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00:00:00In this tutorial I'm going to be discussing the testimonials widget
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00:00:03The testimonials widget is an easy way to add quotes and testimonials directly on your website
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00:00:09You can see from our example on the right here we have Mary Shelley is an author and it looks like she's saying this and it's in a little quote box and down here is Lisa Simpson
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00:00:19the musician saying this and that's what a testimonial widget does is it automatically creates a nice organized little quote box with the picture
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00:00:28So it's a very easy way to promote a product or business and make it look like people are saying good things about it
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00:00:33So in order to create a testimonials widget you would simply click add a new widget and down near the bottom is a testimonials
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00:00:40We're going to go ahead and open up this existing one just to see how it works but you can see here there's two items normally this would be empty and it would say no items and
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00:00:50you would simply click this blue button to add a new item to the list
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00:00:54Once you click that it'll open up that particular item right here at the top is where you would put their picture
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00:01:00You would upload from your computer you can use the browse or you can drag and drop into that box and it'll upload
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00:01:06We're just going to use an existing picture just for example sake and once you've uploaded the image you would put the name right below that and the testimonial signature that's what appears below the name so
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00:01:23that can be like a job title a business a website a company whatever you want to put there really and right below that is the main text this is what's going to appear in the quote
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00:01:34box that appears above the photo so this is where you put their actual testimonial and below that you can add buttons if you want you can add all sorts of buttons from links to websites just
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00:01:47even starting a phone call please watch the buttons tutorial in order to understand more about buttons we're not going to cover that here but simply watch the buttons tutorial and once you've added everything that you
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00:01:59want for that particular person you would simply save and you'll notice on the right once we scroll down it has automatically created that quote box with the picture and their title right there very simple easy
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00:02:13to use so if you ever need to promote a business or product or say good things about something testimonials widget is an excellent tool