Sola Testimonials

The easiest to use Testimonial plugin! Showcase your testimonials in a beautiful and modern way with Sola Testimonials. Lite Features

• Fully comprehensive testimonial manager
• Add testimonials to your site in seconds
• Responsive
• Show all testimonials via a shortcode
• Show a single testimonial via a shortcode
• Show a random testimonial via a shortcode
• Five layouts to choose from: single coloumn, two columns, three columns, four columns and a blank layout
• Two beautiful, modern themes to choose from
• Add custom CSS to create your own testimonial styles and themes
• Testimonials are created using custom post types
• Show testimonials within a widget using shortcodes
• Display testimonials using an easy testimonial widget
• Gravatar images or custom images can be used
• Show/hide the testimonial title
• Show/hide the testimonial body
• Set the except length of the testimonial
• Set the read more link
• Show/hide the testimonial name
• Show/hide the testimonial website and link
• All testimonial links are nofollow as per Google Webmaster Guidelines
• Show/hide the testimonial image
• Customizable filters

Premium Features

• Two additional themes
• New themes added every week
• Responsive
• Display testimonials in a responsive slider.
• Allow users to submit a testimonial through an easy to use and customizable form
• Get notified via email when a new testimonial has been submitted
• Enable CAPTCHA in your testimonial submission form
• Categorize your testimonials
• Easy to use slider testimonial widget
• Allow users to submit reviews (star ratings included in testimonial)
• Export testimonials into a CSV file
• Get notified via Slack when a new testimonial has been submitted
• Priority support
• Get the Sola Testimonials Premium Version now

Coming Soon

• Themes: Testimonial themes will be created and added every week
• Allow multiple testimonials to be selected within one shortcode
• Triggers (Request users to submit a testimonial after a specified action)

Shortcodes Show all Testimonials [sola_t_all_testimonials] Show all Testimonials of a certain category [sola_t_all_testimonials cat_id=6] Show a random testimonial from a certain category [sola_t_all_testimonials cat_id=6 random=yes] Show all Testimonials with a specific theme [sola_t_all_testimonials theme=theme-1] [sola_t_all_testimonials theme=theme-2] [sola_t_all_testimonials theme=theme-3] [sola_t_all_testimonials theme=theme-4] [sola_t_all_testimonials theme=theme-5] Show all Testimonials with a specific layout [sola_t_all_testimonials layout=layout-1] [sola_t_all_testimonials layout=layout-2] [sola_t_all_testimonials layout=layout-3] [sola_t_all_testimonials layout=layout-4] Show a random testimonial [sola_t_all_testimonials random=yes] Show a single testimonial [sola_testimonial id=1] Show a single testimonial with a specific theme [sola_testimonial theme=theme-1 id=1] Show a single testimonial with a specific layout [sola_testimonial layout=layout-1] Show all Testimonials in a responsive slider (Pro) [sola_testimonial_slider] Show all Testimonials of a certain category in a responsive slider (Pro) [sola_testimonial_slider cat_id=1] Show all Testimonials in a responsive slider (Pro) [sola_testimonial_slider theme=theme-1] Testimonial submit form (Pro) [sola_testimonial_submit_form] Show all Testimonials with pagination enabled [sola_t_all_testimonials per_page=2] Display total count of all testimonials [sola_testimonials_count type='any'] Display total count of all approved testimonials [sola_testimonials_count type='approved'] Display total count of all pending testimonials [sola_testimonials_count type='pending'] Translations Get a free copy of the Sola Testimonials Premium version in exchange for translating our plugin!

• English (Default)
• Swedish (Jorgen Sjoholm)
• Brazilian Portuguese (Marcio Marodin)
• Spanish (Esteban Truelsegaard)
• Dutch (Albert van der Ploeg)
• French (Frederic Grolleau)

How to effectively use testimonials One of the most important tasks of your website is to educate potential customers of your product and/or service. Using effective testimonials is an important step in this process and highlighting the right testimonials is of the utmost importance. Did you know that 90% of people trust testimonials from people they know, and that 70% of people trust testimonials of strangers posted online? (Neilsen, 2009)

• Testimonials build trust. Nothing is more trustworthy than seeing a real person talking highly of your product or service
• Testimonials can answer important questions
• Testimonials overcome buyer skepticism by showing how your product has helped others
• A testimonial can substantiate claims that you have made on your website
• By including a first name, last name and company name in the testimonial, you are showing that your testimonials are coming from real people

2.0.0 - 2020-01-08 - Medium priority

• Tested up to WordPress 5.4
• Fixed a bug where styles.css loads on all pages
• Fixed a bug where Gutenberg files loads in frontend

1.9.9 - 2019-10-30 - Medium priority

• Added ability to regenerate the REST Token
• Added click to copy short code
• Updated the post type icon
• Rebuild Gutenberg Blocks
• Fixed errors when you disable settings in "Options" page

