How to upload a sermon

Uploading the Sunday sermon is one of the most regular jobs on a church website, so Hubb makes it quick. This guide takes a single audio file from your computer to published on your site.

Uploading a sermon

1. Log in to your web office, go to the group where your sermons are stored and open its Media tab.
2. Click the upload area and choose the audio file from your computer. When it finishes, it appears at the top left of the files area with a draft tag; it stays in draft until you’ve tidied its details.
3. A quick word on the term ‘recording’: in Hubb, one sermon is one recording, and a recording can hold several files (audio, video, notes). Most churches start with one file per recording.
4. Click the recording to open it and give it a proper title, such as ‘The sermon on the mount’ rather than a filename. The properties autosave: change a field, move away, and it’s saved.
5. Add the speaker’s name, the date the sermon was preached, and a description if you like. The description feeds the media search, so a sentence with the words people might search for is time well spent.
6. Add a summary image with the blue pencil icon; 800x400 pixels is the size to aim for, and you can crop it in the built-in image editor if it isn’t right yet.
7. If you want them, add Bible references with the ‘Add Reference’ button: pick the book, chapters and verses, then click ‘Add’.
8. In the File section, rename the file to something friendly like ‘Sermon Audio’ (this doesn’t change the actual filename) and save the change.
9. Publish: click the orange draft box and select ‘published’, or use the three dots on the draft recording and choose ‘Publish’.
10. Check the sermons page on your website to see it live.

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Good to know

• A published recording appears on your sermons page immediately and is picked up by the site search.
• Recordings follow the same visibility rules as everything else in the group, so members-only recordings are possible if you need them.
• You can add video, sermon notes or a YouTube link to the same recording later; our next guide covers that.