2010 03/02

Testimonial Manager Plugin for Wordpress

By Erica Mueller
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Filed in: Reviews, Tips & Tricks, Wordpress

What other people have to say about a businesses’ services or products plays a big part in the decision making of potential consumers. I know when I shop for an item, I not only compare the products based on the site’s list of features, but also the customer reviews provided.

Bloggers who are selling their own products or services need a way to display customer testimonials on their sites. When building my web services site, Techno Mom Designs, I did some research to figure out the best way to show recommendations from my happy clients. I really wanted to have a space in my sidebar that would show a rotating testimonial, and I wanted it to be easy to manage. After trying several options, I found one I like, aptly named:

Testimonial Manager

This plugin is very easy to use and makes adding and removing testimonials a breeze! You can choose to show them on a page, and/or the sidebar via a widget. The widget automatically rotates the testimonials so a new one (or however many your specify) shows on each page load.

Fields for Testimonials:

Name
Company Name
Website URL
Testimonial

Avatar options include:

Use Gravatar
Upload Image
No Avatar

I chose not to show avatars for mine, because not everyone I’ve worked for has a suitable image. I also wanted to reduce the amount of space used in my side bar. To see how it looks on my site, view my Testimonials page. Note the sidebar view while you’re there.

Another cool feature is the Custom CSS option! I haven’t played with it much, other than to make my links match the rest of the links on my site, but it looks pretty extensive!

Here are a few screenshots of the backend:

Do you share customer testimonials on your site? What plugin or system do you use?

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gobalakrishnan

Thanks for the review of our plugin, a new version is now available

EricaMueller

No, thank you! The plugin was exactly what I was looking for. In fact, I've recently installed in on a couple of my client's sites and they are loving it too.

Tinh

Nice plugin. Thanks for sharing with us

EricaMueller

You're welcome, Tinh! Are there any other plugins you'd like to see featured?

Alison Moore Smith

I actually do have one site that has testimonials. It's for my speaking and upcoming book. It's in need of updating but have focused on other things this past year. I do, however, this would be a solution for me. Thanks for the info.

EricaMueller

Alison,

I'm glad you found the plugin information useful! If you need any help getting started with it be sure and let me know!

What is your book about?

Kevin Tan

Testimonials are commonly used for business, products or services blog. At the moment, I don't have testimonials on my blog yet but it's not a bad idea to have one featured in my sidebar.

Thanks for sharing this, Erica. This is the one to go.

Kevin Tan

EricaMueller

Kevin,

I am glad you enjoyed the info! Like you, I have no reason to put testimonials on my blog itself, but for my web services site it's really nice!

Hope you're having a great day and I'm glad you stopped by!

-- Sent from my Palm Pre

Kevin Tan

Thanks for your respond. Yeah some quality testimonials to a service site would be an added bonus and might as well increase the productivity.

I didn't know that you're offering web services on other sites. Would you mind sharing the site URLs? I'll see if we can get some deals.

Thank you.

EricaMueller

Kevin,

Technomomdesigns.com is my web services site. Enjoy!

-- Sent from my Palm Pre

Tom

I don't currently have any testimonials to put on my blog yet, but hopefully will soon. This plugin looks fantastic and seems to implement easily!

Steve Youngs

Hi Erica!

Thanks for sharing this. I'm not in a position at this stage to want or need anything like this, but that doesn't mean I won't be in the future. :-) Good to know this exists.

Kind regards,
Steve.

Jimi Jones

Not using any testimonials, but this plugin really sounds like the answer. I checked your site, which looks great BTW, and the main content area and the sidebar widget look very professional. Good job there, Erica.
I reloaded the page and of course a new testimonial popped up in the sidebar.

Good stuff, thanks for sharing and good luck with that site.

EricaMueller

Thanks, Jimi. The Techno Mom Designs is my business, and this blog is just a branch of that, a follow-up help for clients, or an introduction for future clients. I do quite well with the design business and I REALLY enjoy it!

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