Sermon Library

Yes. Choose Sermon Manager on the Import / Export screen and click Scan. It reads the sermons already on your site, whether they came from Sermon Manager, Sermon Works or Mattytap Sermons, and shows you what it found before writing anything. Your existing plugin and its data are left exactly as they are. The old plugin does not have to be active. If you already deactivated or deleted it, your sermons are still in the database and this will find them. Preachers and series become full profile and series pages rather than taxonomy terms, so they gain a headshot, a bio, cover art and their own descriptions. Sermons keep their audio, video, scripture reference, date, image, notes, bulletins, view counts and publication status.

The scan finds them and shows you. Any plugin that lets a name be typed freely into a tag box ends up with several spellings of the same person, each with its own archive page. Sermon Library groups the likely duplicates, suggests which record to keep, and lets you merge them before the import writes anything. You can also choose to leave them separate.

Yes, in two ways. The scan is read only, so you can look at what would happen and stop there. And when you do import, you can bring everything in as drafts, check it, and publish when you are happy. Nothing in your old plugin is changed either way, so both plugins can run side by side while you compare.

Only if you skip a step, so do this one first. Your feed URL changes when you move, and directories need telling. Before deactivating your old plugin, set its podcast Redirect field to your new feed URL, which you will find under Settings in the Sermon Library section. Leave both running for a couple of weeks so every app has time to follow, then switch the old one off. Your subscribers come with you.

Yes. Export your sermons from Series Engine as CSV, then upload it on the Import / Export screen. The importer parses the file, lists every series it found, and lets you map each one to a new series, an existing one, or skip it. Nothing is written until you have reviewed that mapping.

Yes. Transcripts, articles, Bible studies and sermon notes each get a PDF download button on the sermon page. Nothing extra is required.

Yes to both. The RSS feed is iTunes compatible, and the show settings cover everything Apple checks for, including the owner email it uses to verify ownership and the artwork requirements. Your feed URL is on the Sermon Library settings screen. For a single series, speaker or topic, append ?series=ID, ?speaker=ID or ?topic=slug to that URL. The result is a feed containing only those sermons, which can be submitted separately.

Yes. Scripture is entered through a structured picker rather than a free text field, so the whole library can be filtered by book, and every passage links out to Bible.com or BibleGateway.

Yes. All five shortcodes render inside page builders, and the styles load in the Elementor editor as well as on the front end.

Sermon Library requires a non-plain permalink structure. Go to Settings > Permalinks and choose "Post name" or any other option besides "Plain."

Yes. Copy any template from wp-content/plugins/seedcast-sermon-library/templates/ to wp-content/themes/your-theme/seedcast-sermon-library/ and edit freely.

No. Sermon Library adds its own post types and taxonomies. Your posts, pages and any other plugin's content are untouched.

Your sermons, series and speakers stay in the database. Deactivating hides them from the front end; it does not delete anything.

PHP 7.4 or later. The plugin is tested against 7.4 on every release.

Scripture links point to Bible.com (YouVersion) or BibleGateway, and only when a visitor clicks a passage link. No data is sent automatically.

Yes. When a dedicated SEO plugin is active, Sermon Library steps aside and lets it handle meta descriptions, Open Graph and Twitter Card tags. Structured data for sermons is still added, because SEO plugins do not know what a sermon is.