I’ve created a number of church websites, and used WordPress for every one of them. The CMS in WordPress is SO easy for people to understand. Even an older lady secretary of a little white church can easily add the newsletter online each month on their WordPress-driven site.
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Description
This plugin is for church wordpress sites and has an smartphone app too – it adds an easy to use address directory and you can email and sms different groups of people.
- Small Groups – add, edit and delete
- Members – add, edit and delete
- Email- send an email to members, parents or small group leaders. Now has a template – make sure you update your settings to include Facebook page and twitter if you use them!
- Directory syncs to Mailchimp (not back yet)
- SMS – send bulk sms to members using www.bulksms.co.uk account (not just UK!)
- Sunday Rota – create and show rotas for your volunteers.
- Kidswork – automatically sort children into their age groups, with manual override
- Attendance tracking
- Ministries – people can have different ministries they are involved in and be sent SMS or email by role, other functions coming soon.
- Google map integrations for small groups and directories
- Calendar – month to view, agenda view and nth day recurring events (eg 3rd Sunday)
- Facilities – manage facilities like rooms and equipment and their bookings.
- The calendar now includes that most powerful of planning tools – the year planner!
- Volunteers – church members can volunteer online and be approved/decline by team leaders.
Credits:
Blocks
This plugin provides 17 blocks.
- church-admin/address-list
- Church Admin Address List
- church-admin/attendance
- Church Admin Attendance
- church-admin/birthdays
- Church Admin Birthdays
- church-admin/calendar
- Church Admin Calendar
- church-admin/register
- Church Admin Register
- church-admin/graph
- Church Admin Graph
- church-admin/member-map
- Church Admin Member Map
- church-admin/ministries
- Church Admin Ministries
- church-admin/my-rota
- Church Admin My Rota
- church-admin/sermon-podcast
- Church Admin Sermon Podcast
- church-admin/rota
- Church Admin Schedule
- church-admin/small-groups-list
- Church Admin Small Groups
- church-admin/small-group-members
- Church Admin Small Group Members
- church-admin/serving
- Church Admin Serving Request
- church-admin/sessions
- Church Admin Sessions
- church-admin/recent
- Church Admin Recent Directory activity
- church-admin/volunteer
- Church Admin Volunteer
Installation
- Upload the
church_admin
directory to the/wp-content/plugins/
directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Place [church_admin type=address-list member_type_id=# map=1 photo=1] on the page you want the address book displayed, member_type=1 for members, map=1 toshow map for geocoded addresses. The member_type_id can be comma separated e.g. member_type_id=1,2,3
- Place [church_admin type=small-groups-list] on the page you want the small group list displayed
- Place [church_admin type=small-groups ] on the page you want the list of small groups and their members displayed
- Place [church_admin type=rota] on the page you want the rota displayed
- Place [church_admin type=calendar category=# weeks=#] on the page you want a page per month calendar displayed
- Place [church_admin type=calendar-list] on the page you want a agenda view calendar – option category and weeks options pastable from category admin page
- There is a calendar widget with customisable title, how many events you want to show and an option for it to look like a post-it note
- Place [church_admin_map member_type_id=#] to show a map of colour coded small groups – need to set a service venue first to centre map and geolocate member’s addresses by editing them.
We recommend password protecting the pages – if it is password protected, a link is provided to logout
The # should be replaced with which member types you want displayed as a comma separated list e.g. member_type=1,2
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Reviews
We were looking for something more than just using a sermon browser plugin to post our latest talks at church. Andy Moyle has created a fantastic all in one product that serves the majority of backend church administration. From displaying your latest sermons to having a fully fledged member directory this is my favourite of all plugins I've ever used. Great support from Andy and regular updates.