Sermon Download Does Not Download But Only Plays

Jack Lamb repo owner

Just right click and then "Save as..."

2014-02-22T00:42:48+00:00

Jack Lamb repo owner

changed status to resolved

2014-02-22T00:42:57+00:00

Gee Hill reporter

Ummmm...Jack what happened to the comments I had made and the other person who responded with the fix on how to get the sermon to download by clicking the "download" link? Did you delete them? I need them please. I do not want to right click and save as. Download links should work by clicking on them, and since your program does not do that I wanted to follow their recommendation of changing the CSS but now it is GONE and only your "right click" comments. Can you help me get them, back please?

2014-06-04T04:00:23+00:00

Kyle Horberg

Gee,

The link is http://khornberg.github.io/articles/customizing-sermon-manager/

I've written a follow up to that article but basically, it is best to put the modified Sermon manager views in a child theme. This allows you to update SM without over writing your views.

If you are modifying all the views, I recommend putting the function in a separate file and then including it in the view to use. That way you are not copying the code a bunch of times.

2014-06-04T10:25:00+00:00

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Thanks for linking to your article, @khornberg. You mentioned that you've also written a follow-up article to the article you've linked above. Can you also provide the link to your follow-up article?

BTW, FWIW, your hyperlink for "Sermon Manager Import" (first line) at http://khornberg.github.io/articles/sermon-manager-import/ is incorrect - it points to wordpress.com rather than wordpress.org. Thought you should know. ;)

@wpforchurch, it would really be great to have this kind of functionality built into Sermon Manager directly - I mean specifically the ability to click on an MP3 link and have it download the file rather than load/play the file in the browser. I know it's possible to right-click and "save as", but many novice users don't know how to do that, and simply left-click on the link, and then are confused about how to actually download it. In addition, the little heading directly above the download links on the single-post pages says "Download Files", which implies that the links will do exactly that - download the file - which is therefore misleading to novice users, as the links don't do that at all. So changing the plugin code to force the download would be great! :)

2014-06-04T10:42:00+00:00

Kyle Horberg

Thanks Jeremy. I corrected the link. I haven't written another article, just plan on it at some point. Sorry if I wrote incorrectly.

I think SM should have this built in but that is why I wrote about it and found another way.

Kyle

2014-06-04T22:55:05+00:00

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