We're shipping a lot of features very quickly now. As a response to that and to better keep things updated in real time, we've moved the changelog to inside the platform.

View the changelog at https://app.thechurchco.com/admin/changelog

Your Church Center announcements can now live on your website. Drop in the new Planning Center Announcements block and it pulls your announcements, image, title and summary, straight from Planning Center, with each card linking back to Church Center. Update the announcement in Planning Center and your website follows automatically.

Set a limit, show all announcements or featured only, scope to a single category, and lay them out however you like (columns, rows, left/right or a horizontal carousel).

Just add your Church ID under Settings → Integrations → Planning Center to get started. Available on Premium plans and above.

Sometimes a page on your website moves, gets renamed, or is retired — but people still have the old link bookmarked, shared on social media, or saved in a Google search. A automatically sends visitors from that old URL to wherever the content lives now, so nobody lands on a broken page.

Redirects are also handy any time you want a short, memorable link on your site to forward to a longer or more complicated page.

You'll find Redirects under in your admin sidebar.

Every redirect you create shows up in this list along with its status (published or draft). Redirects follow the same publishing rules as your other content — a redirect only takes effect once it's , and you can schedule it to go live or expire on a specific date using the same publishing controls you're used to elsewhere in the admin.

> A redirect only fires when the URL a visitor requests doesn't match a real page on your site. If you still have an actual page living at that address, the page always wins — the redirect will simply be ignored.

The most common use case is forwarding one old URL to one new URL — for example, someone moved to .

- — use this if the move might not be permanent. It tells search engines to keep the original URL in their index for now.

- — use this once you're sure the old page is gone for good. Search engines will update their listings to point to the new address.

Your redirect is now live — anyone who visits the old URL will be sent straight to the new one.

> Editing a redirect applies your changes to your live website immediately, so double check the destination before saving.

If you've reorganized a whole section of your website — for example, renaming your "Sermons" section to "Episodes" — you don't need to create a separate redirect for every single sermon. Instead, you can redirect the entire section at once using a wildcard.

To do this, end your with . This tells the redirect to catch anything underneath that path, no matter how deep.

The admin will show you a short reminder of this syntax right underneath the Target Url field, so you don't need to memorize it.

> The wildcard can only be used at the very end of a Target Url, as a final segment. If you try to use it anywhere else (like ), you'll see a validation message explaining the problem when you try to save — the form checks your entry as soon as you click , so you can fix it right away.

For more control than a wildcard offers, you can use a named placeholder like . This works like the wildcard, but it only matches exactly part of the URL (called a "segment") — and you can reuse the matched value by name in your destination, even in a different position or a query string.

Wrap the placeholder name in square brackets, and use the same name in both the Target Url and the Destination URL:

A few things worth knowing about named placeholders:

Yes. Just enter the full web address (including ) in the Destination URL field.

No — most redirects are simple, one-to-one address changes. Wildcards and named placeholders (, , ) are only needed when you want one redirect rule to cover many URLs at once.

Temporary redirects are meant for changes that might be reversed later, while Permanent redirects tell search engines the move is final. If you're not sure, Temporary is the safer choice — you can always switch it to Permanent later.

Deleted redirects go to your trash along with your other content, and can be restored from there just like a page or blog post.

We've added the ability to delay when the popup shows up on your website.

Enter the number of seconds you'd like to wait in the Settings section of the Announcement. This is supported on Banners and Popups. Notifications are a carousel so the delay doesn't apply to them.

You can now adjust the size of a text container by dragging the side to get the perfect width.

A small thing but this makes it easier to search for the right image to use.

We've launched a new product called Insights.

Insights is a powerful tool that gives you analytic data about your account.

This includes website analytics, form submissions, prayer stats, giving data and announcement data.

It's here! You can now add a count down timer to any Rich Text Area.

We've extended the HTML block to support AI generated code.

Add an HTML Block.

Enter Your HTML

Check the Block Takeover checkbox.

The Code takes over the full block

Unfortunately we aren't able to debug and support AI generated code. So if you opt into using this feature, you'll need to go back to your AI source for updates.

We've made it easier to identify which block is which when unpublished.

We take the main title and add it to the unpublished label