Knowledge Base - Millington Baptist Church

HEADER/NAVBAR ADJUSTMENTS

edit link:
https://millingtonbaptist.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=37596&action=elementor

To exclude the header/navbar from a page:

access the header edit link above
add a display condition

Dont forget to “update/save” your changes

UNDERGROUND SESSIONS WEBINAR SETUP

ASK A QUESTION Form:

1. Duplicate and edit previous event questions page. <EDIT LINK>

2. Go to “MBC – WEBINARS TEAMS“. (The form defaults to sending to TEAMS via webinar team email.

3. Create a new Underground Sessions channel in the “MBC – WEBINARS TEAMS” with “Event-tile-date” naming convention.

4. Grab the email address for that channel,

5. Paste in the Edit Form\Email field of “Ask a Question“

Webinar Instructions

–CLONES–
DASHBOARD MENU -> ALL PAGES -> search for “USW TEMPLATE” -> duplicate the following:
USW TEMPLATE – VISITOR ACCESS
USW TEMPLATE – STAFF ACCESS
USW TEMPLATE – PRE-WEBINAR SURVEY PAGE

DASHBOARD MENU -> TEMPLATES -> POPUPS -> duplicate the following:
USW TEMPLATE – PRE-WEBINAR SURVEY POPUP

DASHBOARD MENU -> YOP POLL -> ALL POLLS -> duplicate the following:
USW TEMPLATE – PRE-WEBINAR SURVEY
USW TEMPLATE – POST-WEBINAR SURVEY

(RECOMMENDED NAMING CONVENTION FOR DUPLICATES:
UNDERGROUND SESSIONS WEBINAR – YYYY-MM-DD – PAGE TITLE
E.g.,
UNDERGROUND SESSIONS WEBINAR – 2022-12-09 – ONLINE PORTAL
UNDERGROUND SESSIONS WEBINAR – 2022-12-09 – PRE-WEBINAR SURVEY

–EDITS–
EDIT – PRE-WEBINAR SURVEY:
Questions & Answers: edit Q&A
Options: edit Start and End dates for poll

EDIT – POST-WEBINAR SURVEY:
Questions & Answers: edit Q&A
Options: edit Start and End dates for poll

EDIT – PRE-WEBINAR SURVEY PAGE:

REPLACE FEATURED IMAGE
update yop_poll id to reflect PRE-WEBINAR SURVEY POLL ID

EDIT – PRE-WEBINAR SURVEY POPUP:

replace url in “please click here to be taken directly to the survey page” with URL for PRE-WEBINAR SURVEY PAGE
replace url in “please take a moment…” iframe with URL for PRE-WEBINAR SURVEY PAGE
edit “Display Conditions” (found in up arrow next to PUBLISH button) to reflect new VISITOR ACCESS PAGE
(include -> singular -> pages -> “underground sessions Webinar – DATE – Online Webinar”)

EDIT – STAFF ACCESS PAGE:

REPLACE FEATURED IMAGE
update link in “USERS ONLINE” to reflect VISITOR ACCESS PAGE URL
update “PRE-WEBINAR SURVEY” to reflect yop_poll ID for PRE-WEBINAR SURVEY
update “POST-WEBINAR SURVEY” to reflect yop_poll ID for POST-WEBINAR SURVEY

EDIT – VISITOR ACCESS PAGE:

REPLACE FEATURED IMAGE
CHANGE CHAT CHANNEL NAME
“\[ wise-chat channel=”Underground-DATEYYYY-MM-DD” \]”
adjust session content as necessary
- TAB – intro text
- TAB – event live stream video source and agenda
- TAB – resources
- TAB – About the speakers
- TAB – Survey Questions (POST-WEBINAR SURVEY POLL ID )

Underground Sessions Podcast

MP3 AUDIO

File Naming Conventions

Episode# Title – Speaker – Series/Season – Date.mpX

00 Underground Sessions Trailer – Pastor Bob Erbig – Season 0 – 08-28-19.mp3

MP3 Export and Encoding from Video

Option 1 (Preferred): Export and Encode from final video file using Audacity (See MP3 Software)

Run Audacity
open video file
File -> Export
Refer to below chart for settings
Click Export

FIELD	VALUE
Bit Rate	Variable
Quality	65-105 kbps
Variable Speed	FAST
Channel Mode	Joint Stereo

Note* This method is preferred as it yields much smaller audio files with minimum loss of audio quality.

