Real Testimonials – Testimonial Slider, Carousel, Grid | Collect Customer Reviews and Video Testimonial with Testimonial Form | Social Proof Reviews and Review Slider Plugin
Collect, manage, and display customer testimonials effortlessly and boost sales – highly customizable, developer-friendly, and with active support.
Real Testimonials™ is the Best Testimonials Showcase Plugin for WordPress built to display testimonials, customer reviews, or quotes in multiple ways on any post, page, custom template, widget, etc. The plugin comes with the easiest Shortcode Generator settings panel with a live preview that can help you build awesome and unique testimonials showcase with responsive layouts and customizable styles on your website.
Since Testimonials are so important to your potential customers, it is important that you showcase them effectively on your website and that you are regularly collecting fresh testimonials. Testimonial Pro helps you do both.
Why Do You Need Testimonials on Your Website?
Testimonials are a great way to strengthen your brand and reliability with new customers.
Help potential customers get to know that you are a faithful business.
Give you the scope to point out specific features or compelling reasons why a customer should buy from you.
Testimonials, when used effectively, are a great tool to increase conversions rates on your website!
We believe that you shouldn’t be a programmer or hire a developer to display testimonials or customer reviews site. That’s why we built the Real Testimonials™ plugin that’s both EASY and POWERFUL.
Real Testimonials 2.3.0
Real Testimonials™ 2.3.0 has completely been rebuilt and this provides you now many improvements including shortcode live preview and new amazing features.
Basic Input Fields
Testimonial image
Testimonial title or Tagline
Testimonial content or Review message
Reviewer name
Rating star
Reviewer identity or position.
FEATURES OF THIS PLUGIN
Fully Responsive and Mobile friendly.
Easy To Use – No Coding Required.
Shortcode Generator with live preview.
Add unlimited testimonials and display them anywhere you want.*
Import/Export testimonials.
Enable/Disable autoplay & control speed.
Stop on the hover slider.
Infinite loop for the slider.
Set a maximum number of testimonials to show.
Show/hide navigation arrows & pagination dots.
Control slider pagination speed.
Star rating system.
Show/hide section title.
Show/hide testimonial title or tagline.
Show/hide testimonial content or review message.
Show/hide reviewer name.
Show/hide star rating.
Show/hide reviewer identity or position.
Show/hide testimonial image.
Set testimonial/reviewer image size.
Unlimited color options for every field.
Multiple testimonial sliders or showcases (supports more than one slider per page).
Unique settings for each testimonial slider.
Control the number of testimonial columns on different devices.
Testimonials order & order by.
Enable/Disable adaptive height for testimonials slider.
Touch, swipe, or tap on iOS, Android, and any other touch devices.
Enable/Disable mouse draggable.
Easy to customize and developer-friendly.
Ready for translation with WPML, Polylang, qTranslate-x, etc.
Widget & RTL ready.
Compatible with any theme.
Schema.org compliant JSON-LD markup & optimized for speed.
Support all modern browsers: Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari, etc.
And much more options.
For Faster Support, Features Request, and Bug Reporting
Real Testimonials Pro™ is the best way to collect, manage, and display Testimonials on your website. The premium plugin comes with the advanced Shortcode Generator settings with a live preview that can help you build awesome and unique testimonials showcase with responsive layouts and customizable styles on your website.
Want to build easily credibility for your business and boost your conversion rate right away? Testimonials are one of the most effective and great tools for selling a potential customer on your product or service. Why? It gives a chance for potential customers to hear directly from people who have already been investing in your product or service.
Since Testimonials are so important to your potential customers, it is important that you showcase them effectively on your website and that you are regularly collecting fresh testimonials. Real Testimonials Pro helps you do both.
The premium version of the plugin entitles you to get fast, friendly, and priority support with replies posted within 24 hours (without holidays). If you submit a support ticket by filling up this form, this will create a one-to-one email support thread.
For documentation and tutorials go to our Documentation.
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working
AUTOMATIC INSTALLATION (EASIEST WAY)
To do an automatic install of Real Testimonials, login to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New. In the search field type “Real Testimonials by ShapedPlugin”. Once you have found it you can install it by simply clicking “Install Now” and then “Activate”.
