Easy steps to create a Podcast

Setting up the parameters

Title: The title of your podcast. Will be shown everywhere.
Description: A description of your feed. iTunes shows this in the iTunes Store as (surprise!) description of your feed.
Copyright: iTunes shows this below the Logo in the Store

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iTunes needs a well-formed RSS-feed to populate the podcast. SermonSpeaker 3.4.2 does provide this feed with the following URL:

www.yoursite.org/index.php?option=com_sermonspeaker&view=feed

SermonSpeaker 3.4.2 will also respond to the older format ("...&task=podcast", used with SermonSpeaker 3.3.1) and redirect it to the current one.

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Intro

In Joomla (and thus SermonSpeaker) all text coming from the program itself is handled with language files. This makes it quite easy to change words or even add multi-language support to the program.
The files are in the following format:

COM_SERMONSPEAKER_SERMONS="sermons" 
KEYWORD="Text"

While KEYWORD is the string you should leave as it is and the "Text" is what you can change.

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What is the Frontend Upload Wizard?

The Frontend Upload Wizard allows you to upload a new sermon without logging into the backend. It will let you upload the file, set the needed informations (speaker, series, notes, ...) and then save the entry to the database. The informations are prefilled with the info found in ID3 tags. So if your sermonfile has title (-> sermon title), track (-> sermon number), artist (-> speaker) and album (-> series) stored in the file, creating a new sermon will be even easier.

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SermonSpeaker uses CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for many things. If you want to change stuff like the background color of the table rows or the font color of the download button, you may want to look at the CSS definition file located in /components/com_sermonspeaker/sermonspeaker.css.
Of course this is not the only place where CSS is apllied, the most important one is coming from your template. This one could be edited directly in the Joomla Backend Template Manager.

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Changing the color of the speaker

Unfortunately, the Joomla tooltip/popup function used for the speaker tooltip has some fixed sytling applied. This is why the color of the speaker can't be changed within the CSS files, inline styling have priority.

To change it we have two possible ways:

• Change the SermonSpeaker call to the function
• Change the Joomla function itself

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If the installation gives you this error:

• Error! Could not find an XML setup file in the package.
• Path does not have a valid package.

Please check the upload_max_filesize directive in your php.ini. This can be checked in the Joomla Backend -> Help -> Systeminfo -> PHP Informations. It may be the case that the filesize is limited to 2MB there. Since the newest versions of SermonSpeaker are over 2MB this causes an issue.

If you're not allowed to edit your php.ini yourself, you'll have to ask your hoster for a raise.

Workarounds would be to extract the install file to a new subfolder in the joomla/tmp directory and then specify this directory as the install source in the "Install from Directory" section of the Joomla installer.

Please note that this is not a bug neither in Joomla nor in SermonSpeaker. It's a limitation set by the server administrator.