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Testimonials are vital for many different types of businesses, whether you are selling a product or a service.

Featuring customer reviews prominently on your site can help new visitors to build trust toward your brand through the power of social-proof, and this can increase conversion rates by some remarkable amounts.

It isn’t enough to just hide your testimonials away on a separate page! You need to show them off.

This is where a WordPress testimonial plugins can help by making it easy to display your reviews and testimonials in an eye-catching way. Some WordPress plugins also take away the work that comes from you contacting past customers for their testimonials by collecting them automatically from social media, or via a form on your site.

This is an easy way to improve the efficiency of your workflow and save time that can be spent on other areas of your business. In this WordPress Wednesday post, you are going to discover six WordPress plugins you can use to help you streamline the process and make it look good.

1. Strong Testimonials

Strong Testimonials

Strong Testimonials is one of the most customisable testimonial plugins for WordPress. The plugin comes with multiple display options including testimonial slider, grid and masonry layout, single column layout and more.

Strong Testimonials also includes a custom form allowing your customers to easily add their reviews and testimonials and if you have been getting customer reviews on social media, then this plugin can also embed Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more.

Price: Free

2. Testimonial Slider

Testimonial Slider

Testimonial Slider offers a modern WordPress testimonial slider with an improved user experience. It comes with a slider as well as plain list layout. 

You can also add a front-end contact form to collect customer testimonials. You can add testimonials anywhere using the shortcode or sidebar widget. 

Price: Free

3. Easy Testimonials

Easy Testimonials

Easy Testimonials is an easy to use plugin that allows users to add Testimonials to the sidebar, as a widget or to embed testimonials into a Page or Post using the shortcode.

Easy Testimonials allows you to insert a list of all Testimonials, output a Random Testimonial, or display a slideshow of Testimonials anywhere on your website. Testimonials support images, making it simple to add a photo of the testimonial author. Easy Testimonials uses schema.org compliant JSON-LD markup, so that your testimonials appear correctly in search results.

Price: Free

4. WP Testimonials

Wp Testimonial With Widget

WP Testimonials is a simple yet highly customisable testimonials WordPress plugin. It allows you to easily add testimonials and sort them into categories and tags. After creating testimonials, you can display them using a shortcode. This shortcode comes with many parameters that you can use to customise the appearance of testimonials.

Price: Free

5. Testimonials Slider

Testimonials Slider WordPress Testimonials Plugin

Testimonials Slider is a simple testimonial plugin that gives you an easy way to display what your happy customers are saying about your company to all your site visitors.

Using the beautiful built-in templates, you can display testimonials on your site in two ways.

As a slide that will highlight the best stories you have or as many testimonials possible – whichever you choose or as a grid layout, for those that have tons of testimonials and a page on their site dedicated to them, complete with smart column calculations so your site’s testimonials always render perfectly without you having to hassle with layouts

Enrich your testimonials and encourage prospective customers to trust you by adding details like a name, company, position, social profile, company logo, website/URL and photo to each testimonial you display.

Price: $22.00

6. Thrive Ovation

Thrive Ovation All In One Testimonial Plugin

Thrive Ovation is a WordPress plugin that helps you collect testimonials and share them on your page. This plugin you can easily get testimonials from various places with the signle click of a button. Or you can easily grab testimonials from your social media pages by seamlessly integrating it with your social media accounts.

With the click of a button, you can easily import all the data that you will need such like their name, their image.

Plus manage all the testimonials available in one dashboard instead of different platforms, this makes it easier to manage things and to save you time. Also to mention that you will find different designs and templates available and the amount of customisation you can apply to help suit your needs.

Price: Starts at $39.00 for a single site license

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WordPress Wednesday – 6 WordPress Testimonial Plugins