Description
PrayerPop is a simple prayer submission workflow for WordPress churches, ministries, and Christian organizations. It helps you collect prayer requests, review them, and send notifications from WordPress. With PrayerPop Pro, churches can also receive testimonies and run flexible Prayer Campaigns with prayer slots for things like 24h prayer, camps, Sundays, events, or focused prayer seasons.
Instead of asking people to find an email address, fill out a long form, or send prayer requests through scattered messages, PrayerPop gives your website one clear place for prayer. Visitors can submit a request from any page, and your team can review, approve, archive, email, and manage everything inside WordPress.
PrayerPop is useful when you want to:
- Receive prayer requests through your church website
- Organize incoming submissions in one admin screen
- Review requests before your team acts on them
- Send prayer requests by email
- Get immediate, daily, or weekly notification summaries
- Connect visitors to a simple prayer submission workflow
- Customize the wording, colors, bubble style, and form behavior
- Reduce spam with honeypot, minimum time, rate limit, and cooldown protection
- Keep prayer request management inside WordPress
What PrayerPop makes simpler
Prayer requests often arrive through email, social messages, paper cards, and conversations with different team members. PrayerPop brings those requests into one clear workflow. Your website becomes the entry point, and WordPress becomes the place where your team can manage what happens next.
The free plugin focuses on the core prayer request workflow: collect prayer requests, review them, and send notifications.
Core features
Prayer request collection
- Floating PrayerPop bubble for frontend prayer request submissions
- Prayer request submission form
Review and admin workflow
- Admin submissions screen for review and moderation
- Approve, Decline, Archive, Trash, Restore, and Mark as Answered actions
- Bulk actions for email sending, approval, decline, answered status, editing, archiving, and trashing
- Basic filters in the admin submissions list
Notifications and settings
- Email notifications with immediate, daily, or weekly scheduling
- Send Test Email tool
- Required admin review for incoming requests
- Retention period cleanup controls
- Primary color, global font family, bubble position, bubble animation, and bubble icon settings
- Text customization with JSON export and import
- Built-in documentation
Need a larger prayer workflow?
PrayerPop Pro adds testimonies, public prayer and testimony walls, engagement actions, sharing, Prayer Campaigns, Divi modules, custom popup extras, and optional AI assisted moderation.
Prayer Campaigns let churches create focused prayer signups with time slots. You can use them for 24h prayer, church camps, Sunday services, outreach events, prayer weeks, or any situation where people need to sign up for a specific prayer time.
See the full PrayerPop Features page or the submissions wall for examples.
Privacy & Data Handling
Stored data
- Submission content is stored as WordPress posts (
prayer_requestpost type). - Metadata includes name/anonymous marker, submission type, public marker, moderation status, and answered-prayer note when used.
- Plugin settings are stored in WordPress options.
Browser storage
- Local anti-spam/cooldown tracking is used for submission protection.
Retention cleanup
- Retention period is configurable in General settings.
- Older approved or answered items can be archived first and cleaned later.
Uninstall
- Plugin options and scheduled cron hooks are removed on uninstall.
- Submission posts remain in WordPress after uninstall unless you delete them manually.
Installation
Minimum Requirements
- WordPress 5.8 or greater
- PHP 7.2 or greater
Automatic installation
- Log in to your WordPress dashboard.
- Go to
Plugins -> Add New. - Search for
PrayerPop. - Click
Install Now. - Click
Activate.
Manual installation
- Download the PrayerPop plugin zip file.
- Go to
Plugins -> Add New -> Upload Plugin. - Upload the zip file.
- Click
Install Now. - Click
Activate.
Setup
- Open
PrayerPop -> Settings. - In General, confirm the PrayerPop bubble is enabled.
- In Notifications, set the recipient email and notification schedule.
- In Style, adjust the bubble color, icon, position, animation, and font.
- In Text Customization, edit the visible form labels and messages if needed.
- Visit the frontend of your site and click the PrayerPop bubble to test a prayer request.
- Review incoming requests in
PrayerPop -> Submissions.
FAQ
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Who is PrayerPop made for?
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PrayerPop is made for churches, ministries, and Christian organizations that want a simple way to receive and manage prayer requests through WordPress.
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How do visitors submit prayer requests?
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Visitors click the PrayerPop bubble and complete the prayer request form.
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Where do submitted requests go?
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Submitted requests appear in
PrayerPop -> Submissionsfor admin review. -
What happens after a request is submitted?
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The request starts as
Pending Actionuntil an admin reviews it. -
Can PrayerPop email submitted requests?
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Yes. Notifications can be sent immediately, daily, or weekly to the configured recipient email address.
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Can I change the form wording?
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Yes. Open
PrayerPop -> Settings -> Text Customization. -
Can I change the bubble appearance?
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Yes. Open
PrayerPop -> Settings -> Style. -
Where can I contact support?
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For questions, bugs, feature requests, or support, use the PrayerPop contact page.
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Does the free plugin include public prayer walls, testimonies, or Prayer Campaigns?
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No. The free plugin focuses on collecting, reviewing, and emailing prayer requests. Public prayer walls, testimonies, Prayer Campaigns, Divi modules, and optional AI assisted moderation are part of PrayerPop Pro.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“PrayerPop” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
1.5.10
- Improved WordPress.org listing copy and release metadata.
- Clarified the free prayer request workflow, setup steps, FAQ, privacy notes, and upgrade path.
1.5.8
- Prepared plugin review fixes, asset loading cleanup, and security-warning reductions.
1.5.7
- Improved admin submission workflows, settings guidance, and plugin compatibility.
1.5.5
- Documentation corrected to match the current feature set.
1.5.1
- Prayer-request workflow updates in admin and frontend.
- Settings, documentation, and readme alignment.
1.0.0
- Initial release.
