Recommendations Widget for LinkedIn

Recommendations Widget for LinkedIn lets you manually add LinkedIn recommendations to your WordPress site and display them as clean, professional cards via a shortcode or classic widget.

No API keys. No monthly fees. No third-party branding. Your recommendations, your site, forever.

Features

• Simple admin UI — paste name, job title, company, recommendation text, and optional photo URL
• Displays as a horizontal scrolling carousel on both desktop and mobile
• Long quotes clamp to 4 lines with a “Read more / Read less” toggle
• Optional “View on LinkedIn” link on each card
• Drag-to-reorder recommendations without touching any code
• Smart photo cropping — portrait photos anchor to the top so faces stay in frame
• Initials avatar with colour fallback if no photo is provided
• Graceful image fallback — if a photo URL stops working, initials display automatically
• Fully responsive — works on any theme
• Clean, scoped CSS — no conflicts with your theme styles
• Classic widget support for sidebars

Shortcode Usage

Place [rwfl_recommendations] (or the legacy [linkedin_recommendations]) on any page or post.

Options:

• columns — number of cards per row (default: 3)
• limit — max recommendations to show, -1 for all (default: -1)
• show_link — show the LinkedIn profile link: true or false (default: true)
• ids — show specific recommendations by ID (comma-separated)

Examples:

[rwfl_recommendations] (or the legacy [linkedin_recommendations])
[linkedin_recommendations columns="2" limit="6"]
[linkedin_recommendations columns="1" show_link="false"]

A note on photos

LinkedIn profile photo URLs cannot be hotlinked — they will stop displaying when loaded from an external site. Save each photo and upload it to your WordPress Media Library, then use that URL. If any photo URL ever fails, the plugin automatically shows the person’s initials instead.

Why manual entry?

LinkedIn’s API does not expose recommendations to third-party applications. Manual entry is the only reliable, Terms-of-Service-compliant approach.