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Can anyone recommend the best method in Enfold to present what amounts to a weekly video blog entry?
Each week my church video records and publishes online our Sunday sermon as a video message. The messages are grouped together in a Sermon Series, so each Series needs a landing page featuring the most recent video, and links to view the other videos in the Series. There also needs to be a Series Archive page that has a gallery linking to each Sermon Series. An example of this being done by another church is here.
I tried using the Portfolio item feature, where each week’s video message is a Portfolio Item, and the Series of portfolio items is a Category. This gets me close to what I’m looking for, but I’ve encountered a few problems:
- the portfolio item page requires a featured image if I want the portfolio entry to have a graphic elsewhere on the site, but adding the featured image places the image at the top of my portfolio page where I don’t want it (because the video is already there)
- using the Blog Posts tool to feature the latest video message gives me the Featured Image rather than a viewable video that plays in the page
I feel like treating each week’s sermon as a blog entry of some sort is the right direction to go, but, being new to Enfold (and building web sites at all), I am having difficulty dialing it in. Any advice?
Hi Joe!
Blog is the best way to go since it has the absolute most blog-style functionality which it sounds like you are looking for. The issue will be in how you will be able to and want the user to navigate to the most recent video.
Try simplifying things a bit and making the weekly video post have the featured image, then select the check box to hide the featured image on the single post page and put the video at the top embeded within the post.
On your landing page you would need to individually manicure it a bit more when adding the new item each week if you wanted the video to play right from that landing page. Otherwise it could go directly to the single post page where the video would show.
You could use a magazine or blog element or even a masonry element showing posts by category for that.
Cheers!
Devin
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