Latest Changes

5.1.0June 23, 2025

As churches continue to navigate the digital landscape, providing an intuitive and appealing user experience becomes increasingly important. At Digital Church, we are committed to elevating your digital journey. Recently, we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to ensure our platform is not only modern but also user-friendly. Today, we are unveiling our latest feature—Dark Mode—on the Digital Church dashboard.

Building in public has been an exciting adventure for us. Sharing our progress and updates as they happen not only keeps you informed but also allows us to receive invaluable feedback that shapes our development. This new Dark Mode feature is part of our ongoing effort to modernize the platform’s interface. We understand the importance of a visually appealing and comfortable environment for users, especially during those late-night work sessions.

Dark Mode complements the contemporary sidebar design introduced a few months ago, which replaced the traditional WordPress admin menu with a React-driven, streamlined experience. This upgrade was aimed at providing you with an intuitive, seamless interface that enhances productivity while maintaining a modern look. The introduction of Dark Mode further enhances this experience by offering a sleek, eye-friendly alternative to our standard view.

So, why is Dark Mode such a game-changer? Apart from reducing eye strain and saving battery life on devices with OLED screens, it also aligns with the aesthetic preferences of many users. By switching to Dark Mode, you bring a touch of modernity and sophistication to your church’s digital presence. It’s not just about aesthetics; it’s about creating an environment that feels right for you and your team as you manage your church’s online community.

We invite you to experience these improvements for yourself. If you’re not already part of the Digital Church family, now is the perfect time to join us. Sign up for a free 45-day trial at digitalchurch.com and discover firsthand how our platform can transform your church’s digital engagement.

Your feedback is crucial to our growth and development. As we continue to innovate, we encourage you to share your thoughts and experiences with us. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe to our updates for the latest features and enhancements.

Join us on this exciting journey and see how Digital Church can elevate your church’s digital presence to new heights!

5.0.10June 16, 2025

We’ve been hard at work making your website smoother, smarter, and a little more fun to use. Here’s a quick tour of what’s changed lately:

👥 People & Team Pages

Show off your team in style!

There’s a brand new way to add people to your pages. Our updated page builder now includes a custom “person” module, so you can easily create beautiful staff or team sections. Click on a team member’s name and—voilà—a modern, React-powered popup with their bio appears. Plus, we’ve added simple classes to align text left or right, and made it easier than ever to have those perfectly circular profile pictures. Your About page just leveled up. These changes are still in development, so you’ll see the final product coming soon.

📢 Announcements

Announcements only when you need them.

We’ve streamlined how announcements work behind the scenes. Now, the announcements feature only loads if you’re actually using it—meaning a faster, lighter site for everyone else. And if you have multiple announcement bars running, they’ll now all be the same height, so your site looks neat and tidy (no more lopsided banners!).

🎨 Design & Identity

A fresh look and easier customization.

We’ve introduced a new identity settings area, so you can control your site’s appearance and branding all in one place. The admin area got a little facelift too, with improved spacing, fonts, and more. And while we temporarily removed dark mode (it’s getting a makeover), you can expect it back soon—looking better than ever.

🏗️ Performance & Compatibility

Faster, smarter, more compatible.

We’ve made a bunch of improvements under the hood:

• The site loads less code when features aren’t being used.
• We’ve added support for older themes like Avada, so your classic sites keep running smoothly.
• Our plugin and theme updates are now even more robust, with better handling for staging sites and subdomains.

🤖 AI & Code Maintainability

Building for the future.

We’re reorganizing our code and documentation to play nicely with AI tools. This means faster improvements, easier troubleshooting, and more helpful features coming your way.

🛠️ And Lots of Little Fixes

From improved podcast publishing to smarter event imports, and a whole host of plugin and theme updates, we’re always working to keep your website running at its best.

As always, if you notice anything odd or have ideas for new features, let us know! We love making things better for you.

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

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.