating but I think I had more of a “flash” rotation in mind. My client is fine with that, he’s not fine with there being zero spaces between the name and the start of the next testimonial so I’m trying to fix that now.

    Any suggestions on the home page rotation?

    Comment by Michelle — April 30, 2010 @ 10:15 pm

  322. Scratch the name being too close part. I figured that out in reading the comments here (perhaps it would help to make them an FAQ at this point as issues are resolved?).

    As far as the home page, I just copied and pasted a testimonial into that space b/c the client didn’t want it to rotate. That’s why it’s not rotating. I’d like it to but I have no idea what I should put in the code to make it happen as a widget.

    Comment by Michelle — April 30, 2010 @ 10:25 pm

  323. Look at the Widget. If the field under “No. of items to rotate:” has a number equal to or greater than your number of testimonials, it will display all of them.

    Make that number less, and it should start to rotate them.

    It works on my main client’s site: http://www.thefearlessfactor.com/blog

    Comment by Schuyler J Wood — May 3, 2010 @ 7:53 pm

  324. Please take a look at the site I am working on…http://usabaldwincounty.org/fusion

    I have installed this widget (which is great by the way), but seem to have an issue with the text running off the screen? Any idea how to fix this. I feel like I have tried everything, but nothing seems to change this. It does not seem to be resizing to the appropriate sidebar space? ANy thoughts would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks!

    Comment by Melissa Hoffman — May 5, 2010 @ 8:54 pm

  325. OK just in addition to my previous post. It apparently is cutting off the text because I am using this widget within the Tabbed Sidebar widget. Anyone have any clue how to resize this to fit to work with this widget?

    Comment by Melissa Hoffman — May 5, 2010 @ 8:58 pm

  326. Great plugin. However the background color of widget wont change. stays white no matter what color i input also there is a big gap between the testimonal and the name field. Please advise…..

    Comment by georgina — May 8, 2010 @ 2:34 am

  327. Your plugin keeps creating the page ‘Testimonials’my site is on French so besides I don’t have a need for that page, I choose one from my site, and puy in on the plugin, why it’s still creating that page?

    Comment by Josh Arcadia — May 8, 2010 @ 11:12 pm

  328. Works perfectly on the sites I’m using it on, thanks for the great plugin, especially the fact that it’s free. Makes handling testimonials really easy and saves some valuable time.

    Comment by Sam — May 11, 2010 @ 11:07 am

  329. I’ve seen many references to the fact that changing the background color in the custom CSS does not make changes. I have been able to make changes to the background color on the Testimonials Page, but not in the widget. Of course, white doesn’t work with the theme, so this needs to be changed. I have found everything about the plugin to work flawlessly, except for this one factor. Has anyone found a fix for this?

    Thanks.

    Velma

    Comment by Velma — May 11, 2010 @ 7:01 pm

  330. Greetings. I love the plugin here.. Is there any way to take off the Powered by link information??

    Comment by Don — May 11, 2010 @ 8:00 pm

  331. WHERE IS THE SUPPORT FOR THIS SITE? WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR DAYS…..

    Comment by georgina — May 14, 2010 @ 3:11 am

  332. I need help with how the widget displays multiple testimonies. Between the text and the name of the person being quote is space, but there is no space between that person’s hyperlink and the next person’s quote. Thus it appears that the name and the hyperlink go with the quote below, rather than the one above them. Can you give me the code to fix this and tell me where to place it?

    Thank you.

    Charlie Havens

    Comment by Charlie Havens — May 15, 2010 @ 11:08 pm

  333. HI I would like to know how I can remove the embed style of the widget it is causing my site not to validate and I don;t like that. can any body help thanks

    Comment by oudin sameul — May 20, 2010 @ 11:58 am

  334. i want to remove the read more text in the sidebar widget. How do I do that?

    Comment by uncanny — May 21, 2010 @ 4:59 pm

  335. any answer to this one yet? i love the plugin and it works great except a few very long testimonials on the widget makes the length of the page way too long…

    thanks in advance

    Comment by Jake — May 23, 2010 @ 5:48 pm

  336. No you cannot remove that.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — May 23, 2010 @ 6:16 pm

  337. You could try editing the testimonials to make it shorter. In general testimonials aren’t supposed to be too long..

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — May 23, 2010 @ 6:17 pm

  338. This is a wonderful plugin.. except that it needs to have a function like what the others were saying..

    We need the visitors to be able to enter their own testimonials, and then admin will approve it – much like comments function in WordPress.

