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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.

ulfben

Erick Danzer

LightPress

LightPress Lightbox is a popular, very lightweight lightbox plugin for WordPress. It is active 40,000 websites. After activation, settings will appear under ‘Lightbox’ on your website’s main admin menu, and images and galleries will open in a nice lightbox.
To make images open in the lightbox, you need to set images to “Link To:” media file. For image blocks, this setting is on the toolbar at the top of the block. For galleries, this setting is on the sidebar by other block options.
LIGHTBOX DEMOS
<a href="https://lightpress.io/free-lightbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">Free Lightbox Demo</a> 
<a href="https://lightpress.io/pro-lightbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Lightbox Demo – Light Theme</a> 
<a href="https://lightpress.io/pro-lightbox-dark/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Lightbox Demo – Dark Theme</a>
FREE LIGHTBOX FEATURES 
– Automatic detection of images and galleries 
– Customize colors of lightbox and navigation 
– Classic and modern navigation styles 
– Option to show info bar 
– Option to show title or alt text 
– Option to show download button 
– Slideshow options 
– Keyboard navigation 
– And more!
Links: 
-> <a href="https://lightpress.io/free-lightbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">Demos</a> 
-> <a href="https://lightpress.io/free-lightbox-documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">Docs</a> 
-> <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-jquery-lightbox/" rel="ugc">Free Support</a>
PRO LIGHTBOX FEATURES
LightPress Pro is a premium extension for this lightbox plugin that offers: 
– Priority support via email directly from devs 
– Powerful, Modern Pro Lighbox 
– Beautiful, modern full-browser and full-screen ligthbox 
– Dozens of customizations options 
– Thumbnails within the lightbox 
– Toolbar with controls for thumbnails, zoom, slideshow, and more 
– Open videos (Youtube, Vimeo, self-hosted) 
– Opens PDF files 
– Opens content from external web pages 
– Create easy modals and popup boxes 
– Open image maps 
– Flawless on mobile devices 
– Hyper fast performance
-> <a href="https://lightpress.io/pro-lightbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">VIEW PRO LIGHTBOX DEMOS</a> 
-> <a href="https://lightpress.io/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">GET PRO SUPPORT</a>
Background and Thanks
Special thanks to <a href="http://www.ulfbenjaminsson.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Ulf Benjaminsson</a>, who created the original WP JQuery Lightbox plugin and maintained it for many years.
<h3>Additional Info</h3>
Copyright (C) 2010-2023 Ulf Benjaminsson. 
Copyright (C) 2023-Present LightPress LLC.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or 
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

LightPress Lightbox

Simple, lightweight lightbox plugin for WordPress. Formerly the WP JQuery Lightbox.

KudosBlock – Display Testimonials, Reviews, & Social Proof vs LightPress Lightbox