What’s new
Changes to wtxLabs Sync, newest first. We list what changed for you — not everything we did.
- New
Hide group descriptions
Groups has a Show descriptions switch, like Calendar and Registrations. Turn it off for shorter cards that show just the name, when they meet and the image. It's on unless you change it, so nothing on your site moves until you do.
- Fixed
Calendar times match Church Center
Your calendar now shows the start and end times you publish in Planning Center, the same ones Church Center shows. Before, an event with setup time booked before it (a 10:30 service with the room booked from 6:30, say) showed the booking's times instead. Nothing to do on your side: the next sync corrects every event.
- New
Calendar cards, one per event
A new Calendar style, Cards, one per event, lists your events the way Church Center does: a weekly service or group is one card at its next date, marked Recurring, instead of one card for every week. When a date passes, the card moves on to the next one by itself. Your filters still work, so choosing December shows December's dates, and How many to show counts events rather than dates. Pick it on the Calendar tab under Style. The Cards style you may already use is unchanged.
- New
Ministry palettes, and colour by ministry
Your ministries can each have their own look. On the Brand tab, under Ministry palettes, save a palette once for Kids, Students, Serve or any ministry: its colours, and its fonts and corners if you like. Pick it for any saved embed in Design mode, under Brand for this embed, and change a palette later to update every embed using it. On Calendar, Registrations, Events and Groups you can also turn on Colour by ministry, under What each one shows: each item takes the colours of the palette for its category, or Planning Center's own colour for that category, as a stripe and label, a coloured date, or a coloured card. Text on every colour is checked to stay readable, and nothing changes on your site until you choose it.
- New
Give one embed its own colours
A saved version of any product, such as a Kids calendar, can now have its own colours, fonts and corners. In Design mode, choose the version under Settings for and open Brand for this embed: each option says whether it follows your site-wide brand, the product's brand, or is changed here, with a way back. Anything you leave alone keeps following your Brand tab and the product, and every page that shows that version picks up its look. Nothing changes on your site until you choose it.
- Fixed
Sermon videos centred on phones, and the page stays still
On a phone, pressing Watch here inside a series opened the video at the bottom of the screen, over the list, and swiping could move your website's page behind it. The video now opens in the middle of the screen, as it does on a computer, and while any Sync window is open your page stays put, including on websites whose theme scrolls the page in an unusual way. Nothing to change on your site.
- Improved
Your website, in clear sections
The Your website tab is now split into three labelled sections, At a glance, Your pages and Putting it on your website, each with its own heading and more space between them, so it is easy to see where one part ends and the next begins. Nothing moved and nothing on your site changes.
- Fixed
No Register button on information-only events
A signup set up in Planning Center just to share information, with registration type None, showed a Register button that led to Planning Center's “does not allow reservations” page. It now shows Details only, as Church Center does, in Registrations, Calendar and Events. Signups that take registrations keep both buttons. It follows each signup's setting in Planning Center and updates on its own.
- Fixed
Tidier filters on phones and tablets
When a product's filters don't fit on one line, as on a phone held sideways or a tablet, the dropdowns now share their row evenly and the search box takes a full row of its own, instead of the search sitting alone at the right of a second line. On a phone held upright the dropdowns are all the same width. A filter bar that fits on one line looks exactly as it did. In the dashboard, the live preview now takes most of the screen on tablets and phones, where it used to be a 150-pixel strip, and the page no longer scrolls sideways on a narrow phone.
- New
Versions, and pages for one audience
Every module can now keep up to five versions alongside its usual settings, each with its own style and its own choice of what to show. At the top of a module's settings, “Settings for” says which you are changing: the Default look every page uses, or a version (“+ Give one page its own look” makes one), and “Put it on a page…” adds a version to your website in one step. Pages is now “Your website”, beside Design at the start of the tab row, with how many pages are live. Until your first page is live, Your website shows how many steps are left, and a small ⓘ beside each new word explains it. Lit chips now carry a ✓, and “See it in the preview” under a product's empty message shows exactly what visitors see when there's nothing to list. A version's “Only show” row narrows it: Groups by type and then by tag, so a Women's page or a Senior Adults page shows just those groups; Registrations by signup category; Calendar by category and, with more than one campus, by campus; and Events by both. Only the categories and tags you already publish on Church Center are offered. A version keeps only what you change in it, so when you change the Default look later, your versions follow everywhere else. If a tag or category a version or page relies on is renamed or removed in Planning Center, the dashboard now says that it shows nothing right now, instead of leaving a blank space on your site unexplained.
- Fixed
Clear no longer blanks the Events switcher
On Events, pressing Clear after filtering left the Events only / Full schedule dropdown showing nothing at all. Clear now resets only the filters, and the switcher keeps what the visitor chose. The same fix applies to the Messages / Series switch on Sermons.
- Improved
Register and Details, side by side
In Registrations, Calendar and Events, anything with a sign-up now shows two buttons. Register goes straight to the Planning Center sign-up form, and Details opens the popup or the event's Church Center page, whichever you have chosen. Events without a sign-up keep a single Details button. Both buttons' words can be changed in the module's settings; they start as Register, as Church Center says it, and Details.
