TradeTestimonials collects testimonials from your customers by email, turns their feedback into a polished review, and publishes it to your public testimonials page. This plugin connects that account to your WordPress site so your reviews render as native page content instead of an embedded iframe – genuinely part of your page for search engines, not just visually present.
This plugin requires a TradeTestimonials account – free to create, no card required. It fetches your published testimonials from the TradeTestimonials service (tradetestimonials.com) to display them, and – if you connect an API key – can send new testimonial requests to your customers by email on your behalf. Sending is available on the free plan too, up to its usual request limits; it isn’t a paid-only feature. No data is sent to TradeTestimonials by installing this plugin alone; requests are only sent when you explicitly use the “Request a Testimonial” screen. See TradeTestimonials’ own privacy policy for how customer and business data is handled on their side.
Features
[trade_testimonials]shortcode and a native block editor block – both render identical, server-side markup, so what you see in the editor preview is what visitors see. Shows every published testimonial with Previous/Next page links when there are more than fit on one page – visitors never leave your site to see more reviews.- LocalBusiness/AggregateRating/Review structured data (JSON-LD), for search engines and other structured-data consumers. Note: this will not produce star icons in Google Search results – Google excludes a business’s own curated reviews of itself from that specific feature, regardless of which site hosts the markup. The benefit here is that your review text becomes genuine, indexable content on your own domain instead of living inside an iframe, not search-result stars.
- “Request a Testimonial” screen to email a customer a feedback link directly from WordPress, using an API key generated from your TradeTestimonials dashboard – available on the free plan too, up to its usual request limits. Email only – there is no SMS option in this plugin.
- Results are cached (a few hours by default, configurable) so your site isn’t fetching from TradeTestimonials on every page load.