    Comment by Faustine Tan — May 24, 2010 @ 3:54 am

  339. I love this plug-in, but I wish there was a way to change the order of the testimonials.

    Comment by Janet Barclay — May 24, 2010 @ 8:56 pm

  340. Please help me,i am unable to view the testimonial image in this site as http://greyboxconsulting.com/RSA/development

    Comment by Amit Kumar — May 25, 2010 @ 5:39 am

  341. Hi,

    Fantastic plugin, the first I’ve seen to do this functionality really well.

    I have one small problem, I need the website url to open in a new window, not the same window, where can I find the code to insert target=”_blank” so that testimonial website links open in a new window ?

    Thanks,
    Bob

    Comment by Bob — May 25, 2010 @ 8:59 pm

  342. Hi,

    Is there anyway I can get the website links to open in a new window rather than the same window ?

    Thanks,
    Bob

    Comment by Bob — May 26, 2010 @ 9:47 am

  343. [...] http://www.profitplugs.com/testimonials-manager-wordpress/ [...]

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  344. i Need short php code for widget displays
    i want to insert manualy on my page

    Comment by seminyak bali — June 3, 2010 @ 5:33 am

  345. The Custom CSS is not working for me, using WP 2.9.2.

    Comment by Bryan — June 9, 2010 @ 4:17 pm

  346. Is there a way already to show a maximum-length excerpt of the testimonials in the widget? Some of the testimonials on a page I’m doing for a client are looooong and it sometimes doubles the length of the actual page. Would be nice to be able to specify a maximum number of words/lines/characters to show in the widget. Thanks ;)

    Comment by Jodie — June 14, 2010 @ 2:33 am

  347. I’m quite new to wordpress but found this plug in really usefull. I have one problem though, the css seems to be being ignored and the sidebar looks the same as the others – can anyone help me with making it look how it does in the demos?

    Thanks

    Comment by Hannah Byrne — June 15, 2010 @ 11:13 am

  348. Great plugin, it would be great if the tag worked though. I have some larger blurbs I would like to use, but they take up too much real estate in the sidebar.

    Comment by Jay Nierodzik — June 17, 2010 @ 7:00 pm

  349. Hmm seems like part of my comment was cut out. Any chance of adding or replicating the functionality of the more tag?

    Comment by Jay Nierodzik — June 17, 2010 @ 7:22 pm

  350. I keep getting this error every time I try to install the plugin:

    Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class pagination in /home/caseycom/public_html/wp-content/plugins/testimonials-manager/testimonial_manager.php on line 779

    please let me know how to fix this.

    Comment by Grant — June 17, 2010 @ 10:43 pm

  351. The Custom Css Isn’t working for me to… So to make it work, we have to edit the css in index.php and find the appropritate class and style it.

    Comment by Sahil — June 19, 2010 @ 9:18 am

  352. anywhy to remove the Powered by the Testimonial Manager Plugin for WordPress. link ?

    thanks

    Comment by leo — June 20, 2010 @ 3:14 pm

  353. Hi

    I need to include the testimonials in a page outside of WordPress so where are the testimonials stored? It looks like they are in `wp_options`with an `option_name` of ‘testimonials_manager’ is this correct? I’m using WordPress 2.9.1. and I was expecting there to be a ‘testimonials’ table in the DB.

    Comment by Laurence — June 23, 2010 @ 9:38 am

  354. Would be great if the Testimonials could be tagged and create a sidebar or page that only displays testimonials that contain a certain tag.
    Useful if more than one product are sold on on website, or even if 1 product has 2 markets.
    Any plans of implementing tags with the Testimonials manager?
    Thanks
    Thomas

    Comment by Thomas — June 25, 2010 @ 2:03 am

  355. There are embedded styles in the main php files for this plugin. Is there any way that we can PLEASE have the styles in a separate style sheet, or at least have ALL of them in the custom styles area? Every time I use this plugin I have to either manually remove them from the core files or just override them with !important. Anyone second this idea?