- Improved
Group buttons say what Church Center says
A group that takes requests now says Request to join, the same words as its Church Center page, instead of Join this group. A group that is open for anyone to join still says Join this group, and one that is full or closed says Learn more, so the button never promises a place that isn't there. It follows each group's sign-up setting in Planning Center and updates on its own.
- Fixed
The close button stays put in a long pop-up
On a phone, scrolling down a long event or group description used to scroll the close button out of sight, leaving no obvious way back. It now stays in the top corner however far you scroll, on phones, tablets and computers, and the pop-up no longer tucks its top edge under Safari's address bar on an iPhone.
- Improved
A wider search box
Where you have turned on the search box, it is now wider and sits at the right-hand end of the filter row, so visitors can see what they typed. On a phone it takes the full width on a line of its own.
- Improved
Agenda shows each event's artwork
The Events Agenda and Grouped by day styles now show each event's graphic beside its date, when Show images is on. An event without one gets the same soft pattern the cards use, so the list stays even.
- New
Five more styles for Events
Events now has Agenda, Grouped by day, Poster wall, Compact and Strip, alongside Cards and List. Grouped by day puts signups that are already under way in a Happening now group at the top, so a class that started last month does not look like it is over. Pick one from the Style pane; your current style stays as it is until you change it.
- New
Choose what a click does, on every module
Each module now asks what should happen when a visitor clicks: open a popup on your page, or open Church Center in a new tab. Events, Sermons and Announcements gain the setting, and the whole card now does the same thing as its button. Before, clicking a card could leave your site even when you had chosen the popup. Events and Sermons keep opening Church Center until you choose otherwise. Announcements can open a popup only when the link goes to your Church Center.
- Fixed
Pop-ups no longer open behind your menus
On sites with a menu bar that stays fixed at the top of the screen, the sermon and event pop-ups were opening underneath it — your navigation showed straight through the middle of them. They now open above everything on the page, whatever your theme does. Nothing to change on your end.
- Improved
The series view shows series, and says what it is not showing
If you use the style with the messages/series switch, sermons that are not part of a series no longer take up a card in the series view — and a line underneath tells you how many there are, with a link straight to them. The plain series style still groups them together, because there is no switch on that one and they would otherwise be unreachable from the page.
- Improved
A one-off message no longer hides behind a series
In the series view, a series containing a single message now shows as that message — its own title and date — and opens straight to it, instead of showing a card you had to click through to reach one sermon. Sermons that are not in any series are still collected together, under a heading that now says “Not in a series” rather than “Other messages”, so it is clearer what is in there.
- Fixed
Your embed now shows while you are editing the page
If you build your site with WPBakery, Elementor, Divi or anything like them, the embed used to disappear while you were editing and only come back after saving — which made it impossible to set the padding and background around something you could not see. It now reappears as soon as the builder redraws the block. Nothing changes on your live page; this is only about what you see while working on it.
- Improved
Easier to tap on a phone
The links your visitors use to watch a sermon, open something in Church Center, or see the details of an event are now proper buttons — the same size as Register and Give, with a visible outline. They were small enough that a thumb could miss them, which matters because most people reach your site on a phone. Nothing moved; everything just got easier to hit.
- New
Let visitors switch between messages and series
Sermons has a new style: your messages as cards, with a dropdown letting a visitor flip to your series artwork and open any series to see what is inside it. Someone following a link to last Sunday wants the message; someone browsing your archive wants the series — now they choose, rather than you choosing for them. You can rename both words to whatever your church calls them.
- Fixed
Groups were not appearing for some churches
If your church had any groups at all, none of them were reaching your site — the rest of your products synced normally, so nothing looked obviously wrong. This is fixed and groups are syncing again. It affected every church with groups, and we are sorry: it went unnoticed because the only connected church at the time had none.
- New
We tell you when someone else connects Planning Center
Planning Center gives access to a person rather than to a church, so when a colleague connects, the connection moves to them — we read your data as them from that point, and what they can see is what we can show. You now get an email when that happens, naming who it moved to, instead of finding out weeks later because something stopped appearing.
- Improved
Your notification address belongs to whoever set up the subscription
Whoever subscribes now receives the service and billing emails automatically, and only they can point those emails somewhere else — an office manager, a shared mailbox, whoever makes sense. Before, our emails followed whoever had connected Planning Center most recently, which meant a colleague signing in could quietly take over where your notices went.
- New
Your plan is on your dashboard
The menu behind your church name now says whether you are on the monthly or the annual plan, next to whether your site is published. Billing still opens Stripe, where you can change your card or cancel — this is just so you can see which plan you are on without leaving.
- New
See at a glance that your site is syncing
The Pages tab now shows whether we are reading your Planning Center data normally, when it last updated, and — if something is wrong — whether it is ours to fix or needs you to reconnect. If it is on our end, we are told automatically and you do not need to report it.
- New
Pay yearly and get two months free
Annual billing is now available at $190 a year instead of $19 a month. Same plan, same modules, same everything — just a different clock. Choose it when you subscribe, or switch any time from the billing portal.
- Improved
Your content refreshes on time, every time
The schedule that keeps your embeds current now runs on dedicated infrastructure with guaranteed delivery, replacing a system that was quietly running late. Content updates about every 15 minutes, as promised — and we now measure that rather than assume it.