[wpmtst-all] with excerpt

I assure you your right brain is fine. The current shortcodes are limited. I am working on a new uber [strong] shortcode that can do everything, including what you want to do. I hope to have that ready this week.

Sweet. Thank you. As soon as we launch, I’ll be sure to write a review.

The [strong] shortcode is ready. So I think you want something like

[strong excerpt more_post]

Wow. Thanks Chris. Looks like you’ve been busy ??

Since it wasn’t an option earlier, we already talked the client into shortening the quotes so the excerpt is not necessary now, but I did try it anyways and it wasn’t working quite right on our site. It was just a box with the read more button. no content(?) Not sure why but I didn’t investigate very deeply.

Since we did shorten the quotes we are now using something like this:

[strong newest title]
[client]
  [field name="client_name" class="testimonial-client"]
  [field name="association" class="testimonial-association"]
  [field name="city_name" class="testimonial-city"]
[/client]
[/strong]

Which seems to work fine.

We are also using the widget in a sidebar and I did find one “bug” in there too. Not sure if it was intentional or not, but in the INCLUDES > WIDGET.php file, I moved line 197-198 to line 189-190 so it reads like this:

...
if ( 2 == $data['more'] )
echo sprintf( $format, get_permalink( $data['more_page'] ) );

if ( 1 == $data['more'] )
echo sprintf( $format, get_permalink( $post ) );

echo '</div>'; // testimonial-widget
}
...

This puts the “link to page” button inside the div/box, same as the “link to testimonial”. For what it’s worth.

Thanks for the plugin. Seems to be taking shape.
kevin

Just curious, do the testimonials actually have post excerpts? or were you expecting the plugin to truncate the content? (there’s a different attribute for that)

That widget code is intentional. I think it makes more sense from a structural standpoint for the “read more” to the post to be inside the testimonial div, in case multiple static testimonials are shown, and the “read more” to a page to be outside the post divs and still inside the container.

You are right. The testimonials do not have post excerpts. I’m using wordpress’s the_excerpt(); to output content. Is that what you’re talking about?

I see what you mean on the widget. After thinking about it, it makes sense. I just thought since it’s a radio button on the widget, and you have to choose one or the other, they should be in the same place. I guess it would be nice in our case to have both though (maybe a checkbox instead of a radio). That way you could link directly to the testimonial itself with the “read more” inside the div, and you could still have the other one that’s outside of the div redirect to a testimonial page. Just a thought.

Our site is launching next week. When it does I’ll try to remember to post a link here so you can see what we did with it. It’s working great overall.

Thanks Chris. kevin

Hi Chris,
Here is Strong Testimonials at work. Thanks again.