April 19, 2024

Testimonials by BestWebSoft Plugin

Add testimonials and feedbacks from your customers to WordPress website posts, pages, and widgets.

Simple plugin which helps to create and add customer testimonials to WordPress website posts, pages, and widgets. Display testimonials using shortcode, widget or PHP function.

Show what other people are saying about your business to generate more sales!

View Demo

Features

GDPR Compliant
Add testimonials form via shortcode
Add unlimited number of testimonials
Add testimonials block via shortcode
Add testimonials widget
Add slider with testimonials
Compatible with reCaptcha
Compatible with Rating
Compatible with Sender
Select the one who can submit new testimonials:
- All users
- Logged in users
Customize testimonials additional info:
- Author
- Company name
Set the number of testimonials to display
Change featured image size and its dimensions
Set the default testimonials sorting order by:
- ID
- Title
- Date added
- Random
- ASC (ascending order from lowest to highest values)
- DESC (descending order from highest to lowest values)
Compatible with latest WordPress version
Incredibly simple settings for fast setup without modifying code
Detailed step-by-step documentation and videos
Multilingual and RTL ready
If you have a feature suggestion or idea you’d like to see in the plugin, we’d love to hear about it! Suggest a Feature

Documentation & Videos

Help & Support

Visit our Help Center if you have any questions, our friendly Support Team is happy to help – https://support.bestwebsoft.com/

Translation

Hungarian (hu_HU) (thanks to Peter Aprily www.aprily.com)
Russian (ru_RU)
Ukrainian (uk)

Some of these translations are not complete. We are constantly adding new features which should be translated. If you would like to create your own language pack or update the existing one, you can send the text of PO and MO files to BestWebSoft and we’ll add it to the plugin. You can download the latest version of the program for work with PO and MO files Poedit.

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Updater – Automatically check and update WordPress website core with all installed plugins and themes to the latest versions.
reCaptcha – Protect WordPress website forms from spam entries with reCAPTCHA.
Rating – Add rating plugin to your WordPress website to receive feedback from your customers.

Installation

Upload the bws-testimonials folder to /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin using the ‘Plugins’ menu in your WordPress admin panel.
You can add the testimonial using your WordPress admin panel in “Testimonials” > “Add New”.
You can add “Testimonials Widget” to the necessary sidebar on “Appearance” > “Widgets” page, or copy and paste this shortcode into your post or page: [bws_testimonials].

View a Step-by-step Instruction on Testimonials Installation

Screenshots

Testimonials Widget display.
Testimonial form display.
Testimonials Settings page.
GDPR Compliance display in Testimonials form.
Testimonials Widget in WordPress admin panel.
'Add New Testimonial' page in WordPress admin panel.
Setting page Testimonials Slider.
Testimonials Slider display.
Testimonials Slider Widget in WordPress admin panel.
Testimonials Slider Widget display.
Testimonials review form display.
Testimonials reviews display.

FAQ

How can I add Testimonials to my website?

Please create a testimonial using your WordPress admin panel in “Testimonials” > “Add New”.
There are 3 ways to add Testimonials:

You can add “Testimonials Widget” to the necessary sidebar on “Appearance” > “Widgets” page.
You can copy and paste this shortcode into your post or page: [bws_testimonials]
Paste the following strings into the template source code <?php if ( has_action( 'tstmnls_show_testimonials' ) ) { do_action( 'tstmnls_show_testimonials' ); } ?>

I have added Testimonials Widget to the sidebar, yet nothing changed

Please create the testimonial using your WordPress admin panel in “Testimonials” > “Add New”.

I set 5 in ‘Number of testimonials to be displayed’, but only three testimonials are currently displayed. Why so?

To have more testimonials displayed on your website, you need to add them using your WordPress admin panel in “Testimonials” > “Add New”.

I have some problems with the plugin’s work. What Information should I provide to receive proper support?

Please make sure that the problem hasn’t been discussed yet on our forum (https://support.bestwebsoft.com). If no, please provide the following data along with your problem’s description:

the link to the page where the problem occurs
the name of the plugin and its version. If you are using a pro version – your order number.
the version of your WordPress installation
copy and paste into the message your system status report. Please read more here: Instruction on System Status

Changelog

V1.0.8 – 19.08.2021

Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 5.8.
Update : BWS plugins section is updated.
Bugfix : Fixed bug using reCaptcha plus.
NEW : Compatibility with Sender by BestWebSoft has been added.

V1.0.7 – 21.07.2020

Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 5.4.2.
Update : BWS plugins section is updated.
NEW : Add notification counter to WordPress admin menu.
Update : The plugin settings page was changed.
Update : Testimonials review form was changed.
Bugfix : Bugs with “Illegal string offset” were fixed.

V1.0.6 – 19.12.2019

Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 5.3.1.
Bugfix : Bugs with saving data were fixed.
Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V1.0.5 – 08.10.2019

NEW : Compatibility with Rating by BestWebSoft has been added.

V1.0.4 – 04.09.2019

Update: The deactivation feedback has been changed. Misleading buttons have been removed.

V1.0.3 – 22.07.2019

NEW : Ability to select image size has been added.

V1.0.2 – 09.05.2019

Update : The function for returning an array of objects has been added.

V1.0.1 – 14.03.2019

NEW : The slider option for testimonials has been added.

V1.0.0 – 08.01.2019

Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 5.0.2.
Bugfix : Fixed small bugs.

V0.2.4 – 07.08.2018

NEW : The compatibility with Google Captcha (reCAPTCHA) plugin has been added.

V0.2.3 – 24.05.2018

NEW : Ability to add GDPR Compliance checkbox has been added.

V0.2.2 – 27.02.2018

NEW : Ability to add testimonials form via shortcode has been added.
NEW : Ability to select the one who can submit new testimonials has been added.

V0.2.1 – 21.12.2017

Bugfix : Number of testimonials to be displayed has been fixed.
Bugfix : Options removal from the database when working on a multisite network has been fixed.

V0.2.0 – 12.07.2017

Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.8.

V0.1.9 – 17.04.2017

Bugfix : Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was fixed.

V0.1.8 – 12.10.2016

Update : BWS plugins section is updated

V0.1.7 – 20.07.2016

Update : ‘widget_title’ filter was added.
Bugfix : The display of unnecessary elements in Testimonials has been removed.

V0.1.6 – 01.04.2016

NEW : Testimonials featured image was added.
Bugfix : Conflict with BuddyPress was fixed.

V0.1.5 – 10.12.2015

NEW : Testimonials sorting order was added.
Bugfix : Shortcode displaying was fixed.
Bugfix : The bug with plugin menu duplicating was fixed.

V0.1.4 – 03.11.2015

NEW : A button for Testimonials shortcode inserting to the content was added.
NEW : Hungarian language file is added to the plugin.
Update : Textdomain was changed.
Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.3.1.

V0.1.3 – 31.07.2015

New : Ability to restore settings to defaults.
Bugfix : We fixed the bug with widgets translation in the Admin Panel.
Update : Input maxlength is added.
Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.2.3.

V0.1.2 – 26.05.2015

Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.2.2

V0.1.1 – 07.04.2015

Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.2-beta4
Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V0.1 – 27.01.2015

Bugfix : The code refactoring was performed.
NEW : Css-style was added.