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KudosBlock is a purpose-built Gutenberg block that lets you create beautiful testimonial, reviews, & social proof sections directly inside the WordPress block editor. It works completely offline with zero external dependencies — your testimonial data lives in your post content, loads instantly, and never phones home.
Whether you run a local bakery, a design studio, a consulting firm, or a nonprofit, this block helps you put real voices front and center on your site.
<h4>What you can do</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add unlimited testimonials — each with a name, testimonial text, subtitle (use it for location, role, company, or anything else), and a 0–5 star rating.</li>
<li>Upload headshots — add a rounded avatar photo to each testimonial for a personal touch.</li>
<li>Choose Grid or Carousel layout — a responsive CSS grid for structured pages, or a horizontally scrollable carousel for a more dynamic feel.</li>
<li>Enable auto-scroll — when using the carousel, turn on a smooth continuous scroll animation with adjustable speed and direction (right-to-left or left-to-right). Navigation arrows hide automatically so the experience stays clean.</li>
<li>Pick Card or Minimal style — boxed cards with rounded corners and subtle shadows, or a clean flat design with simple dividers.</li>
<li>Control card size — small, medium, or large presets that auto-adjust padding, font sizes, and spacing so content always looks proportional.</li>
<li>Set columns (grid) — from 1 to 5 columns, with automatic responsive fallbacks on smaller screens.</li>
<li>Fine-tune six independent colors — rating stars, card border, card background, name text, testimonial text, and subtitle text each get their own color picker.</li>
<li>Align text — left, center, or right, applied to every card.</li>
<li>Reorder with one click — move testimonials up or down in the sidebar repeater without dragging.</li>
<li>See a live preview — every change you make in the sidebar is reflected instantly in the editor canvas.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Use cases</h4>
<ol>
<li>Local businesses — a restaurant showing diner reviews, a salon featuring client feedback, a repair shop displaying customer praise.</li>
<li>Freelancers and agencies — highlight client testimonials on a portfolio or services page with name, role, and company as the subtitle.</li>
<li>SaaS and product sites — display user quotes alongside star ratings on a landing page.</li>
<li>Nonprofits and community organizations — share volunteer or donor stories with location badges.</li>
<li>Online courses and coaches — display student success stories with the course name as the subtitle.</li>
<li>Event and conference sites — feature attendee feedback from past events.</li>
<li>Real estate and property management — show tenant or buyer testimonials with the property location.</li>
<li>Healthcare and wellness — present patient or client experiences (with permission) in a clean, trustworthy layout.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Why this block?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Zero external dependencies — no jQuery, no Slick, no Swiper, no Google Fonts. Just clean CSS and a tiny vanilla JS file for the carousel.</li>
<li>No API keys or accounts — works fully offline, right out of the box.</li>
<li>Static output — testimonial markup is saved directly into the post content, so pages render fast even without JavaScript.</li>
<li>Accessible — keyboard-navigable carousel, focus management, pause-on-hover, and pause-when-hidden for auto-scroll.</li>
<li>Lightweight — minimal CSS footprint, no render-blocking resources.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Feedback & Suggestions</h3>
We would love to hear from you! If you have ideas for new features, layout options, or improvements that would make this block more useful for your site, please share your feedback:
<ul>
<li>WordPress.org support forum — open a topic on the plugin’s support page.</li>
</ul>

KudosBlock – Display Testimonials, Reviews, & Social Proof


Delivery exactly what it promises. Simple, easy to use. Recommended!


Delivery exactly what it promises

Display testimonials, reviews, & social proof in grid or carousel layouts with star ratings, colors, and editor controls.

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Notice: Version 1.3.1 introduced admin menus for plugin settings. There is also a new way to pass parameters to the shortcode and PHP function. You should check all shortcodes and plugin function calls before and after upgrading, to confirm compatibility with this version.
<h3>If you need help with this plugin</h3>
If this plugin breaks your site or just flat out does not work, please go to <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jps-get-rss-feed/#compatibility" rel="ugc">Compatibility</a> and click “Broken” after verifying your WordPress version and the version of the plugin you are using.
Then, create a thread in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jps-get-rss-feed" rel="ugc">Support</a> forum with a description of the issue. Make sure you are using the latest version of WordPress and the plugin before reporting issues, to be sure that the issue is with the current version and not with an older version where the issue may have already been fixed.
Please do not use the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/jps-get-rss-feed" rel="ugc">Reviews</a> section to report issues or request new features.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Show RSS feed items on any post or page, in your sidebar or footer, or anywhere else using conditional tags in your PHP code</li>
<li>Open links in a new window (optional)</li>
<li>Include item description next to each article link</li>
<li>Post title link is optional. Show feed links as plain text or hyperlink to article</li>
<li>Show Featured Image (AKA “post thumbnails”) from local RSS feeds, or display feed logo for remote feeds</li>
<li>Customize feed cache lifetime (default minimum 43200 seconds / 12 hours)</li>
</ul>
This plugin uses WordPress’ ability to return feeds, to get the last X number of items from any RSS feed. Display the last few items from any RSS feed of your choice. For example, your Twitter feed, or another blog or forum that outputs a RSS feed. Any RSS feed can be grabbed. Call it in your footer to list your last few tweets, or your sidebar to showcase content from another one of your blogs.
Uses <code>fetch_feed</code>, which was introduced in WordPress 2.8. Works and tested in WordPress 3.5 and above. By default, feeds are cached for 12 hours. You can choose a shorter (or longer) cache time.
Feed items are wrapped in a div tag, with class “jpgetrssfeed” so you can style the output in your CSS file. The items list is surrounded by <code><ul></ul></code> tags, with each feed item listed in a <code><li></li></code> tag. However, you can specify a new CSS class to style output differently for different feeds.
You can output the feed item description along with each feed item link.
A button is added to the post editor toolbar so you can insert the shortcode in your posts or pages.
With help from: 
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/fetch_feed
<h4>Shortcode</h4>
To display a feed on any post or page, use this shortcode:
[jp-rss-feed]
Make sure you go to the plugin settings page after installing to set options.
If you use and enjoy this plugin, please rate it and click the “Works” button below so others know that it works with the latest version of WordPress.

JP's Get RSS Feed

Get last X number of posts from a selected RSS feed. Default is last 5 items. Includes shortcode for listing feed items on posts or pages.

KudosBlock – Display Testimonials, Reviews, & Social Proof vs JP's Get RSS Feed