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Seedcast Bulletin Library turns that gathering into a page: the date, the message, the programs that met, the announcements that mattered that week, and the handouts people took home. Publish it once and it stays put. The week you are living now quietly becomes the archive a visitor reads next year.<\/p>\n\n It answers the question every visitor is already asking before they ever walk through your doors: what is it actually like to be part of this church?<\/p>\n\n Everything happens in the WordPress admin, in plain language. Create a service, choose the date, and the plugin offers you the programs and announcements that belong to that week. Click Add and they attach. There is no page builder to learn, no template to edit and no code to write, and the Services list tells you at a glance which Sundays are still missing something.<\/p>\n\n Programs are the parallel experiences happening at your gathering: Sunday School, Youth Program, Main Service, Kids Church. Write each one once, with a title, time, description, image and an optional link to the ministry page on your site. From then on it is offered to you every week, ready to attach with a single click.<\/p>\n\n Every announcement starts with a frequency, and the editor asks only for what that frequency needs:<\/p>\n\n The card says it in plain words, \"Every Thursday \u00b7 7pm\" or \"Third Saturday of the month \u00b7 8am\", and a Staggered announcement quietly drops the dates that have already passed.<\/p>\n\n An announcement is offered to every Sunday service from the week it is published through the week of its last date. A notice that runs for six weeks is waiting on six service pages without anyone remembering to add it, and you still decide, one click at a time, which Sundays it actually appears on. Each announcement can also carry a location, contact name, email and phone, an event link and its own image, and empty fields simply disappear from the card.<\/p>\n\n Contact names autocomplete from a shared contacts list, so the same ministry leader is spelled and reached the same way everywhere.<\/p>\n\n When you save a service, its announcements, programs and handouts are copied and frozen into that page. Change a program's description next spring and last autumn's services keep the wording that was actually true that day. When a source has moved on from a saved copy, the editor shows an \"Update\" prompt on the affected item so you can pull the current fields in deliberately, with one click, on the services where it matters.<\/p>\n\n Every service page emits full JSON-LD: an Event with startDate, datePublished, dateModified, location and organizer, a nested VideoObject when a service video is set, a subEvent list built from that day's Programs, and BreadcrumbList markup. Search engines can index each Sunday as a distinct event, and AI assistants can answer \"what is happening at this church on Sunday?\" from structured, first-party data on your own domain instead of guessing from a PDF.<\/p>\n\n Every one of these can be built in Bulletin Library > Shortcodes<\/strong> by picking options, with a button to copy the result.<\/p>\n\n Bulletin Library carries the shared foundation the rest of the Seedcast plugins build on: one set of church details, one theme token system so everything matches, a submission engine with spam protection, and a sections filter that lets any Seedcast plugin add its own content to a service page.<\/p>\n\n Sermon Library adds sermons that appear on the matching service automatically. Praise Report, Sing, Help, Hospitality and Visitor Card each contribute their own section. Install one or install them all: Bulletin Library works on its own, and the service page grows as you add companions.<\/p>\n\n The plugin sends nothing to any external service. Your services, programs, announcements, handouts and contacts stay in your own WordPress database.<\/p>\n\n\n No. Everything is manageable from the WordPress admin. Four shortcodes are available if you want to embed content on other pages, and the Shortcode Generator builds them for you, but nothing requires them.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. Bulletin Library adds new post types (Services, Programs, Announcements) alongside your existing content. Your pages and posts are untouched.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. Every announcement is offered to each Sunday service from the week it is published through the week of its last date. Attach it with one click, or leave it off a week where it does not apply. One with no end date keeps being offered until you unpublish it.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. 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Programs<\/h4>\n\n
Announcements scheduled the way your church talks<\/h4>\n\n
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History that stays true<\/h4>\n\n
Structured data for search engines and AI assistants<\/h4>\n\n
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[scbl_services limit=\"6\" columns=\"3\" start_date=\"2026-01-01\"]<\/code> a grid of service cards. Attributes: limit (default 10), columns (1 to 4, default 3), start_date (YYYY-MM-DD, hides services before that date).<\/li>\n[scbl_next_service]<\/code> a featured card for the next upcoming service.<\/li>\n[scbl_announcements]<\/code> current and upcoming announcements as a grid.<\/li>\n[scbl_announcements grouped=\"true\"]<\/code> the same cards under Upcoming and Ongoing headings, for a page that can replace an events calendar. Upcoming lists dated events soonest first and drops each one the day after it ends. Use first=\"upcoming\"<\/code> (the default) or first=\"ongoing\"<\/code> to choose which comes first. Both forms accept columns (1 to 4, default 3).<\/li>\n[seedcast_church_details]<\/code> your church name, address, service times, phone, email and a directions link, all read from one place so a move or a time change is a single edit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nPart of the Seedcast suite<\/h4>\n\n
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Do I need to add code to make this work?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does this replace my existing content?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Do I have to re-enter announcements every week?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can one announcement cover a group that meets on different days?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What happens to old services when I edit a program or announcement?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can I use the block editor for services?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can I call it something other than \"Service\"?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Will it match my theme?<\/h3><\/dt>\n