Styling / changing Testimonial PAGE elements

  • Resolved breazey9

    (@breazey9)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks for this plugin, it’s great!

    I am using the testimonial widget slider in a sidebar on the main page of my website to show a few testimonials, but then I included a link to the testimonials PAGE for the viewer to “see all testimonials”… which I noticed this plugin automatically creates (www.mywebsite.com/testimonial/)

    I am trying to customize that page to omit buttons and headings and more, change text size, background colors, etc, and I AM able to do some of this with my own CSS, but I’m running into a lot of issues b/c some of the styles are global… and I only want to change styles and layout on the testimonial PAGE.

    I’m wondering if there is an easier way? Is there a way to customize that testimonial page that this plugin automatically creates? (and if so, what file would I access?) Even besides styles, I wanted to type in my own heading/title name for that page. I’m able to FTP to access any of my website and theme files.

    Or do you have some basic styles you could share that would allow me to customize the way the quotes look like on that page?

    Thanks for your time.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/testimonials-widget/

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  • Plugin Author Subharanjan

    (@subharanjan)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Hi breazey9, You can change/customize the testimonial page as per your need. You can modify testimonial’s templates by copying the original files from wp-content/plugins/testimonials-widget/templates into your child theme’s directory, like wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-child/testimonials-widget. For more details about “How to change testimonials layout” please follow the link. Let me know if I can be of any further assistance. Thanks !

    Thread Starter breazey9

    (@breazey9)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks much! That page didn’t quite answer my question, and the template files confuse me, because I don’t know exactly what to do with which file(s). However I did come across this page: https://nodedesk.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202244562-How-do-I-customize-my-testimonials-archive-layout-
    which talks about the archive page… strangely enough, it looks like my main testimonial page (www.mywebsite.com/testimonial/) is set up like the archive page… SO, for anybody else who reads this post and needs help, this is what I did:
    1. I copied the archive.php page from my theme into my child theme
    2. Changed the name of the file to archive-testimonials-widget.php as stated in the help page I listed above
    3. I wanted to add a title at the top that said “Testimonials” instead of “Archive”, so I added <h1>Testimonials</h1> in the appropriate spot on that php page, and used CSS to hide .entry-header (so that the word “archives” would go away.)
    4. I wanted the testimonials to be shown with FULL text on this page, so I added this style to hide the “read more” button:
    .entry-content .short-content .bttn {display:none; }
    AND to make the page show the full text instead of an excerpt, I changed this:
    <?php
    get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘summary’ );
    ?>

    to this:
    <?php
    get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘single’ );
    ?>

    Hope this helps anybody else in need!

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