Varia: Respect styling of testimonials on testimonial archive page

[jordesign]

Steps to replicate

This affects Testimonials on any site using Varia or its child themes:

1. Add 1 or more Testimonials (CPT provided by Jetpack)
2. View the single Testimonial as compared to the Testimonial archive page

eg:

• https://lamontjordan.wordpress.com/testimonial/patrick-cox/
• https://lamontjordan.wordpress.com/testimonial/

Result

No styling of text (bold italics) comes through in the archive view. All styling is stripped.

Expected

I expected styling of the text (bold, italics) to come through in the Archive view as they do in the single/detail view.

• User report: #19040743-hc
• Slack thread: p1583113512414100-slack-C03TY6J1A

[jordesign]

I'm aware this is in some ways a discussion of whether the Jetpack Testimonials deserves some kind of special treatment. The archive template currently shows the_excerpt() when not specifically defined for a post type.

In the instance of Testimonials I can see there being value in archives outputting the_content() instead as they are usually short and self contained posts.

I'm also happy to work on a PR for this - but figured it needs discussion first...

[nielslange]

@jordesign As discussed in Slack, this issue is yours and you can create a PR for it. 😉