Sermon Manager

Contributors: wpforchurch, jasonmwestbrook
Donate link: http://wpforchurch.com/
Tags: church, sermon, sermons, preaching, podcasting, manage, managing, podcasts, itunes
Requires at least: 4.7.0
Tested up to: 5.1
Requires PHP: 5.3
Stable tag: 2.15.15
License: GPLv2
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Add audio and video sermons, manage speakers, series, and more to your church website.

Description

Sermon Manager is the #1 WordPress Sermon Plugin

Sermon Manager is designed to help churches easily publish sermons online. Some of the features include:

Add Speakers, Series, Topics, Books, and Service Types
Attach images to sermons, series, speakers, and topics
Attach MP3 files as well as PDF, DOC, PPT (or any other type!)
Bible references integrated via Bib.ly for easy text viewing
Completely integrated with WordPress search
Embed video from popular providers such as Vimeo or YouTube
Full-featured API for developers (check it out at /wp-json/wp/v2/wpfc_sermon)
Full-featured iTunes podcasting support for all sermons, plus each sermon series, preachers, sermon topics, or book of the Bible!
Import sermons from other WordPress plugins
PHP 5.3+ - you can use Sermon Manager even with older websites!
PHP 7.2 ready - Sermon Manager is 100% compatible with latest PHP version
Super flexible shortcode system
Supports 3rd party plugins such as Yoast SEO, Jetpack, etc
Quick and professional free and paid support
Works with any theme and can be customized to display just the way you like. You’ll find the template files in the /views folder. You can copy these into the root of your theme folder and customize to suit your site’s design.

One-Click Importing

Sermon Manager supports migration/importing from other popular sermon plugins, such as Sermon Browser and Series Engine.

This is a one click process and currently only supports migration/importing within existing WordPress installations. Soon you will be able to migrate from those 3rd party plugins to Sermon Manager on a separate server. (for example: moving to completely new website & WordPress installation)

Popular Shortcodes

[sermons] — This will list the 10 most recent sermons.
[sermons per_page="20"] — This will list the 20 most recent sermons.
[sermon_images] — This will list all sermon series and their associated image in a grid.
[list_podcasts] — This will list available podcast services with nice large buttons.
[list_sermons] — This will list all series or speakers in a simple unordered list.
[latest_series] — This will display information about the latest sermon series, including the image, title (optional), and description (optional).
[sermon_sort_fields] — Dropdown selections to quickly navigate to all sermons in a series or by a particular speaker.

For more information on each of these shortcodes please visit our knowledge base.

Expert Support

The Sermon Manager is available as a FREE download however in order to maintain a free version we offer premium support packages for those who need any custom assistance. Paid support means you get exclusive access to the Sermon Manager forum as well as support tickets. This is also a way you can donate to the project to help us offer prompt support and a free version of the plugin.

You can access the paid support options via our website.

Bug fixing and fixing unexpected behavior is free and always will be free. Just make an issue on GitHub or create a support thread on WordPress and we will solve it ASAP.

Sermon Manager Pro Features

Change your look with Templates
Multiple Podcast Support
Divi Support & Custom Divi Builder Modules
Custom Elementor Elements
Custom Beaver Builder Modules
Custom WPBakery Page Builder Modules
Works with YOUR theme
Page Assignment for Archive & Taxonomy
Migration from other plugins is a breeze
SEO & Marketing Ready
Live Chat Support Inside the Plugin
PowerPress Compatibility
Full List of Pro Features & Roadmap

When you upgrade to Pro you also get premium ticket and live chat support for the free version of Sermon Manager too! Grab your copy of Sermon Manager Pro at early adopter pricing for life between Nov 9th and Nov 23!

Developers

Would you like to help improve Sermon Manager or report a bug you found? This project is open source on GitHub!

(Note: Please read contributing instructions first.)

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Installation

Installation is simple:

Just use the “Add New” button in Plugin section of your WordPress blog’s Control panel. To find the plugin there, search for Sermon Manager
Activate the plugin
Add a sermon through the Dashboard
To display the sermons on the frontend of your site, just visit the http://yourdomain.com/sermons if you have pretty permalinks enabled or http://yourdomain.com/?post_type=wpfc_sermon if not. Or you can use the shortcode [sermons] in any page.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I display sermons on the frontend?

Visit the http://yourdomain.com/sermons if you have pretty permalinks enabled or http://yourdomain.com/?post_type=wpfc_sermon if not. Or you can use the shortcode [sermons] in any page or post.

How do I create a menu link?

Go to Appearance → Menus. In the “Custom Links” box add http://yourdomain.com/?post_type=wpfc_sermon as the URL and Sermons as the label and click “Add to Menu”.

I wish Sermon Manager could...

