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Sermon Browser Plugin for WordPress

Posted by John Saddington on Jan 3, 2009

Check this out folks.  This plugin for WordPress, called Sermon Browser, just might covert a few of you to moving to WP fulltime.

That’s a good thing.  Screeny after the jump.

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Stolen from the description:

  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 and other flash files 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 (five 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. Support for WordPress MU (WPMU)
  12. Extensive help and tutorial screencasts.

So, would you guys use it?

John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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25 Responses to “Sermon Browser Plugin for WordPress”

  1. Jeff
    Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 1:29 am

    I will need to play around with this plugin a bit more being able to answer if I would use it, but this looks like a promising plugin and one that I will be checking out to see how Churches I know might be able to use it.

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    • human3rror
      Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 2:11 am

      sweet! let us know if you find or make one! let us know!

      Reply
  2. human3rror
    Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 2:12 am

    also, you just gave me a GREAT idea… more to come…

    Reply
  3. Steve
    Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 3:38 am

    Looks like a great tool. Saves a lot of work and seems that it would make this process easy for non-tech people (who are often the ones on PowerPoint and recording the sermon!)

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    • human3rror
      Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 2:11 am

      let us know if you use it!

      Reply
  4. Jim Gray
    Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 5:18 am

    Stop teasing me!

    Reply
  5. Adrienne_
    Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 5:40 am

    Our church website uses WordPress (http://www.pacificchurch.com). We create a post for each sermon. We embed the powerpoint through Slideshare, and use a basic podcast widget to create a podcast enclosure and embedded media player… We only have one pastor preaching, generally, so…. do we really need this? Sell it to me!

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    • human3rror
      Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 2:12 am

      Probably not. You can always try it out, but if you have a good system, keep it up!

      Reply
  6. djbyron
    Monday, January 5, 2009 at 4:51 am

    I actually just bookmarked this plugin a week ago for use on a friends church site! Looks very promising!

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  7. Jim
    Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 5:43 am

    downloaded tonight…my new toy

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    • human3rror
      Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 2:55 pm

      let me know how that works out for you…!

      Reply
      • Jim
        Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 4:10 am

        you know i will!

        Reply
  8. Jim
    Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 5:47 am

    http://tinyurl.com/a6tsyu here is the homepage for the designer…he has some videos to walk through set up

    Reply
  9. Jim
    Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 4:33 pm

    H3:Update-I love the idea behind this plug-in, but it's the most frustrating thing on the back-end! I am working with another webmaster in Seattle who has set it up.He gave me some code to change the php, I'd be happy to share. You'll need it for the iTunes setup. I have an archive of over 500 sermons to manage. Hope to get this working soon.

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    • human3rror
      Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 5:45 am

      :)

      Reply
    • Mike
      Monday, March 15, 2010 at 11:51 am

      Hi.
      I am using this pugin on my church’s website and all is OK except that I cannot get the preachers photo to show up? Anyone have any ideas?

      See it here: http://www.rocky-road.org

      Thanks.

      Reply
  10. Tim Johnson
    Monday, March 23, 2009 at 4:13 am

    Hey Jim, can I get a copy of code also? I've been racking my brain trying to get it to work… Thanks for the help!

    Reply
  11. Jeremy Newton
    Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 5:21 pm

    I want to know how you go the audio player to embed, everytime I upload audio it only shows the download option which is not what I want. I do want the option to let people download the audio but I would like to have a player above that.

    Reply
  12. Mr T
    Monday, March 15, 2010 at 5:48 pm

    We use it on our website and it meets the simple needs of our site very well.

    http://www.victoriahall.co.uk

    Great Site!

    Reply
  13. Wayne Cordova
    Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 1:39 pm

    So… I’m a total WordPress noob and can’t figure out how to add the [sermon] shortcode into a page on WordPress.

    Any help?

    Reply

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