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Proclaim Component Overview

Overview

Proclaim (CWM Proclaim) is a Joomla component for managing and displaying Bible studies, sermons, and related media. It provides a complete solution for churches and ministries to organize, publish, and share their teaching content online.

Proclaim supports multi-campus deployments through its location system, GDPR-aware analytics, AI-assisted content creation, and deep integration with popular media platforms.

System Requirements

Requirement	Minimum Version
Joomla	5.1.0+ (also runs natively on Joomla 6)
PHP	8.3.0+

How to Access

From the Joomla Administrator: Components -> Proclaim

This opens the Control Panel, which provides quick links to all Proclaim sections.

Key Features

Content Management

• Messages -- The core entity. Each message represents a sermon or Bible study with title, date, scripture references, introduction, full text, and associated media files.
• Teachers -- Manage speaker profiles with biographies, contact details, social media links, and images. A message can have multiple teachers.
• Series -- Group related messages into sermon series with descriptions and images.
• Topics -- Tag-based classification system for organizing messages by subject matter. AI-assisted topic suggestions are available when an AI provider is configured.
• Locations -- Multi-campus location system. Assign messages, series, servers, and podcasts to specific locations. Non-admin users only see content for their authorized locations.
• Message Types -- Categorize messages by format (e.g., sermon, devotional, panel discussion).
• Comments -- Visitor comments on messages (can be enabled/disabled per message).

Media and Hosting

• Media Files -- Attach audio, video, and document files to messages. Each media file is linked to a server that defines how it is hosted and played.
• Servers -- Define media hosting platforms. Proclaim includes 15 server addons: Local, YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Wistia, SoundCloud, Resi, Rumble, Dailymotion, Embed Code, Direct Link, Legacy, Article (Joomla articles), VirtueMart, and DOCman.
• YouTube Sync -- Automatically sync metadata from YouTube videos. Includes API quota tracking and a health dashboard.
• Podcasts -- Generate podcast RSS feeds from your messages for distribution to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other platforms.

Presentation

• Templates -- Control how messages, teachers, series, and landing pages are displayed on the frontend using a visual Layout Editor.
• Template Codes -- Advanced PHP template files using placeholder tokens for pixel-perfect control.
• Layout Editor -- A drag-and-drop visual editor for arranging display elements. Supports 7 contexts: message lists, message details, teacher lists, teacher details, series lists, series details, and landing pages.

Administration

• Admin Center -- Central hub for database maintenance, backups, asset verification, analytics, CSV import, and YouTube status monitoring.
• Analytics Dashboard -- Chart.js-powered dashboard showing message views, media plays, downloads, and engagement trends. Supports GDPR opt-out and printable reports.
• CSV Import -- Bulk import messages from CSV files with 15 supported fields and automatic entity creation.

Getting Started

1. Install the Proclaim component package through Joomla's Extension Manager.
2. Navigate to Components -> Proclaim to open the Control Panel.
3. Visit Administration to run the database check and verify assets.
4. Create at least one Teacher and one Server (Local server is fine to start).
5. Create a Message, assign a teacher, and optionally add media files.
6. Create a Template or use Simple Mode to control frontend display.
7. Create a Joomla menu item pointing to a Proclaim view.

Tips

• Enable Simple Mode in component options for a quick setup without customizing templates.
• Use the Location system for multi-campus deployments -- assign access levels to each campus and Proclaim automatically filters content per user.
• The Analytics Dashboard is GDPR-aware -- visitors can opt out of tracking.
• Run Database Check from the Admin Center after upgrades to ensure all tables are current.

Related

• Help-admin -- Admin Center
• Help-messages -- Messages list view
• Help-servers -- Servers list view
• Help-templates -- Templates list view