Excited! Testimonials Showcase
With Excited! Testimonials Showcase you can easily create awesome testimonials for your WordPress website or blog.
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Excited! Testimonials Showcase shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 60+ sites and was last updated 11 years ago, and scores 25/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (60+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
- No update in 10 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 4.4 (latest is 7.1)
How does it stack up?
Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support
Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Excited! Testimonials Showc… stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| ajax | >100 |
| review | >100 |
| reviews | >100 |
| shortcode | >100 |
| testimonials | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
About Excited! Testimonials Showcase
From the official readme · v1.0.5Description
Excited! Testimonials is a professional multi-use WordPress plugin with main purpose of building awesome testimonial showcase on your website. The plugin is packed with flexible testimonial builder, various design layouts and absolute freedom on styling.
It’s possible to craft almost any design you can imagine. And use cases are not limited just for testimonials showcase. Plugin works great out of the box and very easy to use. Get excited!
Features
- Beautiful layouts and templates. Classic grid, grid with tooltips, single testimonial with or without slider, widgets.
- Absolute freedom on design customization: colors, font settings, spacings, arrangement of elements etc.
- Powerful drag and drop admin builder.
- Change star icon with any from svg icon library or use your own.
- Hardware accelerated CSS3 3D Transforms.
- Profile sliding panels with 5 themes and WordPress native visual/html editor.
- Predefined style presets for each layout.
- Testimonials filtering by your categories.
- Multi-use plugin: testimonials, team, logos etc.
- Fancy mouse over and revealing effects.
- Sort by date, random or custom order.
- Social icon bar: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Vimeo, Dribbble, Flickr, Github.
- Contacts information: email, phone, Skype, source.
- Unlimited testimonials, authors and categories.
- User-friendly admin.
- Fully responsive.
- Translate ready.
- Multisite compatible.
- Well documented.
- Learn more
PRO version features
- Submission form with approval system. Place anywhere with it’s own shortcode.
- Rich snippets compatible.
- Display average rating with submit review button.
- Visual Composer support.
- 1-5, 1-10, 1-100 or icon rating systems.
- Opt-in for Mailchimp list.
- Free updates.
- Fast and professional support.
- Learn more
Consider Excited! Testimonials as the most beautiful testimonials showcase WordPress plugin with new era admin panel. The last thing is a huge time saver and inspires you to build something new and unique. Play with settings, turn On/Off or re-arrange different blocks, style it and place shortcode on your page. That’s it!
Installation
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working
Automatic installation
To do an automatic install of Excited! Testimonials Showcase, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New.
In the search field type “Excited! Testimonials Showcase” and click Search Plugins. Once you have found it you can install it by simply clicking “Install Now”.
Manual installation
Uploading via WordPress Dashboard
- Download
a-excited-testimonials-free.zip - Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
- Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
- Select
a-excited-testimonials-free.zipfrom your computer - Click ‘Install Now’
- Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
Using FTP
- Download
a-excited-testimonials-free.zip - Extract the
a-excited-testimonials-freedirectory to your computer - Upload the
a-excited-testimonials-freedirectory to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
The WordPress codex contains instructions on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Updating
You can use automatic update to update the plugin safely.
Changelog
initial release
Version 1.0.5
- Add timestamp to rich text editor ID
Version 1.0.4
- Fix rich text editor loading
Version 1.0.3
- Fix shortcode appearing
Version 1.0.2
- Fix JS loading
Version 1.0.1
- Fix shortcode
Version 1.0.0
- initial release
Screenshots
For developers
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FAQ
Excited! Testimonials Showcase: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 4, 2026
Is Excited! Testimonials Showcase free?
Yes. Excited! Testimonials Showcase is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Excited! Testimonials Showcase safe to use in 2026?
Excited! Testimonials Showcase shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 60+ sites and was last updated 11 years ago, and scores 25/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Excited! Testimonials Showcase?
Excited! Testimonials Showcase is active on 60+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 8,805 times since it launched in January 2016. It was downloaded 106 times in the last 30 days.
Does Excited! Testimonials Showcase work with WordPress 7.1?
Excited! Testimonials Showcase is officially tested up to WordPress 4.4.34, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was Excited! Testimonials Showcase last updated?
The latest version, 1.0.5, was released on January 12, 2016 (11 years ago).
Who makes Excited! Testimonials Showcase?
Excited! Testimonials Showcase is developed and maintained by Looks Awesome.
What are the best alternatives to Excited! Testimonials Showcase?
The most popular alternatives to Excited! Testimonials Showcase are zipaddr-jp (50K+ installs), SearchWP Live Ajax Search (50K+ installs) and WP-Polls (40K+ installs).
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