Free Divi Testimonial Slider
Customize The Default Divi Slider
We Changed The Divi Slider Into A Beautiful Unique Testimonial Slider With Some CSS
We had some fun customizing the Divi Slider into a testimonial slider for one of our Divi Child Themes. We knew this would be a popular tutorial, so we decided to share it to you for FREE here on our Divi blog. We decided not to write out each step here, but rather tell you the overview of what we did and how you can do this too (with the help of our code snippet).
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How To Make the Divi Testimonial Slider
Follow These Basic Steps
Here are some things you need to do to get a similar look. Note that the main thing we are doing here is replacing the dot controllers with the images, then adjusting those images for size, position, and responsiveness.
- Add a slider module
- Add your testimonial text
- Adjust your text styling like name and company with the inline text editor
- Add the CSS snippet below to your website
- Change the images at the beginning of the CSS snippet. Upload square images to your WordPress Media Library, copy the url, and replace the entire url inside the content: url(‘replace this with your url’)
- Duplicate or delete code as needed depending on how many slides you have. Keep the same format as our snippet using the :nth-child(number) format to match your slide count
Where To Paste The CSS Code
1. Divi Assistant
If you are using our Divi Assistant plugin, simply paste the code in the CSS tab in the custom code window in the Divi Visual Builder.
2. Child Theme
If you are using a child theme, paste this code into the style.css file. If you don't have a child theme, you can generate a child theme directly on your site or download our free child theme.
3. Divi Theme Options Integration
Otherwise, paste this code in your Divi>Theme Options>Custom CSS code box.
If you need help understanding where to paste the code, please check out our complete guide about where to add custom code In Divi.
/*manually add the image url to the slide controller*/
.et-pb-controllers a:nth-child(1) {
content: url('https://dev.peeayecreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Brother-Pillar.jpg');
}
.et-pb-controllers a:nth-child(2) {
content: url('https://dev.peeayecreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Mr.-Divi.jpg');
}
.et-pb-controllers a:nth-child(3) {
content: url('https://dev.peeayecreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Mrs.-Divi.jpg');
}
.et-pb-controllers a:nth-child(4) {
content: url('https://dev.peeayecreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Uncle-Divi.jpg');
}
/*size and position of images*/
.et-pb-controllers a {
width: 90px;
height: 90px;
border-radius: 100%;
margin: 0 15px;
}
/*change opacity on hover*/
.et-pb-controllers a:hover {
opacity: 1;
}
/*make the active slide slightly bigger*/
.et-pb-controllers .et-pb-active-control {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
margin-bottom: -5px;
}
/*force off the text shadows*/
.et_pb_slide_description {
text-shadow: none!important;
margin-bottom: 20px!important;
}
/*change the slide description animation*/
.et-pb-active-slide .et_pb_slide_description {
animation-name: fadeIn;
}
@media (max-width: 980px) {
/*size and position of images - mobile*/
.et-pb-controllers a {
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
border-radius: 100%;
margin: 0 10px;
}
/*make the active slide slightly bigger - mobile*/
.et-pb-controllers .et-pb-active-control {
width: 60px;
height: 60px;
margin-bottom: -5px;
}
/*adjust image position - mobile*/
.et-pb-controllers {
bottom: 10%;
}
}
/*position the images - mobile*/
@media (max-width: 767px) {
.et-pb-controllers {
bottom: 20%;
}
/*position the images - mobile*/
.et_pb_slide_description {
margin-bottom: 50px!important;
}
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Hi, thanks for this nice slider. If I update my divi theme afterwards, will I loose it ? Do I need install a child theme before ? (because I dont’ really want to do that). Thank you again 🙂
Hi Audrey,
You don’t have to worry about updates breaking any code in the Divi Theme Options. That would only be a concern if you are editing Divi.
Fantastic job done
Thank you Vivek!
Hi Nelson,
Im testing this on a site I’m in the middle of building, but it doesn’t seem to show the images on IE, (I’m using Chrome, not tried FF). I am still using your images. Any ideas?
Hi Mike,
The images are probably just not the right link, like if you are using http instead of https or something. Just replace them with yours and you will be good!
Awesome… I’ll give this a go when we’re ready! Sorry jumping the gun a little haha
Hi Nelson,
first off al thank you for this amazing slider.
What about having more Slider on the page. How i can exclude the testimonials from different sliders and use it just for that i want?
Thanks for your answer and have a nice day:)
Hi Marvin,
Sure, to have more than one you would want to change the CSS classes from instead of targeting the sliders in general you would add a custom CSS class in the snippet instead and then in the Advanced tab of the slider. Does that makes sense?
please explain step by step. Please please !!
