Your public page
How your church's public website works in Psalmly — a front door that builds itself from the information you already manage, not a drag-and-drop builder. Where to manage it, your web address, choosing a layout, publishing, and the Your public page checklist.
Every church in Psalmly gets a public page — a simple website that anyone can visit without signing in. It's your church's front door: someone searching for you can see who you are, when you gather, what's coming up, and how to get in touch or give. You manage it from Church profile in the admin sidebar.
It builds itself — you don't design it
Psalmly is not a drag-and-drop website builder. You never place blocks, pick fonts, or lay out pages. Instead, your public page is assembled automatically from the information you already keep up to date inside Psalmly — your church's name and description, your service times, your events, your announcements, and so on. Think of it as an auto-updating brochure, not a canvas.
That has two happy consequences:
- You only ever enter things once. Update your service time in Psalmly and the public page changes with it — there's no separate "website copy" to keep in sync.
- It always matches reality. The page can only show real, current information, so it can't drift out of date the way a hand-built site does.
What you do control is the raw material (your church info) and a few presentation choices (your layout and accent color). For exactly which part of the page each piece of content comes from, see What appears on your public page.
Where you manage it
Open Church profile in the admin sidebar. The information is grouped into panes down the left:
- Basics — your church name, public handle (web address), denomination, founded year, tagline, and the "About" text.
- Branding — your logo, cover image, accent color, and Public profile layout.
- Contact — email, phone, website, and social links.
- Location — your address.
- Service times — when and where you gather.
- Visit info — what a first-time visitor should expect, plus parking and accessibility.
Everything else the page can show — events, announcements, giving, your team — is managed in its own part of the admin (Events, Announcements, Giving, Directory) and flows to the page from there.
Your web address
Your public page lives at a web address built from your public handle, set in the Basics pane:
yourhandle.psalmly.app
Pick something short and recognizable (3–40 lowercase letters, numbers, or hyphens) — Psalmly checks that it's available as you type. You can change it later, but links to the old address stop working once you do, so Psalmly asks you to confirm first. Share this address anywhere you'd share a website: your social profiles, a flyer, a Google listing.
Already own a domain like firstbaptist.org? On a paid plan you can put your public page on your
own web address instead, and your .psalmly.app address keeps working and forwards to it. See
Connecting your own domain.
Choosing a layout
In the Branding pane, Public profile layout lets you pick the overall look:
- Cover-led — a full-width cover photo with everything in one flowing scroll.
- Split — a split hero with a sticky top navigation and clear sections.
- Editorial — a centered, magazine-style layout.
All three show the same information — the choice is purely about the look you prefer. Switch between them anytime and use Preview (top of Church profile) to see the difference.
Publishing it
A new church's page starts as a Draft — only you and your admins can see it (via Preview), and visitors get nothing. When you're ready to go live, click Publish in the top-right of Church profile; the status pill flips to Published and your address becomes public. Unpublish at any time to take it back to a draft.
It's fine to publish early and keep filling things in — the page only ever shows what's ready, so there's nothing embarrassing to hide. You don't have to wait for everything to be perfect.
The "Your public page" checklist
At the top of Church profile is a panel called Your public page. Expand it and you'll see an honest list of everything your page can show — About, Service times, Visit info, Events, Announcements, Online giving, and Team — each marked Added (with a count, where it makes sense) or Not yet, with a completion ring summarizing how far along you are.
Each row links straight to the place you'd fill it in: Edit for things you've started, Set up for things you haven't. It's the fastest way to see what a visitor would find today and to round out anything still missing. Importantly, it never forces you to fill everything in — a "Not yet" row simply means that section won't appear yet, not that anything is broken.