[Plugin: Testimonial Widget] Shortcode or PHP function for this plugin ?

Hi, apologies for the late reply. This is the first wp plugin I’ve made, I didn’t realise there was a forum for it!

At the moment the only way to access the testimonials is with a widget but to fulfill this and other similar requests I will add a shortcode and php function when I have time, that may not be soon unfortunately.

evo252,

I’ve done some updates so far, see https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-testimonial-widget-wrote-multi-instance-widget?replies=2#post-2371089. However, no shortcodes.

What kind of shortcodes are you wanting?

I’ve been thinking of doing some myself, more so of having a complete listing of the entries by like parameters of widgets.

Ciao!

Michael

Hello ! It would be nice to have a simple shortcode to call the widget inside a page for instance ??

Have you checked out https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/quotes-collection/?

It already has shortcode built in.

Michael

Thank you very much Michael, I didn’t found this plugin before!!! ??

I created a shortcode to list all testimonials on a single page:

https://snippi.com/s/vrxq152

Add the code in the URL above and then call it like this:

[testimonialswidget_list]

Hal, Thanks for the code. I’ll drop it in and try out later this week for release. Michael

Where do you add the code?
I put it in functions.php and got this error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ']' in /home/areaa1/public_html/test/wp-content/themes/striking/functions.php on line 30

I am using this on 2 sites so far. :o)

Did anyone get the short code to work for this plugin?

I was using the previous version successfully using the short code [ts_shcode] but it asked me to update the plugin and now the short code doesn’t work. I can only drag it into the sidebar. I want to drop it on a page.

It sounds like your copy and failed had a newline where there shouldn’t be one.

Did you open up functions.php to line 30 and see if the code looked correct?

Might be as easy as joining a line, removing a spare character or the like.

Please check out 0.2.4 release. It contains shortcode for displaying testimonials by id, tags and other options.

Fuller shortcode options listed on https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/testimonials-widget/.

Thank you Hal Gatewood for your code sample. Do note that your code has a bad variable included in it and therefore doesn’t work. I think you accidentally pasted the code twice.

Is there a php function for this that I could add to a template? Nice plugin btw! ??

Technically, you can create an options array and pass it to testimonialswidget_list_shortcode() for template usage.

default

$atts = array();

echo testimonialswidget_list_shortcode($atts);

full options

$atts = array(
	'ids' => false,
	'limit' => false,
	'random' =>  false,
	'hide_author =>  false,
	'hide_source' => false,
	'tags' => false,
);

echo testimonialswidget_list_shortcode($atts);

Check Shortcode testimonialswidget_list Options for the specifics for using the configuration array on https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/testimonials-widget/.

If you want something else, do let me know.

Wow, quick response! Thanks Michael, much appreciated!