[Tammy MParticipant]

With other themes I have, they include a client testimonial plugin. Is this something you will be incorporating in the near future?

Is there one you would recommend that would work well with your theme now?

[KoryKeymaster]

Tammy,

What sort of functionality are you looking to have? What other themes have used this and how does it function (i.e. shortcodes, custom post type, et cetera). At this time we don’t have any plans to incorporate this, but upon receiving your feedback we can make a note of this to discuss adding it to our development timeline. Unfortunately, we have never personally worked with any sort of client testimonial plugin, so there is not one we can personally recommend. If there is one you’ve used from a previous theme you like, you could try that, and perhaps let us know about it so we can look into it a little more. Just a reminder that we regretfully cannot provide support for 3rd party plugins due to the amount of variables at play when using these systems.

Thanks!

[Tammy MParticipant]

I have used Testimonials built into “The 7” theme as below:
http://the7.dream-demo.com/shortcodes/testimonials-shortcodes/testimonials-slider/
This is great because it is part of the theme, the slider it creates is touch responsive and looks Elegant.

I have also used Testimonials built into “Enfold” theme as below:
http://themeforest.net/item/enfold-responsive-multipurpose-theme/4519990

I have also used GC Testimonials
http://wordpress.org/plugins/gc-testimonials/
GC has a more impact-full output, with a bold headline and bigger picture to grab peoples attention. It also has a great input form for my clients to add their own testimonials for me to approve and publish. But as it is free it lacks support and compatibility with 3.8.

This one doesn’t seem to install on 3.8 with your theme even though I have it running on system I upgraded to 3.8 with “The 7” theme installed.

[RubinKeymaster]

Hey Tammy,

Thanks for that list of testimonial plugins. We will look into them and add something like this in a future release of our theme so we can provide a solid and native solution for you and other customers, because as you know we want to make each and every customer happy with our theme!

We are really sorry that you’re experiencing issues with the plugin the main problem with this as mentioned earlier is that we can’t start providing support for 3rd party plugins because it would simply take us too much time to support and make our theme work with every plugin although the problem is on the plugin site. We can’t do the job for the plugin authors and tell them how to fix their plugins. Our theme runs in compatibility mode so we enqueue everything in a way that it should not interfere with any other plugin that is well written. Are you getting any errors or any messages in the console when you have the plugin activated?

[Tammy MParticipant]

That is great news, I find the testimonials page is one of the most frequently looked at pages on my sites. I really look forward to this being added as a feature to X.

I have just done a bit more testing. The plugin installs and activates successfully when I switch the theme to “Twenty Fourteen”. However with X running it fails on activation with this error:

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare add_thumbnail_column() (previously declared in /var/sites/t/tammy-mccann.com/public_html/wp-content/themes/x/framework/functions/global/admin/custom-post-types.php:137) in /var/sites/t/tammy-mccann.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/gc-testimonials/testimonials.php on line 220

Any help would be appreciated on this error. Otherwise assuming you will not be releasing this feature in say the next month I will look around for a viable alternative to run on X.

[RubinKeymaster]

Hey Tammy,

this is indeed something we can fix. Go to your /x/ folder and open up following file: /framework/functions/global/admin/custom-post-types.php

Once you’ve opened it go to line 137 and replace:

function add_thumbnail_column( $columns ) {

with:

function add_x_thumbnail_column( $columns ) {

then go to line 152 and replace:

add_filter( 'manage_edit-x-portfolio_columns', 'add_thumbnail_column', 10, 1 );

with:

add_filter( 'manage_edit-x-portfolio_columns', 'add_x_thumbnail_column', 10, 1 );

now the plugin should be working fine with X. Let me know if that did the trick.

[Tammy MParticipant]

Fantastic!! – Thank you. Will this be added to the next release so I don’t loose the changes?

[RubinKeymaster]

Hey Tammy,

we will try to address this with the next update. If you want to be on the safe side then you should create a child theme and make the changes there. You can find a video about how to setup a child theme in our Video Tutorials section.

[Adrianne PParticipant]

I just want to put my big +1 on this feature to make it push through. All of the more popular themes on Themeforest already have a Testimonial Custom post type, X deserves it too. In my humble opinion.

[RubinKeymaster]

Hey Adrianne,

I agree and we will put this on our priority list!

[Tammy MParticipant]

Great! If I can add, to make X better than the other Popular Themes please look at including a submission form and to create an output style which has bigger images and bold headlines like those which GC Testimonials includes.

[KoryKeymaster]

Tammy,

We will consider all the options and make the best decision moving forward with X.

Thanks!

[Ryan MParticipant]

FWIW, if you don’t want to wait for an official theme plugin, the revolution slider really works well as a testimonial carousel if you create a template and feed a slider with posts.

I created a testimonial tag and then simply added posts with the quotes as the subject and name and title as the subject. I even added a image link using the excerpt field.

Add a little CSS and you can really do whatever you want and tailor it to your liking.

[KoryKeymaster]

Ryan,

That is a great solution! Thank you very much for sharing this so that we can offer it up as a variation for our users. I oftentimes forget how handy Revolution Slider can be for many different instances like this. That band looks very good by the way. 🙂 Keep it up!

[Tammy MParticipant]

Ryan, is a great effect and innovative idea however it appears (after having a go) to size the posts featured image and wrap the text as you have above requires some skills I don’t have at this time.

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