CuckooLove theme contains Testimonials Custom Post #3. Using this custom post, you can create customer testimonials, reviews or display well wishings.

Custom Post Name


By default, the name of this post in CuckooLove theme is set to Guestbook, but it can be changed according to your needs: go to Dashboard → Appearance → CuckooLove → Custom Posts.

Display in Homepage


Testimonials can be displayed in Homepage Testimonial Unit. The number of Testimonial units is unlimited.

IMPORTANT!
SET CUSTOM POST SLUG BEFORE ADDING YOUR CONTENT!

After changing custom post slug, go to Dashboard → Settings → Permalinks and click Save Changes button. After changing custom post slug, all existing posts with old slug will be lost. They can be restored by changing the slug name back.

After changing the slug, all the content of Testimonials Custom Post #3 has to be re-uploaded.

Testimonial Post Templates


Testimonials can be displayed using one of two page templates:

  • Testimonials 1 Custom Post #3 / Large Thumbnails*;
  • Testimonials 2 Custom Post #3 / Small Thumbnails*.
* Thumbnails are optional.

Shortcode


In addition Testimonials can be displayed using one of Testimonials Custom Post #3 shortcodes.

Examples

Create Testimonial


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Step 1

Navigate to Dashboard → Testimonials → Add New in your WordPress dashboard panel.
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Step 2

Add Title to your Testimonial Post. It will be used in post url and will be displayed in a single Testimonial post.
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Step 3

Using Excerpt panel add Testimonial content.

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Step 4

Using Message Author panel add Testimonial Author name.
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Step 5

Using Additional Details panel add additional information about the Testimonial author.
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Step 6

Using Add Thumbnail panel add title, URL (Will open link in a new page) and upload an Image for thumbnail.

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Step 7

Click Publish, when you are ready.

Optional

When Testimonial post displayed using single Testimonial post, an additional features can be added.

Add subtitle to your Testimonial. It will be displayed in a single Testimonial post.

Using Choose Sidebar panel, activate Custom Sidebar for your Testimonial Post if needed. Select Custom sidebar from dropdown and set sidebar alignment.
Custom Sidebar can be created using Dashboard → Appearance → CuckooLove → Sidebars tab. Content of the sidebar can be modified using Dashboard → Appearance → Widgets tab.

Using Header Settings panel enter shortcode and add custom header to your Testimonial Post. Check Hide Title if you want hide Testimonial Post title.

Additional Customization Features

Custom Background

Using Background Settings panel, you can add custom background to any page or post. Two background options are available – Image and Video. By entering video URL, you can add any YouTube or Vimeo video as the background of your page/post. If you want to use image background option, you can add Default and Parallax style background. Moreover, using Background Settings panel, you can add an unlimited number of image background layers and create awesome multi-layered parallax background effect.

Global background settings can be managed using Color Settings tab of theme framework. Here you can also choose parallax style background or default background for specific page and posts groups.

Image Background

Custom Background

1. Choose Custom as your page/post background source;
2. Choose background type of your page/post.

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3. Expand Layer #1* and start editing Image background settings;
4. Choose background type of Layer #1;
5. Edit other background settings.

* Using Add Layer button you can add unlimited number of background layers.

Video Background

Custom Background

1. Choose Custom as your page/post background source;
2. Choose Video as background type of your page/post;
3. Add Youtube or Vimeo video url;
4. Edit other Video background settings.

Custom Super Footer

Using Super Footer panel you can add custom Super Footer to any page/post. Super Footer displays any page content that is created using Default page template. Global Super footer settings can be managed using Header & Footer tab of theme framework.

The awesome thing is that Super Footer supports Full Width content. The usual width of a single pages/post content area is limited to 960 pixels. Using Super Footer you can add full width videos, sliders, maps and other full width stuff to your page above your site’s footer.

Custom Super Footer

1. Choose Custom as your page/post Super Footer source;
2. Select Page Source from pages dropdown;
3. Edit Super Footer top and bottom padding.

In addition, using Header Settings panel you can add Full Width videos, sliders and maps to any page header as well.

Header Display Settings

Using Header Display Settings panel you can choose custom header appearance and functionality settings for a specific page or post.

It’s very useful when different pages display different style content in page header. For example, page displays full screen video or slider. In this case, it is recommended to use Option 5 style header. Header logo and top navigation menu will be hidden until user scrolls to the bottom of the slider.

Header Display Settings
Global Header Display Settings for Homepage and All Other Pages can be managed using Header & Footer tab of theme framework.