What appears on your website

Your website is assembled from content you already manage elsewhere in Psalmly (see Your website for the big picture). This guide is the map: for each part of the site, where its content comes from, and — crucially — whether it appears automatically or only when you opt it in. That one distinction explains almost every "why isn't this showing?" question.

Two kinds of content

• Always-on — once you fill it in, it appears. These are the parts that describe your church itself: your welcome and your story, service times, your Visit page, photos, and your contact details. Nothing to switch on.
• Item by item — these come from places where not everything is meant to be public, so you choose which items go out: each announcement, each team member, each bulletin, each page you add, and your giving funds. Events work the other way round: a new church-wide event starts On your website, and you choose Members only or Admins only to keep it off.

When something you expect isn't on your website, it's almost always an item that hasn't been switched on — or content that's still a draft. When something is showing that shouldn't, check whether it's an event set to On your website.

Welcome and story — always-on

Your Tagline and Welcome paragraph (in Your website, on Home, under Welcome) sit at the top of your home page. The tagline also appears beside your church's name across your site; the welcome paragraph shows on your home page only.

Your story (on About) opens your About page, and introduces you on your home page too. Write these for a stranger: who you are, what a visitor can expect, what you believe in a sentence or two. On a plan with the AI assistant, the Write with AI helper on those fields can get you a first draft — it turns into Improve with AI once there's text there.

Service times — always-on

Everything in Service times (under Church details in Your website) appears on your site. Your Visit page and your Contact page list every one. Your home page shows the first few — up to four, in the order they're listed under Service times — and when you have more, it links to all of them on your Visit page (All 8 gatherings). The first one listed is the gathering your home page leads with, so put your main service first: Move up and Move down beside each service change the order (on a computer you can also drag it by its handle), and your website follows at once. Keep this current — for many visitors it's the single most important thing on your website.

Your Visit page — always-on

Visit in Your website holds What to expect: up to six short cards (think "Come as you are", "About an hour", "Kids welcome"), plus optional Parking and Accessibility notes that show only when you switch them on. It's written for first-timers deciding whether to come, and anything you fill in shows automatically — on your Visit page, with the first few card titles also in the invitation near the bottom of your home page.

Photos — always-on

Your Cover photo (on Home, under Photos) is the big photo near the top of your home page. It's also used on your giving page and your join link. More photos — up to six — show together on your home page, and your look decides where. For adding, ordering, framing and describing them, see Your website.

Contact details — always-on

Your email, phone and links (from Phone, email & links) and your address (from Address & time zone), both under Church details, are shown publicly on your website — your Contact page, for one, lists them beside the contact form. See The contact form and your inbox.

Events — the ones set to On your website

Your website shows your upcoming events set to On your website. In the event editor, an event's Visibility is one of three:

• On your website — anyone can see it on your website, and your members see it in the app. A new church-wide event starts here.
• Members only — your members see it in the app, on web and mobile, and it stays off your website. An event you create for a group starts here. Use it for anything private, like a Bible study at someone's home or a members' meeting.
• Admins only — only your admins see it. Members don't see it, and it stays off your website.

A few more things decide what shows:

• Drafts never show — an event has to be published as well as set to On your website.
• Past events drop off automatically — your website always shows what's still to come.
• Members only events stay out of bulletins, since a bulletin can be printed or put on your website. If you want one mentioned, write it in yourself under Add your own.

So if an event isn't appearing, check that it's published and set to On your website. For the full event flow, see Scheduling events.

News — opt-in per announcement

Announcements are for your church first, so they only reach your website when you say so:

• In the announcement composer there's a Show on your website switch. Leave it off and the announcement stays in the app and in your church's email; turn it on and it also appears on your website's News page.
• Only sent, church-wide announcements can go on your website — a group announcement always stays private (the switch is disabled for those).

See Sending announcements for where that switch lives.

Our team — you write it, and you publish it

The "Our team" section comes from the Team page, under Website in the sidebar. (On Your website, About shows how many people are on your About page, with a row that takes you there.) It's the one part of your website you write yourself: the name, title, short bio and photo are all yours to set, and you choose the order people appear in.

Two things decide whether someone shows:

• You've published them. Adding someone doesn't put them on the internet — publishing does, and it's a separate step. Anyone not published sits under Not on your website on the Team page.
• They haven't hidden themselves. Anyone with a Psalmly account can take themselves off from Church websites in their own account settings. That's theirs, not yours — if someone has hidden themselves, their row says so, and only they can put it back.

People don't need a Psalmly account to appear. A long-serving deacon, a pastor emeritus, a volunteer who never wanted the app — you can add any of them by typing a name. (They also have no way to remove themselves, so ask before you publish someone who can't.)

A card with just a name and no photo or bio is normal and looks deliberate — plenty of churches run that way. See Managing your church directory for how this differs from the Directory.

Bulletins — opt-in per bulletin

A bulletin reaches your website only when it's published and you've turned on Also on our website; otherwise it stays in the app for members. Prayer requests are always left off the public copy. See Publishing and sharing a bulletin.

Your own pages — opt-in per page

Pages you add under Pages join your site's menu once you switch them from Draft to Published. See Adding your own pages.

Giving — appears once giving is live

Your website shows a Give button and your funds once two things are true:

• Your church has online giving set up — your Stripe connection is active and card payments are enabled on it (see Setting up online giving).
• You have at least one visible giving fund.

When both hold, visitors can give straight from your website — no account needed. Until then, the Give row in Your website says No Give button yet. For how giving from your website works and where those gifts land, see Receiving gifts on your website.

When something isn't showing

Run down this short list:

1. Is your website published? The tag at the top of Your website says Live or Draft.
2. For an event, is it published and set to On your website? For an announcement, was it sent with Show on your website turned on?
3. For a team member, have you published them on the Team page — and have they not hidden themselves?
4. For giving, is your Stripe connection active and a fund visible?
5. Is a page missing from your menu? Your menu only offers a page once there's something on it. In Your website, the Visit, Events, Bulletins and News rows say Not in your menu yet while they're left out.

For the whole picture, click Show all on the line at the top of Your website — 9 of 12 parts of your site have something in them, say. It lists every part your site can show and what's in each right now, so it's the quickest place to confirm what's there and jump to whatever's missing.