Church Admin Plugin

Showing Church Admin elements on your website

There are two ways to show Church Admin elements on your website — on a page or a post.

Use a shortcode

Shortcodes are a shorthand way of telling WordPress to put some content from a plugin on your website. They’re a command inside square brackets. Up until WordPress 5, this was the only way to display plugin content — you can still use them if you have the Classic Editor plugin active, or via the Shortcode block.

An example is

Register/Login

, which puts the registration/edit address entry form on a page.

Shortcodes can also take options. The main Church Admin shortcode is

Help! I don't know my password

— without any options it defaults to showing the address list. For personal data security, only logged-in users can see the address list; everyone else gets a login form.

To show the various modules of Church Admin, add the type option, for example:

Help! I don't know my password

Others are:

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    — displays the calendar

  • Help! I don't know my password

     — displays upcoming birthdays

  • Help! I don't know my password

     — displays the rota (known as a schedule in the US). Requires the Premium Rota module.

  • Help! I don't know my password

     — displays a logged-in user’s own rota’d tasks. Requires the Premium Rota module.

Most of these shortcodes have further options, explained in the manual and on your dashboard under Church Admin → Settings → Shortcodes.

Use a block

WordPress 5.0 introduced the block editor for creating and editing pages and posts. There are a number of Church Admin blocks you can use — each one has its own options in the panel on the right when you select it. It’s generally easier to use than the old shortcodes.

The options for the address list block:

Address list block options panel
Church Admin block inserted in the block editor

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