    I’d also recommend giving the main testimonial body area a span style, as well as the other elements so they can have specific styles assigned. I often have to add these to the main core files making upgrading a pain.

    Good ideas? No? Yes?

    Comment by Steve — June 26, 2010 @ 8:59 pm

  356. There is an error in the code for the Widget Custom CSS for WordPress versions greater than 2.8.

    If Custom CSS for Widget isn’t working do this.

    Go to: Plugins -> Editor -> select “Testimonials Manager” ->
    select “testimonials-manager/index.php”

    Find this code:
    function widgetcss($data, $wid='') {
    if (version_compare($wp_version, '2.8', '<')) {
    $data = get_option('testimonials_manager_widget');
    }
    Change the ”. (Pretty sure it was supposed to check for WordPress versions “greater” than 2.8 not “less than”.)
    Click ‘Update File’ button and refresh website.
    Now you can update the Custom CSS in the widget area.

    Comment by Sol — June 28, 2010 @ 7:17 pm

  357. Change the '<' to '>'

    Comment by Sol — June 28, 2010 @ 7:20 pm

  358. Where in the custom css do I change the sidebar copy color? On the full page the text is in black and on the sidebar they are in white. Any changes I make don’t seem to update to the website.

    Comment by Tom Bass — June 29, 2010 @ 5:32 pm

  359. Ha! I figured out how to change the background color for the widget! Move the “background: #yourcolor;” to the top of the list instead of where it is, and add !important

    So…

    background: #cccccc !important;

    I know there were others who were asking about this, so I thought I’d share. :)

    Velma

    Comment by Velma — June 30, 2010 @ 4:13 am

  360. Everything is fine, exept modifiying “Custom CSS” (sidebar/widget) does not have any effect. How come?

    thanks in advance
    roland

    Comment by roland — July 1, 2010 @ 4:22 pm

  361. Hej, nice plugin. It’s really easy to use and embedd.

    But I’d like to deactivate all css the plugin comes with. Every time I changed the css, it was ignored and resetted by the plugin. And I don’t like the places the plugin inserts the css.

    I think it would be a nice option to completely deactivate the css, or let the user decide to leave the css-textarea empty.

    Comment by Christian — July 2, 2010 @ 10:52 pm

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  363. Where are the data / entries saved? It’s not in the database right? We site and we wanted to keep the testimonials but they were not there.

    Comment by Gigabytes — July 4, 2010 @ 2:44 pm

  364. [...] mitgelieferten CSS, möglichst ohne Tabellen ausgeliefert werden. Gefunden habe ich dann den Testimonials Manger. Das Plugin erfüllt alle  Bedingungen. Vorallem ist es mit einem eigenen Texteditior [...]

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  365. I love your plugin — just one problem. I attached a photo to the first testimonial without any problem, but all other testimonials reverted to gravitars. Any help for this would be much appreciated.

    Comment by Jean — July 10, 2010 @ 5:17 pm

  366. I’d like to know what additional plugins you’d recommend so I could give my users with lower rights (eg: authors, editors) to edit / add testimonials in the dashboard?

    Comment by SFoxe — July 12, 2010 @ 4:24 am

  367. Hi, I found a potential bug (and fix) in this plugin in WordPress 3.0.
    When creating a plugin and uploading an image, the image is uploaded correctly but does not display when viewing the testimonial, either on the edit page or the manage page. When viewing the source, it appears that the image filename is saved incorrectly.
    The saved filename has the correct url to the file including filename, with an extra filename on the end. An example: wp-content/uploads/2010/07/testiminal-image.jpgtestiminal-image.jpg.

    I have fixed this by editing the plugin code in testimonials_manager.php on line 258 in the TestimonialOptions::on_save_changes method.
    Original code:

    $inputdata['own_avatar'] = $url.$filename;

    My change:

    $inputdata['own_avatar'] = $url;//.$filename;

    It seems that perhaps WordPress 3.0 changes the return values of the wp_handle_uploads function and that $file['url'] now includes the full url including the filename.

    Hope this helps fix an otherwise very useful plugin. Thanks.

