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compatibility with SEO by Yoast as it relates to the XML is a known issue with SM. Now that the recent change in ownership over here at WPforChurch has settled down the developers are working on releasing an update to SM here in the next several weeks. Watch your WP dashboard for an update.

I see. No that is not an option that can be easily changed by settings or short codes. If you wanted to save yourself from modifying the code yourself you can purchase Sermon Manager support from WPforChurch and the developers will consider assisting you in this small project.

Here is the Bitbucket ticket for fellow developers.

Hello,

We are very interested in prepping sermon manager for PHP7. Until now we have not had a business need to invest time into this project but the writing is on the wall and the job needs to get done.

Can you please provide just a few more details as to what you mean by “does not create new sermons?” Does that mean WP will now allow you to create the sermon posts or after you create them they do not display?

We are also interested in any one’s else’s feedback as to problems caused by PHP7 and sermon manager. This thread can serve as a sounding board for issues as we go along.

This is a bug with Sermon Manager that was discovered and just identified this past week. I have opened a bitbucket issue with the developers to specifically resolve this issue. You can track progress if you like here: https://bitbucket.org/wpforchurch/sermon-manager-for-wordpress/issues/68/feed-title-blank-even-though-it-is-correct

Hello Tim,

Sermon Manager has advanced taxonomy options that are listed in more detail on our Knowledge Base article about short codes. After checking that page out please advise if your question is still not answered.

Thanks Adrian for your tip; however, I’m not sure exactly what you mean by “views not picked up.” I’m thinking you might be referring to the post view count that displays in the dashboard for each sermon?

If so, please advise of your general WP environment and whether you use any other feed plugins alongside sermon manager.

Hello folks,

We’ve received several emails from clients about this same issue before I noticed it here on the community forum as well. In each case the Sermon Manager plugin is in conflict with the your current theme files. Try one or more of the following until the issue is resolved.

1. Switch your active theme to the default WordPress 2015 theme and test to see if the button works (or in same cases, the audio player reappears). If it works again update your theme or install a fresh copy

2. If the theme switch doesn’t work then deactivate and reinstall sermon manager plugin (provided you didn’t make any custom edits to the sermon manager code that you need to save)

3. If neither of the above work, deactivate all plugins except sermon manager and test if it works. Once working, reactivate your plugins one at a time until you identify which plugin is causing the conflict.

Hello Wendy,

I tested and confirmed that WP 4.4 and SM 1.9.5 are not in conflict. I confirmed that the wpfc_service_type taxonomy is working fine with the WP 4.4 update currently installed on my dev server. I tested on several different themes to make sure. The specific shortcode I was using is:

[sermons taxonomy=”wpfc_service_type” tax_term=”sunday-am”]

…where “sunday-am” is my service type slug.

The problem may be with your theme. To test this, switch to the standard WP 2015 theme and view the affected page. If the shortcode works then your theme’s compatibility with WP 4.4 is the real issue.

If the service type taxonomy does not work with the 2015 theme, then try installing a fresh copy of SM 1.9.5 (providing you did not make any custom edits you wish to preserve).

Yes we support it. Paid users can send their support requests to [email protected] and as time allows we monitor the community forum to see how we can serve the user base in general.

to follow up on Ben’s remark, a new issue has been identified with Sermon Manager where the enclosure tag is included twice in the sermon feed (for iTunes, etc.)

This is being investigated and resolved by the developer through bitbucket.

For the benefit of the community, who may experience the same problems, here is our response to Ben I sent via another channel.

Hello Ben,

After looking at your feedvalidation results I see some errors relating to content and some relating to coding problems. Here is my feedback on the errors in the order of their appearance.

1) full URL – I noticed that your media file names have multiple periods in them. I don’t believe this is good practice for file structure and I would recommend placing the periods in your filenames with hyphens or some other character. Your filenames should only have a period between the filename and extensions (i.e. mp3). Otherwise the feed validator is perhaps getting confused as to the filetype in question here. Click on the help link next to the error and then the link to the file name specifications for details.

2) undefined element – take the <div> out of the summary. The summary can only contain text. See sermon manager podcast settings for this.

3) line 1199 xml parsing error. – go edit that sermon in question and make sure the URL to the MP3 file is correct. It looks like somebody copied the sermon description into the URL field by mistake.

4) items contain more than one enclosure – sermon manager contains code that is designed to take the XML that WordPress generates and inject it with iTunes complaint tags, info, etc. Ultimately what you see on your sermon feed comes from WordPress originally. If your feed has two enclosures (MP3 file references) than WordPress is spitting out two references in those sermon posts. Your theme may be the culprit as to why it is referencing the attached mp3 file twice. Do you have any other podcast plugin enabled? That is a possible source for conflict.

Hello ozmint,

Please post a link to an example page of where this is happening. The previous poster’s URL is no longer valid as an example.

As Matthew said, most appearance issues (like 99%) are theme related and we can do our best to guide you in the right direction. I have a bag full of CSS tricks I can share with you to get you by if you just need a quick fix.

What is the feed URL you are trying to register with iTunes? What fixes did you make according to the feed validator?

Can you give us a little more details about where in sermon manager you are placing this short code? The sermon description field? Short codes should work fine within Sermon Manager.