Testimonials plugin takes over /testimonials page of site

same here :/ displaying archive instead of page

I actually heard back from WooThemes’s support about this issue, and they stated that this is done by design. As the testimonials plugin creates a custom post type in WordPress, it automatically creates the archive page for the name of the custom post type (in this case, “testimonials”). The only way that they gave me to work around this is to do as I had done already and name the page something other than “testimonials”.

If anyone has any other work-around’s available, please let me know!

I reported this via WooThemes support back in January, and was advised that the developer’s advice had been sought and “…he is very keen on the idea of adding this functionality into a future version”. I don’t know if that is/was the same developers listed here on the repository.

I was advised of this workaround which you’ll need to remember to re-do each time you update the plugin (helpful screenshot was from WooThemes as well):

1. Open the file class-woothemes-testimonials.php (located at /plugins/testimonials-by-woothemes/classes/class-woothemes-testimonials.php)
2. At approx. line 99 (it sometimes changes when the plugin is updated), you’ll see https://cld.wthms.co/VmYU. Change the ‘has_archive’ value from ‘testimonials’ to ‘false’.
3. Deactivate and re-activate your plugin after making the changes.

Hope this helps.

yep that works – but it’s pretty annoying if they update you have to go change it again, not sure why you would want an auto generated “archive” page as standard instead – i mean most people are going to want “testimonials” as the page with the shortcode in it!

I agree – it is very annoying. There should be a way to enable/disable archive pages like this in wp-admin, at least in the theme options.

I’m tooting my own horn here.

Please give Testimonials Widget a look to see if it’ll do what you really want.

The default archive page URL slug is configurable and the default is NOT “testimonials” which is people want for their own page name.

Thanks, I’ll take a look ??