A recent client of mine asked to have a testimonial system built for their WordPress website. Now of course, there are many, many, and MANY testimonial plugins available for free on the WordPress repository including premium ones sold on CodeCanyon.net. However, I wanted to build a customized plugin that allowed me to either display each testimonial in a list format, like a blog listing, or have the option to display as a slideshow. I wanted flexibility in being able to place the testimonials on any page, post or sidebar. In addition, I wanted to get my feet wet with making a fully working plugin.
BNE Testimonials uses custom post types to display and store your testimonial data. You can also export the information from one install to another anytime. The testimonial plugin uses featured images, TinyMCE editor and 2 custom fields that provide a tagline, such as their company name, and a website URL. The slideshow version uses the amazing flexslider system from WooThemes. View the demo of it below with the default styles. I also use it to display my personal testimonials on my about page and within the web design page (styled slightly different).
Features
- Light weight plugin
- Shortcode powered with many parameter/attribute settings.
- Display your testimonials with a shortcode on any page/post as a list or as a slider (flexslider.js).
- Display your testimonials in your sidebar with the provided list or slider widgets.
- Featured image support.
- Group your testimonials into categories using a custom taxonomy.
- Custom Field support for a tagline and website URL.
- Included documentation Help page.
- Lightly styled to fit any theme with room for customizations.
BNE Testimonials is developer friendly. We have added many filters to include content around the testimonial wrapper, and to change the testimonial layout. View them here. The complete filter list is also shown on the “help” page within the plugin menu ( WP Admin Menu > Testimonials > Help)
Default List Example:
We've been using BNE Creative's plugins for a few years now and wanted to share just how spectacular Kerry's support has been. The plugins work reliably and pushing them to serve our most demanding needs has been a real pleasure. Well beyond the norm and very much appreciated.
Among Off-Canvas options, I've chosen the BneCreative's plugin. Kerry was highly supportive, guiding me from Flyouts to Panels, and was quick on replying and on solving issues that arose by my use of Wordpress RTL. Kerry was very kind useful in answering my questions, sometimes beyond what was required from my use of his product. My mobile subdomain is going to rely almost solely on panels, thanks to Kerry. 5 stars is the least I can do in return.
This is yet another great product from BNE, I bought the slide in plugin and was impressed so I thought I'd look at their other plugins and saw this- thought about it for a few months and then finally bought it. this is great and works amazingly- I use the google and facebook reviews and I can easily automate the 5 star reviews to my website, I have also created a form so they can easily add their testimonials to my site and they combine with the facebook and google reviews-you have seen the demo so thats exactly what you get on your site- wonderful and the shortcode generator allows to really create the perfect display.
Now I know someone you have stuffed around with the facebook API and that scares you- it scared me as well- this plugin has a very simply solution to this so you don't have to stuff around setting up the facebook api- you can let BNE do it for you in a matter of seconds. the google API is much easier- just read the documentation that you get with the plugin if you have trouble finding the google place ID number as its all in the documentation- theres not much to read but its straight forward for a non web guy like me. point click and copy and paste was all I really had to do to set up the API- no stuffing around- I had some questions and they were answere very fast so all in all- fantastic product to display your reviews on your website
Philippe DesvauxGees! What can I can say that would make you believe this review wasn't fake or made up. I spent a lot of money and time in getting refunds from 3 other plugins to achieve what I needed and each time the lack of support was heartbreaking to see. Then I found BNE Creative and gave them a go and paid for the Pro version, had a couple of issues with it which turned out to be from my theme's settings and the other was a setting I would have preferred within the form and in both instances BNE Creative, Kerry, not only fixed the issue but provided the code to achieve my goal/requested preference. These fixes and support weren't done/provided a week after I purchased the plugin, it was done with the need to constantly send emails for support and wonder if you're ever going to hear from them again after paying for it. It was all done within a 24hr period with instant replies and help. Kerry was amassing and I 100% recommend them your first port of call if you want to save time and money. Thank You, Kerry.
Default Slider Example:
We've been using BNE Creative's plugins for a few years now and wanted to share just how spectacular Kerry's support has been. The plugins work reliably and pushing them to serve our most demanding needs has been a real pleasure. Well beyond the norm and very much appreciated.
Among Off-Canvas options, I've chosen the BneCreative's plugin. Kerry was highly supportive, guiding me from Flyouts to Panels, and was quick on replying and on solving issues that arose by my use of Wordpress RTL. Kerry was very kind useful in answering my questions, sometimes beyond what was required from my use of his product. My mobile subdomain is going to rely almost solely on panels, thanks to Kerry. 5 stars is the least I can do in return.
This is yet another great product from BNE, I bought the slide in plugin and was impressed so I thought I'd look at their other plugins and saw this- thought about it for a few months and then finally bought it. this is great and works amazingly- I use the google and facebook reviews and I can easily automate the 5 star reviews to my website, I have also created a form so they can easily add their testimonials to my site and they combine with the facebook and google reviews-you have seen the demo so thats exactly what you get on your site- wonderful and the shortcode generator allows to really create the perfect display.
Now I know someone you have stuffed around with the facebook API and that scares you- it scared me as well- this plugin has a very simply solution to this so you don't have to stuff around setting up the facebook api- you can let BNE do it for you in a matter of seconds. the google API is much easier- just read the documentation that you get with the plugin if you have trouble finding the google place ID number as its all in the documentation- theres not much to read but its straight forward for a non web guy like me. point click and copy and paste was all I really had to do to set up the API- no stuffing around- I had some questions and they were answere very fast so all in all- fantastic product to display your reviews on your website
- Philippe Desvaux
Gees! What can I can say that would make you believe this review wasn't fake or made up. I spent a lot of money and time in getting refunds from 3 other plugins to achieve what I needed and each time the lack of support was heartbreaking to see. Then I found BNE Creative and gave them a go and paid for the Pro version, had a couple of issues with it which turned out to be from my theme's settings and the other was a setting I would have preferred within the form and in both instances BNE Creative, Kerry, not only fixed the issue but provided the code to achieve my goal/requested preference. These fixes and support weren't done/provided a week after I purchased the plugin, it was done with the need to constantly send emails for support and wonder if you're ever going to hear from them again after paying for it. It was all done within a 24hr period with instant replies and help. Kerry was amassing and I 100% recommend them your first port of call if you want to save time and money. Thank You, Kerry.