If you’re looking to add testimonials to Wordpress, you’ve come to the right place.
If you're not a developer or you've never done this before, knowing where to start can be difficult.
In this guide, we'll show you how you can add testimonials to any Wordpress website in 3 easy steps for free.
This step-by-step guide will help you get up and running in the next 10 minutes. Let's get into it.
Why embed testimonials on Wordpress?
One word, credibility.
Adding testimonials to Wordpress provides instant social proof, enhances your SEO, increases trust and credibility, and leads to higher conversion rates.
It allows potential customers to see real opinions about your products or services directly on your site. It also improves your search engine rankings, getting you more traffic.
What is Senja?
Senja is a free tool that makes it easy to collect, manage, and share your testimonials anywhere on the web.
Senja comes with 100s of ways to share your testimonials for free, including review widgets (ex. review sliders, carousels and walls), testimonials images, rich snippets and Walls of Love. With Senja, you can easily add a feed to any website without a single line of code or custom plugins.
In this guide, we'll use one of their free review widgets to add your testimonials to your Wordpress website, no plugins required!
How it works
Create a Senja account and import your testimonials
Create a free and customizable testimonial widget that matches your brand
Add it to your Wordpress website by copying and pasting the embed code
Step 1: Import your testimonials
Visit the Senja dashboard and sign up for an account. It's free and only takes 2 minutes.
Now go to the import page. Here you'll be able to import your reviews and customer love from over 17 sources including Google, Youtube, Slack, and Whatsapp.
Once you're done importing, head back to the testimonials page.
Now you should see all the testimonials you imported in your Senja account. That's all for step one! Now let's add your testimonials to your Wordpress website 🎉
Step 2. Create a widget for your testimonials
Now that you've imported your testimonials, you can finally add them to your website.
To do this, we'll create a Senja widget. Don't worry, the process will only take a couple minutes.
To get started, click on the Studio button in the Senja sidebar.
Immediately, you'll see all the sharing options available in Senja.
Other than embedding your testimonials on your Wordpress website, Senja lets you create beautiful images you can post on social media, as well as stunning Walls of Love that you can use to showcase your best testimonials.
Since we're trying to embed testimonials on our website, let's click on the widgets tab.
Now you can select a widget template you want. For this example, I'll use this grid widget.
I want to put my testimonials on my home page, so I'll call this widget "Home Page Testimonials" and hit the "Create Widget" button.
And you're done! Now you already have this beautiful testimonial widget that you can add to any page of your website.
Senja has dozens of templates and customization options to choose from. You can pick any of them and see how your widget looks.
You can also customize the colors (background color, link color, text color etc), shape and style of any widget to match your website's design perfectly 🎨
Step 3: Embed the widget on Wordpress
Senja integrates with every website builder that supports custom HTML or URL embeds, including Wordpress.
We have detailed instructions for the most popular website builders like WordPress, Webflow, Wix and Squarespace.
Check out our help center to learn how to install it on your website builder.To get started, click on the share button at the top-right of the page.Now copy the embed code you see on the screen.
In Senja
Click on the share button at the top-right of the Senja testimonial widget studio.
A panel will open up that'll show you how to share your widget.
Copy the code.
In Wordpress
Depending on where WordPress is installed, your theme, and your page builder, the instructions vary.
The default WordPress.com Gutenberg Custom HTML block doesn’t support custom Javascript embedding by default.
However, you can easily accomplish by extending it’s functionality using the Custom HTML Block Extension.
Click on the Plugins tab, and search for the “Custom HTML Block Extension”
Install and activate it.
Click on "Pages" in the WordPress dashboard
Select the page you want to add your to.
Type "/" and select custom html (You’ll notice that it now has a lightning icon)
Paste the Senja embed code
Click on the Publish Button.
