Widgets
Widgets are mobile-friendly applications designed to display on specific pages of your website. They are a separate application and are fully integrated with MinistryPlatform. They allow guests to conduct business with your church in a safe manner that is instantly captured in the MinistryPlatform database.
Widgets offer an integrated and customized experience for your users. For example, the Group Finder widget allows a user to search for and filter groups that are relevant to their needs. Check out Widget Church to see some widgets in action. And for a deep dive into the benefits of widgets, see Why Widgets.
To fully optimize widgets, make sure you are using the latest version of your browser.
Your Website, Your Way!
Widgets are designed to display on specific pages of your church website. They are mobile-friendly, responsive, and customizable. Your church can deploy one or more widgets by adding a few lines of code on the appropriate pages. For more information, see Quick Start. And check out Specific CMS Tips to be sure your website's content management system (CMS) can successfully integrate widgets into your existing ecosystem.
Authentication
Any website visitor can create a user account. Widgets use the same authentication as the Platform for login, account creation, and password reset functionality; it will create a User record.
These User records will not count towards your monthly number of supported users unless you assign specific security roles to these users. A small subset of specific widgets may require a security role (for example, Manage Prayer Requests & Feedback).
Widgets Library
Since widgets live on your website, that's where users should go to access them!