OPTION 2: Directly from Adobe Premiere Pro

Select final video sequence
File -> Export
Refer to below chart for Export Settings
Click Export

FIELD	VALUE
Format	MP3
Preset	any
Channels	Stereo
Audio Bitrate	80 kbps
Codec Quality	High
Metadata (button)	NONE

MP3 Audio - Tagging

Using MetaTogger Software:

Filename	00 Title – Speaker – date	Use two-digit numerical date segments
Artist	Speaker Name
Title	Episode Title
Album	Underground Sessions
Track number	Episode number within series/season	use two-digit numerical
Date	Year	user four-digit numerical
Album Artist	Millington Baptist Church
Comment	use Blurb from WP
FEED	http://millingtonbaptist.org/feed/podcast/underground-sessions-podcast	or current podcast feed
EMBEDDED COVER

ADDING “FEED” tags and “EMBEDDED COVER”

(Using “MetaTogger” 5.9)

Workflow Contents:

MP3 Audio

PODCAST Workflow

Prerequisites:

MP3 File:

Video audio has been converted to MP3 format
(ref: MP3 Workflow->MP3-01: Encoding)
MP3 audio file has been properly named and tagged
(ref: MP3 Workflow->MP3-02: MP3 ID3 Tags)

Add Podcast Episode

From the WP Dashboard: Navigate to the PODCAST Section

Select Add New
Add Title and Description
***IMPORTANT*** Check the box for the Podcast Series on right!
Add Featured Image
Fill out Podcast Episode Details
Publish

Note* don’t forget to check the publish date and set to same as actual recording (maybe?)!

FIELD	RECOMMENDED VALUE
Episode Type	Audio
Podcast File	Insert URL for MP3, upload MP3 to Media Library, or select pre-existing MP3 from Media Library
Duration	Leave Blank (autofills on save)
File Size	Leave Blank (autofills on save)
Date Recorded	Set this to match actual sermon date
Mark this episode as explicit	Leave unchecked
Block this episode	Leave unchecked
iTunes episode number	Episode # in Podcast series
iTunes Episode Title	Copy Video Title
iTunes Season Number	Podcast Season # (Maybe?)
iTunes Episode Type	Full: For Normal Episodes

Workflow Contents:

Podcast Workflow

Windows Software

ID3 Tag Editor (MetaTogger):

MetaTogger Download Page (DL Link Top Right of Screen)

Audacity (for extracting audio from videos files):

https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/
Download and install

LAME MP3 Encoder AND FFmpeg Import/Export Library for Audacity:

Go to the LAME download page
Directly underneath “TO DOWNLOAD Lame and FFmpeg for Windows, click links BELOW:”, left-click the link Lame v3.99.3 for Windows.exe and save the file anywhere on your computer
Double-click “Lame v3.99.3 for Windows.exe” to launch it (you can safely ignore any warnings that the “publisher could not be verified”)
Follow the Setup instructions to install LAME for Audacity, making sure not to change the offered installation location of “C:\Program Files\Lame for Audacity” (or “C:\Program Files (x86)\Lame for Audacity” on a 64-bit version of Windows).

Workflow Contents:

Windows Software

RUSH – BLOG GUIDE

Note* “Rush Blog” naming/branding subject to change

The main Blog page can be accessed from the main site menu: ministries -> teens – > rush blog

To add a new blog post, from the dashboard:

Blog Entries -> Add New

Title, Body, and Featured Image are all recommended.

Blog entries publish/unpublish just like other WordPress Posts (just with a separate content type)

—Note* the following info is mainly for Marc—

Content Layout Templates are found in:

Templates and Theme Styling -> All AE Templates:

[BLOG] Main blog entries list layout (This is the main blog at ministries->teens->rush blog)

[BLOG] BLOG ENTRY LAYOUT (This is the layout for the blog if you’re viewing the actual blog entry on a single page)

RSS FEED: https://millingtonbaptist.org/blog-entry/feed/

SERMON ARCHIVE – Template Guide

PAGES:

(DEV) ARCHIVE LANDING PAGE
- page link:
  - https://millingtonbaptist.org/dev-archive-landing-page/
- Landing page for Sermon Archive
- Displays list of current sermons, followed by previous sermons
- Archive search (incl textbox, categories, tags) in right sidebar (desktop/tablet)
(DEV) ARCHIVE SEARCH PAGE
- page link:
  - https://millingtonbaptist.org/dev-archive-search-page-sermon-videos-search-page/
- Landing Page for ARCHIVE SEARCH
- DEFAULT: list of sermon videos on left sorted new->old
- SEARCH RESULTS: list of filtered sermon videos on left
- SEARCH FORM on right sidebar
- Return to Archive button

TEMPLATES:

