PulpitKit

Small churches need the same four things on their website every week — a sermon archive, a podcast, a livestream page, and events — and usually have to stitch together three to five plugins (or buy into a theme ecosystem) to get them.

PulpitKit does all four in one free plugin, with any WordPress theme:

• Sermon library — Sermons with series, speakers, topics, scripture references, audio (upload or URL), video (YouTube/Vimeo), and sermon-notes/bulletin PDFs.
• Podcast feed, free — Every sermon with audio automatically appears in an Apple Podcasts / Spotify compatible RSS feed, with cover artwork, author, and category settings. (Other church plugins charge extra for podcasting — PulpitKit doesn’t.)
• Recurring events, free — Weekly, every-2-weeks, monthly, and “nth weekday” (2nd Sunday) events with automatic upcoming-events lists. (Also free here.)
• Livestream panel — Embeds your YouTube or Facebook stream and knows your service schedule: it shows a “Live Now” state during services and the next service time the rest of the week.
• Works with ANY theme — Sermons, events, and the livestream panel display through shortcodes or blocks with their own built-in styling. No compatible-theme purchase required.

Switching from Sermon Manager? Sermon Manager was closed on WordPress.org in December 2025 and no longer receives updates. PulpitKit’s one-click importer (Tools → PulpitKit Import) copies your Sermon Manager sermons — series, speakers, topics, scripture, dates, audio, video, and notes — into PulpitKit and reports exactly what was imported. Your originals are never modified, and re-running the importer never creates duplicates. A generic CSV importer is included as a fallback for other sources.

Shortcodes

• [pulpitkit_sermons] — sermon library (limit, series, speaker options)
• [pulpitkit_events] — upcoming events (limit option)
• [pulpitkit_live] — livestream panel with live-now / next-service state

The same displays are available as blocks: search the editor for “PulpitKit”.