Manage The Home Page & Main Pages Of Your Sermon Hub

The Sermon Hub is the gateway to all your sermons, playlists, and everything else pertaining to your sermon archive.

While your Sermon Hub exists just like any other webpage on your Nucleus Website, it's also a special page different from any other page you might create in Nucleus Web, featuring specific pieces of content, formatted in specific ways. So it's good to review what's actually being showcased on your Sermon Hub and make any changes you see fit for your specific context.

To get started, click on Sermon Hub in Nucleus Sermons. Click here for a quick link.

In this guide, we'll cover the following topics. Click on any one to jump ahead.

Linked Color & Font Settings With Nucleus Web

While Nucleus Sermons is managed as its own product within the Dashboard, Sermons is deeply connected with Nucleus Web. For instance, all of your fonts in Sermons are controlled within Nucleus Web here. And any color options (like editing the entire color palette of your Sermon Hub) is controlled here in Nucleus Web, as the color palette affects both products.

While you can't edit any font details of your Sermon Hub directly in Sermons, you do have a bit of control over certain color choices in your Sermon Hub based on the color options chosen in Nucleus Web.

For instance, just like you can choose between 4 different color palette versions while editing a section on a page in Nucleus Web, you can do the same thing for each section on your Sermon Hub homepage (along with a few other areas too).

In other words, while Nucleus Sermons is managed as its own separate product outside of Nucleus Web, it's intended that the Sermon Hub exists as part of your website, and thus some style settings extend to both products, namely your fonts and colors.

Mange The Sections On Your Sermon Hub Homepage

The Sermon Hub homepage is the main landing page where people can access all of your main categories (i.e. sections) of how you want to display your sermons.

Think of the Sermon Hub just like another page on your Nucleus Website, with very specific sections you can add:

  • Featured Sermon
  • Recent Sermons
  • Playlists
  • Speakers
  • Bible Books
  • Topics

By default, the Featured Sermon, Recent Sermons, and Playlists sections will already be added, but you can show all 6 sections (or any combination of those) in any order you'd like. Let's explore how to do that below.

To get started, click on Sermon Hub in Nucleus Sermons. Click here to head right there. This will take you to the main Create tab at the top menu of your Sermon Hub, and on the Hub Homepage in the left sidebar.

Here, you choose which sections you want to add to your homepage by clicking, well, the Add button 😁

To reorder the sections, click the two lines on a section and drag it up/down to your desired position.

By clicking the down arrow, you can select one of two options:

  • Rename
  • Remove

Once you have the sections added and in the order you want, you can edit the way each section appears on your Sermon Hub homepage. To do this, simply click on a section you want to customize.

Here, you can select different color palette variation or adjust the background of the section.

And if at any point in time you're unhappy with any changes you've made, you can always click the Reset to Defaults button.

If you're feeling spicy today, you can even add custom CSS code to enhance/change the way the section looks. Simply click to edit the color/background options, and you'll see the tab for Custom Code. (Note: This is an advanced feature and shouldn't be used unless you understand what you are inputting.)

All of the changes you make here are autosaved, so you can close that page and click Back to All or Next depending on if you want to continue editing your other sections or not.

When you want to preview your changes, you can always click the Preview button which will open a new tab to your Sermon Hub homepage.

After previewing your changes, you can also click Reset all to Defaults which will change your edits to all of your sections rather than just the one section you're working on.

Customize Each Section's Main Page

While editing the way your Sermon Hub homepage looks, it's time to explore what all the other main pages of your Sermon Hub will look like. There are 5 main pages within your Sermon Hub:

  • All Playlists
  • All Scripture
  • All Speakers
  • All Topics
  • Search

To edit these, click on Sermon Hub in Nucleus Sermons. Then select Pages in the left sidebar. Click here for a quick link. Then click on Edit for the page you want to customize.

All main pages consist of two sections:

  • The header
  • The actual content specific to that page.

The exception of this is the Search page, where the header is a very specific type of section and has less customizable options.

To rename the section (for admin purposes only), click the down arrow and select Rename.

To edit a section, simply click on one.

Customize The Header Section

For the header section, if you're familiar with Nucleus Web, you'll notice this is just an Information Section and will be very accustomed to all of the options available to you, like how to change the layout and adjust text and button options, right down to adding actions (i.e. buttons) to your section.

To edit the appearance of your section, click on any of the 5 options at the top (e.g. Adjust Text & Buttons), and you'll be able to navigate through the various tabs at the top of the page to explore all of your design options.

All your changes are autosaved, but as you make changes, you might want to preview what that looks like on the front end. To do this, click the Close button and click the Preview button in the top right corner, which will open a new tab in your browser.

To edit any text that appears in your header section, simply type in the Top Label, Headline, and/or Body text fields, being sure to make use of the various text tools. (These tools are also available for the Top Label and Headline. Simply click the text field and the options will appear.)

Note: If you'd like a bit more in-depth instructions on all the text tools, click here to check out our visual guide for the Information Section in Nucleus Web.

Note: You'll notice the Headline is already filled. We recommend keeping this as is, though if you truly feel strongly to change this, all the power to you.

If you want to add any actions (i.e. buttons) to your header section, scroll down and click on + Add an Action.

Here, you can select a particular type of action, each with its own unique item to link to it. Then you can add the call-to-action (CTA) text, and select which button style you want. (Button styles are managed within Nucleus Web here.) When you're happy with your choices, click Add New Action.

If you have more than one action, you can click the two lines on an action and drag it up/down to your desired order.

All of your changes are autosaved, so you can go through to all your different pages and edit them without needing to worry about losing your changes 😊

Customize The List Section

For a list section (where the actual content for the page exists), you can adjust the same options as you can as the sections on your Sermon Hub homepage: the colors and background (with the option to also add custom CSS code as an advanced setting).

Customize The Search Header

The Search Header is a bit of a combination between any of the other header sections and list sections, where you can customize only the color palette variations and background of the section, but you can still edit the text of the section. There is no option to add an action here.

What About Each Individual Sermon's Page?

So, you can edit each section on your Sermon Hub homepage. You can also edit each main page on your Sermon Hub ("All Sermons", "All Playlists", "All Speakers", etc.) What about an individual sermon's page and how it looks? Or an individual playlist's page?

If you're looking to edit the template for each individual item's page, you can do this by clicking on Templates in the left sidebar while managing your Sermon Hub. (Click here for a quick link.)

That being said, these pages are distinctly created to match the rest of your Sermon Hub, so unless you're a true go-getter and want to adjust every single setting in your Nucleus Dashboard, these are advanced settings and don't need to be changed in most cases.

What Next?

While making sure your Sermon Hub's main page, along with all your section's main pages, are curated the way you want is a great first step, there are several other settings you can adjust to make your Sermon Hub exactly how you want it. Click any of the links below to learn more:

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