how to show testamonials randomly in a slider

Yungjoo Song

• June 16, 2022 02:18

Hi,

 

I'd like to show a few customer testimonials(100% text) in a slider and show a different testimonial each time the page gets reloaded. My theme has a feature that allows me to build a list of testimonials with featured images but I don't have those images and only need the comments from my customers. I could still use the feature and put the content using Brizy's carousel for the dynamic content but it seems that unless I input featured images for the testimonials Brizy can't see(detect) the content as part of the dynamic content to display.

 

So, my alternate option is create a slider block and manually show a few text boxes in there but at the moment Brizy doesn't seem to allow me to show the boxes in a random order. It just shows the same testimonial for each page reload unless I manually change the order of the boxes in the block.

 

With that said, is there another way I could try to display customer testimonials in a random order?

 

0

• 

  KC George

  • June 16, 2022 09:32

  Hi Yungjoo,

  Are you thinking about something like this? https://kctest.online/testimonials Please try refreshing the page.

  I did this using the carousel element with these selections. The testimonials are given as part of the post 'Excerpt"

  

  0
• 

  Yungjoo Song

  • June 17, 2022 12:25

  Hi George,

   

  Thanks for your reply. I checked out the link you gave me above and at least the way it works is pretty much what I'm after. One question, though, Looks like you create a category of news for your blog and pull the category's postings into the testimonial  carousel. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

  0
• 

  KC George

  • June 17, 2022 15:36

  Hi Yungjoo,

  I have recorded a video with the procedure to implement this design. Please take a look https://jmp.sh/I7s1nK7

  0
• 

  Yungjoo Song

  • June 22, 2022 13:05

  Hi,

   

  Thanks for sharing the video and I exactly followed the flow there. The problem, though, is the same posts for the news category also appear on my blog archives page. I also found and installed a plugin that allows me to hide a certain category of posts from the archives page but then again the plugin also hides the same posts and/or excepts from the carousel. Hmmm, I guess I I'll just create a slider and manually populate the slides with a few customer testimonials until Brizy releases a feature allowing me to populate the slider with dynamic content.

   

  Best regards,

  0
• 

  KC George

  • June 22, 2022 14:50

  Hi Yungjoo,

  When you are designing your Category Archive Template, try excluding the News category using the Display Conditions. Probably you do not need a plugin to do that.

  

   

  0
• 

  Yungjoo Song

  • June 26, 2022 12:33

  Thanks a lot, George!

  It works as you explain above. Without a plugin!

   

  Best regards,

   

  0

Please sign in to leave a comment.