Do you have testimonials on your real estate blog? I know people like reading testimonials. I personally like a good roast better, but that’s just me. The question is how do you handle testimonials on your blog and not come off as egotistical. It you have never thought of that, then you have bigger issues.
If you do post a testimonial it can look very much like you are tooting your own horn.
You risk becoming the group member honored for their humility with a Humility pin. Then have the group take away the award because you wore it.
How then do we get testimonials on our blogs and not come across as egotistical.
How to Handle Testimonials
- First get and install the Post Plugin Library.
- Next get and install the Random Posts Plugin.
- Activate the Post Library Plugin first then the Random Posts Plugin
- Create a Category for Testimonials
- Under Setting for Random Posts set the number of testimonials you want to randomly display a link to (5 is a good number)
- While still in settings select the “Filter” option. Check include the Testimonials category.
- Go to Design, Widgets and add the Random Post Widget
- Position the widget where you want it on the page and Title it “Testimonials” (or something to that effect).
Options for Entering Testimonials
I personally don’t like testimonials showing up in my posts. My suggestion; enter the testimonials and when you publish them do so with the date of the testimonial. If it was written three months ago, then date it for that date. This will publish the post, it will appear in your category and on the widget, but will be far enough back in our post stream it won’t show up on the front page of your blog. And they won’t appear all grouped together by “salting” the dates throughout your blog.
If you get a new testimonial I would publish it with a date the goes beyond the posts that appear on your homepage. Some of display 5 posts other 10, others even 50. I display 5 post and would date any new testimonial to be back at least to the sixth post. Hint: Don’t title the testimonials “Testimonial One” “Testimonial 2″ etc. Don’t title them “Why Jan and Doug Think I’m the Best”. Get the idea.
Random Posts Plugin
There are lots of ways you can use this plugin, and it is very configurable. The help and instruction from the setup page is filled with variations on how to implement this plugin on your blog.
I looked at several different options for handling testimonials. This was the one I liked best. A quick search on Wordpress Testimonial Plugins will reveal a few other options.
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