Seven things could go into PrayerPop next. We can build two of them well or seven of them badly, so we are asking first.
Below is each idea, who it is for, and what it would actually change. The order is not a priority order. Read them, pick the two or three your church would use, and email info@osain.ee with the numbers. Two sentences is plenty.
This is a wishlist, not a schedule. Nothing here has a date, and some features might never be built.
1. Elementor widgets
PrayerPop ships Divi modules and shortcodes today. Elementor is the page builder we hear about most from churches that do not use Divi.
Native widgets for the request form, testimony form, submissions display and campaigns would mean drag, drop and style in the editor, instead of dropping in a shortcode and previewing the page to see what you got.
2. Gutenberg blocks
The same work, aimed at the block editor. Blocks for the forms, the prayer wall and the campaign browser.
If your site uses a block theme, this is the one that affects you. It is also the gap we get asked about most often by churches comparing plugins, because a shortcode is harder to place than a block.
3. A public REST API
PrayerPop speaks REST internally already. The idea is a documented public version, so a developer could submit requests, read approved ones, or build a custom display on top of the plugin.
This helps churches with a developer, and agencies running many church sites. For everyone else it changes nothing, which is worth saying plainly. It is the idea with the narrowest audience and the highest value to that audience.
4. Deeper statistics
The dashboard shows pending items, campaign metrics and prayer totals. The deeper version would answer the questions a prayer team lead asks at a meeting.
Which requests get the most engagement. How long moderation takes. How many testimonies came from requests submitted this quarter. Whether the wall is busier or quieter than last month.
5. A monthly ministry report email
Statistics with a purpose. One email a month to whoever you choose: requests received, requests answered, most prayed items, testimonies shared, chat activity.
The numbers already exist in the plugin, so this idea is mostly packaging. It is for the pastor who wants the pulse of the prayer ministry without logging in. If you would forward that email at a team meeting, say so, because that is the signal we are looking for.
6. Printable campaign posters with QR codes
Pro campaigns generate a QR code today. This idea turns it into a printable PDF poster: a large QR code, the campaign name, the dates, and space for your own text.
Print it for the noticeboard, the bulletin or the screen. If you have run a church prayer campaign, you know the Sunday announcement is where the signups come from, and right now there is nothing to hand out at that moment.
7. One outgoing webhook
When a request is submitted or approved, PrayerPop sends a small notification to a URL you choose.
That one hook connects the plugin to Slack, Zapier, Make, or anything else that accepts a webhook. So "a new prayer request came in" can appear where your team already works, without us building an integration for each tool. Small to build, and it multiplies.
What we are not building
Worth saying, so nobody waits for it.
- A hosted service. Your prayer data stays in your WordPress database. That is the point of the plugin.
- A mobile app. The bubble already works on a phone.
- Member management, giving, rotas. Other plugins do that, and doing it badly alongside prayer would help nobody.
- SMS. The cost and the consent rules differ in every country we would have to support.
If you disagree with any of these, that is also useful feedback.
How to tell us
Email info@osain.ee with the numbers you would pick, for example "5, 7, 2". Then add a sentence about what your church does today and what breaks.
What your church already does is more useful to us than a vote. Every idea above came from a conversation like that.
Better still, tell us what is missing from the list. Our feature request page reaches the same people.
We will update this page as ideas move from considered to building to shipped, and we will say so when something gets cut.
New to PrayerPop? It is a prayer request, testimony, chat and campaign plugin for churches, built in Estonia, running entirely inside your own WordPress site. The complete guide to church prayer request management explains the workflow, and the features page shows what already ships.
