Advanced Sermons · Version history
Advanced Sermons changelog and version history
- Latest version
- 3.7
- Aug 29, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Releases
- 17
- since 2023
- In the last year
- 1
- Tested up to
- WordPress 7.1.4
- PHP 7.4 or later
Releases each year
- 202311 releases
- 20244 releases
- 20251 release
- 20261 release
20261 release
Advanced Sermons 3.7Latest
- Updated: Field sanitization improvements
- Updated: Preload audio postmeta to show sermon audio file time before interaction
- Fix: Bug with Sermon date format
20251 release
Advanced Sermons 3.6
- Updated: Adjusted allowed HTML for field sanitization for better combatibility with embeds.
20244 releases
Advanced Sermons 3.5
- Updated: Improved Field Sanitization
- Fix: Issue with speaker images on single sermon template when using drag & drop ordering for speakers.
Advanced Sermons 3.4
- Updated: XSS Security improvements
Advanced Sermons 3.3
- Updated: Minor improvements to date filtering functionality
Advanced Sermons 3.2
- Updated: Improved compatability with sermon excerpt to auto extract text when manual excerpt is not used.
- Updated: Security improvements
- Fix: Issue fixed with function asp_term_orderby when switching to drag and drop for the first time after updating from an older version of Advanced sermons.
202311 releases
Advanced Sermons 3.1
- Fix: AJAX load more mobile functionality. Changed scroll to position.
- Fix: Js and AJAX errors when filter is disabled
- Fix: Filtering issues when taxonomy field was disabled
- Fix: Theme compatibility with Litepicker. Added prefixed wrapper.
- Fix: Incorrect position of archive container bottom hook on 3.0 update
- Fix: Removed ‘Read More’ with ajax excerpt if excerpt is empty
- Fix: Video Settings now correctly hidden if all video meta fields are hidden using pro version
- Fix: Fixed rewrite rules not being flushed upon plugin installation that was causing 404 errors for new users
- Fix: Fixed drag and drop ordering when there are multiple pages on the edit taxonomy page and the last page not matching items pet page set in WordPress. Bug caused random items to change positioning on page reload.
- Fix: Series and Speaker image would apply to next newest taxonomy if page not refreshed and latest term did not have an image
- Fix: Issue where asp_term_orderby() was causing ordering and duplicate term issues with series shortcode in Pro version
- Fix: Issue where featured content was loaded when pagination was activated causing a jump on mobile devices when new sermons were loaded
- Updated: CSS improvements for criteria on mobile. Made text smaller
- Updated: Added support for themes that are using fluidvids
- Updated: Changed audio download icon on single sermon template
- Updated: Changed Topic taxonomy to add tag support
- Updated: Logic to remove select2 on filter fields added by themes and 3rd party plugins.
- Updated: Improved UI for drag-and-drop order by only showing drag icons if drag-and-drop is enabled. Added hints to manage large libraries.
- New: Option to enable the WordPress block editor under the general settings of Advanced Sermons
- New: Ability to add start time to Vimeo videos with new ?t= parameter
- New: Independent Content Width option for archive template
- New: “Add Sermon Audio” now automatically filters to only show supported file types in media library. Makes it easier to find and add audio files to sermons.
- New: Introduced lazy loading to images to help with load speeds and SEO
- New: New option to remove search field from filter. Advanced Sermons Pro required.
- New: Replaced View column with Sermon Data column to display video type, audio type, image type, and view count
- New: Books to be grouped under old and new testaments. System automatically does this in the background.
- New: Import books of the Bible. Advanced Sermons Pro required.
- New: Series, speakers, topics, and books are now included in the search functionality. For taxonomies it must be an exact match to help narrow down results.
Advanced Sermons 3.0
- Fix: Error when saving on language settings page when Advanced Sermons Pro is not active.
- Fix: CSS improvements and updates
- Fix: Added CSS to fix formatting issues with Astra theme
- Fix: Now supports up to PHP version 8.1
- Fix: Fix to taxonomies linking to the wrong item. Now adds support to an unlimited number of taxonomies assigned to a sermon
- Fix: Sermon and series images not longer go out of alignment when the holder is set to text align center from page builders of the active WordPress theme
- Fix: Sermon audio player no longer displays when an incorrect file format is assigned
- Fix: Issue fixed where Facebook SDK injection would remove favicon icon with DIVI theme
- Updated: Improvement to plugin SEO by adding dynamic alt text to images
- Updated: Improvement to stylization of plugin and layouts
- Updated: Improvements to YouTube video embeds to restrict info cards at end of the video to current account only
- Updated: Improved excerpt read more formatting
- Updated: Changed order filter labels from ‘DESC’ and ‘ASC’ to ‘Newest’ and ‘Oldest’. (If you translated these, you will need to update.)
- Updated: Changed filter ‘Clear’ label to ‘Clear all’ (If you translated this, you will need to update.)
