Planning Center on your WordPress site
One Custom HTML block puts your live Planning Center data on a WordPress page. The steps are the same on WordPress.com and on your own hosting; what happens next is not, and this is how to tell which one you are on.
Check this before you pay for anything
WordPress.com: WordPress.com removes script tags unless your site is on a plan with hosting features switched on (Business/Creator or above). Below that the block will save and the embed will never appear.
Nothing errors when this happens. The block saves, the page looks fine, and the embed simply never appears — which is why it is worth two minutes now rather than a support email later.
Where the line goes
WordPress (your own hosting)
- Open the page and click Edit.
- Click the + to add a block and search for Custom HTML.
- Paste the line into the block.
- Click Update.
Works on every plan, including the free one. Checked against the official documentation on 2026-09-10.
WordPress.com
- Open the page and click Edit.
- Click the + to add a block and search for Custom HTML.
- Paste the line into the block.
- Click Update.
Checked against the official documentation on 2026-09-10.
You get the line itself from your dashboard after you connect Planning Center — one per page of your website, carrying whichever embeds you chose for that page. Change what it shows from the dashboard afterwards and the page updates itself; you never touch your website again.
What you can put on the page
The same catalog on every builder. Each of these reads your live Planning Center data and shows only what you have already marked public there.
- Registration catalogEverything people can sign up for
- Public formsYour public forms, on your pages
- Events pageSignups and your calendar, one page
- Calendar & eventsA month grid, an agenda, or cards
- Group finderA browsable small-groups directory
- Sermons & mediaYour message archive, wherever it lives
- GivingYour public funds, on your own site
- SetlistsWhat we're singing this Sunday
- Announcement bannersThe one thing everyone needs to see
Seeing it with your own data
Connecting Planning Center takes about a minute and costs nothing — see it with your data renders your real events, groups and sermons in your own colors before you decide whether to publish them. No credit card, and you can revoke our access inside Planning Center whenever you like.
Instructions on this page were last verified on 2026-09-10. They rot the day a builder redesigns its editor, so if something here does not match what you are looking at, tell us — that is a bug, not your mistake.