Feature requests

It would be useful to be able to order the books in the filter dropdown in either a drag and drop format or manual order of choice, as the books of the Bible is not necessarily in alphabetical order.

Other video platforms are growing, we plan to switch to Rumble and would greatly benefit from customization options for the video embed. A simple if not function exists for the video template would enable it to be overridden to support custom platforms. Just 2 lines of code: if (!function_exists('asp_sermon_video_template')) { function asp_sermon_video_template() { ... } }

I would like to use a YouTube link with the start time option, so that the video begins playing at a certain point.

Will be helpful for another language, so we won't have to install the plugin, also even in English would help if we would like to use that filter for another category

It would be great to have more options for the filter, such as filtering by year and date. And a search option to find sermons by title and so on.

Would be awesome to flag a series as complete in the back-end with the result that in the front-end the series would display all the sermons from old to new for easier playback.

So if I want to display the latest 3 sermons on any given page via a shortcode, there should be a way to either 'load more', or via arrows/navigation, be able to flip through more sermons if someone wants to look back past the latest 3. The same goes for series, etc. Pagination works great in the archive, but not via shortcode.

We are working on adding a website field to the speaker taxonomy to display next to the speaker social media icons. If there are other custom field requests, please add them below.

In Advanced Sermons 2.8 we will be adding a new field to the series taxonomy. The new field will allow users to enter the start date of the series. This gives users more information about the series and it's timeline. This new field does not control the order of the series are displayed in.

We're revamping the way sermon and series images are displayed on the frontend. We're switching over to an aspect ratio approach in version 2.8. This will ensure churches can display their full sermon image without it getting cropped out.

In Advanced Sermons Pro 1.8 you will now be able to embed any audio file to display on the single sermon template.

We have now made it so when there are no videos applied to a sermon, the sermon featured image will not display on the single sermon template where the video player would be. If a video is applied, it will display the video player only as normal. This will be released in Advanced Sermons 2.8.

Since the launch of Advanced Sermons we have had a handful of requests to make the archive and single sermon templates overridable. We are happy to announce that this will be in the release of Advanced Sermons 2.8. We will include online documentation on how to override these files in your theme or child theme upon the release.

You can add any number of passages to a sermon, with a variety of translations, and the option to automatically link to biblegateway.com.

To ensure that all sermons are able to be displayed beautifully and clean, whether churches have an image assign or not, we are looking at making some improvements to the Advanced Sermons default grid view. These improvements include adding a small border around each sermon and condensing the overall footprint. We would love feedback from the Advanced Sermons community if this is an improvement you would like us to roll out in the next coming update. See the attached image below for a sneak peak.