PI Testimonials

Description

PI Testimonials provides a custom post type for managing testimonials and four display layouts via a single shortcode: grid, list, masonry, and carousel.

Create reusable Display Presets, insert testimonials visually with the dynamic Gutenberg block, back up or migrate all plugin data with JSON import/export, and keep long testimonials compact with accessible Read More controls.

The carousel uses the browser’s native Web Animations API and CSS for professional, hardware-accelerated animations with nine distinct transition effects. No third-party animation library or CDN request is used.

Transition effects
* Slide — clean directional pan
* Fade — cross-dissolve with snap
* Zoom — scale in / scale out
* Flip — 3-D Y-axis card flip
* Blur dissolve — blur-out / blur-in
* Swing / overshoot — elastic overshoot entry
* Bounce — bouncy arrival
* Elastic snap — spring-physics snap
* Cube rotate — 3-D cube face rotation

Carousel navigation
* Prev / next arrows — move one testimonial at a time or one full group (page) at a time
* Dot navigation — jump to any group directly
* Swipe / drag support on touch and pointer devices
* Keyboard arrow-key navigation
* Hover pause, focus pause, autoplay

Content options
* Featured image (author photo) with fallback default avatar
* Star rating (1–5)
* Decorative opening-quote icon
* Position / role and company fields
* Optional category display
* Word-limit excerpt

Responsive
* Configurable column count for desktop, tablet (≤900 px), and mobile (≤600 px)
* Respects prefers-reduced-motion

The7 theme support
When the The7 theme is installed, you can switch the testimonial source to The7’s built-in dt_testimonials post type and display it through PI Testimonials’ layouts and carousel engine.

Shortcode reference

Basic:
[pi_testimonials]

Full example:
[pi_testimonials layout=»carousel» items=»9″ columns=»3″ columns_tablet=»2″ columns_mobile=»1″
transition_effect=»zoom» transition_speed=»500″ autoplay=»true» autoplay_speed=»5000″
carousel_move=»one» loop=»true» arrows=»true» dots=»true»]

All attributes

Attribute
Default
Values / notes

source
pi
pi, the7

layout
grid
grid, list, masonry, carousel

items
6
Any positive integer, or -1 for all

category
(all)
Comma-separated category slugs

columns
3
1–6

columns_tablet
2
1–4

columns_mobile
1
1–2

orderby
date
date, title, menu_order, rand, ID

order
DESC
DESC, ASC

show_image
1
0 / 1

show_default_avatar
1
0 / 1

show_rating
1
0 / 1

show_quote_icon
1
0 / 1

show_category
0
0 / 1

excerpt_words
0
0 = full content

card_padding
28
Card inner spacing in pixels (12–60)

card_radius
12
Card corner radius in pixels (0–40)

item_gap
24
Space between testimonial items in pixels (0–60)

text_align
left
left, center, right

content_font_size
16
Testimonial text size in pixels (12–28)

image_size
58
Author image size in pixels (32–120)

read_more
0
0 / 1

read_more_words
45
Collapsed word count (10–200)

read_more_label
Read more
Expand button label

featured
all
all, 1, 0

view
0
Display Preset post ID

autoplay
1
0 / 1

autoplay_speed
5000
Milliseconds between auto-advances (500–60000)

carousel_move
one
one (slide 1 at a time), page (slide full visible group)

transition_effect
slide
slide, fade, zoom, flip, blur, swing, bounce, elastic, cube

transition_speed
500
Animation duration in ms (80–3000)

loop
1
0 / 1

arrows
1
0 / 1

dots
1
0 / 1

class
(empty)
Extra CSS class on the wrapper