Real Testimonials

3.1.7 – Feb 10, 2025

• Improved: The plugin security improved.
• Fix: The shortcode select option gap issue was found in the gutenberg block.

3.1.6 – Jan 24, 2025

• Improved: The grid number pagination has been improved.
• Fix: The schema warning was found when the limited testimonials were shown in the show.
• Fix: The 404 issue for the recommended plugin’s logo URL.
• Tested: WordPress 6.7.1 compatibility.

3.1.5 – Nov 20, 2024

• Fix: The plugin style issue for RTL sites.

3.1.4 – Nov 11, 2024

• Tested: WordPress 6.7 compatibility.

3.1.3 – Oct 09, 2024

• Fix: A few strings were not translatable.
• Fix: The PHP 7.2 compatibility issue.
• Fix: The Elementor swiper CSS conflict issue.
• Updated: The language (.pot) file.
• Tested: WordPress 6.6.2 compatibility.

3.1.2 – Aug 28, 2024

• New: The Rating Star Fill Color and Empty Color option.
• New: The Gap between Rating Stars option.
• New: The Rating Star Font Size option.
• Improved: The plugin backend options have been enhanced.
• Improved: The Layout Preset option was placed at the top of the manage view page.
• Improved: The Carousel Style was placed after the Layout Preset option.
• Improved: The How To Use Shortcode section moved to the right side of the page.
• Improved: The rating options were moved to a sub-section called Star Rating.
• Improved: The Swipe to Slide option was renamed to the MouseWheel option.
• Fix: The testimonial date issue in the case of export-import testimonials.
• Fix The grid layout item padding issue when the border is used.

3.1.1 – Aug 09, 2024

• New: Testimonial Form Block feature.
• Updated: The language (.pot) file.
• Tested: WordPress 6.6.1 compatibility.

3.1.0 – May 07, 2024

• New: The CSV import and export feature to import or export testimonials.
• New: The Form Live Preview feature to check the testimonial form design before using in any pages or posts.
• New: The Form Width option to increase or decrease the width of testimonial form.
• Improved: The style of Testimonial Form options and Testimonial View options.
• Improved: The Testimonial Export Import feature.
• Updated: The language (.pot) file.
• Fix: When admin selects the based on star rating/auto publish status in the form settings, the submitted testimonial was not shown in all testimonial list.
• Fix: The demo link issue.
• Tested: WordPress 6.5.2 compatibility.

3.0.0 – Apr 16, 2024

• New: The Carousel Layout feature.
• New: The Testimonial Form feature with fields for Full Name, Email Address, Designation, Testimonial Title, Content, Reviewer Photo, and Submit Button.
• New: Three types of Testimonial Status of Form.
• New: The Form Label Color, Input Fields Border, Background Color, and Border-Radius options.
• New: Form Background Color and border options.
• New: Testimonial Image Background option.
• New: Testimonial Image Padding option.
• New: Testimonial Image Border option.
• New: Testimonial Image Box Shadow (Inset, Outset) option.
• New: The Custom JS option.
• New: A function ‘sp_testimonial( x )’ was added to show testimonials using template files.
• Improved: The Image Settings tab and its options were moved inside the Display Settings Tab.
• Improved: The Plugin UI and UX were hugely reorganized and optimized to make it more user-friendly.
• Improved: The Space Between Testimonials option was moved to the General Settings Tab.
• Improved: The Grid Pagination options are moved to the bottom of the General Settings tab.
• Improved: The ‘Slider Controls’ tab was renamed ‘Slider Settings.’
• Improved: The Display Setting tab options were reorganized into nested tabs.
• Improved: The options for the Carousel Setting tab were reorganized into nested tabs.
• Improved: The Hide on Mobile option for carouse/slider navigation and pagination was separated from the Navigation and Pagination options, respectively.
• Improved: The Help Page has been redesigned to make it more user-friendly.
• Updated: The language (.pot) file.
• Fix: The grid limit issue when pagination was enabled.

2.6.9 – Mar 28, 2024

• Fix: The warning was found when the plugin was activated via the WP-Cli command.
• Tested: WordPress 6.5 compatibility.

2.6.8 – Nov 09, 2023

• Fix: Few PHPCS warnings with PHP8.2.
• Tested: WordPress 6.4.1 compatibility.

2.6.7 – Aug 28, 2023

• Fix: Multiple p or br tags are not working in testimonial content.
• Tested: WordPress 6.3 compatibility.

2.6.6 – Jul 17, 2023

• Fix: The rating star does not show perfectly along with the Storefront theme.
• Fix: The plugin translation issue.
• Updated: Minimum required version of WordPress for the plugin.
• Tested: WordPress 6.2.2 compatibility.

