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.
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:
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:
Yvon Kruger
Fit in 90 Dagen
Scott Bernadot
Bernadot.com
The Comment Policy plugin gives everyone clear warning and should make life much easier!
Kathleen Gresham
Web Fresh Leads
Mark
Plus, it is so easy to manage.
Dr. L M Foong
SWOT Analysis Template
Phil Henderson
Local Search Marketing
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.
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



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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;
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….
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?
please help me, i’m at one walk to paradise…
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.
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 .= '';on the line 83
http://cld.ly/351tph
Sorry for my bad english
Hi there,
I think I found some issues on ramdomize testimonials. I found the code for shuffling on index.php
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
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.
line 478 added
GREAT PLUG-IN!
Umm… HTML code doesn’t display properly. I believe you know the code for random value.
Thanks!
background color of widget wont change. stays white no matter what color i input
Doesn´t shows the picture!
How can I resolve this…
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
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
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
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
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.
Can you explain the process?
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?
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
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.
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..
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
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
I’m sorry, our plugins were never intended for WordPress MU
Still uploading doesn’t work
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Yes, that’s exactly what is happening for me too.
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?
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.
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!
I want to insert individual testimonials into post and pages is this possible
Um, I tried doing that- removing that bit of code and still no avatar images. Please help!
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
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).
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.
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.
Hi Gerald, we’ll work on updating the plugin soon.
Anyone solved the problem from the option Uploading Picture? no showing here…
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.
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
Hello,
Your download link takes me to a 404 page.
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.
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
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
@ 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.
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
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.
@ 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
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.
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.
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
thanks for this great plugin, it will be perfect if the background color is able to be changed.
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
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
@ 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.
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?
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?
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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,
You need to edit the CSS for that. Change
background:#F4F4F4tobackground:#000000Thank Sir, But nothing was change, just the same,
Thank Sir, But nothing was change, just the same, at the side bar wiget
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
Here is the proper link: http://runtofinish.com
That’s a great looking site by the way.
@ 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.
@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.
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?
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!
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?
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…..
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?
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.
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
Greetings. I love the plugin here.. Is there any way to take off the Powered by link information??
WHERE IS THE SUPPORT FOR THIS SITE? WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR DAYS…..
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