About this plugin
Qaiyo Testimonials provides a flexible custom post type with categorisation and six built-in frontend layouts, each fully configurable through a visual Display Builder, shortcode attributes and a settings page.
Free layouts
- V1 — One or two rows, horizontal scroll, optional alternating direction, fading edges.
- V2 — Two or three vertical columns scrolling up/down, optional alternating direction per column.
- V3 — Single-row carousel with a circular customer avatar on top of each card.
- V4 — Bento grid layout that adapts to the testimonial count, with per-item highlight box & custom color.
- V5 — Avatar grid (max 29) where clicking a face reveals the matching testimonial below; auto-rotates.
- V6 — Photo hero card: large image on top, dark content section with a quote marker below.
More layouts with Pro
Seven additional layouts (V7–V13) — pastel tilted cards, split-panel hero, masonry wall, featured + grid, spotlight + list, and an editorial big-quote — are previewed inside the admin and unlocked by the optional Qaiyo Testimonials Pro add-on, which also adds star ratings, a front-end submission form, video testimonials and more.
Per-testimonial fields
Customer name (title), photo (JPG/PNG/WebP, max 1 MB), position, company, optional heading, quote/description, plus card-color controls (used by V4 highlight and V7 background).
Shortcode
[qaiyo_testimonials version="v1" category="clients" speed="40"]
See the Settings page for every available attribute.
Qaiyo ecosystem
If you also run another Qaiyo plugin that hosts an ecosystem dashboard widget or panel (for example Qaiyo Admin Booster), Qaiyo Testimonials reports a New reviews summary card to it: how many testimonials are waiting for approval, with a direct link to the moderation screen. The integration is a plain WordPress filter — nothing is loaded and nothing is sent anywhere if no such plugin is installed.
Multilingual
g. de_AT → de_DE).
Testimonials, Displays and categories can be translated with Polylang or WPML:
- A new translation (Polylang “+”, including Polylang Pro’s content duplication, or a WPML duplicate / translation job) receives every field of the original — texts, photo, colours and all Display settings — and the Display’s category and featured testimonial point at the new language’s versions.
- After that each language is edited on its own; saving one never overwrites another.
- One shortcode works everywhere: [qaiyo_testimonials display="12"] on any language version of a page shows that language’s Display, testimonials and category.
The admin interface also works with TranslatePress and Loco Translate.