Feature requests

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    Attach Sermon Resources - A Useful Addition?

    Hey Advanced Sermons community, Our team is looking at integrating a new feature to Advanced Sermons Pro to give churches the ability to attach resources to sermons. This is a feature that is more than just sermon notes, but would allow you to link additional pages, posts, events, and external links to a sermons. Not only would this be useful to users to view additional content that the sermon is related to, but would also be beneficial for SEO to create some internal linking. We would love to get some feedback from the community on if this is something that would be of interest.

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    Latest Sermon Shortcode - A Useful Addition?

    Hello Advanced Sermons Community! As we continually strive to improve and enhance our plugin, we're exploring the idea of introducing a new shortcode feature that could potentially add significant value to your experience with Advanced Sermons. Before we proceed, we need your invaluable input! šŸ” Introducing: Latest Sermon Shortcode We're considering the development of a Latest Sermon Shortcode. This shortcode would allow you to dynamically display the most recent sermon along with its key details on any part of your website. Imagine being able to showcase your latest sermon with ease, providing your visitors with immediate access to your most recent messages. Key Features We're Considering: Dynamic Update: Automatically updates to display the latest sermon. Customizable: Options to choose what details to show - title, preacher, date, summary, and more. Easy Integration: Simple to use, just insert the shortcode where you want the latest sermon to appear. Versatile Placement: Ideal for homepages, sidebars, or specific ministry pages. šŸ’¬ We Want to Hear from You! Is this a feature you would find useful? How would you use the "Latest Sermon Shortcode" on your site? Are there specific functionalities or options you would want this shortcode to have? Your feedback is crucial in helping us decide whether to develop this feature. We aim to provide features that truly meet the needs of our community, and who better to guide us than you - our valued users! šŸ‘ Let Us Know Your Thoughts Please share your thoughts, ideas, or any additional features you think might be beneficial. Every piece of feedback is valuable and will be taken into consideration as we make our decision. Thank you for being an active member of our community. Your input helps shape Advanced Sermons, ensuring it continues to be a tool that effectively serves your needs. Looking forward to your responses! Best, The Advanced Sermons Team

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  3. Book filter order

    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.

    Bernicia M
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  4. Completed series

    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.

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  5. Allow Books to be grouped under Old and New Testament

    It would be really helpful to enable a parent filter label under "Books" and allow the books of the Bible to be grouped under Old and New Testament respectively. It will enable more accurate filtering. I would really love to see this come to life.

    Bernicia M
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  6. Import from Sermon Manager & Export Functionality

    With the release of Advanced Sermons 3.0 right around the corner, we're proud to introduce a ton of new features and improvements to Advanced Sermons. One of these improvements is a new import functionality for Sermon Manager. This will allow users to import their existing sermons with a few clicks. Part of this improvement, we are also including a build in export functionality incase users ever need to migrate their data.

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  7. Campus & Service Type Addons

    To make sure Advanced Sermons is compatible with all church requirements we have created two addons for Advanced Sermons that extends its ability by creating a custom taxonomy for Campuses and Service Types. You can read more and download these addons here: https://advancedsermons.com/docs/add-custom-taxonomies-to-advanced-sermons/ Note: These are built to work with Advanced Sermons 3.0 to make sure you update your Advanced Sermons plugin to the latest version before installing. If anyone has other taxonomy requests, please let us know and we will be more than happy to create some additional addons for the community.

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  8. More Language Options

    With the release of Advanced Sermons 3.0 right around the corner, we're proud to introduce a ton of new features and improvements to Advanced Sermons. One of these improvements is with the language settings of Advanced Sermons. We have expanded greatly on this functionality to include all aspects of the plugin to be translatable directly from our Language settings page to eliminate the need of 3rd party plugins like Loco Translate. The plugin will still support 3rd party plugins like Loco Translate if you wish to continue to use them.

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  9. Embed Video Functionality

    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() { ... } }

    Josh
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  10. Alternate Bible Verse Websites

    While Biblegateway.com is a great platform, and a standard for many, I've recently really enjoyed the ease with which referencing verses can be done on Bible.com (YouVersion). It would be great to include Bible.com (at least) as an option for which website to reference the verses from. If you take a look at their formatting, it's very intuitive: https://www.bible.com/bible/111/2ti.3.16 (one verse) https://www.bible.com/bible/111/2ti.3.16-17 (a passage) https://www.bible.com/bible/111/2ti.3.1,3,16-17 (multiple verses in the same chapter) The number /111/ indicates the Bible version. One nice thing about Bible.com is they also have many non-English versions available. Our church is based in Korea, so including a way to add multiple translated versions of the main scripture would be ideal. For example: [ 2 Timothy 3:16-17 ] [ ė””ėŖØė°ķ›„ģ„œ 3:16-17 ] This is the reference link for the two passages in both English and Korean (just in case you can work out how to allow both options. https://www.bible.com/bible/111/2ti.3.16-17 (English NIV) https://www.bible.com/ko/bible/88/2TI.3.16-17.KRV (Korean KRV) Even if you included an option for the user to add the base URL path or something, that might be useful. Thanks for a great plugin~~ Aaron

    Aaron S
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  11. New Sermon Data Column

    With Advanced Sermons 3.1 we're really looking at ways to improve the UI experience for creating and managing sermons. One of the new features we're excited about is the Sermon Data column that we have added. With this change we removed the 'View' column and replaced it with the 'Sermon Data' column. This column now displays which video type is added to the sermon, which audio type is added, and the view count. We will look at adding additional information in the future if requested.

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  12. Option to remove Search Field from Filter

    We added the ability to remove the search field from the filter bar to match the functionality of other fields. You can customize this from the Archive settings of Advanced Sermons.

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  13. Independent Content Width option for Archive Template

    We have made improvements to add an independent content width option to the archive template instead of the single sermon content width applying to both. If you have a width pre-selected for the single sermon template it will use this as the default after the new release. You can then go in to the archive settings to customize to your own preference. We also added a few additional sizes for more customization options.

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  14. Ability to add start time to Vimeo Videos

    We just completed the update to the Vimeo functionality to include the ability to add a playback start time to videos using the new ?t= parameter. How to use start time: By adding ?t=2m30s to the URL, after the /video ID/, the playback will automatically start at two minutes and thirty seconds.

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  15. Fix Bugs from 3.0

    Below is the current list of bug fixes that will be released in 3.1: Fix: AJAX load more mobile functionality. Changed scroll-to position. Fix: JS and AJAX errors when filter is disabled Fix: Filtering issues when taxonomy field was disabled Fix: Theme compatibility with Litepicker. Added prefixed wrapper. Fix: Incorrect position of archive container bottom hook on 3.0 update Fix: Removed 'Read More' with ajax excerpt if excerpt is empty Fix: Video Settings now correctly hidden if all video meta fields are hidden using pro version Fix: Fixed rewrite rules not being flushed upon plugin installation that was causing 404 errors for new users Fix: Fixed drag and drop ordering when there are multiple pages on the edit taxonomy page and the last page not matching items pet page set in WordPress. Bug caused random items to change positioning on page reload. Fix: Series and Speaker image would apply to next newest taxonomy if page not refreshed and latest term did not have an image Fix: Issue where asp_term_orderby() was causing ordering and duplicate term issues with series shortcode in Pro version Fix: Issue where featured content was loaded when pagination was activated causing a jump on mobile devices when new sermons were loaded We have everything updated for Advanced Sermons 3.1 we're just running some final debugging to ensure there are no issues before we push it live.

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