ARCHIVE LANDING PAGE – Sermon Series List
- Uses “AE – Post Blocks” widget to display list of sermon series
- Widget uses AE Template: “Sermon Archive Page – Sermon Series with Thumbnail”
- template link:
  - https://millingtonbaptist.org/?ae_global_templates=sermon-series-archive-page-block-layout
ARCHIVE SEARCH PAGE – Sermon Video List (Search Results)
- Uses “AE – Post Blocks” widget to display list of sermon videos
- Widget uses AE Template: “Sermon Series Video List – Single Video Item – with Thumbnail”
- template link:
  - https://millingtonbaptist.org/?ae_global_templates=sermon-series-video-list-single-video-item-with-thumbnail
Sermon Series Landing Page – Sermon Video List (E.g., Messiah Landing Page)
- Uses “AE – Post Blocks” widget to display list of sermon videos in this series
- Widget uses AE Template: “Sermon Series Video List – Single Video Item – no Thumbnail”
- template link:
  - https://millingtonbaptist.org/?ae_global_templates=sermon-series-video-list-single-video-item
- Widget needs to be set to specific “Sermon Video Category” per landing page in widget settings->Sermon Video Categories
SERMON VIDEO POST PAGES (aka Vimeo Video Posts)
- Full-page override using Elementor “single” template, set to override all vimeo video post pages with Elementor layout
- (LEFT COL) Uses “Tabs” widget for “watch” and “listen”
- (LEFT COL) Uses HTML widget to add javascript to enable watch/listen link capabilities to buttons in other templates
- (RIGHT COL) Uses AE – Post Blocks widget to display related videos
  - Widget set to match with any category of viewed video
    - This allows relation by speaker AND series
    - sorted by reverse chronological order
    - adjustable in widget settings
- template link:
  - https://millingtonbaptist.org/?elementor_library=vimeo-video-posts

Vimeo-Video Post Podcast Edit/update details

Publish Section:

Set video Published date to Sermon recorded date!

Sermon Video Categories:

Explicitly used to identify:
- sermon series
- Speaker
- (Also used behind-the-scenes to identify Series status)

Vimeo Video Categories:

Used to identify NON-SERMON videos

PODCAST EPISODE DETAILS (accordion section in “edit video”)

Episode Type:
- Audio
Podcast file:
- MP3 File goes here
Duration:
- LEAVE BLANK
File Size:
- LEAVE BLANK
Date Recorded:
- Use the pop-up date picker — defaults to today
Mark this epsiode as explicit
- leave unchecked
Block this episode
- leave unchecked
iTunes episode number
- sermon number within series (e.g., 3rd sermon = 3)
iTunes episode title
- Title – Speaker – Date mm-dd-yy
iTunes Season Number
- Chronological season #
- e.g., “His Kingdom Come” is Season 9
iTunes Episode Type
- Full: For Normal Episodes

AV Workflow

VIMEO VIDEOS

Naming Convention:

Title – Speaker – Series – Date

Jesus Our King – Pastor Bob Erbig – Messiah – 12-23-18

Event/title – description – speaker – ministry – MM-DD-YY (CONFIRM WITH MARC)

Trunk or Treat 2018 – Promo – MBC Kids – 11-12-18
Gender Identity – Mark Yarhouse – Underground Sessions – 10-06-18
XMasBBQ 2018 – MBC Teens – 12-19-18
Tip 3 for Volunteers – MBC teens – 11-08-18

Automatic Import:

In general, videos uploaded to Vimeo.com should be automatically imported into MBC’s WordPress Site

The status of the automated import mechanism can be verified by going to Videos->Automatic import in the Dashboard menu, or clicking this link: Automatic Import

This page will also show the total videos imported, as well as when the last import query run was made

A good “status” is “Import as custom post”, a bad status would be “Not in Queue”.

If the status is “not in queue”:

Check the box next to the MBC Vimeo Channel import item
Under the drop down above (which says “bulk actions”), select “add to import queue”
and hit Apply

Verify that the import is functioning.

Vimeo Video - After Import

After Vimeo Videos are imported (Automatically or not), they will appear in the Videos (and Videos->All Videos) area of the dashboard.

At this point:

Check the Vimeo video titles for spelling or formatting errors
Properly categorize the videos
1. If the video is a Non-Sermon video, it will be categorized using the taxonomy “Vimeo Video categories“
2. If the video is a Sermon video, it must be categorized using the taxonomy “Sermon Video Categories“

For SERMON videos:

In the section of “Edit Video” page labeled: “Sermon Video Categories”

Check the sermon series category this sermon belongs to, add category if missing
Check the Speakers in this sermon, add category to speakers/guest speakers if missing

In the section of “Edit Video” page labeled: “Podcast Series”

Check the podcast series this sermon belongs to

Workflow Contents:

VIMEO VIDEOS

RAW FEED: http://millingtonbaptist.org/feed/podcast

Apple iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/millington-baptist-church/id1449867943

MP3 AUDIO

File Naming Conventions

Episode# Title – Speaker – Series – Date.mpX

04 Jesus Our King – Pastor Bob Erbig – Messiah – 12-23-18.mp3

MP3 Export and Encoding from Video

Option 1 (Preferred): Export and Encode from final video file using Audacity (See MP3 Software)

Run Audacity
open video file
File -> Export
Refer to below chart for settings
Click Export

FIELD	VALUE
Bit Rate	Variable
Quality	65-105 kbps
Variable Speed	FAST
Channel Mode	Joint Stereo

Note* This method is preferred as it yields much smaller audio files with minimum loss of audio quality.

