Posts by: Andy Moyle

A change to the pricing of the Plugin

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Church Admin Plugin is around 12 years old now and its time to give it a more sustainable future with a change of pricing. Current premium licence holders won’t be affected by the change. But from now on, everyone who already has the free plugin or install it will get a 28 day trial of […]

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Android App Woes

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Some Android users off the app have been reporting the app getting stuck on a blank page with Home at the top. And others get an “Oops – perhaps Church Admin needs updating or the website is down” message If it’s the blank page issue… Somehow the cached data has got corrupted. Clearing app data […]

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Stopping spam

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Recently I have had a rash of registrations that are obviously not real people – spam registrations. I am utterly sick of spam! So I decided to do something about it. Akismet doesn’t stop spam registrations, only spam comments and it’s quite expensive. I’d swapped to AntiSpamBee for their free comment spam plugin which was […]

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Styling the prayer request form

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Today someone sent me a screenshot of the prayer request form from their website – it looked awful! It’s a nice clean theme, but this page looks awful. What can you do? Depends on how confident you are with html! If you right click and then inspect on the page, you will be able to […]

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Learnt something new today 3.0.0

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When is 2.7763890 greater than 2.778000? When the numbers are computer program versions! And that is why some of you haven’t been able to update Church Admin plugin for a while! Today I learned that computer program numbers are three numbers separated by 2 dots… The first number is the major version, the second number is […]

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Roles and permissions

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I’ve improved permissions and roles When you first install the Church Admin plugin, the default is that only users with “administrator” role can access the backend admin area. Any users created by registering/editing the address list are given a very basic “subscriber” role – they cannot create posts or pages etc. There are two ways […]

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Maps, Directions and App registration

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Today’s church admin plugin update makes a usability tweak to the “church_admin_register” shortcode and block. The first step of entering the email address and clicking next step will check if it’s a returning user or registration and offer the next step. A confirmation email will be sent on saving and a subscriber user account is […]

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That Sunday

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I’ll never forget that Sunday. It was a year or two into leading my first church plant. I was in a lot of pain from a slipped disc still and no-one turned up to set out the chairs, or do the P.A. I’d forgotten my mobile (it was in the days when they only made […]

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PayPal giving fund

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For UK Churches there is a PayPal giving fund, where there are no charges on any online donations made to your church. Donors can also opt to Gift Aid what they give which will give their gifts a 25% boost from the government. You’ll need a Church PayPal account – which has been verified as […]

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Do you hate spam contact messages?

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I hate getting spam, it’s such a time waster! But I do want genuine contacts here and on my church website that aren’t trying to grow body parts, get me better SEO or design a website for me! There’s a couple of things that you can do to help stop spam and make it easy […]

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Emergency password reset

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Occasionally you will need to reset everyone’s password to make sure your site is staying secure. I created an emergency password reset plugin some years ago that does that and emails everyone to let them know. It can also change SALTs too – they are random gobbledygook that are used to salt sensitive data before […]

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Service pre-booking

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I’ve just created a YouTube video on how to set up service pre-booking on your WordPress website using the Church Admin plugin Hope it helps! Do sign up for the email list to get the free PDF manual for the whole of Church Admin Plugin – http://eepurl.com/dFmsUT

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Communicating in a Crisis

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Sometimes we need to get a message out to the church quickly… All across the world many churches are having to communicate quickly to their people that they can’t meet because of the current Covid-19 crisis. We sent out an email yesterday to let our people know we are still meeting and today I’m getting […]

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Kidswork Checkin & Checkout

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Safeguarding children with checkin and checkout As churches grow we need safe systems for making sure children are collected by their parents. The latest update (v2.2800) includes a simple paper based system for checking children in and out to Sunday school groups. The form screenshot above is on the Children tab of Church Admin. Check […]

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Better rota workflow

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Better Workflow Sometimes I want to edit our schedule/rota/roster quickly, so I’ve restored the inline editing feature and made it zing. Click an entry to make it editable. Hope you like it. On the front end users can pick a service and month easier too. No longer the early adopters! On of our best preachers is […]

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Small groups pdf

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Small groups Are vital for any church that is growing past 50 – they provide a great way of people caring for one another, discipleship and even friendship evangelism. The early church met in small groups and gathered the whole church together (Acts 2:42-47). In the Old Testament, Moses was told in no uncertain terms to […]

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