This guide helps parish staff and volunteers make routine website updates safely and confidently.
You do not need to learn every part of WordPress. Your account is assigned according to the work you are responsible for, so the menus you see may differ from those available to another parish user.
Choose the Guide You Need
- Signing In and Protecting Your Account — Access your account, create a secure password, and request the right level of access.
- Editing Pages and Publishing Articles — Update approved pages and publish parish news or reflections.
- Publishing Sermons — Add sermon details, media links, transcripts, and consistent categories.
- Managing Events and the Parish Calendar — Understand when to update the parish calendar and when to create a WordPress Event.
- Publishing Photos and Managing Media — Prepare and publish useful photographs while respecting permissions and performance.
- Safe Changes, Support, and Responsibilities — Know what parish editors can change and when to contact BOTH/AND.
The Most Important Principle
Keep changing information current without accidentally redesigning the website.
Parish users should normally update content such as text, dates, events, sermons, photographs, and approved pages. Site-wide design, navigation, templates, forms, integrations, and technical settings should be changed only by someone with the appropriate responsibility and understanding.
When you are unsure, stop and ask. It is usually easier to make a careful change than to repair a site-wide one.