Jack Rogers

What didn’t work? I don’t see that CSS on your page, so I can’t troubleshoot. My intent was to disable the display for “sermon title at the top of the page of individual sermons as well as the posted time by who posted it” (I missed the part about comments and likes, but that’s easy enough).

But now it’s another page, and it looks like you’re talking about perhaps a list of sermons–an author or series, I can’t tell. I’m really confused, as your requirements seem to be changing. Can we stick with the original page, and get it like you want it before moving on to others?

I have to point out that this is really not a Sermon Manager issue, this is about customizing your your site’s theme. How your site displays “comments and likes” is a function of the theme you’ve selected. And to customize that for one particular type of post (or all posts) is really a CSS question. Still happy to help, regardless.

Jack

• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Jack Rogers.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Jack Rogers.

Seems odd (to me) that you’d want to hide the sermon title. But…

Try this:

[class*="wpfc"] h2.entry_title, [class*="wpfc"] .post_info {
display:none ;
}

(Edited, I originally forgot about the “posted by” and “at” info)

Please let us know if this works for you.

Jack

• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Jack Rogers.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Jack Rogers.

Those classes are not used on the page you provided the link for. So no, that particular CSS code won’t work. But the right CSS should work, give me a little time to examine it.

Jack

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What do you mean, “CSS wasn’t any help”? What was the exact CSS code that you tried?

Jack

Sounds like you’ve already decided that Sermon Manager changed your theme. I’m not a Sermon Manager expert, but I’m pretty familiar with WordPress. I’m not disputing that your theme got switched, but I believe it is highly unlikely that Sermon Manager had anything to do with it.

I’ve researched the plugins that are suitable for putting Sermons on a church website. There are probably several that will allow you post your audio recordings, but if you want to catalog them by scripture text, series, preacher, service, etc., then you have about two choices. One of those (Sermon Browser) is no longer supported, and has known vulnerabilities. The other is Sermon Manager. If there are any others, I missed them.

I’d suggest giving it another look but with two suggestions:

1. Create at least one “test” environment, and thoroughly try out any changes there.
2. Get your database backups automated, and make sure you have a fresh backup before making configuration changes. My first attempt at using Sermon Manager didn’t work as expected. But restoring the database backup fixed in in about a minute.

Jack

• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Jack Rogers.
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Hi, @nccsa.

I’d like to take a look, but the link you provided is an “edit” link. It requires a login with appropriate privileges. Is this the correct link for the page you need help with?
https://newcreationchurchsa.com/sermons

If so, it appears that your sermons are displayed in a “widget”. That does not seem normal. I suspect the widget is what is limiting the width of the list. Are you able to verify that?

Jack

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@williamlim,

If you’re still following this, please give this CSS a try. I’m pretty certain it should work on both the archive (sermon list) page as well as on single-sermon pages, without any collateral damage.

[class*="wpfc_sermon"] h6.blog-author {
display: none !important;
}

Please note, this solution is template-dependent. That is, if change templates, and your new template does not wrap blog-author inside an h6 element, it will not apply the “hidden” property.

And while the community is generally happy to assist, it’s actually not a Sermon Manager question. It is really more of a theme customization question. That said, I think this should satisfy your request.

Jack

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@williamlim

Never mind, I’m viewing from a real computer now. I see your added CSS, exactly as @nikolam suggested. However, I don’t see the expected classes “about-author-sec” or “single-sermon” in your page’s source code. I’ll see if I can suggest the correct CSS, if someone else doesn’t get it before I do.

Edit: On the individual sermon pages, I see “about-author-sec”, but not in the expected context “single-sermon” (my CSS skills may be somewhat rusty).

We could use the .blog-author class, but if we don’t find a way to limit it to the sermon list (and individual sermons), it would also hide the poster’s name in all posts on the site.

Jack

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@williamlim

Where are you putting the CSS?

And did you copy/paste exactly what Nikola provided? (Windows has a nasty habit of changing some characters, like hyphens and quotes when you type them)

Jack

Nikola,

No worries about the delay, I’m just very happy to have help with this.

The debug produced no output, but the new version and new import seems to have resolved the issue completely. I checked several sermons, and they are now correctly linked.

Thanks for your work on this.

I still have a few more minor issues (possibly just config settings and CSS tweaks) to address, but this one was a show-stopper. I’m happy to be able to move on to the next issue. Once I’ve gotten up to speed on this plugin, I hope I can be of some help here.

Jack

Nikola,

I’m not aware of any WordPress policies relating to developers having temporary access to users’ installations. It seems very few developers would offer to do that without getting paid for it (“consulting”). ?? I’m just too steeped in IT Operations processes and controls to be comfortable with it.

I’m not sure how to apply a git patch. If it doesn’t require installing git, then that’s fine. I haven’t installed git on this server, and I’d rather not install it just for this. Or, if you’d send the “whole modified script” I can retrieve it from here. I’m also on GitHub as “PainFreeComputing”.

Jack

Nikola,

My current version of Sermon Manager is Version 2.10.2. I don’t recall when I updated it, but it was at this version prior to the import attempt.

Please let me know whatever else is needed for troubleshooting. Nothing personal, but as a matter of principle, I don’t share login credentials (seems like that could also put you in a risky position). I can gladly provide sql query output, httpd logs, and any Linux/httpd config and/or debugging info needed.

Jack

Nikola,

I limited the first query to 5, as I doubt there’s any benefit to showing the entire list of sermons.

mysql>  SELECT * FROM wp_sb_stuff LIMIT 5 ;
+----+------+------------------------------------+-----------+-------+----------+
| id | type | name                               | sermon_id | count | duration |
+----+------+------------------------------------+-----------+-------+----------+
|  1 | file | 071909AM.mp3                       |         1 |    80 | 27:06    |
|  2 | file | Victory_7.26.09am.mp3              |         2 |    93 | 23:57    |
|  3 | file | Set Apart_07.26.09.mp3             |         3 |    83 | 17:14    |
|  4 | file | He Is Our Peace_08.02.09.mp3       |         4 |    82 | 23:26    |
|  5 | file | What Does God Require_08.09.09.mp3 |         5 |    91 | 23:22    |
+----+------+------------------------------------+-----------+-------+----------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

And…

mysql> SELECT * FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'upload_path' ;
+-----------+---------+-------------+--------------------+----------+
| option_id | blog_id | option_name | option_value       | autoload |
+-----------+---------+-------------+--------------------+----------+
|        60 |       0 | upload_path | wp-content/uploads | yes      |
+-----------+---------+-------------+--------------------+----------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

However, the actual Sermon Browser upload location on the server is:
wp-content/uploads/sermons/
This is confirmed both by browsing the server itself, as well as the Sermon Browser Options page in the WordPress Dashboard. I looked through the wp_options table as well as some wp_sb_* tables to see if I could find where this setting is stored, but did not find it.

Hope that’s the info you were looking for.

Thanks.
Jack

Nikola,

I’ll run these queries after work this evening. No need for phpMyAdmin, the MySQL CLI is the only interface I use. ??

Incidentally, I don’t recall seeing a table named “wp_sb_stuff” when I was poking around, but I may have just overlooked it.

If I recall correctly, sermons are uploaded to wp-content/uploads/Sermons. But I’ll confirm this evening (I’m on US CST).

Thanks for your help.

Jack

I can (privately) provide the URL of my dev/test site, if needed.

Incidentally, I added a single sermon manually, and it works as expected. It’s just the imported sermons that are broken.

Jack