Where do you put the testimonials template in the child theme to override

It’s not that kind of template. However, you can alter the HTML using a filter.

Add this to your theme’s functions.php and change “my-class” to your class name.

function my_woothemes_testimonials_html( $html, $query, $args ) {
	$html = str_replace( '<div class="testimonials-list">', '<div class="testimonials-list my-class">', $html );
	return $html;
}

add_filter( 'woothemes_testimonials_html', 'my_woothemes_testimonials_html', 10, 3 );

Ah, just what the doctor ordered, thank you! I was looking at those filters inside the template, and was thinking about how to do that, didn’t think of str_replace. Truly excellent, thanks for that! Just out of curiosity, what do the 10 and the 3 parameters in the add_filter do?

Thanks again,

You’re welcome. 10 is the priority level, 3 is the number of variables passed to the filter. See Codex > add_filter for more. In this case, that’s the HTML, the query object (which contains the SQL statement, the query arguments, and the query results), and the plugin’s display settings like whether or not to display the “Read more” and the avatar.

@chris Dillon. What kind of template is it then? How is the plugin using the WordPress template hierarchy?

It seems that wp/wp-includes/general-template.php is being used to render the testimonials.

Is there a way to override this so that I can use my own template rather than the woothemes_testimonials_html filter?

It’s a processing template that assembles the HTML based on the arguments.

The plugin follows the standard template hierarchy. The post type is named “testimonial” so a single testimonial post looks for single-testimonial.php then single.php. An archive page, i.e. /testimonials, looks for post-type-archive-testimonial.php.

Inside your single-testimonial.php you could have get_template_part( 'content', 'testimonial' ); then inside content-testimonial.php you could replace the_content(); with woothemes_testimonials( array( 'limit' => 10, 'size' => 100 ) ); for example.

The content, however, is assembled by that processing template. The plugin does not offer separate template tags like woothemes_get_testimonial_title().

It is highly filtered though, so via arguments and filters you may be able to achieve the customization you want.

woothemes_testimonials_default_args
woothemes_testimonials_args
woothemes_testimonials_item_template
woothemes_testimonials_author_link_text
woothemes_testimonials_content
woothemes_testimonials_prev_btn
woothemes_testimonials_next_btn
woothemes_testimonials_html

An advanced approach requires some PHP knowledge. You could copy the processing template to your theme or a custom plugin, rename the functions, modify the content for position, heading tags, etc., then call it in your theme template like my_woothemes_testimonials().

You could follow the same approach to craft your own template tags and add them to a theme template file.

I suggest starting with the arguments and filters.

Thanks for your detailed reply. What worked for me was creating archive-testimonal.php and then customising from there.