wordpress- have a specific type of "page/post" as "testimony". Possible? If so, how?

Question

I'm implementing our school's website using Wordpress as CMS. So far, it works well and i'm 80% done. Our website is basically 11 wordpress pages and a blog.

Now, there is one feature i'm not sure how to resolve. We want to have "testimonies" of past students to be displayed across wordpress pages, in a specific area of the page. They will either be videos or written text with an image. They will be embedded on regular wordpress pages either a specific video for a specific page, or just random testimony video for a given page.

Is it possible to do that with wordpress? If so, how?

Thanks for any hints.

Alex

Answer 1

There are quite a few Wordpress plugins which handle testimonials gracefully: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=testimony

Answer 2

You should be able to do this with categories. Create a testimony category and and then create a new template called 'testimony-page.php'. In that template, put a separate loop that pulls a random testimony from the database. Voila, page in a page.