SermonSpeaker 5.0.2 and 4.5.5 are released. SermonSpeaker 4.5.5 is only a bugfix release, however SermonSpeaker 5.0.2 adds some new features like language associations.

New Features for SermonSpeaker 5.0.2

Language Associations

SermonSpeaker now supports language associations on item level. This is a feature that was introduced to the Joomla core with its release 3.0.2. You can read more about it on their blog article. In short it means that you can link together two sermons of different languages which are then properly switched if the user changes the site language.
SermonSpeaker supports this behaviour now for sermons, series and speakers.

Tags for Speakers and Series

With SermonSpeaker 5.0.0, sermon tags were converted to the new JTags system that came with Joomla 3.1. Now those tags are also supported for speakers and series.

Various new stuff

  • The menu item for the sermon list allows now to set a filter for month and/or year. Allowing you to create an "archive" menu structure.
  • ID3 tags are now read and saved with date and time as well. Previously only the year got saved.
  • You can now select from the whole list of iTunes categories, not only the religious ones.
  • Added the SoundCloud player
  • Improved the RouteHelper, it should now more reliably find a matching menu item

Bugfixes for SermonSpeaker 5.0.2 and 4.5.5

  • Improved detection of YouTube videos. Now SermonSpeaker will detect it if there is "youtube" in the hostname.
  • Fixed SEF URLs when Joomla is in a subdirectory.
  • Fixed Addfile upload directory. SermonSpeaker was in some case using the audio folder instead.
  • Trashed items no longer show up in frontend. Previously they were shown if a user with edit permissions was logged in.