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    Hi!

    I need to have testimonials on my website. Basically, what i call a testimonial is a title, a banner image, an author, and a chunk of html code. So i would suppose you could consider it to be a post within a “testimonial” category.

    They would be displayed in various forms:

    – one random pick on the frontpage (just the banner and a link to the testimonial)
    – inside specific pages (inside a div)
    – on their own page.

    Can i tweak a wordpress category to do that? What do i need to create/modify in my theme? And last but not least, how to implement the banner image?

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  • 1. one random pick on front page – add a get_posts() loop to your theme’s index.php in the appropriate place. The get_posts() arguments should ask for a random post in your “testimonial” category,

    2. same as 1, but in a Page Template.

    3. let the WordPress native category archiving process handle “on their own page” by using the Category widget (or wp_list_categories).

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    Thanks a lot Michael, I figured out 1 and 3 but your suggestion for 2. feels like a glimpse of hope. I was just thinking to solve it via a WJCTestimonal plugin, but then, would have 2 separate systems for my “testimonials” (a specific post category and then the plugin’s own data storage) – and i was feeling unseasy about having to duplicate the data across the two. I’ll try that first thing tommorrow.

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