    Comment by Charles — July 12, 2010 @ 5:13 pm

  368. Is there a way that clients/people can submit their own review instead of the website owner having to do it?

    Comment by char — July 13, 2010 @ 2:30 pm

  369. I second that! This would be an excellent feature to have.

    Comment by Rylie B — July 16, 2010 @ 11:13 pm

  370. Could “testimonials manager” automatically show in my wordpress?

    Comment by tiket kereta — July 17, 2010 @ 2:33 pm

  371. Hi,

    I really like the plugin, has anyone found a way to limit excerpt maximum length on the widget?
    Thanks in advance,
    L.

    Comment by bilinguepergioco — July 18, 2010 @ 9:13 am

  372. I love the plugin! However, when I ran an analysis of my site for SEO reasons, I get the following and want to know how to correct it. Not sure if this error will effect my seo rankings or not. Thanks!

    Line 135, Column 27: document type does not allow element “style” here

    #ww123-3 .testimonials_manager_widget{

    The element named above was found in a context where it is not allowed. This could mean that you have incorrectly nested elements — such as a “style” element in the “body” section instead of inside “head” — or two elements that overlap (which is not allowed).

    One common cause for this error is the use of XHTML syntax in HTML documents. Due to HTML’s rules of implicitly closed elements, this error can create cascading effects. For instance, using XHTML’s “self-closing” tags for “meta” and “link” in the “head” section of a HTML document may cause the parser to infer the end of the “head” section and the beginning of the “body” section (where “link” and “meta” are not allowed; hence the reported error).

    Comment by Jeremy Johnston — July 19, 2010 @ 3:41 pm

  373. Hi,
    great plugin, is there a way to have testimonial sets, I am asking because I have a multilingual site, it would be great if one can have collection of testimonials in different languages just by using [show_testimonials_en] or [show_testimonials_es]

    regards

    Joe

    Comment by Joe — July 20, 2010 @ 3:01 pm

  374. Hi,

    We’d like to let you know how amazing your plugin has been for us. We use it on all of our projects that require testimonials.

    We were wondering if you’d be interested in adding a new feature where we could easily reorder the testimonials. If so, please contact us and let us know what the cost would be to integrate this feature.

    Thank you!

    Comment by Jessica — July 20, 2010 @ 8:33 pm

  375. Hi, I installed this on a 2.9.2 WP. After activating the plugin, my Testimonials page was created just fine. But in my wordpress admin, I cannot find anywhere to manage testimonials. I expanded everything and there is simply nowhere linked to actually manage this plugin.
    Suggestion: link to the “Settings” page from the Manage Plugins page, so in cases like mine where the settings aren’t hooked into the left sidebar in the admin panel, people can still find it anyway.

    Could someone please post the URL format to force this page to appear?

    Comment by Jarred — July 24, 2010 @ 3:36 pm

  376. Great plugin! How do you make the title of the widget to be a link to the testimonials page?

    Comment by Troy Templeman — July 29, 2010 @ 1:19 pm

  377. I fixed my problem that I posted about a few days ago. Maybe this information will help others.
    In testimonials_manager.php line 21, there were weird permissions set for the menu item to appear – it was “-1″.
    I’ve changed it to “8″ (administrator) and now the menu item appears.

    Comment by Jarred — July 30, 2010 @ 3:38 pm

  378. hi Laurence,
    i have faced the same problem. But finally i could find out the solution. You can find all the data is saved in wp_option table where the option name is ‘testimonials_manager’. you could find every thing in option value.

    Comment by Shaoun — August 2, 2010 @ 9:24 am

  379. Testimonials is only letting me upload one photo. When I try to upload a photo to the next testimonial, it lets me browse to the new photo, but it won’t allow me to upload it.
    Help would really be appreciated!!!

    Comment by Jean — August 2, 2010 @ 9:09 pm

  380. Hi, Is there a way to make the Widget limited to an ammount of characters?

    For example;

    Testimonails page shows;

    hi hi hi hi im joe, how are you? works going great, you’ve got a brilliant website!

    Widget;
    hi hi hi hi im joe, how are you? works goi…. (read more)

    Please e-mail me on matt_barcelona15@hotmail.com if you have any solution….

    Comment by Matt — August 3, 2010 @ 9:25 am

  381. Hi,
    I am facing problem to display specific testimonial on one page.

    I want to display one testimonial on one page by clicking on more link just like blog.

