Turn happy customers into your best marketing. Advanced Testimonial helps you collect trust, build social proof and increase conversions by showcasing real client reviews anywhere on your WordPress site — in beautiful grids, carousels, cards and more.
Manage reviews like regular posts, group them, and drop them onto any page with a shortcode, a Gutenberg block or an Elementor widget.
Browse the demo gallery — see every ready-made demo you can import in one click · Development on GitHub — report issues or contribute.
Why Advanced Testimonial?
- Build credibility & social proof — show authentic reviews with star ratings, photos, companies, locations and verified badges.
- Increase conversions — place persuasive testimonials on landing pages, product pages and checkout to turn visitors into customers.
- Win in Google — built-in Schema.org Review markup lets search engines show ⭐ star ratings as rich snippets, so your result stands out and earns more clicks.
- Fast & lightweight — frontend assets load only where they are used, with no jQuery and no bloat, so your pages stay fast.
- Fits any site — agencies, SaaS products, WooCommerce shops, restaurants, portfolios, healthcare and more.
Everything you need
- Seven display layouts: Grid, List, Card, Carousel, Marquee, Masonry and Spotlight.
- Nine card styles — Classic, Modern, Minimal, Bubble, Bold, Glass, Gradient, Outline and Retro. Mix any style with any layout, per block or site-wide.
- A no-build Gutenberg block, an Elementor widget and the
[advanced_testimonial] shortcode.
- Front-end submission form — add
[at_form] to any page so visitors can submit testimonials directly from your site. Submissions land as “Pending” for you to review before publishing, with spam protection (nonce, honeypot and rate-limiting) and an optional admin email notification.
- Video testimonials — paste a YouTube, Vimeo or self-hosted MP4 link on any testimonial; the card shows a play button and the video opens in a lightbox.
- Rich per-review fields: headline, rating (half-stars supported), company, designation, location, photo, company logo, review date, verified badge, website and social links (X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook).
- Group filter tabs, a “Read more” toggle for long reviews and “Load more” batching.
- Ready-made demos you can import in one click from the built-in Demo Library.
- Handy Tools tab: one-click starter demo, JSON import/export of your testimonials, clear cache, reset settings and system info.
- Translation-ready, accessible (ARIA, keyboard, RTL) and built on the WordPress Coding Standards.
External services
This plugin includes an optional Demo Library that loads ready-made testimonial sets from a remote service hosted on GitHub Pages: devmonowar.github.io/wp-plugin-demo-library
It connects to this service only when you:
- open the Demo Library screen — to download the list of demos and show their preview images; and
- click Import Demo — to download that demo’s testimonials and images into your site’s Media Library.
No data from your site is sent to the service; only public demo files (JSON and images) are downloaded. The service is provided by the plugin author. Source code on GitHub — it is served by GitHub Pages, whose terms and privacy policy apply.
Video testimonials (optional): if you add a YouTube or Vimeo URL to a testimonial, the visitor’s browser connects to those services — YouTube thumbnails are loaded from img.youtube.com, and the player (youtube-nocookie.com or player.vimeo.com) is only embedded after the visitor clicks play. No connection is made if you don’t use video, and nothing is sent to these services by your site itself. YouTube is provided by Google (terms — privacy); Vimeo (terms — privacy).