Testimonial Manager Support Thread

Thanks - that was it - all sorted - as I said before - A lovely mod

Glad you got it working

Great mod Clyde!

I have a dumb question.
I need to adjust the way the sidebox looks on my site: http://adriftwood.com
I want it to blend in and look like the other sideboxes.

I thought I knew how to do it, but apparently I don't. LOL
Everytime I try to change the background color, it's not solid...it's like it changes behind part of it, but not the whole box.

Thanks!

http://adriftwood.com/

I didn't see the sidebox at the above link.

Sorry!

I had turned off the sample testimonial and didn't realize the whole box wouldn't show.

It's showing now. :)

Try adding the following declarations to your stylesheet.css

#testimonials-managerContent {
background-color: #a5a58c;
}
.testimonial {
color: #000;
}

Thank you Clyde!!

That worked great! :thumbsup:

Glad to help

To get it bit closer you could try adding the following: Highlighted in red

#testimonials-managerContent {
background-color: #a5a58c;
border-top: 1px solid #94947b;
border-bottom: 1px solid #494a44;
border-left: 1px solid #494a44;
border-right: 2px solid #494a44;
}
#testimonials-managerContent a:hover{
color: #ffffff;
background-color: #494a44;
}

You must have been reading my mind Clyde! :smile:
I'll go try that.

It was displaying perfectly in FF, but not in IE.
Trying to get those two in synch drives me nuts sometimes! lol

That looks better. :smile:

Is there anyway to decrease the spacing in IE?
Firefox is spaced perfectly, but to me everything looks too far apart in IE.

Try adding the following: highlighted in red

.testimonial {
color: #000;
padding: 0 5px 5px 5px;
text-align:left;
}
.testimonial p {
margin: 0; padding: 5px 0;
}
.testimonial span {
float:right;
}

That made a big difference Clyde and looks much nicer!

I did have to change this:

.testimonial p {
margin: 0; padding: 5px 0;
}

to this:

.testimonial p {
margin: 0.3em; padding: 5px 0;
}

Because the grey "divider" line wasn't showing up correctly. It only showed half-way across the box.

This is such a great mod. You're the best! :thumbsup:

I tried to follow all the instructions right, but I must have messed up somewhere as and I am getting this message in my side box spot:

1146 Table 'zencart.TABLE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER' doesn't exist
in:
[select testimonials_id, testimonials_title, testimonials_html_text, date_added from TABLE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER where status = 1 order by rand(), testimonials_title limit 2]

http:/www.horse-logos.com

Help!

OK, it was my misstake and bad mouse; I missed a couple of files to upload. Got is going now. But I have a lot of Testimonials already, so how do I add them?

OK, I am just a bit slow - I found out how to add the Testimonials in the...

Admin ->Tools -> Testimonials Manager allows creating & editing of pages

Now I have a few other questions:

1. Is there a way to post a link to the person's website that is leaving the Testimonials?

2. And is there a way to change the date because I am adding older Testimonials?

jonisolis:

1. Is there a way to post a link to the person's website that is leaving the Testimonials?

Not at the present time.

2. And is there a way to change the date because I am adding older Testimonials?

The MOD uses the current date when adding testimonials. If you want to use older dates you'd have to use phpmyadmin and work directly with the database table for the testimonials and edit the date field.

Or

depending on how may older testimonials you have you could set up an SQL script to insert them into the table.

Well I posted all 42 of my past Testimonials into the Testimonial Manager and I was able to put in a link to their website at the bottom of each testimonial. All looks good. This is a nice zen cart addin.

I was thinking of adding a image of their logo design to each testimonial and it would also act as a portfolio for my logo design work. But the image wouldn't show up, so I guess images are no go.

http://horse-logos.com

jonisolis:

Well I posted all 42 of my past Testimonials into the Testimonial Manager and I was able to put in a link to their website at the bottom of each testimonial. All looks good. This is a nice zen cart addin.

I was thinking of adding a image of their logo design to each testimonial and it would also act as a portfolio for my logo design work. But the image wouldn't show up, so I guess images are no go.

http://horse-logos.com

Nothing is impossible - There is a field in the database table that could be used for your purpose. Using it would require a re-write of some files in order to use it and to display the images. Give me a couple of days and I can put together a "custom" re-write for your purposes.

I'm guessing you added those testimonials through the admin -> tools -> testimonial manager.

Hi clydejones,

thanks for the great mod!!!
just install the mod in my testing site. the testimonial sidebox title looks odd.
it shows "**
**BOX_HEADING_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER"

could you please have a look my site:
img.maxsonic.co.uk/st/

thank you very much!