How Tags Can Organize Your Videos & Series
Easily organize your audio & videos with tagging!
Your audio or videos can be sorted based on a series, speaker, or even topic. Here is how you can make that happen...
If you have never added audio or video to your Grow or Flourish plan site before, you will want to start by watching this video for context.
Once you understand the basic setup, here is what you will want to know about the tagging area...
1. ADD TITLE For clarity purposes, the Audio/Video Title should be different from a Series title.
2. ADD DATE
3. ADD SPEAKER NAME Once you enter the speaker's name, if it has been used before, the system will offer that name to you in a drop-down menu.
4. ADD SERIES TITLE For a Series, you have two options... 1) Add a new series title and image <or> 2) Use a current series by selecting it from the drop-down menu.
5. ADD BIBLE PASSAGE For adding Bible passages, you will want to spell things out (such as "Genesis 1:1" instead of "Gen. 1:1") since you don't know how your site visitor will search. It's best to have the complete title of the Bible passage entered into the information area.
6. ADD TAGS The information you place in this entire box will be the information the system will use for an actual search - except the date. To search by date, you will have to add the date as an actual tag (see image for sample idea). Do not add numbers only (ie: 2021) - a date tag must include the month written out (such as April 2021) with no spaces.
A note about adding tags... Since the system will include the title and speaker in a search, you will not need to create a tag that includes that information.
NEED TO SEARCH FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR?
To search for an entire year of audio/videos, you can edit your URL in your browser bar for an easy search. To do this, add the bolded info to your URL: yourchurch.org(or .com, etc.)/audio-video/ tag/year/2020/ Whichever year you are searching for, add that year to the end of the URL.
Once your audio/videos are updated on your website, your visitors will have two different viewing options... they can choose to view a listing of all audio/videos, or they can view them by series.
If you have already loaded multiple audio or videos, be sure to go back and add the extra information for the tags or series.