Most sermon plugins publish a video and a title. A sermon is more than that.
Sermon Library gives every sermon a full record: the video, the audio, a written article, a Bible study, the transcript, and the sermon notes. Each one is a tab on the sermon page, each one is downloadable as a PDF, and all of it is indexable by search engines. Someone who cannot make it on Sunday, or who is quietly working out whether to visit at all, gets the whole message rather than a play button.
Everything described below is in the free plugin.
See it in action
A church running Sermon Library on a live site:
- Sermon page with video, transcript, article, Bible study and scripture panel
- Sermon archive built from shortcodes, with live filtering
- Series listing
- Speaker profile
Already using another sermon plugin?
Sermon Library imports from the two most common ones, and it does the work for you rather than handing you a spreadsheet.
From Sermon Manager, Sermon Works or Mattytap Sermons. One click, on this site. There is no file to export and nothing to upload: the importer reads the sermons already in your database. It scans first and shows you what it found, then imports on your say so, and it never modifies the original plugin’s data, so you can compare the two before switching anything off. The old plugin does not even need to be active. If you already deactivated or deleted it, your sermons are still there and this will find them.
Your preachers and series stop being tags and become real pages. A taxonomy term can hold a name and not much else; a speaker in Sermon Library has a headshot, a bio, a title, social links and their own profile page, and a series has cover art, a description and a date range. Whatever your terms already carried comes across, and the rest is waiting to be filled in.
The importer also tidies up on the way through. Plugins that let you type a preacher’s name into a tag box tend to accumulate “Matt”, “Matt Watkins” and “Pastor Matt” as three separate people with three separate archive pages. The scan groups those together and lets you choose which to keep before anything is written.
From Series Engine. Upload your CSV export and the importer parses it, shows you every series it found, and lets you map each one to a new or existing series, or skip it. Nothing is written until you have reviewed that mapping.
Every sermon, fully documented
- Video, audio, article, Bible study, transcript and sermon notes, each per sermon
- Every written format downloads as a formatted PDF your congregation can keep
- Tabbed sermon page that keeps inactive content in the markup, so search engines index all of it
- Series with cover art, descriptions and their own archive page
- Speaker profiles with bio, headshot, contact details, social links and a full sermon listing
- Topics for browsing by theme
- Sermons fall back to their series artwork, and then to a default image you choose
Scripture that is actually structured
- Passage picker with book, chapter and verse, so references are consistent no matter who enters them
- Every passage links out to Bible.com or BibleGateway, in the translation you choose
- Filter the whole library by book of the Bible, which is how people who are studying a book actually search
An audio feed you can submit anywhere
- iTunes-compatible RSS, ready for Apple, Spotify and every other listening app
- Show settings for cover art, title, subtitle, description, author, owner email, copyright, language and category
- Filtered feeds per series, speaker or topic, so a study series can stand as its own show
- Per sermon control over audio length, file size, episode art and whether it appears at all
- A redirect field for the day you move your show somewhere else, so your subscribers follow
Built for the way churches actually run their sites
- Works with any theme. Fonts and colours are inherited from your theme rather than overridden
- Tested with Elementor and Divi, which is what most church sites are built on
- Every template can be overridden from your theme folder
- Turn the plugin’s CSS off entirely if you would rather style it all yourself
- Visual shortcode generator, so there is nothing to memorize
- Four appearance presets if you would rather not touch CSS
Shortcodes
[scsl_sermon_list]: paginated sermon list with a full filter bar[scsl_series_grid]: grid or slider of series[scsl_speaker_grid]: grid or slider of speakers[scsl_latest]: the most recent sermon[scsl_topic_list]: grid of topic pills
Found by search engines and AI assistants
- JSON-LD structured data for VideoObject, AudioObject, Person and BreadcrumbList
- Meta description, Open Graph and Twitter Card tags, which step aside automatically if Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO or SEOPress is handling them
- Real URLs and working pagination on first load; filtering only switches to AJAX once someone uses it
Who this is for
Churches and ministries that want their teaching to be findable, readable and shareable rather than locked inside a video player. It suits a church of forty as well as one of four thousand: there is nothing to configure before it works, and nothing you outgrow.