New Update

Hi @alexg22, thanks for the info. So the plugin has been sold yet again? Are you part of the new management? Can you give us some info about it?

I just updated the free plugin to 2.15.18, and immediately lost all of my sermon content on my sermon posts and sermon archive pages. I’ve had to revert back to 2.15.15 which is the next most recent version available here. (I’m not sure why I can’t download 2.15.17 from the plugin repository here? It’s not listed).

In any case, there seems to be a problem with 2.15.18 right now.

I’m also using Sermon Manager Pro v1.0.0-beta.15. I haven’t upgraded to SM Pro v2 yet, as I was involved in beta-testing v2 earlier this year and it was just too buggy for me to use it on my website. I gave extensive feedback to the previous owner about the bugs and problems I found, but I’m not aware of them being fixed yet. So I’m sticking with 1.0.0 for the time being.

Can you please tell me how to get hold of 2.15.17 so I can use the latest version of the plugin prior to 2.15.18? Thanks!

Using Sermon Manager free v.2.15.18 (in my staging site). It looks like with this update, there is an additional <DIV> showing up in the display post for the sermon for “<div class=”wpfc-sermon-single-description main-content-area”>”. It’s displaying right below the area for the video (using the video embed code field), and re-displays the Bible text, Pastor, and description text, each separated by “|”.

I’ve not applied the update to my live site (still running v.2.15.17). My live site is displaying the sermons correctly, without the additional <DIV> field.

Thank you.

Thanks for the feedback. We are the new management team. Let me get my technical team to take a look at what’s going on. We will update you with what we find. In addition, we may have some questions for you as well.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by alexg22.

@germankiwi concerning the bug issue of the paid version we have rewritten all of the code for that. If you are willing to test it out please let me know.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by alexg22.

We have had over 900+ downloads of the new version and so no major issues.

Thanks @alexg22. For what it’s worth, I’m using the wpfc_sermon_single_v2 and wpfc_sermon_excerpt_v2 filters to customise the output of my sermon posts and archive. I’m wondering if the new version might have broken these filters somehow? This is likely the reason why I’ve experienced a problem but most other users won’t have.

I’m happy to provide more details to your developers as needed. It might even be easier to take it offline and communicate by email with them.

Couple of questions, if I may:

Do you plan to make any announcement about the new ownership? Maybe introduce yourselves etc? I’m sure many of the SM users would love to learn more about you, and what your plans are for the plugin. We’ve seen the plugin change hands several times over the past few years, often accompanied by announcements of wonderful new features that will be implemented, but often with no delivery on those promises, and the plugin being left to stagnate.

I’m really glad there are new owners again though – it’s good news for sure – the previous owner told me privately that he had little interest in developing the plugin any further as it didn’t earn him enough money for him to care about it – he really just saw it as a money-making venture, and once he realised he couldn’t make loads of money from it, he stopped caring about it (so he told me directly). I think the plugin needs someone who’s invested in it for the sake of contributing to the community, not just viewing it as a source of revenue. I’m glad to see you pushing out new versions already!

And I’m happy to hear you’ve rewritten the code of the Pro version. I’ll test that out sometime in the coming weeks and give you feedback on it. I was working directly with the developer of the previous owner to help him with bugs and stuff (I’m a software tester by profession) so I’d be happy to give you feedback on the new version too.

Do you have new developers, or still the same developers from the previous owner?

We have a completely new team managing the project.

The plugin is under new management. Updates and changes will continue to take place. We welcome any feedback or requests.

That’s absolutely great news!

It’s great news indeed! @alexg22 I hope you guys will eventually make an announcement to introduce yourselves and let us know what your plans are. I’m certain that many of us would love to know more about this! ??

Yes, I created a separate post.

I am experiencing the same issue. I am using the free version, did an update today, and now all of my sermons have duplicates in them and the beginning features Bible text, preacher, series, etc. I have tried looking for how to revert back to the previous version, because with that version I had no issues like this.

@whacky47 in the meantime, you can revert to the last available previous version by going here:
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/sermon-manager-for-wordpress/advanced/

At the bottom of that page you can download 2.15.15 as a zip file. You’ll then need to use an FTP program to upload its contents to the “sermon-manager-for-wordpress” folder inside your website’s Plugins folder – make sure you’re uploading the files to the right place, so they’re replacing the existing copies of the files.

Once done, you can verify it worked by checking the Plugins page in your WordPress Dashboard, which should now show 2.15.15 for Sermon Manager.

Same issue here. The duplicated description text is also unformatted and missing hyperlinks. I’ve rolled back to 2.15.15 which has resolved, and turned off automatic updates.

Thanks! We are looking into this and will update you guys with the fix.