- Updated: Modified sermon speaker holder so show all speakers assigned to a single sermon on single sermon template
- Updated: There is now no limit to the number of series, speakers, topics, and books that can be assigned to a single sermon
- Updated: Added support for YouTube’s new live URL formatting
- Updated: Added support for start time for YouTube videos
- Updated: The custom Sermon Archive Slug option is now available in the free version!
- Updated: Improvements to all image aspect ratios
- Updated: Topics are now set to hierarchical true by default changing its formatting to match the other taxonomies
- New: Search functionality added to sermon filter and improved search filter styling
- New: Date Range functionality added to sermon filter
- New: Option to disable the sermon count from displaying in the filter dropdown’s
- New: Option to disable sermon image from displaying on the single sermons page
- New: Sermon, Series, and Speaker images now display in the admin columns of WordPress
- New: Drag and drop custom ordering functionality for all sermon taxonomies
- New: Support and improvements to all WordPress permalink structures
- New: Updates to Sermon meta box by adding sections and improving video type organization
- New: Sermons are now loaded using AJAX with instant filtering of the filter bar
Advanced Sermons 2.9.1
- Fix: Minor CSS updates.
Advanced Sermons 2.7
- Fix: Modified sermon post type rewrite rules.
Advanced Sermons 2.6
- Updated: Optimized translatable text.
- Updated: Sermon downloadable files now automatically download instead of opening in a new tab.
- Updated: Sermon archive pagination optimized to new numeric format for better UX.
- Updated: Optimized the way sermons are included in search results when registering the post type.
- Updated: Filter options are now hidden if no taxonomies are assigned to sermons.
- Fix: Topics and series filters changed back to order by title instead of date.
- Fix: Speaker and Series quick edit deletion of assigned image.
- Fix: Taxonomy view action links now redirect to correct locations.
- New: Pro Feature – New navigation section on the single sermon template to filter through sermons.
- New: Auto Pluralization – setting to disable pluralization for Sermon, Topic, and Speaker labels.
- New: Additional action hooks on single sermon template to allow additional custom modifications.
- New: Advanced Sermons media player light theme style kit. You can disable this under Misc settings.
- New: Single Sermon “All Sermons” button URL option.
- New: You can now filter & assign Books to sermons with the new Book taxonomy.
Advanced Sermons 2.5
- Updated: Upgraded Font Awesome to version 5.14.0
- Updated: Improved sermon filter functionality.
- Updated: Added a higher priority to the sermon archive count to help with possible theme conflicts.
- Updated: Archive criteria box can now be modified via a new hook. See online documentation.
- Updated: Archive title can now be modified via a new hook. See online documentation.
- Updated: Sermon PDF has been changed to Sermon Notes.
- Updated: Sermon details Listen has been changed to Audio.
- Updated: Minor CSS changes to optimize for new features.
- Updated: Sermons are now displayed by date in admin.
- Fix: Element background color option now applies to speaker details section.
- New: Added sermon archive quick link to manage sermons dropdown.
- New: Five topics can now be assigned to a single sermon.
- New: Pro Feature – Facebook Video Integration.
- New: Pro Feature – Bulletin field added to sermons.
Advanced Sermons 2.4
- Updated: Ready for WordPress 5.5
- Updated: Topics are now clickable.
- Fix: Archive title bug displaying the incorrect title when multiple topics are applied to a sermon.
- New: Pro Feature – New sermon layout! Choose to display your sermons in a grid view or list view.
- New: Pro Feature – Customize related sermons count.
- New: Pro Feature – New language settings tab. Customize the default text for elements in Advanced Sermons.
- New: Pro Feature – New copy to clipboard button for shortcodes.
Advanced Sermons 2.3
- Fix: Modified the_post_thumbnail default size to increase compatibility with some WordPress themes that had a set post thumbnail size defined
- Updated: CSS stylesheets to remove unwanted text padding and margin spacing that is automatically applied by some WordPress themes
Advanced Sermons 2.2
- Updated: Font Awesome to 4.7
- Updated: Sermon position on dashboard menu moved to help reduce any conflicts
- Updated: User capability to access general settings has been changed to manage_options
- Updated: Plugin optimizations
- New: Disable Font Awesome settings
- New: Element design options
- New: Sermon speaker detail fields
- New: Pro Feature – Bible Passage field added to sermons
- New: Pro Feature – Display series details on single series page
- New: Pro Feature – Display speaker details on single speaker page
- New: Pro Feature – Option to hide meta fields from sermon edit page
- New: Pro Feature – Speakers shortcode
- New: Pro Feature – Sermon widget shortcode
- New: Pro Feature – Series widget shortcode
- New: Pro Feature – Speaker widget shortcode
Advanced Sermons 2.1
- New: Customization menu item for developers to add custom options to Advanced Sermons
- New: Added more hooks for developers
Advanced Sermons 2.0
- Updated: Ready for WordPress 5.3
Questions about Advanced Sermons’s releases
What is the latest version of Advanced Sermons?
3.7, released on Aug 29, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.
How often is Advanced Sermons updated?
One release in the last year. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from August 2023.
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