crevinamd

Thanks deepbevel.

I see it now, but it broke the post itself (there is no image at all). Maybe I can jimmy-rig a solution based on that idea. Stay tuned.

You said “yet.” Does that mean it will be available in the future? Just curious. Thanks.

Thanks Daniyal.
Any progress on this update? I need to wrap this site up, so I’m going to start working on another solution today, thought I’d check. Thanks, kevin

Changed to Contact Form 7. Works fine.

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

Hello, Same issue here when using in conjunction with The Events Calendar (which uses custom post type). Is there any way to prevent the “featured image” from creating a thumbnail altogether, only when a video is present? Thanks, kevin

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

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

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

Found a better solution elsewhere. check it out:

Add this to you funcions.php file:

add_filter( 'widget_categories_args', 'wpsites_exclude_widget_category', 10, 1 );
add_filter( 'widget_categories_dropdown_args', 'wpsites_exclude_widget_category', 10, 1 );
function wpsites_exclude_widget_category( $cat_args ) {
$cat_args['exclude'] = array('11','12'); //the categories removed
return $cat_args;
}

Thanks to Brad Dalton
https://wpsites.net/wordpress-tips/exclude-specific-categories-from-native-wordpress-category-widget/