MANUAL INSTALLATION
Uploading in WordPress Dashboard
Download testimonial-free.zip
Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
Select testimonial-free.zip from your computer
Click ‘Install Now’
Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
Using FTP
Download testimonial-free.zip
Extract the testimonial-free directory to your computer
Upload the testimonial-free directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
You will now see the Real Testimonials menu in your WordPress admin panel.
The WordPress codex contains instructions on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Screenshots
Live Demo (Free)
Add New Testimonial
General Settings
Theme Settings
Display Settings
Slider Settings
Image Settings
Typography (Pro)
All Testimonials
Advanced Settings
Menu Settings
Recaptcha (Pro)
Custom CSS
FAQ
How can I Showcase Testimonials?
After activating the plugin, you will see “Real Testimonials” in WordPress Admin Dashboard.
Firstly, Go to “Add New” and add your testimonials as many as you want.
Secondly, Go to Manage Views > Add New.
You can customize the setting fields how you want & publish and you will see a generated shortcode in the top area.
Finally, You need to insert it any page or post through TinyMCE button easily.
Is the Real Testimonials fully responsive?
Yes, the Real Testimonials is fully responsive & columns structured. You can control to show the number of testimonial columns on different devices (Desktop, Tablet, Mobile etc.).
Do I need coding skills to showcase testimonials?
No coding skills required – very easy to use. No more pain writing any shortcode attributes to display testimonial on your website. With just a few clicks, you can amazingly showcase your testimonials using a very intuitive Shortcode Generator settings.
Will it automatically use my existing testimonials when Upgrade to Pro?
Yes. If you already have testimonials in the free version on your theme or site, you will automatically get the testimonials to use in the Pro version.
Should I purchase the Pro version?
Real Testimonials Pro includes tons of amazing and useful features that can definitely increase your conversion rate. If you’re interested to get the Real Testimonials Pro, Please go to Upgrade to Pro! Page and browse Live Demo.
Is the Real Testimonials compatible with my theme or design?
Real Testimonials works nicely with any theme if themes are developed according to WordPress standard.
How can I get support if the plugin is not working?
If you face any problem with our plugin or something is not working as it should, first follow the preliminary steps: Test the plugin with a WordPress default theme, to be sure that the error is not caused by the theme you are currently using.
Deactivate all plugins you are using and check if the problem is still occurring. Ensure that your plugin version and your theme version are updated and that the problem you are experiencing has not already been solved in a later plugin update.
If none of the previously listed actions help you solve the problem, then, submit a ticket in the forum and describe your problem accurately, specify WordPress and Plugin versions you are using and any other information that might help us solve your problem as quickly as possible.
PRO version users Support and Free or Lite Version Support.
Is Real Testimonials translation ready?
Yes, Real Testimonials is fully Translation ready, supporting .pot language files! You can translate into your language with the following popular plugins like WPML, Polylang, qTranslate-x, GTranslate, Google Language Translator, WPGlobus etc.
Do you want to encourage us for future improvement?
If you like this plugin, please give 5 stars to encourage us for future improvement
Thank you!
Changelog
3.1.0 – May 07, 2024
New: The CSV import and export feature to import or export testimonials.
New: The Form Live Preview feature to check the testimonial form design before using in any pages or posts.
New: The Form Width option to increase or decrease the width of testimonial form.
Improved: The style of Testimonial Form options and Testimoial View options.
Improved: The Testimonial Export Import feature.
Updated: The language (.pot) file.
Fix: When admin selects the based on star rating/auto publish status in the form settings, the submitted testimonial was not shown in all testimonial list.
Fix: The demo link issue.
Tested: WordPress 6.5.2 compatibility.
3.0.0 – Apr 16, 2024
New: The Carousel Layout feature.
New: The Testimonial Form feature with fields for Full Name, Email Address, Designation, Testimonial Title, Content, Reviewer Photo, and Submit Button.
New: Three types of Testimonial Status of Form.
New: The Form Label Color, Input Fields Border, Background Color, and Border-Radius options.
New: A function ‘sp_testimonial( x )’ was added to show testimonials using template files.
Improved: The Image Settings tab and its options were moved inside the Display Settings Tab.
Improved: The Plugin UI and UX were hugely reorganized and optimized to make it more user-friendly.
Improved: The Space Between Testimonials option was moved to the General Settings Tab.
Improved: The Grid Pagination options are moved to the bottom of the General Settings tab.
