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khornberg / sermon-manager-import

Import sermons into Sermon Manager for Wordpress
http://wordpress.org/plugins/sermon-manager-import/
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Changed behavior on attempted import #17

Open jimsimons opened 5 years ago

jimsimons commented 5 years ago

In my first attempt to upload a sermon MP3 I placed an MP3 file in public_html/wp-content/uploads/sermon-manager-import

The web page then asked if I wanted draft or published and I chose draft. No sermon resulted although I saw the mp3 in media manager.

Oddly the sermon-manager-import was deleted so I had to recreate it for the next test. For the test I hoped that by choosing "published" the sermon might not get thrown away. Strangely the interface changed. Instead of pulling from sermon-manager-import it asked me to add files from my computer. Since I've gone to the work of uploading the files to sermon-manager-import I'd rather it read from there. Given no other options I tried importing by file from my PC. It does some things--like before it places the MP3 into the media library. It claims to have imported the sermon, though no sermons show up under "Sermons". It has a link with the sermon title, but that link keeps me at to the same import results page. I get a bit of detail from an apparently duplicate sermon. The MP3 fields seem to be there but weirdly it shows a 1/1/1970 publish date.

I see the plugin isn't tested with the current WordPress but it is only a couple of months behind. That hasn't been a problem for any other plugin I've tried.

Anyway, it would be very useful if this plugin worked. Failing that, I see there's a competing paid plugin, and the import looks like a lot of work. That's probably my only option.

jimsimons commented 5 years ago

If the import doesn't work, how can I clean up after it. I can delete the MP3s from the Media Library but I expect the importer has put some metadata into SQL tables. What tables are those so I can drop them?

Maybe the importer didn't leave residue in the database... There are no sermons, series, speakers that show up...

khornberg commented 5 years ago

Hi @jimsimons,

I'm sorry you've had trouble with it. I don't use this anymore and I am not sure how well it works with the current versions of WP.

A recent version of Sermon Manager, may have caused an issue with importing, but that is only a guess.

The 1/1/1970 date is because a date that the plugin uses if nothing else could be determined.

hermify commented 4 years ago

Hi there, @jimsimons you using Sermon Manager Pro?