People Love You. Show It Off On WordPress With Collision Testimonials

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Show off the great things people say about you, right on your WordPress site. Whether you want a dedicated page or a rotating sidebar widget, Collision Testimonials lets you display the kind words of happy clients wherever you want. You can even have a form for people to leave feedback on their own.

Whether you're running the website for a small business or promoting yourself on the web as a freelancer, it's important to share the positive things other people say about you. If your website runs on WordPress, Collision Testimonials is among the best ways to do so. This free plugin can be installed easily from within WordPress, so let's take a look at how it works.

How It Looks

Like most quality WordPress add-ons, this plugin aims to integrate itself well into whatever theme you're using. The sidebar widget, which displays a random testimonial on every page, looks like this:

Adding this widget to your page is easy; just visit the Widget preferences panel in WordPress and drag the "Collisions Testimonial" widget to the appropriate place.

You can also add a page of your testimonials. This will include every testimonial you've collected; perfect if you want a single landing page to send people to:

wordpress testimonial plugin

Adding this page is a little more complex than adding the widget, but don't panic. All you need to do is add code to the page where you want your testimonials to be displayed. In your page editor, click the "HTML" tab to enter the HTML editor. Add this code to your page, above and/or below the other content you want on that page:

Want to configure how things will look on this page? That's changed in the configuration page.

It's worth noting that, if you're the sort of person who likes to custom-edit themes, you can also add testimonials that way. You'll find directions to do this on the theme's configuration panel.

Backend

Collision Testimonials features a few configuration panels in the WordPress administrator interface. For example. you can add and edit testimonials in a simple interface:

wordpress testimonial plugin

You can save testimonials, leaving them as public or simple saved in the backend. You can also "feature" certain testimonials, useful if you want a page of just your featured testimonials. Other options include limiting the number of testimonials displayed and more, so be sure to explore the options.

User Submitted Testimonials

Want a page where your clients can leave testimonials on their own? You can do that too. The code to leave on a page for that is:

Here's what the form looks like:

collision testimonials

You may not want this page to be in your WordPress menus, instead sending it to your happy clients so they can express themselves. Submitted testimonials will need your approval before going live, so don't worry about angry rants showing up on your site.

Conclusion

Installing this plugin is easy; just search for "Collision Testimonials" in the plugin section of your WordPress dashboard.

Not sure how build your own WordPress site? Check out our WordPress manual to get started using WordPress on your own domain.

I set up a lot of websites for local businesses in Boulder, and have found this plugin to be very useful. Do you think you could use it on your site? Let me know in the comments below. Also let me know if there are any other tools for showing off testimonials on WordPress, because I'm yet to find anything better than this.

Image Credit :Sarah Reido

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