Simple Integrations that Add Value to Your Church Website

A web integration is a tool used by web designers to pull information from another system or website directly into your own website. This information can be updated remotely and automatically populates your site. This might seem confusing, complicated, and technical but, in fact, it is the opposite! At LPi, we’ve created specific drag-and-drop web integrations for our customers that are designed to make their lives easier when they are using WeConnect to build their websites. These useful tools take most of the manual work out of the process of updating certain aspects of your website with new and engaging content. Still not sure what we mean? Read on for examples of web integrations that we’ve created to make keeping your website new and relevant effortless!

Bulletin Widget — a web integration with the Parishes Online Directory.

Every week, when your bulletin editor submits your bulletin to print, your bulletin will automatically be sent to your church’s listing on Parishes Online. If you drop the Bulletin Widget into your website, it will always display your newest bulletin, updating your website for you so that you can sit back and look like a master web designer. The bulletin widget is most effective when it’s featured on your homepage so that those visiting your website can easily access all of the information that you carefully compile into your bulletin each week. Bonus — This web integration is designed in a neutral, modern way so that it will always look professional alongside your church’s brand. We also developed this brochure to teach you more about how to add this important web integration to your website.

Saints & Gospel Integrations

The Weekly Gospel Widget is an integration that includes one of the new beautiful gospel illustrations we have been releasing in 2023 along with an excerpt from the Gospel. This is already formatted to look lovely on your website.

The Saint of the Week Integration is another widget that we debuted in 2023 that includes a short biography of a saint or, saint in the making, as well as one of the custom illustrations of that holy person created by our art and content team.

These can be found within the “weekly content” section of the WeConnect menu. We have an option to select the Weekly Gospel, the Saint of the Week , or both. The best part about these integrations is that you only have to drag and drop them once into your website builder and they will automatically update with new content created weekly by us at LPi. 

Google Calendar

This drag-and-drop integration incorporates your church’s live Google calendar of events right into your website. This way you can add an “events” tab to your homepage menu that links directly to a beautiful page on your site the features a constantly updated and easy to navigate view of your parish’s upcoming events. After incorporating this integration, every time you add items to your calendar it will automatically populate that part of your website! The same goes for any time you might delete an event — it will automatically delete from your website too. Simple and easy!

Fillable Forms

When you need to collect information from your parishioners, we have you covered with our Fillable Forms Integration. For example, you can easily embed a “subscribe to our blog,” “contact us,” or “register for this event” form to collect the information you need, and it works with a number of popular form sites and tools. We are also fully equipped to integrate with MailChimp and Constant Contact and can even connect with Google Sheets to compile the data you collect. All you have to do is create your form, then follow the prompts in our drag and drop fillable forms integration! 

Social Media 

We have a web integration for Instagram and Twitter that you can easily drop into your website anywhere you like. For example, you can share your Twitter feed so that visitors to your website can see the up-to-date content you are tweeting out. The same goes for Instagram! We have a widget that allows you to share your Instagram photo gallery 

directly to your website. The gallery is updated whenever your parish posts new photos to Instagram! 

Making use of web integrations when building your website will take a lot of the headache out of the web design process. If you’ve used any of these integrations in your website and want to show off how great it looks, tag us in a post on your Facebook or Twitter account with a link to your homepage — we’d love to see it! 

Dive deeper into world of parish websites by checking out the "Web and Social Media" section of our weekly blog.

Updated on 03-13-2024