    Please help me.

    Thanks,
    Arvind

    Comment by Arvind — August 4, 2010 @ 5:28 am

  382. Cant you just create blog posts for that?

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — August 4, 2010 @ 8:53 am

  383. Hi

    I am having the same problem as a few others have mentioned. IS there a way to limit the amount of characters show in the widget as some testimonials are extremely long and it becomes bulky…
    Thanks

    Comment by Neil — August 4, 2010 @ 3:46 pm

  384. Id also like to limit or cut off the length of the text in the widget at a certain word length. How can we do this?

    Comment by Elliot Walker — August 5, 2010 @ 12:15 pm

  385. Who is the creator of this plugin? Why is there no support whatsoever? Whoever made this need to step up to the plate and fix the custom css for the widget.

    Comment by Arlo Mason — August 13, 2010 @ 7:07 am

  386. @Arlo I know it might seem like that’s the right thing, but really often times people who release these *free* plugins are doing them on the side and may have to prioritize putting food on the table before giving immediate support for their contribution. What usually works best is post your problem and check for a solution from someone in the comments section. For example there’s a solution to the custom CSS issue posted by Sol here: http://www.profitplugs.com/testimonials-manager-wordpress/#comment-6795 Maybe that will help you?

    That said I need this plugin on a project I’m working on this week and I need a solution to the excerpts issue (testimonials too long in the sidebar). I have an idea to hack around it with a CSS. I’ll post my results in the next few days.

    Comment by Jeff Namnum — August 14, 2010 @ 6:31 pm

  387. Thanks for explaining that in the nicest way possible!

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — August 14, 2010 @ 9:14 pm

  388. Hi Arlo, sure we’ll try to “step up to the plate” and come up with an updated version soon. Maybe we’ll also create a premium paid membership for users who cannot / don’t want to troubleshoot problems themselves. For those who can, you’re free to hack the plugin any way you want, as is the case with any other wordpress plugin released under the GPL license.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — August 14, 2010 @ 9:16 pm

  389. Thanks for your wonderful advise as I could have never figured that out on my own. While it’s very easy to modify your plugin, generally its not a good practice to get into as any subsequent updates by the developer will break the modifications. After seeing countless people ask nicely for you to fix the plugin, you failed to respond to anyone with a reasonable answer. While I understand that you may have a need to work on other projects, one should not take on developing a plugin that is so widely used without having any intentions on keeping it up to take with current WP versions.

    If you have any other smart ass comments, feel free to respond back.

    Comment by Arlo — August 14, 2010 @ 10:09 pm

  390. That’s ok, you seem to be really good at smart ass comments, so I’ll leave that job to you.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — August 15, 2010 @ 4:42 am

  391. This did it! Thanks, Sol!

    Comment by Catherine Scholz — August 16, 2010 @ 7:01 pm

  392. I would like to know this, too! Adding a CSS tag for height did not work.

    Comment by Catherine Scholz — August 16, 2010 @ 7:03 pm

  393. Gobala –

    How do I prevent the text from spilling over into the middle content of http://healrewireyourbrain.com as pictured here?

    http://www.catswebweave.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Picture-5.png

    Thanks,
    WebWeaver

    Comment by Catherine Scholz — August 16, 2010 @ 7:09 pm

  394. @Catherine – If you have a non-breaking string of text, it will spillover to the content area. Try adding spaces in long urls or email addresses.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — August 17, 2010 @ 12:51 pm

  395. @Gobala – Thanks!

    Now I just need to know how to truncate (shorten) long testimonials in the sidebar widget. Using the “read more” tag in the visual editor didn’t do it.

    Any ideas? Thanks! I’m on your product email list, by the way.

    -WebWeaver

    Comment by Catherine Scholz — August 17, 2010 @ 6:33 pm

  396. That’s right at the moment you cannot do that. When creating this plugin I assumed most testimonials will be a paragraph (or less) in length, like the ones you see on this site. We’re pretty tied up with LinkTrackr.com but we’ll eventually create a seperate testimonials application that will let you have more control over testimonials.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — August 18, 2010 @ 3:48 am

  397. Yes but how do you change the color of the text on the sidebar??

    Comment by SL — August 18, 2010 @ 3:49 pm

  398. I found the answer on here to editing the sidebar with css by changing the less than to a great than symbol, but I am having trouble changing the sidebar text color. What do you suggest?

