Whether you have a portfolio for your professional projects or a website for your business, displaying compliments from clients and customers is a good way to snag more gigs and spread the word. Some of our themes have a built-in testimonial feature, so you can display reviews and recommendations prominently on your homepage. Here are three examples.
Show praise for your skills
If you’re not using a theme with built-in testimonials, turn on the feature in My Site → Settings → Writing → Content Types so you can add and display testimonials on a separate archive page.
“At every session, I encourage laughter, love, and individuality to capture your true essence in my photographs,” writes photographer Alex Shelley. Alex captures life’s moments — natural and unposed — and specializes in birth photography, family photojournalism, and lifestyle portraits, serving the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas.
Using the premium Venture theme, Alex showcases a mix of content on her front page: her services, contact info, featured posts from her blog, and testimonials from clients, which are displayed in a rotating showcase. This positive feedback complements the information Alex provides on her website, giving potential clients a better idea of what to expect when working with her.
Share the buzz from local customers
The team behind Long Beach Creamery, a shop for organic, hand-crafted ice cream in Long Beach, California, believes that “making ice cream is food chemistry.” On the shop’s website, you’ll find a menu, scooping hours, and the story of how the creamery came to be.
Using the free Canape theme, which was made especially for restaurants and food-related businesses, the creamery displays essential information on their front page, including contact and location info (via the Contact Info & Map Widget), Instagram photos (using the Instagram Widget), and their Facebook page (with the Facebook Page Plugin). The endorsements from customers are nice extras on the page and strengthen their reputation in the Southern California region.
Let your happy clients spread the word
Francesco Seclì, based in Novolo, Italy, is a labor and tax consultant for businesses and individuals. His website (in Italian) compiles information for potential clients, including his mission, services, and blog.
Compile testimonials on one page like Francesco — here are the steps.
Using the free Dara theme, he displays two testimonials on the homepage, which are pulled from his testimonial archive page. You can view all of his testimonials on the “Dicono Di Me” page (“What They Say About Me”) under the “Chi Sono” (“Who I Am”) tab in his menu. These reviews from clients help to generate leads for his business.
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Thanks for providing guidelines.
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Very cool!
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You’re right, testimonials are a great step in the right direction.
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I had *just been thinking about this a few hours ago. I wish all the WP themes had testimonials! thanks for this. 😉
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Thanks. Pretty interesting.
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Quite insightful and handy.Thanks.
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Hey I really love the simplicity of your writing and your blog. Any advice on themes I should use or try for my own blog? I appreciate any help or direction.
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We’ve compiled a lot of theme and design-related resources in the “Tinkering with Themes” category over on The Daily Post: https://wordpress.com/dailypost/category/tinkering-with-themes/
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Good post, any suggestions for business Identity theme?
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It’s sometimes helpful to browse the questions and requests that other people ask about this theme — sometimes they give you ideas for ways to customize and tweak your own site. You can look through the Business Identity support forum: https://premium-themes.forums.wordpress.com/forum/business-identity
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Nice insightful article. Thank you.
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Very well put together!
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Do you think testimonials apply to all types of websites or just e commerce?
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Most types of websites could display testimonials. Even photographers and artists could show recommendations/praise for their work from people in general (not necessarily clients or customers — think friends or family who enjoy their work), or writers can display comments from peers on their work. You don’t need to have to sell something.
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This is awesome! I think this is very important! I have to make a section for this on my blog!
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I haven’t been able to create mine though, but I hope to get a testimonial soon.
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Great tip – thanks for the idea!
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Yes love this blog statement and post.
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Thank you for this; you’ve given me a lot of food for thought!
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How can I get followers and readers on WordPress? It has been a month since I started blogging but it’s so frustrating to not have readers.. :((( Can anybody help me?
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Welcome to WordPress.com! Building an audience, one that keeps coming back, takes a lot of time. I don’t think people should expect to magically have readers just because they’re publishing posts or sharing them on social media. Cultivating that blogger-to-reader connection takes work.
We’ve published and compiled resources over the years at The Daily Post that might be of interest:
– The posts in our “Traffic and Growth” category: https://wordpress.com/dailypost/category/traffic-growth/
– Our free email course on Branding and Growth: https://wordpress.com/dailypost/blogging-university/#branding-growth
Hope these act as starting points for you!
You can also share your latest posts at the Community Pool, published each Monday. (Here’s the most recent one: https://wordpress.com/dailypost/2017/08/07/community-pool-228/) In the comment thread of the post, people share links to their their most recent post, ask for specific feedback on their site, offer feedback to others, etc. It’s a way to “meet” other bloggers, especially new ones like you.
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Thank you so much for guiding!! 😊😊
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This is such helpful information! Thank you for sharing.
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Is there a way to link your other accounts like Facebook, Whatsapp, LinkedIn to your WordPress account? I saw my friend link his but I couldn’t find a way to link mine!
Help needed please?
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You can currently connect your WordPress.com site to your Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Path, and Eventbrite accounts so you can share your posts to those services automatically. Here’s more info on this: https://wordpress.com/support/publicize/ We don’t support WhatsApp in this feature.
You can also add “sharing buttons” at the bottom of your posts and pages so readers can share your posts across a range of their social networks/services (including WhatsApp). More info (and a quick video) here: https://wordpress.com/support/sharing/
Do these options offer what you’re looking for?
Thanks!
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Love this post, very informing!! Will definitely use on my own blog!
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