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Advanced Testimonials

Advanced Testimonials is an awesome easy to use testimonial plugin developed by an expert team of codeincept. This plugin can give you the easiest way to start adding your customer testimonials, right now! Easily embed…

Active installs<10New
Downloads · 30d67▲ +42.6% vs prev. 30d
Rating5/51 reviews
Health score28/100At risk
All-time downloads1.9KSince Mar 2018
Support resolved—No recent threads
RequiresWP 4.5.0PHP 5.2+
Downloads · 7d10▼ -50% week over week
Our verdict

Consider an alternative

Advanced Testimonials shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. Is rated 5/5 and was last updated 9 years ago, and scores 28/100 on our health check.

  • Small user base (<10 active installs)
  • Very few reviews so far
  • No update in 8 years
  • Only tested up to WordPress 4.9 (latest is 7.1)

Daily downloads

134Jul 11Aug 24Oct 8
Yesterday0
Daily average (1y)2
Peak day13May 15, 2026
Last 12 months683

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where Advanced Testimonials stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
advanced testimonials >100 593 Best advanced testimonials plugins →
Client >100 9,297 Best Client plugins →
codeincept #3 5 Best codeincept plugins →
Testimonial >100 1,358 Best Testimonial plugins →
testimonials >100 1,358 Best testimonials plugins →

Rating breakdown

★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 1 reviews

  • 5★100.0%
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  • 3★0.00%
  • 2★0.00%
  • 1★0.00%

About Advanced Testimonials

From the official readme · v1.0.0

Description

Advanced Testimonials is an awesome easy to use testimonial plugin developed by an expert team of codeincept. This plugin can give you the easiest way to start adding your customer testimonials, right now! Easily embed testimonials list or carousels into a Page or Post using the shortcode with multiple options, control your options with shortcode. Advanced testimonial offers ready to use multiple css retina ready style. We have developed multiple layout styles you can also style as you want because it is easy to extend. Fully functinal shortcode gives support to enable/disable multiple options like columns, styles, navigation arrows etc.

Documentation

click here to visit detailed documentation and Demo of Advanced Testimonials

Features:

  • 100% responsive testimonial slider
  • Light weight testimonial slider
  • Easy to use
  • Multiple CSS retina ready styles
  • Supports multiple Columns
  • Supports number of items
  • Category wise testimonials
  • Show/hide Navigation dots.
  • Show/hide left right arrows.
  • Enable/Disable autoplay.
  • Show/hide featured image
  • Developer friendly & easy to customize.
  • Touch-swiped enabled.
  • 24/7Free Basic Support.

How To Use

Place [advanced_testimonials_slider] in your templates pages, posts, widgets ect.

By default shortcode attribute are :
columns=1
style=style-1
items=10
cat_id=all
showimage=1
autoplay=true
arrows=true
navigation=true

  • You can extend shortcode attributes to your desired requirement.
  • Like for two columns use below shortcode
    [advanced_testimonials_slider columns=”2″]
  • for other style use below shortcode
    [advanced_testimonials_slider style=”style-2″]
  • for few items use below shortcode
    [advanced_testimonials_slider items=”10″]
  • To disable slider arrows use below
    [advanced_testimonials_slider arrows=false]

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

e.g.

  1. Upload advanced-testimonials folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Place [advanced_testimonials_slider] in your templates pages, posts, widgets ect.

By default shortcode attribute are :
columns=1
style=style-1
items=10
cat_id=all
showimage=1
autoplay=true
arrows=true
navigation=true

You can extend shortcode attributes to your desired requirement.
Like for two columns use below shortcode
[advanced_testimonials_slider columns=”2″]
for other style use below shortcode
[advanced_testimonials_slider style=”style-2″]
for few items use below shortcode
[advanced_testimonials_slider items=”10″]
To disable slider arrows use below
[advanced_testimonials_slider arrows=false]

Changelog

Initial release with multuple styles

1.0

  • Initial release.

Full changelog on WordPress.org →

Screenshots

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For developers

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FAQ

Advanced Testimonials: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 9, 2026

Is Advanced Testimonials free?

Yes. Advanced Testimonials is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is Advanced Testimonials safe to use in 2026?

Advanced Testimonials shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. Is rated 5/5 and was last updated 9 years ago, and scores 28/100 on our health check.

How many websites use Advanced Testimonials?

Advanced Testimonials is active on <10 WordPress websites and has been downloaded 1,888 times since it launched in March 2018. It was downloaded 67 times in the last 30 days.

Does Advanced Testimonials work with WordPress 7.1?

Advanced Testimonials is officially tested up to WordPress 4.9.34, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.

What PHP version does Advanced Testimonials need?

Advanced Testimonials requires PHP 5.2 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.

When was Advanced Testimonials last updated?

The latest version, 1.0.0, was released on March 7, 2018 (9 years ago).

Who makes Advanced Testimonials?

Advanced Testimonials is developed and maintained by codeincept.

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