What I would do is take advantage of the order-by options in the included widget and set it to order by “Menu Order” and then set the order to ‘DESC’ so that it shows the higher number first.

After you have the widget set up, you can set the order parameter in the testimonial you want displayed to like 99 or something. New testimonials will default with an order of 0 so it will never be overwritten by adding a new one.

If that’s not an option you can always create a custom template that reads from a new tag that holds the post data for the testimonial of your choice.

Hope that helps,
Travis Ballard

Thanks — I really appreciate your fast response.

I really want something much simpler that my clients can use.

(And I’m afraid I don’t follow you!)

I would love a widget that would have a drop-down of the testimonials and then let me pick one.  Displayed with no animation….  Hmmm

If you have any advice I’d love it.  Thanks again for making a custom post type for testimonials.

Here’s a slimmed down version of the widget you can use, just put it in your plugins folder and then activate the new plugin. It will add a new widget you can use.

https://gist.github.com/TravisBallard/4961924/download

Thanks,Travis Ballard