Shortcodes broken, and testimonial formatting

Thanks for the link. Always helps to see things first-hand.

1. Try editing the test page in Text mode and make sure the shortcodes are not wrapped in quotes or tags like <code> or <pre>. Remove the ellipsis from [strong ...].

2. Linking to the testimonial post and having the client fields in that post requires a custom testimonials.php template in your theme. (I really need to write a tutorial for this.)

But let’s solve #1 first.

Deactivate any caching plugin or web host caching. I see this: http://screencast.com/t/09VNDzPOptT

Puzzling. If you want me to look into it, send me a temporary admin login via https://www.wpmission.com/contact

We narrowed this down to the EventBrite theme. The shortcode worked after switching to a default theme. But we still don’t know the real cause.

I just found the problem. You somehow created a template testimonials.php with just the shortcode instead of copying the default template from the plugin as a foundation. (I really need to write a tutorial for this.)

So the shortcodes will work now. See the test page.

Every theme is different. To add the author info to the single testimonial page requires steps similar to the topic you mentioned.

In your case, that means:
1. copying single.php to single-wpm-testimonial.php
2. copying tmpl/post-loop.php to tmpl/post-loop-testimonial.php
3. editing that new file and adding the author field after the content, like in this snippet:

<?php the_content( __( 'Read the rest of this entry »', 'eventbrite-event' ) ); ?>
    <?php // for Strong Testimonials: ?>
    <p class="client">
      <div class="name"><?php wpmtst_field( 'client_name' ); ?></div>
    </p>

Or contact me again via email and I will gladly do it for you.

One more thing. In single-wpm-testimonial.php, change

get_template_part( 'tmpl/post-loop' );

to

get_template_part( 'tmpl/post-loop-testimonial' );