How to Upload Sermons to Your Website

Learn how to upload sermons to your church website's sermon library — step by step, so every message stays online, searchable, and working long after Sunday. This walkthrough covers the full process for adding a sermon in your WordPress dashboard: uploading the video, audio, or PDF, filling in the details that make sermons findable (book, speaker, series, topic), and publishing it the right way — with the correct preached date and a featured image. Whether you're clearing a backlog or posting this week's message, follow along and you'll have a clean, discoverable sermon page every time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT'S COVERED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▸ Finding the Sermons area and starting a new sermon ▸ Adding the title and pasting in a transcript ▸ Attaching your media — video, audio, and/or PDF (including a YouTube link) ▸ Uploading files to the Media Library (required for PDFs like bulletins) ▸ Opening the Settings panel and adding a featured image ▸ Setting the publish date to the date the sermon was preached ▸ Filling in Books, Speakers, Topics, Series, and Tags for search + SEO ▸ Previewing, publishing, and viewing the finished sermon live on your site ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DON'T MISS THESE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Publish date defaults to "immediately." Always change it to the date the sermon was actually preached, so your library stays in order. • Books + Speaker power the filters visitors use to find sermons — and they help your pages show up in search. Never skip them. • PDFs (like bulletins) must be uploaded to your Media Library before you can attach them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY IT MATTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A sermon library isn't just storage. When your sermons are online, tagged, and searchable, they keep teaching — reaching visitors, members who missed a Sunday, and people searching for the very passage your pastor just preached. That's ongoing, faithful disciple-making instead of a message that disappears when the service ends. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Five More Talents builds SEO-optimized websites for conservative, Bible-believing churches. If you'd like a sermon library like this one — set up and working for you — we'd love to help. 🌐 Website: https://fivemoretalents.com ❓ Help & support: https://fivemoretalents.freshdesk.com 📩 Questions? Leave them in the comments — we read and reply. If this was helpful, give it a 👍 and subscribe for more practical church-website tutorials. #ChurchWebsite #SermonLibrary #ChurchMedia #WordPressForChurches #ChurchTech