SheldonNesdale
Member
Can I use Gravity Forms to display testimonials on my website? I don't need users to contribute them via a form, I just need their testimonial plus a photo 75x75.
I need all testimonials on the testimonials page in chronological order + the latest 2 testimonials in the sidebar shortened to the first 200 characters.
Can Gravity Forms achieve this?
If you don't need users to contribute their testimonial via a form, why would you use Gravity Forms?
Ignoring that, you can certainly accept testimonials and an image via a Gravity Form, then display it on the front end of your site, in whatever order you want, with whatever restrictions on the content you want (limited characters, limit to last 2 by date, etc.)
The front end display is not built in to Gravity Forms: I used Gravity Forms Add-ons:
http://www.seodenver.com/gravity-forms-addons/
There is a new version in the WordPress.org repository now:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-addons/
I did something similar here (fake restaurant recommendations):
http://guitar.chrishajer.com/2010/07/06/suggest-a-restaurant/
You can see the submissions (your testimonials) in the sidebar.
There was some information on this page showing the arrays:
http://guitar.chrishajer.com/review-page/
So, yes, it can certainly be done. Accept a simple form with the testimonial and image via Gravity Forms, then display it on the front end with the add-on from Katz Web Design.
No, these are not posts, they are just form submissions and I display the submitted form data on the front end. You could do it as post submissions as well, if you wanted to. For this application, I did not.
