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WordPress plugin

The plugin shows your gallery on any page of a WordPress website. It's for hosted Missionary Lane churches and approved self-hosting churches.

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Get the plugin #

  • Hosted churches: sign in to the admin and open Help → The WordPress plugin, or the WordPress link in the setup wizard's Share it screen.
  • Self-hosting churches: download it from your self-hosting page.

Either way you get missionary-lane-wordpress.zip. The download link is made for you and expires after a short time.

Install it #

  1. In WordPress, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
  2. Choose the missionary-lane-wordpress.zip file, press Install Now, then Activate.
  3. Go to Settings → Missionary Lane, paste your gallery address (it must start with https://), and save. Hosted churches find it in Share it; self-hosted, it's where the desktop app published the gallery.
  4. On any page, add a Shortcode block with [missionary_lane].

Shortcode options #

OptionWhat it does
view="walk", view="list" or view="map"Opens that view first.
height="820"The starting height in pixels, from 480 to 4,000. The gallery then grows to fit.
title="Our missionaries"Names the frame for screen readers.
url="https://…"Shows a different gallery address than the one in Settings.

For example:

[missionary_lane view="list" height="900"]

Good to know #

  • The plugin needs WordPress 5.8 or later and PHP 7.4 or later.
  • It only accepts https gallery addresses and loads no scripts from other websites.
  • If the address isn't set yet, WordPress administrators see a reminder on the page instead of the gallery. Visitors see nothing.
  • Not using the plugin? Paste the embed snippet into a Custom HTML block instead.