Hi Devansh,
This is a free resource, and I do explain what I felt was needed for a free resource in the video. Hopefully you can benefit from this!
Thanks for this one. I just added it to a new site and it looks great.
That sounds great, Bill! Glad you could put it to use!
Hi, just a quick question if we can add more people pic on testinomial changing button or not?
Hi Upendra,
You can add more images, yes. This is an example using 4 slides.
Its not showing on my website the images nor on the mobile device!
Okay, do you want help solving the issue on your site? You would need to share the link.
I notice when applied this code afffects all the other sliders that I have. How could I fix this?
Hi Andy,
Sure, you just need to make it more specific with a custom class. So just add a custom class before each selector in the code and match it by adding that same selector in the module.
Hi, first of all thank you very much.
I have a question – how do I change the speed of the slider? How do I add arrows or bullets?
Thanks
Hi Rina,
Those are settings within the module, the animation speed can be adjusted and the arrows options can be enabled.
thanks
I can’t download the Layout. I receive a email to subscribe to mailchimp, but the link don’t work. And that way I can’t access to download the free layouts from the site.
Hi there,
I think you are misunderstanding this. Please read the post carefully, the download link appears directly here on the post, not delivered in an email 🙂
It is January, 2023 and the download link is now delivered to your email address and then you click on that to download it.
I would like to know what image sizes are best for the “dots”, since your image URL’s are all broken now.
I think any size you want is fine, you can choose.
Hi Nelson
Thank you so much for all this amazing content. I am loving your videos.
I’ve tried to update the images in the code as suggested, however, once changed, the image still shows the original. Any ideas?
Hi Brendan,
Not sure, make sure you are not also copying in the CSS from the post, as the code is in the layout, so it could be duplicate?
This is exactly what I was looking for but it doesn’t change the pictures for some reason.. I copy the URL directly from my media library and paste into the code & it still shows up with the photos from your site, even though the URLs for those are no where to be found. Any ideas?
Here’s a screenrecording of my issue: https://vimeo.com/543214039/156829144a
Hi Tara, how is it when you exit the builder?
Hi Both
Found the issue… When you upload the code to the page, it adds the code to the main page code as well. Simply go into the main CSS section and delete it.
Please see image attached 😉
Thanks Brendan!
To echo others, first of all: Thank you very much! This is a great looking slider, and your tut made it very clear how to work with it. I would like six testimonials, so I duplicated the fourth slide twice. However, the result was that even when I added images, the two new slides do not show up. (I presume I’ll need to duplicate some code in the CSS?) Can you please explain how to add more slides to the slider? Many thanks in advance.
Hi Dave,
Yes you have the right idea, you would need to also copy the numbered part of the code .et-pb-controllers a:nth-child(5) and .et-pb-controllers a:nth-child(6)
Hey, Nelson, thank you for this prompt response. This worked! TY so much.
You’re welcome Dave!
I want to undo the changes. I deleted the css, but the layout css is still loading. I cleared the cache on the web server and the browser. I don’t understand where the css is coming from. Please help!
Hi John,
I sure don’t know either without more info. But if you imported the layout then the code is in Code module. Just random guess but maybe you added duplicate code?
Hi Nelson,
This is great! How can I make the images on top of the testimonial? Help please.
Hi Jack,
I’m glad you like it! Unfortunately we don’t provide customization help with our freebies.
Hello and thanks for nice code and trick, you Rock!.
But can you tell me how to get those images on left side, as sidebar and then content in center.
Hi Renars,
I’m afraid that anything custom is outside the scope of this freebie. If you need something custom you will need to hire a developer.
This was SUPER HELPFUL! Thanks a lot!
I’m so glad to hear that, you are welcome!
Dunno what went wrong. Tried re-uploading a few times but no images showed up. But suddenly after the third re-upload the images were there 🙂
I noticed DIVI needed an upgrade so I did that before the third try and it might just have been what was needed. I have seen strange behaviour from DIVI before if there is a new upgrade ready!
So everything is working beautifully and it looks great!
Awesome code! Thanks a lot!
Hi Debra,
This sounds like maybe it was a caching issue. Glad it is working now!
It’s very good and easy but I have a problem. After I finished editing texts / changing images, I save and exited the Builder. My homepage’s text have been changed; it used other family fonts than what I used originally.
Why they changed my font family in my homepage? When I deleted your module, my homepage’s font family went back to normal. How to fix this please?
Our code doesn’t have any font family, so that is not related to this at all 🙂
thank you nelson
You’re welcome!