FV Testimonials: Management Guide
WP sidebar with Testimonials
The control panel for FV Testimonials can be found in WP administration->Tools->Testimonials. The entire panel consists of 5 pages in the PRO version, or 3 pages for the basic version). The pages are accessible from a small submenu located on the top.
Adding a new testimonial:
Adding a new testimonial
Go to "Add new" submenu and fill in the name and text. Optionally, you can select a category for your Testimonial (categories are available only in the PRO version of FV Testimonials. Adding an image is also optional.
Editing an existing testimonial:
Editing a testimonial
If you just wish to change the 'Featured status' of your testimonials, you can do so in the Testimonials list view. Simply check and uncheck the 'Featured' checkboxes of each testimonial. Be warned: do not forget to save your changes by clicking the "Save Featured" button at the bottom of the testimonials list. Not clicking the 'Save Featured' button will discard all the changes you have made.
If you wish to edit more details of your testimonials, click on the name of a testimonial in the list that you wish to modify and the detailed Edit view will appear.
Changing the order of testimonials is done in two steps. First, click the 'Sort' button. Now you can start dragging and dropping testimonials around (remember that featured testimonials will always show first regardless of the order of non-featured testimonials). The second step is to save your changes by clicking on the "Save Order" button.
Adding and editing Categories:
Categories for testimonials
Please note: Categories are only available in the PRO version of FV Testimonials.
Go to the 'Categories' view. The user interface is fairly self-explanatory. We will, however, need to explain the (-cat ##) notation:
Each category has its ID. This ID is needed when you want to embed testimonials into a page, but only those from a specified category. The syntax to do this is explained in detail in the User's Guide for FV Testimonials.
Adding and Editing Templates
Templates view
Please note: Templates are only available in the PRO version of FV Testimonials.
Please refer to the detailed guide to FV Testimonials templates for more information on this feature.
General Options
General options
- Path to post or page where all testimonials are inserted:
- This should be a relative path to a WP page from the homepage.
- The link should not start with a slash (the slash is included automatically).
- In the example above (imagine it is on the foliovision.com site) the link resolves to: http://foliovision.com/testimonials
- Image root folder
- This should be a path relative to DOCUMENT_ROOT as defined by the Apache Server. In most cases, this is also going to be your homepage.
- This link should have the starting slash (please see the example above).
- Large/Medium/Small image width are the maximum output widths of your uploaded images for each particular use of the image, in pixels. Thumbnails are automatically generated as well and these are accessible by an embed query. The width of the thumbnails is hard-coded to 50px.
- JPG Quality is a parameter specifying the compression quality in which PHP should store your JPEG image upload. The range is 0-100 and a higher number means finer images, less compression, and larger file sizes.
Normally, the quality setting of 90 produces fine pictures with reasonable file sizes. If you want excellent pictures, try the quality setting of 95 or even 100. If you want much smaller file sizes, a quality setting of 70 or even 50 may be the way to go.
Maintanance checks are special routines which can help you repair certain issues on your own. They do not alter the testimonials in any way. The one exception is the 'Restore order' command, which cancels custom order, so you have to reorder the testimonials again by hand.
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Latest FV Testimonials Discussions
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| Error occured during insertion of testimonial into database! | 2 | 1 month |
| What is the syntax for the path for all testimonials to be inserted? | 4 | 1 month |
| Testimonial page loads very slowly | 4 | 3 months |
| Video tutorials for creating and using templates in FV testimonials | 4 | 5 months |
| Can a testimonial be embedded into a widget? | 10 | 23 days |
| Custom individual fields | 2 | 6 months |
| Fast cgi error | 2 | 5 months |
| An error has occured after I changed wordpress url | 2 | 7 months |
| Are visitors allowed to add testimonial? | 9 | 2 months |
| WP 3.1 compatibility | 6 | 10 months |
