WordPress Sermons Plugin

The Sermon Browser WordPress Plugin allows churches to simply upload sermons to their WordPress website, where they can be searched, listened to, and downloaded. It is easy to use with comprehensive help and tutorials.

Contents

• Features
• Download
• Installation
• Tutorial Screencasts
• Demo
• Screenshots
• Donate
• Technical Support

Features

Features include:

1. Sermons can be searched by topic, preacher, bible passage or date.
2. Full podcasting capabilities, including custom podcasts for individual users.
3. Sermons uploaded in mp3 format can be played directly on your website using the 1PixelOut Audio Player.
4. An optional sidebar widget displays sermons on all of your posts or pages.
5. Embed videos from sites such as YouTube or Google Video.
6. Other file types can also be uploaded, including PDF, Powerpoint, Word, text and RTF. Multiple files can be attached to single sermons.
7. The full Bible text of the passage being preached on can be included on each sermon page (nine different versions, including ESV).
8. Files can be uploaded to your own site through the browser or via FTP. Alternatively you can use other free audio hosting sites such as Odeo.
9. Powerful templating function allows complete customisation to complement the look of your site.
10. Simple statistics show how often each sermon has been listened to.
11. Compatible with WordPress MU.
12. Extensive help and tutorial screencasts.
13. English, Spanish, Romanian and Russian translations included.

Download

•   SermonBrowser 0.43.4 (601.8 KiB, 1,926 hits)
• Earlier versions and changelog

Installation

• Download the plugin, and unzip it.
• Place the sermon-browser folder in your wp-content/plugins folder and upload it to your website. WordPress MU users should put the contents of the folder in the wpmu-plugins folder.
• Activate the plugin from the plugins tab of your WordPress admin.
• You may have to change the permissions on the upload folder (by default wp-content/uploads/sermons).
• Create a WordPress page with the text [ser mons]. The plugin will display your sermons on this page.
• You can also display sermons (filtered according to your criteria) on additional pages or posts by using shortcodes.

Tutorial Screencasts

These screencasts take your through the processing of setting up the plugin and entering sermons. Each one lasts for approximately 5 minutes each.

• Installation and Overview
• Basic Options
• Preachers, Series and Services
• Entering a new sermon
• Editing a sermon and adding embedded video

Demo

1427 churches are currently using Sermon Browser to manage 112,183 sermons.

You can see Sermon Browser in action at the church where I minister, Bethel Evangelical Church. Dozens of other churches and Christian organisations are also using sermon browser, and you can see some of them in the sermon browser gallery, or any of the sites shown on the right.

Screenshots

Support the plugin

This plugin is provided free of charge, but that doesn’t mean it was without cost. It consists of over 4,200 lines of code, and a conservative estimate is that it took around 300 hours to be developed. If you have any ideas for future development, please leave a comment with your suggestion. If you are a programmer, perhaps you could write an enhancement. If you find the plugin useful to your church’s ministry, and can afford it, please consider a donation to support past and future development. If you are an individual and donate more than $25, or a church who donates more than $100, I will add your name to the list of Sermon Browser supporters, by way of a thank you.

Sermon Browser Supporters

Bethel Evangelical Church, Swansea
Evangelical Movement of Wales
Vicky Hammerstein
Jamon Abercrombie

Technical support

Sermon Browser has built in help, so please first look there, or in the FAQ, or view the tutorial screencasts, above. If you still can’t find the solution, you could ask a question in the comments section below.

One of the reasons I spent a long time producing screencasts and FAQ’s is that like most people, I’m very busy! If you have a problem, I will help if I can, but please help me to help you by reading the FAQ, viewing the screencasts, and using Google a little. If you still can’t find the answer to your problem, leave a comment below and I’ll do my best to help. Other pages which may help you:

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Tutorial screencasts
• Template Tags
• Shortcodes
• Version history, future plans, and known bugs
• Sermon Browser Gallery

Support for Sermon Browser is provided by myself and other users in the Sermon Browser forum.

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