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User Feedback:

I’ve noticed that recently when adding a new sermon, the service type box isn’t empty by default, instead the top option is displayed. However if you just leave the box alone and publish the sermon, no service type is displayed (correctly) but instead of a service type, there are empty parenthesis.

It is highly recommended the bundled CMB2 be updated to the most recent version, and there is no reason not to as CMB2 maintains backward compatibility.

https://github.com/webdevstudios/CMB2

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-embed-issuemissing/

Sermons are sorted by post date instead of sermon date

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-but-still-buggy/

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sermon-meta-data-is-being-duplicated/

Current website link doesn't go anywhere

• Set up new demo
• Update the readme

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-working-after-update-to-2-0-0/

Default is spelled incorrectly (missing an L) in the description of Settings > Podcast > Number of podcasts to show.

Hey,

I posted somewhere last week and someone replied saying this feature would be available in 2 weeks. I just wanted to place the issue here so that I could be updated when the feature comes out.

Pretty excited to make a sermon app for my church which uses this plugin 👍

Thanks!

BTW you might want to note (perhaps add to the Changelog or something) that after updating to version 2.0.6 which fixes this bug, it’s also necessary to go to the Permalink Settings page and click “Save Changes” once, for the fix to take effect and for the Yoast feed to start working again.

Customers seem to have folders called sermon-manager-for-wordpress whereas now its Sermon-Manager

This is why the plugin is often deactivated upon update, the folder name has changed.

Leave it as it is or change it to sermon-manager-for-wordpress

E.g. https://wpforchurch.com/testing/205/sermons/test-sermon/

Currently [sermon_images] which is connected to the wpfc_display_images_shortcode function is only used to output series. However if users want to output latest sermons with images in a grid, there is no existing shortcode.

https://www.wpforchurch.com/knowledgebase/sermon-manager-shortcodes/

Series function is currently in shortcodes.php starting line 46.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-publicize-option-no-longer-appears/

Another user reported - http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fvictorybaptistpocono.com%2Ffeed%2Fpodcast

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/various-bug-fixes/#post-8839790

Clicking on "Insert into Post" does nothing

I changed Preacher to Pastor in Settings > Custom label for "Preacher", and the label in the admin changed, but not the slugs throughout the site. It seems more valuable to have the slugs change, since they are viewed by the public.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-podcast-feed-on-wp-engine/

Need further testing but it seems when a you try and put a menu item as a child of a Sermons page, it causes 404. Tested on Multiply Theme

Sitemap invalid errors.

Another user reported - http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fvictorybaptistpocono.com%2Ffeed%2Fpodcast

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/download-files-not-showing-audio-file-when-notes-are-added/#post-8887161

When using the sortlists to filter the content this works fine when you select a series/preacher etc. However, when you then go back to having no item selected you do not return to the sermon list, but to the blog page.

After upgrading to 2.4.7 I could no longer set the featured image on a sermon.

Customer feedback:

I've been trying everything I can think of to make the sermon_images shortcode do what I want, basically I want it to show the most recent four sermon series. I've tried this: [sermon_images size="sermon_big" max_items=4] but that doesn't seem to do anything. Could you give me a hand? How do you limit the series' showing?

Possible solution:

In wpfc_display_images_shortcode add a new parameter of max_items, default 0 (or whatever you want)
After extracting pass it to sermon-images-get-terms as 'number' => $max_items in the term_args array.
get_terms accepts number as an arg so it will work as expected.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-too-big-2/

Hey, can this be connected to the existing c9 MT workspace so it syncs up with the sermon manager plugin folder only or do we need to have a completely new workspace for this?

Have a look at https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sermon-post-fails/#post-8881724 for context, needs to be looked into. Not sure whether it's plugin related or their theme's, but we need to investigate.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2-0-0-update-issues/

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-microphone-icon/

Users are reporting that they can't use HTTPS with bib.ly enabled in the plugin settings. I can see why, they don't support https, so we'll need to include their scripts in the plugin.

https://github.com/GospelPowered/Sermon-Manager/blob/master/sermons.php#L176

https://bitbucket.org/wpforchurch/sermon-manager-for-wordpress/issues?status=new&status=open

If a date is not picked it breaks the loop / posts return null. I think will be better if we make it optional.

The current podcast RSS feed implementation produces localized RFC822 date and time stamps in the body of the pubDate element of the item element instead of date and time stamps in the C or POSIX locale (often effectively the en_US locale). This violates the RSS 2.0 and also RFC822 date and time specifications, and thus causes consumers of a feed, exported by systems configured to other locales than C, POSIX, or en, to error out or ignore the time stamp.

Note that although the RSS 2.0 specification speaks of RFC822 which has been superseded by RFC5322 by now, even RFC5322 does not specify localized date and time stamps (which makes perfect sense). It is pretty safe to assume that the RSS 2.0 specification by referencing any RFC also implies any latest RFC to apply as long as it is backwards compatible (which is true for RFC5322).

Interestingly, the implementation produces correct date and time stamps in the body of the lastBuildDate element regardless of the exporting system's (or process') current locale.

How can I edit an existing sermon? I forgot to give it a title, so I really need to edit it.

That function should be executed on first admin page load and convert all old date stamps (dd/mm/YY) to new ones (Unix time).

This is mixed feedback for the free version and future paid versions

I’ve not used User Role Editor, but as long as you set up WP-standard roles/capabilities, that should work with any plugin that does things the normal method.

One other request: rework the UI for the custom taxonomies sermon series, topics, and preachers (also perhaps store the data in wp_termmeta instead of in a single options field? that should improve performance and allow other uses down the road—custom og:image metadata for sermons in a series, etc.).

Client's report:

When editing a sermon, in the description box, when switching to the text editor, the buttons editing buttons don't line up. They get stacked, which wastes a lot of space, reduces the actual editing space, making it inconvenient for editing.

I want to sort the sermons by-ascending date within Preachers, or sort by-ascending date within the Series Acts, for example.

Just got a comment from a user, the plugin does not allow for user role editor to select specific permissions for the plugin, so that only certain people can view it, edit, delete etc.

Can you please add that ability in :)

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sermon-date-format/

I'd love to see the addition of PodTrac (http://analytics.podtrac.com) tracking support in the RSS feed for podcasts. It simply adds to the link "http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/" to the begging of the enclosure url. PodTrac then tracks downloads for you.

Maybe having a checkbox in the podcast options page in the setting to turn it on or off with a link to how to set it up.

I was able to hard code it into our site, but including it as an official feature would be nice for us for upgradeability.

If I have time I'll clone the project and see if I can add it, then request a pull request.

We should just remove post_meta filtering in custom WP_Query

Related to our autoloader for JS/CSS, should first check if it's defined

There are presently [numerous] mp3 sermon files in the <site name ommited> wp-content/uploads/sermons folder. How should I establish these to appear in the media library? When I add a sermon, and go to bring in the respective .mp3 file of that sermon, it fails to show up in the media library collection. When I upload the respective .mp3 file, it appends a -1 to the filename.

Should be ", instead of \".

Probably some escape function preventing it from showing correctly.
We could use str_replace if nothing else.

There is a bug with navigation and filter, to reproduce - go to sermons page 2 and then use filter, it causes a 404 since the URL takes into account page 2 and hence errors out.

https://www.useloom.com/share/a2c08b7451834d7289925a8d0f3b12c1

The URL in that example ended up being https://northcoastchurch.org.au/sermons/page/2/?wpfc_sermon_series=advance-appeal instead of https://northcoastchurch.org.au/sermons/?wpfc_sermon_series=advance-appeal