Form and Function

About Support Prayer Requests Form and Function

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  • #2709
    Avatar for David Z.David Z.
    Participant

    Hey Andy, can you give us a quick rundown of how this works? Are prayer request posts? How are they added? Do they get emailed to the members? How can we view them online? Thanks.

    #3712
    Avatar for Andy MoyleAndy Moyle
    Keymaster

    Prayer requests are a custom post type.
    So you can add a Prayer Request Archive page quite simple from Appearance>Menus
    Prayer Requests should be an option to be added. I use “All Prayer Requests” and then it will be added to the menu and work basically blog post page.
    In the directory – you can check the checkbox marked “Prayer Chain” when you edit people individually or under Church Admin>Communications you add people to the prayer chain. They will then get an email every time a new Prayer request is posted by a site admin (or anyone with permission to post!)
    If you have the app – a push notification happens too.
    The Prayer Chain feature is a legacy feature for emailing/sms prayer requests. I only use the list of people subscribed to it and use “Prayer Requests” to post prayer requests.

    #3836
    Avatar for Brad
    Guest

    Hi
    Thanks for the great plugin.
    Does the prayer request start with a request form? I can’t find it, if it does.

    We need a form on the site that people can go to, fill out there prayer request, then it emails to the congregation (or a prayer group).

    I manually typed in a “test prayer request” under ADD NEW. I can also see how to add the prayer request page to the top menu, but when I click on that, I don’t see my “test prayer request”.

    Thanks for any help.
    Brad

    #3857
    Avatar for Andy MoyleAndy Moyle
    Keymaster

    The form for users to send a prayer request in for moderation is only available on the app currently (https://www.churchadminplugin.com/app). Will get the form added for a shortcode soon.

    In answer to your second question – Go to the dashboard for the website, click on prayer requests on the left hand side.
    Is your test prayer request in the list (should look like posts/pages format)? If so what is its’ status? Draft/Published – if it’s draft it’ll need publishing to be available on a prayer requests page.

    #3956
    Avatar for 365sussex365sussex
    Member

    @andymoyle said:
    The form for users to send a prayer request in for moderation is only available on the app currently (https://www.churchadminplugin.com/app). Will get the form added for a shortcode soon.

    In answer to your second question – Go to the dashboard for the website, click on prayer requests on the left hand side.
    Is your test prayer request in the list (should look like posts/pages format)? If so what is its’ status? Draft/Published – if it’s draft it’ll need publishing to be available on a prayer requests page.  

    Hi Andy – Re Prayer Request via Website I notice that if you select the All Prayer request option for menu item that you now get a place to log a prayer request at top of page but as its just a post page there is no way of formatting the input screen are there any plans to add this functionality and what sort of timescale would we be looking at

    #5878
    Avatar for Andy MoyleAndy Moyle
    Keymaster

    The Prayer requests are a “custom post” type. So they automatically use your theme’s template for archive posts and single post.
    You can adjust a theme, by creating a child theme to create some specific styling -https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/custom-post-type-template-files/ is an article about how to do that!

    The request form uses the same form styling as elsewhere in the plugin which is based on Bootstrap – again you can add some custom css if you wish.
    The form is prepended to the posts using the action ‘loop_start’ – which some themes don’t have (they should!) so over the years I have added actions for the7,omega and fusion so it goes at the top

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