Sridhar Katakam

Genesis and WordPress Tutorials

Speech bubble style Testimonials Archive page in Genesis

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Want to display quotations or testimonials by your customers/clients in a grid of speech bubbles like this?

testimonials-archive-genesis

In this tutorial I show how testimonial CPT entries via Testimonials by WooThemes plugin can be displayed in a grid of 3 entries on the archive page. For each entry, testimonial excerpt, name, byline and photo will be set to appear.

Step 1

Add the following in child theme's functions.php:

// Register new image size for testifier photos
add_image_size( 'testifier-thumbnail', 128, 128, true );
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Step 2

Install and activate Testimonials by WooThemes.

Add your clients' testimonials.

sample-testimonial-back-end

Step 3

Create a file named archive-testimonial.php having the following code:

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  • Hello Sridhar,

    I have used your tutorial and I have juste a little question: how do you set the number of testimonials per page?
    Currently, this archive displays 5 testimonials and I wish to displays 6.
    I tried to use the setting of post/page in the blog settings of genesis, but it does not work.

    Thanks for your help.

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  • Hi Sridhar,
    I was wondering if you know a way to have this have the Testimonials appear in a random order each time the page is loaded, I found the following code which says it will work – https://pastebin.com/ZStFxE5E, but I don’t see the ‘orderby => ‘rand’ as a valid option in the plugin doc.

    Thanks!

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    • Hi Ken,

      Replace that code with this:

      add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'sk_random_testimonials' );
/**
 * Display the testimonial CPT entries on CPT archive page by random order.
 * 
 * @param object $query data
 *
 */
function sk_random_testimonials( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_post_type_archive( 'testimonial' ) ) {
        $query->set( 'orderby', 'rand' );
    }
}
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