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[preacher_link] incorrect.

17 July, 2010
1:09 am

jasonastewart

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First..Thanks a lot for making this plugin. Its really great.

Second..I've looked through the forum and saw one question that describes the same issue I'm having, but there wasn't a solution on it.

Here's my trouble.
I've got each book of the bible set up as a series. I have a WP page with for each book (only a few so far). This works perfectly.

However, all the occurances of [preacher_link], series_link, and the book link point to the same WP page with a series= or book= filter. The problem is that the page is always the same. However, it seems to always point to the most recently updated page. So, when I add a new page, with a new series on it, all the links on the older pages point at that new page. I don't know if I'm describing this correctly.

The page list is here:
http://calvaryoroville.com/?page_id=300

I'd prefer to actually just remove the href and not make the preacher or series clickable but can't figure out how to do this.

17 July, 2010
8:55 pm

Ben Miller

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jasonastewart,

Here is what I think the issue is: In order for the Sermon Browser plugin to work correctly, there needs to be a WordPress Page somewhere on your site that has the shortcode on it, without any series or speaker qualifiers in it. This becomes your main Sermon Browser page. All of the links in Sermon Browser that are generated automatically will link to this page, with the appropriate filter tacked on to the end. That is really how Sermon Browser was designed to work. By creating your own pages for each series, Sermon Browser doesn't know where these pages are.

I recommend that you create a main page for Sermon Browser that has in it. I also recommend that you turn on pretty permalinks, but if you choose not to, Sermon Browser should still work. (See this post to learn more about pretty permalinks.)

Since you aren't using pretty permalinks, let's say that your new page ends up being /?page_id=700 (for example). You can still keep your current Bible Study page (http://calvaryoroville.com/?page_id=300), but instead of creating a new page and linking to it for each new series, just link to the one that Sermon Browser generates automatically. So for Isaiah, instead of using /?page_id=348, link to /?page_id=700&series=8.

I hope this makes sense. If you don't understand what I'm talking about, or you think I'm way off base, please let me know. :) Thanks!

Ben Miller
Pathways Church, Appleton, WI, USA

17 July, 2010
9:13 pm

Ben Miller

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Alternatively, if you want to circumvent a lot of the Sermon Browser functionality and just remove the automatic links, you can change the meaning of the Sermon Browser template tags to remove the links. I don't really recommend this approach, but if you want to do this, you need to change the dictionary.php file, which is where all of the Sermon Browser template tags are defined. Please note after you make any changes to this file, you need to go into the Sermon Browser template editor (Sermons, Templates) and hit the Save button at the bottom of the page for the changes to take effect.

Also, the link you have for Revelation on your current "Bible Studies" page is incorrect.

Ben Miller
Pathways Church, Appleton, WI, USA

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