Testimonials by WOO Themes

This is an excellent plugin that lets you add testimonials easily to a sidebar or footer.

Sure, you could format an image, a URL, and a quote and put it all in the sidebar, but WOO is doing that for you with this plugin.

To use Testimonials, download it from the WP plugin warehouse, activate it and use the new Testimonials custom post type. You can add the author’s name, (Gravatar) email address which provides their Gravatar (image) if they have one, a featured image if they don’t have a Gravatar, a corresponding URL, and a byline.

You can also create categories and then choose (using the accompanying widget) where to show which categories. Let’s say you have testimonials for certain products, you could show the testimonials for each product only on those product pages.

Formatting and layout leave a bit to be desired. You can customize your content of the actual quote (a bit). But placement of Gravatar and quote and byline are pretty much out of the box … unless you know your CSS or worse, want to change core plugin files. See below.

Rather have the image first and then the quote? Here’s how.

We all would rather not ever edit core files, but until I can figure out a CSS or Filters fix, this is all I could find.

Change line 88 of woothemes-testimonials-template.php from:

$tpl = '<div id="quote-%%ID%%" class="%%CLASS%%"> <blockquote class="testimonials-text">%%TEXT%%</blockquote>%%AVATAR%%%%AUTHOR%%<div class="fix"></div></div>';

 to:

$tpl = '<div id="quote-%%ID%%" class="%%CLASS%%">%%AVATAR%%<blockquote class="testimonials-text">%%TEXT%%</blockquote>%%AUTHOR%%<div class="fix"></div></div>';