How to Use the Testimonial Rotator Plugin for WordPress

By sharing positive comments from customers, testimonials are a nice way to promote your online business.

Testimonial Rotator is a plugin to manage and display testimonials in WordPress.

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create and display testimonials in your site.

Step #1. Install Testimonial Rotator plugin

• Log in to your WordPress site.
• Go to Plugins > Add new and search for “Testimonial Rotator”.
• Click “Install Now” and activate the plugin.

Step #2. Add a rotator

• Go to Testimonials > Add Rotator.

• Set a title for this rotator.

Scroll down and configure the rotator options to your needs.

• Transition Effect.
• Image Size for every testimonial.
• Seconds per Testimonial.
• Transition.
• HTML tag for Testimonial titles.

On the right, you can set up other settings that are unchecked by default:

• Randomize Testimonials.
• Vertical Align (Center Testimonials Height).
• Show Previous/Next Buttons.
• Hide Featured Image.
• Hide Microdata (hReview).

• Select a theme.

• Click the “Publish” button when you’re done.

Step #3. Add a testimonial

• Go to Testimonials > Add New.

• Type a title (highlight) and the testimonial text.

• Attach to Rotator. Check the Rotator created in the previous step.
• Select an optional “Star Rating” from 1 to 5. By defaults is “Don’t show”.

• Type Author information like name or credentials.

• Upload the person’s image.

• Save changes when you’re done.
• Create as many testimonials you need by repeating this step.

Step #4. Add a Testimonial rotator shortcode into a page

• Create or edit a page through Pages > Add new/Edit.
• Click “Add rotator” button.

• Choose a rotator.
• Insert rotator.

• A shortcode is added to the editor:

• Save changes when you’re done.

Step #5. End result

Preview the page. The testimonial posts will rotate based on the settings from step 2.