ChurchPost automatically adds both a header and footer to every email you send – the footer includes information about you, the sender, and two very important links: SureRemove and Change Your Email Address.

Over the past few years, we’ve noticed more and more people forwarding emails to friends and family. Although the SureRemove links have always been encrypted for each unique subscriber, when you forward a message, that link remains valid. Increasingly, we’ve noticed that recipients of forwarded emails have been unsubscribing the original recipient without knowing it by clicking the SureRemove link. Then the original subscriber wonders why they aren’t receiving emails any more

Today we launched an improved verification process that solves this problem while still making it incredibly easy to manage subscriptions.

This change affects both the SureRemove link and the Change Your Email link.

We’re pleased to announce that ChurchPost.com Version 4 is now accessible on all browsers!

So go ahead – point your browser to www.ChurchPost.com and see why thousands of users around the world empower their ministries with our easy, affordable, secure and portable communications solution.

With the release of ChurchPost Version 4, you’ll notice a few new features popping up in various places. Perhaps most noticeable is the new SignUp Boxes TAB that appears on the left main navigation area under REPORTS.

This tab is available to all user types (Master, Full & Limited) and boxes you create with this feature are available to ALL of your ChurchPost users when they log in to their accounts.

Over the past year, we’ve had many ChurchPost users tell us how useful the general “Get Connected Box” is, noting specifically how awesome it is that once you paste the code on your website, various ChurchPost users can control what appears in the “Get Connected” area all from ChurchPost (without access to the website code itself). So group owners are empowered to make a group PUBLIC, and it instantly appears on the website for signups.

The one limitation of the “Get Connected” box is that it displays ALL public groups, without the ability to select a handful of groups for specific website pages (for example, a signup box that displays ONLY youth groups). Another limitation is the inability in the general “Get Connected” box to specify an order of groups (it’s alphabetical by group name), so a more important “Weekly Newsletter” group may appear at the bottom under 10 or 20 other groups that are not as active.

So, we collected this feedback and created the new SignUp Boxes feature – which allows your users to do ALL of the above, and even control the look and feel of the box itself, without any programming knowledge.

When you click on the SignUp Boxes tab, you see a list of all of your customized SignUp Boxes, with the General Get Connected Box listed at the top. The General Get Connected Box is the default website form that displays ALL PUBLIC GROUPS (you can read more about this by clicking the small question mark next to the form).

To create a new SignUp Box, just click the “Create a SignUp Box” button that appears on the top of this page. Then choose a name for your box:

You’ll also notice an area directly under the box name that allows you to specify colors unique to this SignUp Box – you can choose colors that match your website or find totally new ones!

You can also set the width of the box in pixels. As you scroll down the page, you’ll see a list of all of your PUBLIC groups. These are groups that have been marked by group owners to appear on any SignUp Boxes created by your ChurchPost users. You can select as many groups as you wish, and even specify what order your groups are to appear in your SignUp Box:

Groups you check and do NOT apply a sort order will automatically appear in alphabetical order (after any sorted groups).

Lastly, at the bottom of the creation wizard, you’ll see a text box for any customized information you would like to include in your SignUp Box – this can be text with useful tips, information, etc. and can even include HTML (links to other parts of your site, etc.):

When you are done, just click SAVE SIGNUP BOX and we’ll instantly generate the HTML for your website:

You may choose to EMAIL the code to your webmaster, COPY the code your clipboard (to paste into an editing program of your choice) or PREVIEW the form to be sure it looks the way you want it.

At any time, when you click the SignUp Boxes TAB on the main navigation area, you can see a listing of all of your customized signup forms. You can instantly preview a box by clicking the box name, jump to the code for that form by clicking the CODE icon, or EDIT/DELETE the form as you wish.

Because ChurchPost is so cool, any changes you make to your SignUp Box groups and group order are instantly live on your website without having to update your code! For your convenience, we list all SignUp Box names in alphabetical order so you can find what you are looking for super quick.

We are totally in love with this new feature, and hope you will be, too So go ahead – create a customized SignUp Box for your website and see how easy ChurchPost makes it to communicate with your church family!

Today we released a small but useful feature called Basic Layouts in our Standard Editor:

This is a great way to get started on a message design without having to think about the overall table structure of your mailing. Change background colors, swap out images from your personal image library….adjust fonts, sizes and colors of any text!