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I have made a few changes to the module permissions in Church Admin. For example the “Bulk Email” permission is split into “Bulk Email”, “Bulk SMS” and “Push”. When upgrading to v4.5.0, please check Church Admin > Settings > Roles or Permissions to make sure they are what you want them to be! Administrator level […]
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Church membership software allows church leaders and administrators to keep track of church membership, organise effective follow up of visitors and organise pastoral care well. With today’s concerns about data privacy, people’s personal data needs to be held securely and options given for privacy settings. The Church Admin plugin does all these things well. It’s […]
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WordPress is the most popular platform powering websites and church websites. One of the beauties of WordPress is that it can be extended by plugins that add to the functionality. There are literally hundred of thousands of plugins available for free or paid versions. Here’s our roundup of some of the most useful WordPress plugins […]
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CRM software allows companies to manage relationships with customers. Many church members will use them in their everyday work. Churches don’t have customers! But they do need to manage relationship with their congregations and visitors. Thankfully there are church specific CRM tools out there, generally called Church Management Software comes in – a CRM specially […]
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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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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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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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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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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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I love having the maps working! I find the map and directions links particularly useful on the Our Church app when I want to visit someone.They also allow you to show your church location, small groups and address list maps on your website. If you haven’t got mapping working yet, then there is a tutorial […]
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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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So this evening I got in touch with a web client who had not paid an invoice I’d sent him by email in January. I used WhatsApp to ask if he was not an email guy? The image above was his reply. I’m pretty sure that is the Guiness World Record for the most unread […]
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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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You can now target push notifications using the normal filter – they will go to logged in app users who match the filter conditions. The Black Friday offer of a lifetime one-off payment of $99 for your church to subscribe has ended but I have forgotten to up the price if you start from Church Admin>App […]
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In this crazy year we have all been taking our churches online. Back in March 2020 it was nigh on impossible to buy a webcam – they were sold out! I bought one that still hadn’t arrived 8 weeks later, got a refund and then it arrived and it was so poor quality it went […]
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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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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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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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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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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
