Gradespace Church
v0.6.2For churches with one or many congregationsA complete digital home for your church community.
A welcoming church website: sermons straight from YouTube, events, plan a visit and giving.
A WordPress plugin and theme under one licence, from £69 one-time (incl. VAT where applicable). Runs on Gradespace Core, which is free.
Demo resets every night.
- One-time price
- Lifetime updates
- Staging sites are free
- 14-day money-back
Three designs, seven colour palettes
Every design has all the same features. Pick one to see it, then open any page larger. Screenshots use the setup wizard’s sample content.
Showing the Gathering design
Gathering: Bright and friendly: rounded shapes, bold grotesque headings and a colour for every congregation.
More pages
Sermons
Plan a visit
Events
Colour palettes
Every design works with each palette. Change them any time in Site Settings → Design & colours.
Sky
Gold
Forest
Royal
Burgundy
Sunrise
Heritage navy & red
What it does
Sermons from YouTube
Add your channel once; new videos arrive as sermons every hour with titles, speakers and thumbnails. No API key needed.
Events
One-off and repeating events with “add to my calendar”; Pro can also import a calendar feed (Google, Outlook, ChurchSuite and others).
Plan a visit
Visitors pick a congregation and a service day; your welcome team gets the request and the visitor gets directions.
Giving and stories
A giving page with your links and bank details (no payment processing), community stories, and optional private prayer requests.
Who it’s for
Local churches
One congregation with service times, a welcoming plan-a-visit form and the latest sermon on the home page.
Churches with several congregations
Each congregation gets its own page, colours, service times and visit requests routed to its own email.
Media and welcome teams
Roles for pastors, the media team and the welcome team, so volunteers can help without seeing everything.
What you’d otherwise put together
A site like this usually means choosing several products from different makers and getting them to work together. A kit is one thing, made to fit.
Putting it together yourself
- A premium theme
- A sermon or video plugin
- An events calendar plugin
- A form plugin for visit requests
- An add-on for staff and volunteer roles
- Setting it all up and keeping it working together after every update
One kit: Gradespace Church
- Website, design and features designed and built together
- One licence, paid once
- One setup wizard that adds the pages, menu and sample content
- Updates for the plugin and theme tested together
Ready-made staff roles come with every tier; choosing exactly what each role can do needs Pro or Agency.
What’s included
One payment, a lifetime licence and every future update. Each tier includes everything in the one before.
Starter
£69one-time
incl. VAT where applicable
1 live website · lifetime updates
- The Gradespace Church theme with its designs and colour palettes
- Congregations, sermons from YouTube, events, plan a visit, stories and giving
- Setup wizard with starter pages and menu
- Legal pages (privacy, cookies, terms) to start from
- Cookie consent
- Lifetime updates
Pro
Most chosen£139one-time
incl. VAT where applicable
1 live website · lifetime updates
- Everything in Starter
- Staff access (roles and abilities)
- Email log
- Site stats without cookies
- Choose to hide the “Website by Gradespace” sign-in credit
Agency
£389one-time
incl. VAT where applicable
5 live websites · lifetime updates
- Everything in Pro
- 5 live websites on one licence
- White-label sign-in page (your own heading and text)
Already have a Gradespace Church licence? Upgrade it from your licences page and pay only the difference.
Installing Gradespace Church
Gradespace Core, then the plugin, then the theme, and a setup wizard does the rest. See every step, and a guide for your staff.
Built to last
How updates, your licence, your data and help work, now and later.
How updates work
Updates come straight from thegradespace.com, over a secure connection with time-limited download links for your licensed site. They install with one click from the WordPress Updates screen, like any other plugin. We test each release against the current version of WordPress before it goes out, and every release says which WordPress version it’s tested up to.
What “lifetime licence” means
You pay once. The licence lasts for life and every future update is included: there are no renewals or subscriptions. If our server can’t be reached, your site carries on as it is.
Your data stays on your website
Bookings, records, messages and content are kept in your own WordPress database, on your own hosting. There is no Gradespace cloud. Our server only sees your licence key and website address, when your site checks its licence and updates.
Help when you need it
Every kit comes with a step-by-step getting-started guide and a printable guide for your staff. For anything else, write to us and we’ll help.
Contact usTest copies are free
Local and staging copies of your site (localhost, .local, .test, staging.… and dev.… addresses) never use up your licence.
14-day money-back
If a kit isn’t right for you, ask within 14 days of buying for a full refund.
Questions
- Does it take donations?
- The giving page shows your own giving links, bank details and Gift Aid note. Payments stay with the giving service you already use; the kit doesn’t process money.
- Do sermon videos set YouTube cookies?
- Sermon videos load only when the visitor presses play and has allowed embedded content in the cookie banner, so nothing from YouTube loads before consent.
- Where is our data kept?
- In your own WordPress database, on your own hosting. There is no Gradespace cloud: our server only sees your licence key and website address, when your site checks its licence and updates.
- Is it a one-off payment?
- Yes. You pay once, the licence lasts for life and every future update is included. There are no renewals or subscriptions.
- What do I need to run it?
- A WordPress website (6.8 or later, PHP 8.0 or later) on any ordinary host. You install the free Gradespace Core plugin, the kit’s plugin and its theme, then the setup wizard walks you through the rest.
- What counts as a website?
- One licence covers one live website (Agency covers 5). Local and staging copies (localhost, .local, .test, staging.… and dev.… addresses) are free and never use up your licence.
- Can I change the design later?
- Yes. Choose a different design and colour palette in Site Settings → Design & colours at any time; your content stays as it is. You can preview a choice privately before visitors see it.
- How do updates work?
- Updates come from thegradespace.com and install with one click from the WordPress Updates screen. Each release is tested against the current version of WordPress first, and says which version it’s tested up to.
- Can I upgrade later?
- Yes. Move from Starter to Pro or Agency by paying the difference, from your licences page or from the kit’s Licence tab in WordPress. Your key stays the same.
- Refunds
- 14-day money-back: if the kit isn't right for you, ask within 14 days of buying for a full refund (the licence is then switched off).
Something else? Get in touch.