# sp_testimonial_slider

> Showcase your expertise with an easy-to-customize responsive carousel slider of your featured testimonials.

## Description

Seeing is believing. And one of the strongest ways to communicate your expertise is with a visual portfolio of bona fides scrolling along your website. With each click, a slide appears sharing testimonials, logos of awards, reviews, sites you've appeared in or been featured on, or links to your guest posts on popular blogs. It's a quick, seamless way to communicate your online authority, credibility, and skill set through social proof. And it's easy to populate, update, and customize on your WordPress site. As the Social Proof Slider scrolls, your authority grows.

IMPORTANT: Please note -- the plugin now uses a new code base that was rewritten from the ground up to be more compatible with future WordPress updates. When upgrading from a version prior to 2.0.0, you may lose your custom SPSlider Settings and the existing Social Proof Slider widgets under Appearance > Widgets, but your testimonial posts will remain saved in the database. We recommend backing up your site, taking screenshots of your SPSlider and Widget settings, and disabling the plugin before upgrading.

For more info, please visit: https://thebrandidthemes.com/product/social-proof-testimonial-slider/

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

1. Upload the plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins/sp-testimonial-slider` directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress
3. Start by adding a new testimonial -- go to the new Testimonials menu option and select 'Add New.'
4. To use the widget in a sidebar, go to Appearance->Widgets and drag a copy of the 'Social Proof Slider' widget to your desired sidebar.
5. To configure Shortcode display settings, use the Settings->Social Proof Slider screen. For widgets, you will see the settings panel for each Social Proof Slider widget individually.
6. Easily embed responsive YouTube or Vimeo videos! Enter your video code into the "Testimonial Text" field in the following format: `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abcde123456` or `https://vimeo.com/12345678` and the rest is done automatically! *Note:* It is recommended to disable the "Auto-play" feature when embedding videos.

## Frequently Asked Questions

None yet! Please see the following page for support: https://thebrandidthemes.com/forum/support/plugins/social-proof-testimonial-slider/

## Changelog

### 2.0.2 - (Mar 19, 2017)
* Fix: Removed "undefined index: class" PHP warnings
* Fix: Genesis Theme compatibility: no more duplicate IDs for widget containers
* Fix: Removed CSS top-padding on testimonial text, when not showing featured images

### 2.0.1 - (Mar 11, 2017)
* Fix: Incorrect PHP opening tag, which caused code to display inside Widget Settings, on some installs
* Fix: Added Shortcode Instructions to Shortcode Settings page

### 2.0.0
* Update: Completely refactored all code - now follows the recommended WordPress coding and documentation standards.
* Update: This slider uses Slick Carousel - http://kenwheeler.github.io/slick/
* Update: All text input fields are now HTML-compatible. Add photos, logos or videos to your testimonials!
* Fix: Allow transparent background color
* Fix: Hide "Author Name" and "Author Title" if fields are empty
* New Option: Auto-play
* New Option: Auto-play - Display time
* New Option: Animation style ("fade", "slide")
* New Option: Add smart quotes around testimonial text
* New Option: Text alignment ("left", "center", "right")
* New Option: Show prev/next arrows
* New Option: Show navigation dots
* New Option: Navigation dots color
* New Feature: Embed YouTube or Vimeo videos

### 1.1.1
* Adds option to show or hide Featured Images

### 1.1
* Adds option to Include/Exclude testimonials by ID

### 1.0
* First release. Hello, World!


## Copyright
Copyright (c) 2017 brandiD. All rights reserved.