Latest Changes

4.15.8March 28, 2025

Gather around, digital disciple-makers, because we’ve just unveiled a divine new feature on our Digital Church platform that’s sure to make waves – or should we say sound waves? Say hello to our latest innovation: the Automatic Podcast Import!

Picture this: it’s a Sunday morning. You’re sipping your coffee, browsing through the latest sermons, and—voila!—there they are, the freshest episodes of your favorite faith-filled podcast, automatically imported and ready for your listening pleasure. That’s right, folks, you can now seamlessly bring your audio ministry to life without lifting a finger thanks to our new feature.

By navigating to Dashboard > Settings > Integrations in your admin area, you can enable this heavenly helper to check your RSS feed daily. If it finds any new entries, it will grace your website with the latest episodes, ensuring your congregation is always up to date with the audible gospel. Whether you host your podcast on Podbean or another service, this feature brings them directly to your digital doorstep.

You might be wondering why we’d offer such a celestial convenience. Well, in the age of digital discipleship, your online presence is more important than ever. It’s not just about uploading content; it’s about engaging your audience in meaningful ways. Podcasts offer a unique and intimate way to reach your followers, and this automatic import allows you to focus on creating divine content without worrying about the technical back-end details.

This integration is more than just a feature; it’s a digital miracle. Imagine the joy of knowing that your congregation has instant access to spiritual guidance with the click of a button or the tap of a screen. It’s like having a choir of angels singing sweet hallelujahs directly into their earbuds.

And let’s not forget the time and effort you’ll save, allowing you to spend more moments in fellowship, creativity, and community engagement. It’s a gift that keeps on giving—a noble endeavor to be sure!

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital evangelism, staying connected with your audience has never been easier. Our goal is simple: to empower your ministry in the most effective and efficient way possible. With this new integration, Digital Church is taking a glorious step forward in supporting your spiritual mission.

So, dear digital evangelists, let this be your call to action. Dive into your dashboard and activate this feature. Let your voice be heard, your message be shared, and let the digital congregation grow. Happy podcasting, and may your audios be ever blessed!

4.13.7February 14, 2025

Today we’re shipping a new dark mode for the dashboard. Currently, it will automatically activate if your system is in darkmode, so if your system is set to automatically adjust at sundown, you’ll have some nice, relaxing dashboard screens at night. 🙂

This doesn’t affect the post editor yet, but all the other pages should be looking nice and dark. We’ll add the post editor darkmode soon, but we want to take some time to fix any little bugs or issues with the darkmode we shipped today first.

4.13.0February 12, 2025
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At Digital Church, we’re working hard to deliver the most up-to-date, easy-to-use platform for churches to power their church websites and management systems in one place. We’ve just rolled out an updated dashboard that utilizes the latest technologies to make it easier to navigate and use. This new admin menu lays the groundwork for upcoming updates to our admin user interface that we will be rolling out over the coming months.

3.2.0October 24, 2023

Our previous implementation of announcements allowed for a single announcement to be set for your website. We’ve started to implement a new post type for announcements so you can have multiple announcements scheduled with expiration dates.

3.1.19October 23, 2023

We’ve made a few tweaks to the code that powers our livestream. Now, instead of only using the live-stream shortcode, you can also use livestream. We also made a few improvements to the timer display so it looks better on smaller devices. In addition to that, we made some changes to the register page template to use the new register shortcode for

3.1.18October 20, 2023

This release included some small tweaks to the iframe code that embeds videos. This should fix some display issues we’ve seen on sermon pages. While we were there, we added a field to stories to be able to select a custom aspect ratio to power vertical videos and other aspect ratios better.

3.1.18October 20, 2023

In this update, we made a few small tweaks to the stories feature, including updating our front-end layouts to work with vertical video aspect ratios. We added an option to select the correct aspect ratio for videos in stories and also made it s the name is no longer a required field. Some css was also added to help .videoWrapper iframe to work properly on existing sermon videos.

3.1.17October 19, 2023

Previously, we’ve used a third-party plugin called Ultimate Member to handle all of our user account related pages, like Login, Logout, Password Reset, Register, and Account. We are beginning to build our own solution to replace Ultimate Member with better functionality. This begins with new shortcodes for register, password, login forms, as well as custom routes for /account, /auth, /login, /logout, /password pages. Now you won’t have to manage a page in the backend for each of these. They will automatically work across our sites.

3.1.16October 17, 2023

In this update, we adapted our livestream features to use the .widescreen class that we had previously created. This will allow us more flexibility in the future to be able to accommodate other stream aspect ratios in the future. We also adjusted the order of the tabs in the livestream tabs section to place Giving ahead of the Bible embed. We made some minor updates to the starter layouts for Group archives as well.

3.1.15October 16, 2023

In this release, we have added a field to our Groups functionality to include a group video. To use this, you’ll need to have your frontend layout updated for groups, so reach out to us for help with that. We also added some new utility classes for videos, which you can read more about in our guide on Video Wrappers. Lastly, we updated some of the styles for our No team members found. shortcode. See this guide for more information.