Improved: The ‘Slider Controls’ tab was renamed ‘Slider Settings.’
Improved: The Display Setting tab options were reorganized into nested tabs.
Improved: The options for the Carousel Setting tab were reorganized into nested tabs.
Improved: The Hide on Mobile option for carouse/slider navigation and pagination was separated from the Navigation and Pagination options, respectively.
Improved: The Help Page has been redesigned to make it more user-friendly.
Updated: The language (.pot) file.
Fix: The grid limit issue when pagination was enabled.
2.6.9 – Mar 28, 2024
Fix: The warning was found when the plugin was activated via the WP-Cli command.
Tested: WordPress 6.5 compatibility.
2.6.8 – Nov 09, 2023
Fix: Few PHPCS warnings with PHP8.2.
Tested: WordPress 6.4.1 compatibility.
2.6.7 – Aug 28, 2023
Fix: Multiple p or br tags are not working in testimonial content.
Tested: WordPress 6.3 compatibility.
2.6.6 – Jul 17, 2023
Fix: The rating star does not show perfectly along with the Storefront theme.
Fix: The plugin translation issue.
Updated: Minimum required version of WordPress for the plugin.
Tested: WordPress 6.2.2 compatibility.
2.6.5 – May 25, 2023
Improved: The import feature with animation.
Fix: The deprecated warning found in import testimonials.
2.6.4 – Apr 07, 2023
Fix: The Elementor block icon gets modified by other plugin icons.
Tested: WordPress 6.2 compatibility.
2.6.3 – Feb 22, 2023
Improved: The default background is set to transparent for theme one layout.
Fix: The offset warning for carousel layout after last update.
2.6.2 – Feb 20, 2023
Fix: The offset warning for grid layout after last update.
2.6.1 – Feb 16, 2023
New: The Margin Between Testimonials option.
New: The Border and Border Radius option.
New: Background option.
Fix: Plugin style in plugin admin panel does not apply after updating until meta refresh.
2.6.0 – Dec 21, 2022
New: The Grid Layout feature
New: The alignment, color, background color, and border color options of grid pagination.
Improved: Plugin security improved.
Fix: Extra margin of the carousel of mobile view when the navigation is hidden in mobile.
Removed: The deprecated ‘testimonial-free’ shortcode has been removed.
2.5.11 – Nov 17, 2022
Tested: WordPress 6.1.1 compatibility.
2.5.10 – Oct 14, 2022
Improved: Load dynamic style according to shortcode on the page.
2.5.9 – Oct 03, 2022
New: The Free mode of the Slider layout.
Fix: The AutoPlay doesn’t work on mobile.
2.5.8 – Sept 02, 2022
Fix: Few Deprecated JS warnings on the plugin admin page.
2.5.7 – Aug 03, 2022
Improved: Migrated to Swiper from Slick js for Carousel/Slider.
Fix: The Dequeue options of Advanced Settings do not work along with Elementor Plugin.
2.5.6 – Jun 14, 2022
Fix: The premium page warnings.
Fix: CSL issue.
Fix: The RTL direction issue.
2.5.5 – May 17, 2022
Tested: WordPress 6.0 compatibility.
Fix: Deprecated warning of Elementor block.
Fix: Image height is distorted with Twenty Twenty-Two.
2.5.4 – Apr 23, 2022
Fix: Some assets of the Real Testimonial admin panel are not loaded properly in a few websites as that hosting directory is different.
2.5.3 – Mar 28, 2022
New: Elementor addon to insert the shortcode for preview.
New: A hook ‘sp_wp_tabs_allow_import_tags’ added to modify import option filter.
Improved: SVG preloading icon has been added as a pre-loader image.
Improved: The existing images, SVGs in the plugin are optimized.
Fix: The custom class field of Gutenberg block of Real Testimonial does not work.
Removed: Unused images from the plugin.
Removed: The TinyMCE button from the classic editor.
2.5.2 – Mar 05, 2022
New: Gutenberg Block has been added to insert the shortcode.
2.5.1 – Feb 24, 2022
Fix: Video embedding in testimonial content issue.
Removed: Setting menu link from admin tap bar.
2.5.0 – Feb 14, 2022
New: The template modification feature added.
New: Preloader image’s alter tag added.
Improved: Schema markup improved.
Fix: Testimonial icon was not shown in the review notice.
