Church Admin Plugin
Organise and communicate church life
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Prayer Requests
The prayer requests custom post type was introduced alongside the Church Admin plugin smartphone app. From version 1.0963 it's a public custom post type - which means it is searchable and can be added to your front end. If you'd like to add Prayer requests to your Wordpress menu here's how! In the ...
Bible Reading Plan
One Sunday last year we did an informal poll to see how many of our congregation were reading the Bible every day. The results were a bit depressing. I don't know about you, but I'd like everyone engaged in reading the Scriptures every day and talking about what they are getting ...
Menu Items - Prayer Requests & Bible Readings
Are you using prayer requests and/or Bible readings? If you are you may want them to show up in your site menu. That is quite easy to do! Here's how Firstly, on the dashboard of your site click on "Appearance" and the "Menu" Then you will see a screen like this which includes ...
Google Map Changes July 2018
Google made a change yesterday! Google made a change yesterday (25th June) that fully comes into play on the 16th July. For most of us, Google maps on our websites will still be free but... You need to put a credit/debit card on your google account that you used to get your ...
Ministries, Small groups and classes
The most frequent question I get asked is... What is the difference between ministries, groups and classes? Every church is different and different nations have different ways of doing things - for instance, in the UK Sunday school is for children during the sermon, but in the US it seems to often ...
Making the most of the address list
The address list is the core feature of the Church Admin plugin - everything else comes out of who and what you have stored there. The address list is based around "households" - I define a household as family unit based at a single address. I tend to create a new ...
Podcasting on iTunes
If you want to get your sermons onto iTunes as a podcast, first please follow the instructions to get it on Spotify. Then go to https://podcastsconnect.apple.com/my-podcasts/new-feed You'll need an Apple ID - you don't need a Mac or iOS device to have one! Then paste in your feed URL which will be domainname/wp-content/uploads/sermons/podcast.xml If ...
Using Soundcloud in Sermons
Church Admin works best when you upload your sermon mp3s to your own site and add them that way. But it does allow external files. A few people have asked me about Soundcloud - finding the URL of your files is a bit convoluted as the intention is you use their ...
Volunteers
Attracting volunteers I've just added a new volunteering section to the Church Admin Plugin. The idea is that you set a team contact for each of your "ministries" and choose which ministries you are happy for people to volunteer for online. Then you create a shortcode page [church_admin type="volunteer"] Logged in church ...
Small Group Oversight Structure
Organising Small Group Structure. Moses couldn't cope with looking after the whole of Israel on his own, so Jethro told him to organise the people of God into thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. Churches using the Church Admin plugin vary in size from 20 to 2,000, so will need a different size structure ...
Follow Up Funnels
Do you follow up visitors to your church each Sunday? They are much more likely to return and get rooted in if you do! Do you have a process of follow up that takes someone from being a first time visitor to a member? The Church Admin plugin has follow up ...
General Data Protection Regulations
From the 25th May 2018 all organisations within the EU have had to comply with the new General Data Protection Regulations (GPDR). That's a good thing surprisingly as our personal data will have to be handled more responsibly and with permission. If you are not EU based, it's still common sense ...
Event Ticketing
Our churches hosts lots of evangelistic events and parties and so now the Church Admin Plugin has an event ticketing module. You can create events with multiple ticket options. Logged in users can book quickly and others can enter their name to get their ticket. Free events work out of the ...
Sessions
I added the sessions module for a church that wanted to keep track of how people in small groups were getting cared for. The idea was to log how people were contacted and connected with. It can be used in the back end or via the shortcode [church_admin type="sessions"] First you ...
Podcasting
If you are using the Sermon section of Church Admin, you may know that you get an iTunes compatible podcast feed. People can subscribe to your podcast to listen to episodes (Sermons). iOS users will have their own Podcast app that uses the iTunes feed and Android users mostly use ...
Help we have to livestream during the pandemic!
All across the world churches are having to adapt fast as public gatherings are banned or advised to stop. There's so many opportunities for the church to be salt and light in this season, but that's another post. This article is about how to setup a livestream on your church website ...
Live-streaming with a webcam and Youtube
In the midst of these unprecedented days, the Lord is unleashing creativity upon the church as we find creative ways to carry on meeting together to strengthen and encourage our flocks and be missional. Earlier in the week I posted an article "Help we have to livestream during the pandemic" ...
How to embed Facebook live on your WordPress website
1) Click on the video as it's on 2) On the top right corner, click on the world icon and then Public 3) Right click in the video and the Show Video URL You can then copy the URL and paste it onto a page or post - (if you pasted it in ...
Installing Church Admin
Installing plugins is pretty simple with Wordpress and one of the reasons why it is such a powerful content management screen. Login into your site and click the Plugins link on the left hand side of yoursite.com/wp-admin Click on Add New Then type Church Admin into the search bar on the right and ...
Setting up Google Maps with Church Admin (May 2019)
Setting up a Google Maps Platform API key will maximised the power of many modules of Church Admin, allowing mapping and geolocation (map pins on the precise address of you church or people) for the address list, services and small groups. Google have made the process a little ...
What is a household?
The household is the key building block of people within the Church admin plugin and needs defining! A household is a connected group of people living at the same address. They can all share the same last name or have different ones. They can be related or not. And there can ...
The first screen...
After you have installed the church admin plugin, it starts off pretty locked down. The plugin is based around the people in your church, so you need to add some households before you can do anything else. You have two options for adding some people 1) Import a csv file of your ...
Import Address List CSV
The fastest way to populate your address list is using the "Import Address List CSV button, which leads to this screen... You need to prepare a comma separated values file with the first row as column headers. Check "Overwrite current address details?" if you are wanting to replace what is currently ...
Address List Filtering
One of the recent powerful features of the Church Admin plugin, is the ability to filter the address list to drill down what you want to see. This feature is also used to choose recipients of emails and bulk sms. Simply check the fields you want to see and the plugin ...
Modules
The church admin plugin is made up of 14 modules, shown as tabs across the top of the screen. People Is the module for editing the people in the plugin You can also download pdfs, and csv files Edit Member Types - this is where you can categorise the membership level of a person, ...
Adding/Editing a household
Adding or editing a household is made up of two things - the address details and the people's details. On clicking Add Household, the next screen shows those two parts. The standard name fields are first name and last name. You can also have a middle name, prefix and nickname fields - ...
Search Results
If you type a name into the church admin menu page search bar, you will get a list of results for address list, rota/schedule and media. If you click Delete Household - that whole household will be deleted. Clicking the Last name - brings up a deleted household screen Clicking a first name ...
Member Types
Member types is a helpful feature that we use primarily to communicate to different people. Member Type management is found on the People tab. On first install there are two member types - Mailing List and Member. If you imported contacts by CSV then everyone is in the mailing list member ...
Rota / Schedule
Building a rota (US - schedule) is a powerful tool in the Church Admin plugin. It can appear on your front end using a shortcode, it's on the smartphone app and you can automatically email it out or manually send it to participants with a message. By default, church admin sets ...
Attendance Tracking
The attendance tracking section is found under the Services tab on the Church Admin Plugin screen. Once you have some data stored a graph will show. Attendance data can be entered one of two ways 1) Using the Add Service Attendance button, which brings up this screen.. On saving you get the list again... 2) ...
Geolocating
For map functions to work, addresses need geo-locating - which means their longitude and latitude need to be stored. Here's how... Click on the address to bring up the address edit screen. Edit the address if necessary and then click on Please click here to update map location.... Drag and drop the ...