Lost All Sermon Handout File Links After Latest Update

Thanks! That worked a treat. ??

Thanks again Mike. Would there be anything I am really missing by staying for now with 2.15.15? Feature wise, I cannot think of anything but maybe enhancement wise I should at least go to the version you uploaded and thanks again.

I know they fixed the [sermon_images] shortcode on 2.16.3. If you don’t use it, then you should be good.

This is the Changelog: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/sermon-manager-for-wordpress/#developers

Thanks. I may do 2.16.3 tomorrow then just in case.

Mike, I downloaded 2.16.3 that you posted but when i activated that in my site, it is showing version 2.16.1 in the dashboard plugins section is installed. Is that normal and thanks again.

They must have not changed it in the sermons.php file. It was 2.16.3.

Thanks for confirm.

Sorry for this experience, We are currently working on this issue

Hi @hikinmike – just FYI – I’ve just checked the plugin you shared via Dropbox, and it most definitely is version 2.16.1, not 2.16.3 ??

The version is confirmed as 2.16.1 in the changelog.txt, readme.txt, and sermons.php files.

I actually still have 2.16.3 installed on one of my sites, and the plugin is correctly labelled as 2.16.3 there, which also confirms the one you’ve shared is not that version.

It’s not a big deal at all though – rolling back to 2.16.1 is still useful – I just wanted to let you know! ??

@germankiwi I must have named it wrong in my computer when I dpwnloaded it.

@wpforchurch, thanks for your continued work on this wonderful plugin. It is and has been an essential part of my website for over 5 years now. Thanks again for your work.

Hi guys, We just uploaded 2.16.6 this will be fixed the disappearance of all sermon notes. We apologies for the trouble 2.16.5 works only when supported with the pro version. Thanks again.

Thanks much. Just updated and had to activate the new version but my notes links are working as far as I know. Thanks again for the update.

Hi Guys, We just uploaded version 2.16.6 this will fix notes disappearance. We really sorry for the trouble with version 2.16.5 this will only work with the pro version. Please let us know if you still have an issue.

Hi @wpforchurch, thanks for the quick release of 2.16.6 to fix the issue of the missing notes!

Unfortunately there is still an unresolved issue here.

The key change you’ve made in 2.16.5 was to remove the text field for the Sermon Notes and Bulletin meta fields. Those text fields allowed us to manually enter the URL of a PDF file that was not located in the Media Library. I myself have hundreds of PDF files attached to 10 years’ worth of sermons on my website, and none of them are in my Media Library – they are all located elsewhere, and I have manually pasted the URL of each PDF file into the text field belonging to the “Sermon Notes” meta field for each sermon.

However, your change to 2.16.5 means this is no longer possible for me.

Even worse, it means I can’t go back to older sermons and edit or change or remove the URLs from the sermon note PDFs there, because this field is now gone.

I’ve explained this problem in more detail in your FB group here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wpforchurch/permalink/4033988993298615/

I would greatly appreciate if you can resolve this by returning those essential text fields back, so that users like myself, who can’t/don’t store their PDFs in the Media Library, can continue to use Sermon Manager. In the meantime I’ve had to stay on 2.16.3 and I’m unable to upgrade to the latest version.

Please also note that I’m a licensed Pro user.

Thanks for your support!