Weird behaviour still with sermon dates
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Hi, I just updated directly from Sermon Manager 2.6.2 to 2.7.2, and I’ve noticed a couple of weird things since then…
1) For some reason the menu entry name for the Sermons post type archive has changed from “Sermons” to “All Sermons”, and I can’t figure out where this is coming from. Have a look at this screenshot from my Menus config page (nav-menus.php) after the update:
Prior to the update, it just said “Sermons” in both of the areas marked by the red circle. Of course I can just change the label there back to Sermons, but I’d like to know why or how this changed, and I’d like to change the original name back to Sermons too.
The Archive Page Title on the plugin’s Settings page is set to “Sermons” as it always has been.
2) Still some odd behaviour with the sermon dates. After the update, I opened the Edit page for a sermon that I had already created on 1 October, prior to the update. I saw that the Date Preached field was filled in with “01/10/2017” (I’m using the international date format, btw). So I decided to delete the field – leaving it empty – and click Update – to see what would happen when the field is left empty.
What I found was that the field automatically repopulated itself again with the same date, 01/10/2017. I expected it to stay empty, as the field is now marked “optional”. but whatever. However the odd thing is this: when I then viewed the sermon on the front end, the date displayed there changed to “MONDAY 2 OCTOBER 2017” – even though the Edit Sermon page still showed the correct date of 01/10/2017! So it jumped ahead one day on the front end.
I was able to repeat this with a new sermon too, as follows:
a) Create new sermon
b) Don’t touch the Date Preached field (it defaults to today’s date anyway)
c) Change the Publish date to 1 Oct
d) Publish
e) View the sermon archive page, or the individual sermon page itself
f) Displayed date there is 2 Oct, not 1 Oct.The only way I could get it to show the correct date again was to manually set the “Date Preached” field to the correct date, and save that.
3) Another odd thing is that after a sermon has been created, it’s not possible to select the date text inside the Date Preached field with your mouse. Sometimes it lets you select the text and delete it, and other times it won’t let the text be selected.
I guess what I’d love to see is an option on the Settings page that totally disables the Date Preached field so that it is not visible on the Edit Sermon page and is not used at all. I dunno if that is possible! ??
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Hey @aremdee,
There is issue in your template view, probably some old code – but we’ll fix it up for you.
Could you please send me an email with temporary WordPress login info or with the following files from your theme directory:
- archive-wpfc_sermon.php
- single-wpfc_sermon.php
- taxonomy-wpfc_bible_book.php
- taxonomy-wpfc_preacher.php
- taxonomy-wpfc_sermon_series.php
- taxonomy-wpfc_sermon_topics.php
- taxonomy-wpfc_service_type.php
- wpfc-podcast-feed.php
Email is [email protected], thanks ??
I do not feel Preached date should be compulsory, non should the publish date appear on preached date if it was left empty; it should be optional and if left empty it should not display on the front end.
@omo-oba, that’s a good suggestion. We’ll apply it to 2.9 release. Thank you ??
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