2.6.5 – May 25, 2023

• Improved: The import feature with animation.
• Fix: The deprecated warning found in import testimonials.

2.6.4 – Apr 07, 2023

• Fix: The Elementor block icon gets modified by other plugin icons.
• Tested: WordPress 6.2 compatibility.

2.6.3 – Feb 22, 2023

• Improved: The default background is set to transparent for theme one layout.
• Fix: The offset warning for carousel layout after last update.

2.6.2 – Feb 20, 2023

• Fix: The offset warning for grid layout after last update.

2.6.1 – Feb 16, 2023

• New: The Margin Between Testimonials option.
• New: The Border and Border Radius option.
• New: Background option.
• Fix: Plugin style in plugin admin panel does not apply after updating until meta refresh.

2.6.0 – Dec 21, 2022

• New: The Grid Layout feature
• New: The alignment, color, background color, and border color options of grid pagination.
• Improved: Plugin security improved.
• Fix: Extra margin of the carousel of mobile view when the navigation is hidden in mobile.
• Removed: The deprecated ‘testimonial-free’ shortcode has been removed.

2.5.11 – Nov 17, 2022

• Tested: WordPress 6.1.1 compatibility.

2.5.10 – Oct 14, 2022

• Improved: Load dynamic style according to shortcode on the page.

2.5.9 – Oct 03, 2022

• New: The Free mode of the Slider layout.
• Fix: The AutoPlay doesn’t work on mobile.

2.5.8 – Sept 02, 2022

• Fix: Few Deprecated JS warnings on the plugin admin page.

2.5.7 – Aug 03, 2022

• Improved: Migrated to Swiper from Slick js for Carousel/Slider.
• Fix: The Dequeue options of Advanced Settings do not work along with Elementor Plugin.

2.5.6 – Jun 14, 2022

• Fix: The premium page warnings.
• Fix: CSL issue.
• Fix: The RTL direction issue.

2.5.5 – May 17, 2022

• Tested: WordPress 6.0 compatibility.
• Fix: Deprecated warning of Elementor block.
• Fix: Image height is distorted with Twenty Twenty-Two.

2.5.4 – Apr 23, 2022

• Fix: Some assets of the Real Testimonial admin panel are not loaded properly in a few websites as that hosting directory is different.

2.5.3 – Mar 28, 2022

• New: Elementor addon to insert the shortcode for preview.
• New: A hook ‘sp_wp_tabs_allow_import_tags’ added to modify import option filter.
• Improved: SVG preloading icon has been added as a pre-loader image.
• Improved: The existing images, SVGs in the plugin are optimized.
• Fix: The custom class field of Gutenberg block of Real Testimonial does not work.
• Removed: Unused images from the plugin.
• Removed: The TinyMCE button from the classic editor.

2.5.2 – Mar 05, 2022

• New: Gutenberg Block has been added to insert the shortcode.

2.5.1 – Feb 24, 2022

• Fix: Video embedding in testimonial content issue.
• Removed: Setting menu link from admin tap bar.

2.5.0 – Feb 14, 2022

• New: The template modification feature added.
• New: Preloader image’s alter tag added.
• Improved: Schema markup improved.
• Fix: Testimonial icon was not shown in the review notice.
• Fix: Testimonial importing issue.
• Fix: An undefined variable warning ($review) when Review Notice has been dismissed.
• Fix: Extra padding removed for the mobile view when the navigation ‘hide in mobile’ option is set.
• Fix: Large-sized image loading issue at ‘All Testimonials’ page.

2.4.4 – Jan 27, 2022

• Tested: WordPress 5.9 compatibility.

2.4.3 – Jan 20, 2022

• Improved: Settings page with a new layout.
• Improved: Code improved.
• Improved: The export-import option improved.
• Fix: Image width with twenty-twenty-one theme issue.
• Fix: Carousel navigation accessibility issue.
• Fix: Some minor issues.

2.4.2 – Dec 10, 2021

• New: New video tutorial added.

2.4.1 – Nov 05, 2021

• Fix: Blank space at right side issue.

2.4.0 – Nov 03, 2021

• New: Plugin name changed to ‘Real Testimonials’.
• Fix: Schema markup issue.
• Improved: Shortcode live preview.

2.3.2 – Oct 19, 2021

• Fix: Section title color issue.
• Improved: Shortcode settings panel.

2.3.1 – Oct 12, 2021

• Fix: JS error on single testimonial issue.