1.9.8 - 2019-10-30 - Medium priority

• Added ability to regenerate the REST Token
• Added click to copy short code
• Updated the post type icon
• Rebuild Gutenberg Blocks
• Fixed errors when you disable settings in "Options" page

1.9.7 - 2019-01-24 - Low priority

• Stopped enqueuing of sola testmonial files where short code is not present
• Tested the plugin on WP 5.2.1

1.9.6 - 2019-01-24 - Low priority

• Fixed a bug where UI and other style related code loaded on all the pages
• Tested functionality where widget - Random is not displaying
• Tested the plugin on WP 5.0.3
• Tested single testimonial style fix

1.9.5 - 2018-01-17 - Low priority

• Improved the UX in the settings area
• Fixed a bug with the custom post types
• Fixed a bug where [sola_t_all_testimonials] was not working
• Tested the plugin on WP 4.9.1

1.9.4 - 2017-04-06 - Low Priority

• REST API endpoint added - get_all_testimonials
• Styling fix - Stray double quotes added to testimonial content have been removed

1.9.3 - 2017-01-27 - Low Priority

• New Shortcode Added - Ability to display the total count of your markers
• [sola_testimonials_count type='any'] - type accepts 'any', 'pending', 'approved'
• Fixed a bug that caused the testimonial status to remain approved

1.9.2 - 2016-12-06 - Medium Priority

• PHP errors fixed upon activation
• Tested on WordPress 4.7

1.9.1 - 2016-09-16 - High priority

• Bug fix that stopped testimonials from showing

1.9.0 - 2016-09-15 - Low priority

• Tested on WP 4.6.1
• Added filters to the testimonial markup on the front end
• New filters:
• sola_t_filter_title Modify the title
• sola_t_filter_title_wrap Modify the title wrap that houses the title
• sola_t_filter_content Modify the content (the_content)
• sola_t_filter_content_wrap Modify the content wrap that houses the content
• sola_t_filter_author Modify the author name
• sola_t_filter_website_name Modify the website name
• sola_t_filter_website Modify the website URL
• sola_t_filter_website_wrap Modify the wrap that houses website and website name
• sola_t_filter_structure Modify the structure of the entire testimonial (data array supplied)
• sola_t_filter_layout Modify the structure of the layout (data array supplied)

1.8.5 - 2016-03-10 - Low Priority

• Bug Fix: Pagination returned no results if you werent logged in
• Bug Fix: Missing HTML tag caused layout issues on some pages

1.8.4 - 2016-01-07 - Low Priority

• Tested on WordPress 4.4
• New Feature: You can now add pagination to your testimonials

1.8.3 - 2015-09-16 - Low Priority

• New Feature: Display your testimonials using a widget

1.8.2 - 2015-09-09 - Low Priority

• Feedback form email address rectified
• Translations added:
• Dutch (Thank you Albert van der Ploeg)
• French (Thank you Frederic Grolleau)

1.8.1 2015-05-05 - Low Priority

• Translations added:
• Brazilian Portuguese (Thank you Marcio Marodin)
• Spanish (Thank you Esteban Truelsegaard)

1.8 2015-04-22 - Low Priority

• New Feature: You can now strip all links out of a testimonial - Prevents single view
• New Feature: You can now redirect to a thank you page once a testimonial has been submitted (Pro)
• Bug Fix: Display Star Rating Option not saving in slider tab fixed (Pro)
• Translations added:
• Swedish (Thank you Jorgen Sjoholm)

1.7 2015-03-24 - Low Priority

• New Feature: You can now choose to display the excerpt or the full body of a testimonial
• New Feature: You can now change the pagination speed of the slider (Pro)

1.6 2015-02-20 - Low Priority

• Bug Fix: Read More Link now shows at the end of a testimonial excerpt
• New Feature: You can now add star ratings to your testimonials (Pro)
• New Feature: You can now choose if you want guests to submit a testimonial (Pro)

1.5 - 2015-02-03 - Low Priority

• New Feature: You can choose to render HTML in a testimonial
• New Feature: Specify in the shortcode the theme and layout you would like to use for your testimonials
• Bug Fix: Layout issues fixed when showing more than 4 testimonials
• Bug Fix: Testimonial image style wouldnt change in slider
• Bug Fix: Add Media has been removed and a Featured Image metabox for testimonial images
• Enhancement (Pro): Less testimonial items will display per slide on mobile devices

1.4 - 2014-12-12 - Low Priority

• Media button added to testimonial author image

1.3 - 2014-11-25

• Code improvements
• Testimonial structure improvements
• New shortcode addition to show a random testimonial
• Bug fix: Sola Testimonials welcome page kept showing up for some users
• Pro: Two new testimonial themes added

1.2 - 2014-11-24

• Fixed the bug that caused a fatal error on the testimonials page

1.1 - 2014-11-21

• Fixed the bug that caused an unnecessary break in the body of the testimonials
• Neatened up the testimonial options page

1.0 - 2014-11-21 First version