Services Plugin Issues, and a Couple Wishlist Items

By UUA Web Team
January 4, 2016, 3:33 pm EST
Issues:
  • When multiple speakers are selected for a service, there is no spacing between names. I've hacked the plugin to add in ", " before names beyond the first, but I imagine others are having the same issue since multiple selections are allowed.
  • When there are multiple speakers and multiple topics selected, and the excerpt for the service isn't long enough to account for it, the blocking gets very wigged out and shifts to the next article to the side (see our previous services page). Looks like I can maybe set some custom CSS for the articles to change them to "inline-block", but I haven't done that yet because I haven't had time to figure out the selector for it - I have a feeling this is probably something that should be default and not custom.
Wishlist items:
  • It might be nice to have multiple fields for who is giving the sermon and who is just leading service (if they're different), so that the main speaker is always listed first.
  • The service topics aren't very well delineated from the speakers, which is further exacerbated by the issue above. (see our upcoming services page). A different font, or some more spacing would help, as would moving it to display below the excerpt as a tag list.
  • Stripping of the "Continue" link for upcoming services, since they don't work at all (due to the scheduled status of the post), or, since it seems like there have been multiple complaints regarding this mechanism, changing the services to have an internal date and time field that is used instead of the publishing date and time.
Thanks again for providing all this for us! It's saved us a tremendous amount of work and looks really great. Our congregation's site went live yesterday to great acclaim.