About this plugin
Lectern is a modern sermon plugin for WordPress. It gives your church website a proper home for your sermons: publish each message with its video and audio, organize by series, speaker, topic, and Scripture, and display it beautifully on any theme — no locked-in “church theme” required.
Built for how churches actually work. Put your full-length sermon on YouTube or Vimeo and paste the link — Lectern embeds it — or upload the audio to your Media Library. Either way, visitors get a clean, browsable sermon library, and every new sermon slots right in.
Moving from Sermon Manager? Lectern includes a one-click importer that brings your whole library across — titles, dates, Scripture, media, artwork, series, speakers, topics, and books — and it works even if Sermon Manager has already been removed from your site.
What you get (free)
- A real sermon library — a dedicated Sermons section, organized by Series, Speaker, Topic, and Book (Scripture).
- Designed, theme-agnostic display — polished sermon cards and single-sermon pages that adapt to your theme’s colors, light or dark. One accent color, easily overridden.
- Audio and video, done right — YouTube/Vimeo embeds, self-hosted files, and a download button for audio.
- Block + shortcode — drop a sermon list on any page with the “Sermon List” block or the [lectern] shortcode, filtered by series or speaker.
- Automatic sermon archive at a URL you choose.
- One-click “Add the 66 Bible books” so you can tag Scripture instantly.
- One-click import from Sermon Manager — safe to re-run; it updates instead of duplicating.
- Lightweight, standards-compliant, translation-ready — and your sermons stay yours.
Lectern Pro
- Podcast feed for Apple Podcasts & Spotify, generated automatically from your sermons. No separate podcast host, no re-uploading — your website becomes your podcast, and new sermons appear in the feed on their own.
- On the roadmap for Pro: transcripts, advanced sermon search, series landing pages, and play/download analytics.
Lectern Pro includes a 30-day free trial. studio.