2.3.0 – Oct 09, 2021

• New: Live Preview option.
• Fix: Few sites case, different plugin_dir issues.
• Fix: Adaptive height issue to carousel layout when multi-column(s) is used.
• Fix: Accessibility issues.
• Fix: Several minor issues.
• Improved: Shortcode settings panel text.

2.2.19 – Sep 16, 2021

• Improved: Plugin security.
• Removed: Unused code.

2.2.18 – Aug 18, 2021

• Fix: Schema markup undefine issue.

2.2.17 – Aug 11, 2021

• Fix: Rating value undefine issue.

2.2.16 – Jul 08, 2021

• New: HTML Tag for reviewer full name.
• Fix: Minor tweaking.

2.2.15 – Jun 18, 2021

• Updated: Themes design typo updated.

2.2.14 – Jun 14, 2021

• New: Export and import option.

2.2.13 – Jun 03, 2021

• Fix: AutoPlay dependency with pause on hover.
• Improved: Pagination speed value navigation.
• Improved: Spinner field design.

2.2.12 – Apr 17, 2021

• Fix: Review image issue.
• Fix: Backend shortcode select responsive issue.
• Fix: Help tooltip text align issue.
• Improved: Shortcode area redesigned.
• Improved: Dynamic version added for admin script & style.

2.2.11 – Mar 17, 2021

• Fix: Reviewer name formatting issue.

2.2.10 – Mar 11, 2021

• New: Shortcode onClick copy option.
• New: Testimonial title HTML tag change option.
• Improved: Dashboard Generator Settings panel.
• Improved: Settings page.
• Improved: Help page.
• Fix: Slider blurry issue.
• Fix: Free to Pro upgrading compatibility issue.

2.2.9 – Feb 08, 2021

• New: Preloader option.
• New: Clean up data on plugin deletion option.
• New: FontAwesome enqueue/dequeue option.
• New: Slick enqueue/dequeue option.
• New: Menu settings.
• Fix: Image column height width issue in All Testimonials page.
• Fix: Number field control issue.
• Improved: Dashboard Settings panel.

2.2.8 – Dec 15, 2020

• Fix: Slider navigation style issue.
• Fix: WordPress 5.6 compatible issue.

2.2.7 – Oct 07, 2020

• Fix: Responsive column(s) issue.

2.2.6 – Oct 06, 2020

• Fix: Testimonial image hide issue.

2.2.5 – Oct 03, 2020

• New: Swipe to slide option.
• New: Slider direction option.
• New: Testimonial image show/hide option.
• New: Testimonial image size option.
• Improved: Admin scripts loading scope.

2.2.4 – Sep 22, 2020

• Fix: Schema markup issue.

2.2.3 – Aug 24, 2020

• Fix: WordPress 5.5 compatible issue.

2.2.2 – Jun 23, 2020

• Fix: Polylang compatibility issue.

2.2.1 – May 02, 2020

• Fix: Undefined variable notices issue.

2.2 – Mar 25, 2020

• Fix: Security issue. (This vulnerability was discovered by Vishnupriya Ilango of Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs.)

2.1.7 – Feb 26, 2020

• New: Settings page added.
• New: Custom CSS option.
• New: Schema markup enable/disable option.
• Fix: Schema markup issue on Google search console.
• Improved: Client name HTML tag.

2.1.6 – Jan 10, 2020

• Fix: Pause on hover on/off issue.
• Fix: Slider infinite on/off issue.
• Fix: Slider adaptive height on/off issue.
• Fix: Slider swipe on/off issue.
• Fix: Slider draggable on/off issue.
• Fix: RTL mode on/off issue.

2.1.5 – Dec 17, 2019

• Improved: Dashboard UI.
• Fix: WordPress 5.3.1 compatible issue.

2.1.4 – Mar 22, 2019

• Fix: WordPress 5.2.1 compatible issue.

2.1.3 – Mar 11, 2019

• Fix: WPGlobus plugin compatibility issue.

2.1.2 – Feb 28, 2019

• New: Adaptive height option.
• Improved: Slider script.

2.1.1

• Fix: Languages path issue.

2.1

• Fix: Illegal string warning.
• Fix: Google crawling issue.

2.0

• Shortcode Generator
• Star Rating
• Section Title
• Testimonial Title or Tagline
• Unlimited color options for every field.
• Show/hide every field.
• RTL Supported
• Improved Admin Dashboard UI

1.4.2

• AutoPlay on/off

1.4.1

• Translation issue fixed

1.4

• Fixed sanitize issue
• Default constant replaced

1.3

• Removed view link
• Removed attribute “id”
• Added shortcode in back-end

1.2

• Navigation css issue fixed

1.1

• Navigation issue fixed

1.0

• First Release