OPTION 2: Directly from Adobe Premiere Pro

Select final video sequence
File -> Export
Refer to below chart for Export Settings
Click Export

FIELD	VALUE
Format	MP3
Preset	any
Channels	Stereo
Audio Bitrate	80 kbps
Codec Quality	High
Metadata (button)	NONE

MP3 Audio - Tagging

Using MetaTogger Software:

Filename	00 Title – Speaker – date	Use two-digit numerical date segments
Artist	Speaker Name
Title	Sermon Title
Album	Sermon Series
Track number	Sermon number within series	use two-digit numerical
Date	Year	user four-digit numerical
Album Artist	Millington Baptist Church
Comment	use Blurb from WP
FEED	http://millingtonbaptist.org/feed/podcast	or current podcast feed
EMBEDDED COVER		MBC Podcast Logo jpg

ADDING “FEED” tags and “EMBEDDED COVER”

(Using “MetaTogger” 5.9)

Workflow Contents:

MP3 Audio

PODCAST Workflow

Prerequisites:

Vimeo Video:

Video has been uploaded to Vimeo
Video has been imported from Vimeo to WP “Videos” area
Video info has been properly Categorized and adjusted as necessary

MP3 File:

Video audio has been converted to MP3 format
(ref: MP3 Workflow->MP3-01: Encoding)
MP3 audio file has been properly named and tagged
(ref: MP3 Workflow->MP3-02: MP3 ID3 Tags)

Edit Sermon Video:

In the section of “Edit Video” page labeled: “Podcast Episode Details”

Refer to chart below for field values
update/publish

In the section of “Edit Video” page labeled: “Sermon Video Categories”

Check the sermon series category this sermon belongs to, add category if missing
Check the Speakers in this sermon, add category to speakers/guest speakers if missing

Note* don’t forget to check the publish date and set to same as actual sermon!

FIELD	RECOMMENDED VALUE
Episode Type	Audio
Podcast File	Insert URL for MP3, upload MP3 to Media Library, or select pre-existing MP3 from Media Library
Duration	Leave Blank (autofills on save)
File Size	Leave Blank (autofills on save)
Date Recorded	Set this to match actual sermon date
Mark this episode as explicit	Leave unchecked
Block this episode	Leave unchecked
iTunes episode number	Episode # in sermon series
iTunes Episode Title	Copy Video Title
iTunes Season Number	Sermon series # (e.g., “His Kingdom Come” = 10)
iTunes Episode Type	Full: For Normal Episodes

Workflow Contents:

Podcast Workflow

Windows Software

ID3 Tag Editor (MetaTogger):

MetaTogger Download Page (DL Link Top Right of Screen)

Audacity (for extracting audio from videos files):

https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/
Download and install

LAME MP3 Encoder AND FFmpeg Import/Export Library for Audacity:

Go to the LAME download page
Directly underneath “TO DOWNLOAD Lame and FFmpeg for Windows, click links BELOW:”, left-click the link Lame v3.99.3 for Windows.exe and save the file anywhere on your computer
Double-click “Lame v3.99.3 for Windows.exe” to launch it (you can safely ignore any warnings that the “publisher could not be verified”)
Follow the Setup instructions to install LAME for Audacity, making sure not to change the offered installation location of “C:\Program Files\Lame for Audacity” (or “C:\Program Files (x86)\Lame for Audacity” on a 64-bit version of Windows).

Workflow Contents:

Windows Software

MP3 ID3 Tags

Using MetaTogger Software:

Filename	00 Title – Speaker – date	Use two-digit numerical date segments
Artist	Speaker Name
Title	Sermon Title
Album	Sermon Series
Track number	Sermon number within series	use two-digit numerical
Date	Year	user four-digit numerical
Album Artist	Millington Baptist Church
Comment	use Blurb from WP
FEED	https://millingtonbaptist.org/feed/podcast	or current podcast feed
EMBEDDED COVER		MBC Podcast Logo jpg

ADDING “FEED” tags and “EMBEDDED COVER”

(Using “MetaTogger” 5.9)

MP3 Encoding

After several rounds of trial and error the following conclusion was reached by MDV:

Using Audacity to convert MP4 to MP3

Bit Rate: Variable
Quality: 65-105kbps
Variable Speed: Fast
Channel Mode: Joint Stereo

The above settings produced a smaller audio file with minimum loss of audio quality.

Used Audacity for Windows to convert single AND batch-convert videos downloaded from Vimeo to MP3 Format.

NOTE* Audacity’s single file conversion options found under file->export.

Batch export found under Tools->macros

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