Fix: Testimonial importing issue.
Fix: An undefined variable warning ($review) when Review Notice has been dismissed.
Fix: Extra padding removed for the mobile view when the navigation ‘hide in mobile’ option is set.
Fix: Large-sized image loading issue at ‘All Testimonials’ page.
2.4.4 – Jan 27, 2022
Tested: WordPress 5.9 compatibility.
2.4.3 – Jan 20, 2022
Improved: Settings page with a new layout.
Improved: Code improved.
Improved: The export-import option improved.
Fix: Image width with twenty-twenty-one theme issue.
Fix: Carousel navigation accessibility issue.
Fix: Some minor issues.
2.4.2 – Dec 10, 2021
New: New video tutorial added.
2.4.1 – Nov 05, 2021
Fix: Blank space at right side issue.
2.4.0 – Nov 03, 2021
New: Plugin name changed to ‘Real Testimonials’.
Fix: Schema markup issue.
Improved: Shortcode live preview.
2.3.2 – Oct 19, 2021
Fix: Section title color issue.
Improved: Shortcode settings panel.
2.3.1 – Oct 12, 2021
Fix: JS error on single testimonial issue.
2.3.0 – Oct 09, 2021
New: Live Preview option.
Fix: Few sites case, different plugin_dir issues.
Fix: Adaptive height issue to carousel layout when multi-column(s) is used.
Fix: Accessibility issues.
Fix: Several minor issues.
Improved: Shortcode settings panel text.
2.2.19 – Sep 16, 2021
Improved: Plugin security.
Removed: Unused code.
2.2.18 – Aug 18, 2021
Fix: Schema markup undefine issue.
2.2.17 – Aug 11, 2021
Fix: Rating value undefine issue.
2.2.16 – Jul 08, 2021
New: HTML Tag for reviewer full name.
Fix: Minor tweaking.
2.2.15 – Jun 18, 2021
Updated: Themes design typo updated.
2.2.14 – Jun 14, 2021
New: Export and import option.
2.2.13 – Jun 03, 2021
Fix: AutoPlay dependency with pause on hover.
Improved: Pagination speed value navigation.
Improved: Spinner field design.
2.2.12 – Apr 17, 2021
Fix: Review image issue.
Fix: Backend shortcode select responsive issue.
Fix: Help tooltip text align issue.
Improved: Shortcode area redesigned.
Improved: Dynamic version added for admin script & style.
2.2.11 – Mar 17, 2021
Fix: Reviewer name formatting issue.
2.2.10 – Mar 11, 2021
New: Shortcode onClick copy option.
New: Testimonial title HTML tag change option.
Improved: Dashboard Generator Settings panel.
Improved: Settings page.
Improved: Help page.
Fix: Slider blurry issue.
Fix: Free to Pro upgrading compatibility issue.
2.2.9 – Feb 08, 2021
New: Preloader option.
New: Clean up data on plugin deletion option.
New: FontAwesome enqueue/dequeue option.
New: Slick enqueue/dequeue option.
New: Menu settings.
Fix: Image column height width issue in All Testimonials page.
Fix: Number field control issue.
Improved: Dashboard Settings panel.
2.2.8 – Dec 15, 2020
Fix: Slider navigation style issue.
Fix: WordPress 5.6 compatible issue.
2.2.7 – Oct 07, 2020
Fix: Responsive column(s) issue.
2.2.6 – Oct 06, 2020
Fix: Testimonial image hide issue.
2.2.5 – Oct 03, 2020
New: Swipe to slide option.
New: Slider direction option.
New: Testimonial image show/hide option.
New: Testimonial image size option.
Improved: Admin scripts loading scope.
2.2.4 – Sep 22, 2020
Fix: Schema markup issue.
2.2.3 – Aug 24, 2020
Fix: WordPress 5.5 compatible issue.
2.2.2 – Jun 23, 2020
Fix: Polylang compatibility issue.
2.2.1 – May 02, 2020
Fix: Undefined variable notices issue.
2.2 – Mar 25, 2020
Fix: Security issue. (This vulnerability was discovered by Vishnupriya Ilango of Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs.)
2.1.7 – Feb 26, 2020
New: Settings page added.
New: Custom CSS option.
New: Schema markup enable/disable option.
Fix: Schema markup issue on Google search console.