We are open to suggestions to make this a great tool for churches! Submit your feedback at WP for Church

Screenshots

Sermon Details
Sermon Files

Changelog

2.15.16

New: Add a setting to change Service Type label
New: Add compatibility for "Kerygma" theme
New: Add sermons per page setting
New: Add Uncode theme support
Fix: Player getting out of the div
Fix: Vimeo videos not seeking to the predefined timestamp
Fix: Preacher label not being replaced everywhere
Fix: Not getting the real latest series image via "latest_series" shortcode
Fix: Some terms (series) not being ordered correctly by sermon date
Fix: Filtering not working when sermons are on page above 1
Dev: Add a filter to disable sidebar on supported themes

2.15.15

Fix: RSS feed not working

2.15.14

New: Add compatibility for "Pro" theme
New: Add a setting to change default sermon ordering (in "Display" tab)
Fix: Date filtering in shortcode
Fix: Improve [latest_series] shortcode
Fix: Service Type filter in backend not working when slug is different from default
Dev: Add conditional fields in settings
Dev: Add dynamic option retrieval in settings
Dev: Fix select field in settings returning error when only one option is defined for it

2.15.13

New: Dutch translation (thanks @LeonCB!)
New: Add support for Dunamis theme
New: Add support for TwentyNineteen
New: Add support for ExodosWP
Change: Add WordPress author metabox
Fix: Service Type not saving in quick edit

2.15.12

Fix: Fatal error when saving a sermon
Fix: Podcast buttons shortcode has unnecessary left margin (thanks @macbookandrew!)

2.15.11

New: Add support for "The7" theme
Change: Add "sermon" order to [sermon_images] shortcode. It will order the series by newest sermon
Fix: Improve the speed of post saving on websites with many sermons
Dev: Fix terms not having sermon date set

2.15.10

Change: Add "include" and "exclude" parameters to the shortcode
Change: Add an option to force loading plugin views
Fix: Edge case PHP bug in feed with taxonomy
Fix: Notice when using shortcode

2.15.9

New: Add support for Hueman and Hueman Pro themes
New: Add support for NativeChurch theme
New: Add support for Betheme theme
Change: Add NIV to verse Bible version
Change: Replace series subtitle with short description in the feed
Change: Add "action" parameter to filtering shortcode. Possible options: "none" (default), "home", "site".
Change: Update Plyr to 3.4.7
Fix: Notice in settings after saving a field
Fix: Filtering arguments not working in the sermons shortcode
Fix: Filtering not hiding

2.15.8

Dev: Add callable select options (pass function name as string)
Dev: Add a way to pass custom values to settings

2.15.7

Fix: PHP warning when archive output is used wrongly
Fix: Podcast items may be sorted the wrong way

2.15.6

Change: Disable autocomplete for date preached, since it obstructed the view on mobile
Fix: Comments not appearing on Divi
Fix: All podcast images are invalid

2.15.5

Change: Disable check for PHP output buffering

2.15.4

Fix: Output Buffering detected as disabled when set to 0

2.15.3

New: Add option to disable "views" count for editors and admins
New: Add option to enable sermon series image fallback in the feed
Fix: Podcast shortcode SVG icons not working in Firefox
Fix: Getting 404 on filtering
Fix: Sermon Manager errors out when output buffering is disabled

2.15.2

Change: Add Maranatha theme support
Change: Add Saved theme support
Change: Add Brandon theme support
Change: Remove default default image
Fix: Plyr not loading when Cloudflare is used
Fix: Sermon image not showing up
Fix: image_size argument not working in shortcode

2.15.1

Fix: Multi-term filter for feeds not working

2.15.0

New: Add ability to override Sermon Manager's CSS by putting "sermon.css" file in theme (thanks @zSeriesGuy)
New: Add default image during installation (thanks @zSeriesGuy)
New: Add setting for showing and hiding the filter (shortcode and archive, thanks @zSeriesGuy)
New: Add setting for default image (thanks @zSeriesGuy)
Change: Update Plyr to 3.4.3
Change: Re-organized the settings, with more descriptive options
Fix: Fix importing from Sermon Browser stopping after first sermon
Fix: Audio file length and size not being automatically filled
Fix: Taxonomy archive sermons ordered by date preached
Fix: "sermon" argument not working in shortcode
Fix: Database errors on Import/Export screen on some hosts
Fix: Pause button not showing up when file is being played
Fix: "Upload Image" button not working in Podcast settings
Fix: Audio file sometime not being correct
Fix: Add more theme support for pagination
Fix: Image selector in settings now showing up
Fix: Filter not working correctly in shortcode (thanks @zSeriesGuy)
Fix: Plyr not having border
Dev: Update function for getting sermon image to return fallback with any option

2.14.0

New: Finally add support for Sermon Browser bible verses
Change: Adjust width of Title column in admin
Change: Organize "Debug" (now "Advanced") settings
Change: Make filters' width shorter
Fix: Taxonomy feed URLs not picked up by Sermon Manager
Fix: Allow deleted imported sermons to be re-imported

Note: The rest of the changelog is in changelog.txt

kfairris/Sermon-Manager