Write an About, Beliefs or Ministries page

What to know

Each section offers Choose a photo by picture when JavaScript is available. Open it to see your ready library images, select a picture or No photo, then save your private draft. The original photo dropdown remains available. Picture selection never publishes changes. Browse nine guided starters and preview their outlines before choosing: About, Beliefs, Ministries, First visit, Ways to serve, Children and families, Accessibility, Church team and Community outreach.

Each offers headings and writing prompts, not ready-made claims about your church. Complete or remove each section, use only verified information and obtain permission for names and photos. Selecting a starter never saves or publishes a page. In Website pages, use Find a page to search titles or addresses.

Show Private drafts, Unpublished changes or Published version saved to find work to review. Counts cover the whole page list; unpublished changes are saved edits, not unsaved typing. Clear filters before reordering so you can see every page. Filtering never publishes content. Owners open Website pages from Church home.

Choose About, Beliefs, Ministries, Your first visit or Ways to serve for suggested headings and writing prompts, or start blank. Prompts are hints and never become your saved church text. Fill each section or clear its heading to omit it. Make a private copy opens an unsaved copy of an existing draft, including section photos, with a new address required.

It never copies publication status or history and does not alter the original. Save to create the separate private page. Enter a title, short stable address and up to 6,000 characters of plain text. Leave a blank line between paragraphs. Save private draft, read the saved draft preview and confirm Publish saved draft.

Preview shows saved text only, not unsaved edits in the form above it. Editing keeps the last published version online until you publish again. The church website must also be public. Website pages opens a list of your pages with private-draft, published-version and unpublished-change labels. Choose Edit page to write, or Start blank to create a page.

Move earlier and Move later change the public About-list order immediately, without publishing draft text or photos. Private pages remain hidden. Moving a page refreshes page versions, so an already-open editor may need reloading. The About link in church navigation shows only published pages in that order; equally ranked pages remain alphabetical until moved.

Take page offline hides it while keeping the editable draft. Build up to six sections within the same 6,000-character total. Choose Text for a heading and paragraphs, Photo for a library photo with an optional caption, Service details for shared worship times and address, or Contact information for shared public address, email and phone.

All kinds allow an optional library photo. Photo, Service details and Contact information supply a simple heading if you leave it blank. Move earlier and Move later reorder sections in the private draft; save and publish separately to change the live page. With JavaScript, Remove section asks you to confirm and clears only the unsaved section.

Without JavaScript, choose Text, clear the heading and text, and choose No photo. Reordering needs JavaScript. Section numbers are stable labels while you reorder. Service and contact sections use the current published church details; unpublished settings never appear on a live page. While the whole church is private, the preview uses draft church settings.

Save your page before following Church details, then update and publish those details separately. Publishing a page does not publish settings. Publishing church details updates every shared section at once. Earlier page previews use current shared details, not historic settings. The publish checklist identifies missing service times or empty contact destinations, which must be fixed before publishing.

Backups preserve all section kinds, order and photo references; restored shared sections use the destination church settings until you publish restored settings separately. Earlier versions keeps up to 10 previous drafts when text changes, starting with the sections update. Expand a version, review it and confirm Restore as private draft.

The live page stays unchanged until you publish. This is not a complete backup and older retained versions are rotated out. Use Photo library to upload a JPEG or PNG, then choose it in a section. No page deletion or rich formatting yet. Ordering applies to the About page list; it does not replace the fixed main navigation.

Keep a website .tar backup before major edits; it supports private restoration of pages and photos. The separate JSON content copy includes page drafts and published versions but is not an automatic restore file. Settings backups, portable homepage files and generated church seed data do not include these extra pages.

The pilot supports 20 pages. Owners manage pages; editors and viewers do not. If another owner saves first, the conflict screen shows the newer saved draft and keeps your entered text underneath. Combine the changes you want to keep, confirm you reviewed the newer draft, and save a replacement privately.

Another intervening save triggers another review. There is no automatic merge. Choose Discard my entered text only if you want to abandon your unsaved work. With JavaScript enabled, the editor blocks publish, restore and take-offline actions while unsaved text is present. Save or reload first. Browsers may warn before leaving unsaved edits; warnings are not guaranteed, so save before switching pages.

When a page title, address, introduction or section fails validation, the correction form keeps your entered text and identifies the field to fix. Save corrected draft, then preview and publish separately. Available photo selections remain selected; unavailable photos must be chosen again. Existing-address checks also return your text.

Unavailable-photo conflicts, oversized requests and storage failures still use separate error pages. There is no autosave.