    Comment by SL — August 18, 2010 @ 3:54 pm

  399. Great plugin…but I have problem with my friend site http://wordsdesigns.com.

    after added 3 testimonial is working fine , but in 4th testimonial it is not added images. Images show in media,but not show in testimonial page…Please help me…

    I used WP 3.0.

    Comment by Gopal Bhattacharjee — August 19, 2010 @ 5:37 am

  400. is there anyway to exclude the testimonial from the homepage? i only need it on the inner pages!

    thank you!

    Comment by Bucsa Silviu — August 19, 2010 @ 1:11 pm

  401. Error Line 286, Column 29: document type does not allow element “style” here

    #ww123-3 .testimonials_manager_widget{

    ?

    The element named above was found in a context where it is not allowed. This could mean that you have incorrectly nested elements — such as a “style” element in the “body” section instead of inside “head” — or two elements that overlap (which is not allowed).

    May I have the info on where this is generated, so I can fix it.

    Comment by Tom — August 20, 2010 @ 10:14 am

  402. [...] Testimonials Manager Plugin [...]

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  403. My pleasure! btw, I have not yet had time to experiment with a CSS solution to the excerpts situation (I wound up using Colission Testimonials on my current project), but if someone has a moment I’m sure it would be possible. Think hidden overflows and adjusting the positioning, z-index, and maybe a transparency in the background of the link to the testimonial page.

    Good luck all.

    Comment by Jeff Namnum — August 24, 2010 @ 2:39 pm

  404. [...] Testimonials Manager is a WordPress plugin that allows you to manage and display testimonials for your blog, product or service. It can be used to build your portfolio or to encourage readers to subscribe / buy your products. [...]

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  405. Cool! That is nice information for me.

    Comment by ompiang — August 27, 2010 @ 10:34 am

  406. Hey,

    I like your plugin so far but there are two things I wonder.
    1.) How can I change the url to my ‘testimonials’ page to something else that just ‘testimonials’? There is a menu choice but it only shows ‘testi..’.

    2.) Is there a choice to set the text for the link below the testimonial on the widget? there was only ‘Read more’ which doesnt really apply for my language. So I wonder if there is a choice (other than editing the php which I did) to change the text and the url the text leads to?

    Comment by Patrick — August 29, 2010 @ 8:03 am

  407. How do I change the color of the background on testimonials on the widget? I’ve explored css on the widget itself and on the plug-in and can’t seem to get it to change color.

    Comment by Charlie — September 1, 2010 @ 6:26 pm

  408. sorry I write this down here…
    I don’t know why, but… I couldn’t activate it…

    it is the class pagination function
    perhaps it’s a theme / language compativility problem?
    any solution?

    Comment by daniel — September 3, 2010 @ 3:08 am

  409. auto answer….

    it was wassup plugin.
    I desactivate it & it works! :D

    thanks

    Comment by daniel — September 4, 2010 @ 7:41 pm

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    our behalf. Yes I am human. Cleanse my thoughts Cleanse my Heart. Allow me to

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    Comment by Carole T — September 6, 2010 @ 4:41 pm

  411. Did your plugin get pulled? I can’t find it anymore.

    Comment by Andy Ciordia — September 13, 2010 @ 3:07 pm

  412. Hi,

    After looking at your plugin I decided to release my own plugin which removes your Illegal “Powered By” link. However I have informed WordPress.org about the Illegal status of your plugin and it has been removed as well as the other plugin.

    If you wish to re-sumbit you may but you must not enforce the “Powered by” option.

    Thanks,

    MD

    Comment by MD — September 14, 2010 @ 11:21 am

  413. Wow, and they didn’t even inform the plugin author about the pending removal. If that’s how they do things, I think we’re just wasting our time anyways. All our other plugins, with no attribution link whatsoever, was rejected, automatically removed etc and again with no email notification of any sort. It’s hard to get feedback or any kind of response from the people who moderate the plugins, so yea, good luck to you. This is just a waste of our time.

    Comment by Gobala Krishnan — September 14, 2010 @ 2:54 pm

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