[Plugin: TBTestimonials] Random testimonial from a category

On my to-do list was to add a hack in a shortcode option to select from a category – when I sat down to write it, there was an update!!

But it only allows ALL testimonials from a category. This is unnecessarily restrictive – a single random testimonial from a category is a useful use-case (and the one I needed!)

The easiest mod to allow this is to simply append a case to the handlers for various shortcode cases (in shortcode()):

else if( ! is_null( $id ) && ! is_null( $cat ) && strtolower( $id ) == 'random' || strtolower( $id ) == 'rand' ) # random from category
        {
            $q = new WP_Query( array(
            	'post_type' => 'testimonial',
            	'post_status' => 'publish',
            	'orderby' => 'rand',
            	'posts_per_page' => 1,
            	'testimonial_category' => $cat
            ) );

            if( $q->have_posts() )
            {
                $return = '<div id="tbtestimonial-listing">';
                while( $q->have_posts() )
                {
                    $q->the_post();
                    isset( $this->settings['use_template_api'] ) ?
                        $return .= $this->prepare_testimonial( is_null( $template ) ? 'listing' : $template ) :
                        $return .= $this->deprecated__prepare_testimonial( 'shortcode-all' );
                }
                wp_reset_query();
                return $return . '</div>';
            }
            else
                return;
        }

Although there are other ways that won’t duplicate all that code ??

This is tested and works.

Thanks so much for a great plugin – really is done the way it ought to be. hope this is helpful.

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/tb-testimonials/