Rating: 1 star
A client had a yearly subscription and is being told that his subscription isnt active. He paid for a year in April and now the plug in isn’t functioning as it should. It brings me no joy to report this but I have submitted 3 support tickets, sent an email, tried to join the facebook group, and sent a message to the fan page last week. This company doesn’t seem to exist. DO NOT BUY or USE
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Does anyone know if this company is still in business? The plugin is useful and we have been paying for premium support, but they have stopped responding to support requests. I would like to buy the Pro version, but after seeing other reviews here that they also are not getting support, I am holding off until I hear back from someone at the company. Anyone?!??
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UPDATE 6/18/2019: I’m leaving my comments below for the time being. However, I was just notified that they are under new ownership and I’ve finally been given access to the Pro version of the plugin. So my 1 star review stands for the previous owners, but I’ve bumped up the rating to 2 stars for the new owner who emailed me. If all goes well, I’ll increase this down the road since the new owners had no control over the situation and so far the plugin seems to be working great.
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I’ve recently rebuilt our church’s website and installed the Sermon Manager plugin with decent result. Very basic layout but functional for free.
However DO NOT buy the Pro version for $99. We made the purchase nearly two weeks ago and the purchase is still listed as pending. I have no access to the download and no access to the purchase code. All I have is the invoice showing the $99 paid.
I’ve submitted a ticket and no response. Sent a direct email, no response. At this point I have no choice but to file a dispute with our credit card company and attempt to be reimbursed for the charge via that route. I’d really love to have access to the plugin as the features would be perfect for our WP website, but after 2 weeks I can only assume this plugin developer has closed shop.
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No support and the templates do not work. Avoid. I’ve initiated a refund on the Sermon Manager Pro through my credit card.
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The plugin has outstanding functionality, yet there are some issues that definitely needs to be resolved
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Highly recommended and great customer support!
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Sermon Manager is just what my client needs. Some of the updates were glitchy but were addressed pretty quickly. Igor is amazing. He truly was super responsive and any glitches that I encountered were addressed very quickly.
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Update 2.12.0 now breaks the layout with a sidebar, it now forces the plugin to span full page width. If I check “alternative layout” in options, it fixes it, however now it displays two post/sermon titles: one above and one right below it, center-aligned.
Also, preacher images have now been completely removed from the archive and single sermon view and replaced with featured/sermon images. I have built my whole workflow around preacher images, you can’t just remove features like that. I guess I can reupload my preacher images as sermon images, but who knows what will happen tomorrow and the author decides to change it again. It’s unacceptable to change the plugin behavior in such major way without providing a fallback for your users. Please bring preacher images back and allow us to choose what to display in sermons.
Rating: 5 stars
Sermon Manager is truly a life saving plugin for managing all our sermons by our various pastors. There is none like this plugin and it is a CRUCIAL component to our church website running on WordPress.
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<p>It seems the project is dead.?</p>
<p>A lot of bug fixes on GitHub, but no support.</p>
Rating: 5 stars
I had a couple unique bugs with their new import from Series Engine feature but they quickly made a fix and everything is working perfectly. I love the ease of use of this plugin.
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I just need to give a shout of thanks to Nikola and the awesome new team at wpforchurch.com They have really turned a “good but neglected” plugin into a powerhouse of focus and great support. Had several issues and customizations that they helped with promptly. Thank you!!
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Even for their free support, the developers are fast to respond! They WANT to know about bugs so that they can roll out a fix quickly.
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This plugin is great. Been using it for over 6 years now on two different church websites. The support and updates have been fantastic, __especially__ since it’s free, recently had an issue and joined the Facebook group and got support right away. Sermons are a special niche of podcasting and I love how well this plugin handles the scripture references, topics, preachers, and more. It’s truly well done!
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Igor and the crew are great. This is definitely the best sermon plugin out there. Support, even without a support plan, is the best! Highly recommend if you are looking for a sermon manager that makes having a podcast easy.
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If you’re not a coder, this plugin will satisfy most of your needs. If you are a coder (or can hire a coder), the possibilities are pretty much limitless. This plugin ties into WordPress really well, and template files can easily be overwritten. Great job on this plugin! Thanks!
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I’m a developer, but I was able to use this plugin as a starting point to put together a podcast for a client. Definitely the best thing I’ve found on WordPress. It’s pretty well documented and actually offers a lot of customizability. It’s not perfect, but for a free plugin, it’s really good! Thanks to the authors for making this available!
See my implementation (also using some other plugins) here: https://crmovement.com/podcasts
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I sent a late night support question and ten minutes later I get an email with my problem diagnosed and instructions on how to resolve it (and it was a problem with some custom css that I had added myself!). This guy is brilliant and his plugin is too.
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Great functionality and amazing support
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I’ve always liked Sermon Manager but had a few problems with it. The new owners were very eager and helpful in solving the problem. This is my first choice for a sermon plugin.
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This sermon manager is works very well for my church. I’m blown away that it’s available for free.
The move to version 2 had a small hiccough, but was easily fixed. I’m looking forward to seeing continued development.
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This is a good plugin, which was let down with bad support.
Now a new developer has taken over, and they are fixing bugs quickly, and providing excellent support. I am really happy about this new direction, and I have no doubt that things will keep improving.
Thanks Igor and the team.
Rating: 5 stars
Hi Guys, this company is going through transition as it recently has new management…and as such, of course there will be a little bit of mess. This is still the best sermon app out there for wordpress (i have researched alot), and this app was down for quite a bit, but Igor was great in helping us troubleshoot the issue. We are now back up and running, and a super happy customer!
They are back on their feet! I think any issues will have support shortly, just be patience!!!
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Two requests for support for bug causing crash. One stock reply did not address problem. Problem remains. Recent reply from support indicates they are working on bug fixes and asked for patience. We’ll take their comments at face-value and eagerly await the bug fix.
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I originally had given this plugin a 1 star rating because the support at that time was horrible. Since the new ownership has taken over however, my rating has changed to a 5. I have had a few contacts with Igor and every time the response was prompt and very helpful. I have watched the changes in the company since the change and am very impressed. I highly recommend Sermon Manager and WP for Church. The future looks very bright for them.
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I started to write this review a year ago but procrastinated hoping things would change.
I have the paid version of this plugin. Not only does this plugin not work— there is no support even for those of us who paid for it. I’ve waited for a year to get a fix or at least a response letting me know they are aware of the issue and working on it.
I never write bad reviews but sorry, this is the only thing you have earned. I believe in forgiveness. Please help me change my mind.
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First of all this is the best Free Sermon Manager that does not depend on a specific theme.
It is the only plugin that seems to be specific towards Christian preachers and not a generic sermon or speech. It has a lot of attributes that a preacher would want, that others no not have.
The CSS may not be as attractive as theme built in sermon plugins, but certainly has more functionality. This plug-in has some short codes but could use a few more basic ones, like showing only the last Sermon, returning X number of sermons instead of paging them all.
This plug-in was dead for about a year, and it seems like the developer has started to modernize it a bit.
Rating: 1 star
Don’t use this plugin on WP Engine. The podcast feed doesn’t validate correctly.
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The plugin is good but it interferes with my category-template. Php and taxonomy.php in wp-includes. It says – array to string conversion in both php files pointing to specific lines. I uninstalled the plugin and the error message was gone.
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This is a handy plugin. But there are issues with it, which I will list over in the support forum.
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