{"id":9505,"date":"2024-06-06T10:46:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T09:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leogeracademy.hestia.wpspace.me\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=9505"},"modified":"2025-04-23T12:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T11:56:33","password":"","slug":"24-how-to-set-up-posts-for-my-groups","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/administration-posts\/24-how-to-set-up-posts-for-my-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"How to configure posts for my groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If the post function for your group is generally <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/permissions-management\/authorise-posts\/24-permissions-for-posts\/\" id=\"7082\">enabled<\/a> by the administrator of your ChurchTools instance, you as the group leader can edit the settings for posts that are created in your group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can completely <em><strong>(de)activate<\/strong><\/em> and define who in your group <em><strong>create posts<\/strong><\/em> in your group. You can also define standards for who can <em><strong>see the posts<\/strong><\/em> whether <em><strong>comments<\/strong><\/em> can be written, whether someone should be <strong>notified<\/strong> about new posts and write a short <strong>invitation text<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can access all of these settings by opening your <em><strong>open your group<\/strong><\/em> (1) and in the <em><strong>Settings<\/strong><\/em> (2) to <em><strong>Posts<\/strong><\/em> (3) in the settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Setting-Posts-in-Group-CleanShot-2025-04-23-at-09.13.28@2x.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1270\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Setting-Posts-in-Group-CleanShot-2025-04-23-at-09.13.28@2x.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Setting-Posts-in-Group-CleanShot-2025-04-23-at-09.13.28@2x.png 2560w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Setting-Posts-in-Group-CleanShot-2025-04-23-at-09.13.28@2x-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Setting-Posts-in-Group-CleanShot-2025-04-23-at-09.13.28@2x-1024x508.png 1024w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Setting-Posts-in-Group-CleanShot-2025-04-23-at-09.13.28@2x-768x381.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Setting-Posts-in-Group-CleanShot-2025-04-23-at-09.13.28@2x-1536x762.png 1536w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Setting-Posts-in-Group-CleanShot-2025-04-23-at-09.13.28@2x-2048x1016.png 2048w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Setting-Posts-in-Group-CleanShot-2025-04-23-at-09.13.28@2x-360x179.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Activate and deactivate posts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To (de)activate posts for your group, simply click on the <em>(de)activate posts<\/em> button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"291\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-101.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-101.png 940w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-101-300x93.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-101-768x238.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-101-360x111.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-104.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-104.png 940w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-104-300x94.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-104-768x239.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-104-360x112.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Authorization to create<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can specify which group members are allowed to create posts. This authorization is linked to the <strong>role<\/strong> that the group member has.<br>You can define the visibility of the posts that your group members are allowed to write.<br>Either the visibility of the post is set so that only group members can see the post (1) or the visibility of the post depends on the visibility of the group (2). So if the group is publicly visible, for example, you can also write posts that are publicly visible.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gruppen_Einstellungen_Beitraege_Berechtigung-zum-Erstellen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1678\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gruppen_Einstellungen_Beitraege_Berechtigung-zum-Erstellen.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gruppen_Einstellungen_Beitraege_Berechtigung-zum-Erstellen.png 1678w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gruppen_Einstellungen_Beitraege_Berechtigung-zum-Erstellen-300x106.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gruppen_Einstellungen_Beitraege_Berechtigung-zum-Erstellen-1024x361.png 1024w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gruppen_Einstellungen_Beitraege_Berechtigung-zum-Erstellen-768x271.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gruppen_Einstellungen_Beitraege_Berechtigung-zum-Erstellen-1536x542.png 1536w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gruppen_Einstellungen_Beitraege_Berechtigung-zum-Erstellen-360x127.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1678px) 100vw, 1678px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Preferences for posts in your group<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Visibility of posts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can specify which visibility should be preselected when creating new posts for your group. Here you can set whether the default visibility is <em><strong>Group members only<\/strong><\/em> or whether the default visibility of the posts should be based on the <em><strong>visibility of the group<\/strong><\/em>. However, the author of the post ultimately decides which visibility to choose.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-106.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-106.png 940w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-106-300x94.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-106-768x239.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-106-360x112.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group ct-box ct-box-blue has-background is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-002f1c27 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:8px;border-left-color:#3e70ce;border-left-width:0.5rem;background-color:#f3f5f7;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0.5rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0rem;margin-left:0.5rem\"><strong>Hinweis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:0rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0.5rem;margin-left:0.5rem\">Du kannst die Sichtbarkeit deiner Gruppe im Reiter <em>\u00dcbersicht<\/em> sehen und gegebenenfalls \u00e4ndern.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>If you increase the visibility of your group<\/strong>, the <strong>visibility of all posts<\/strong> in your group is automatically changed from <em>Like group<\/em> to <em><strong>Only for group members<\/strong><\/em> only. This is a security measure to prevent content from being accidentally shared with more people than intended. Of course, you can adjust the visibility of the posts again afterwards.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-108.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-108.png 640w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-108-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-108-360x239.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Comments<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can preselect whether posts can be commented on by your group members or not. But here too, the author decides whether or not to allow comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-100.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-100.png 940w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-100-300x93.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-100-768x239.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-100-360x112.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notifications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here you can set whether and for whom notifications should be switched on by default. Your group members can of course adjust this setting individually for themselves at any time. You can choose between no notifications, notifications for group members only or for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"133\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-102.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-102.png 940w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-102-300x42.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-102-768x109.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-102-360x51.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group ct-box ct-box-blue has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-74648fa9a9506de5179716347194bc98 is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-002f1c27 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:8px;border-left-color:#e7c000;border-left-width:0.5rem;color:#3f3400;background-color:#ffe5644d;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0.5rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0rem;margin-left:0.5rem\"><strong>Warnung<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:0rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0.5rem;margin-left:0.5rem\">Es besteht die Gefahr, dass Personen, die zu viele f\u00fcr sich nicht relevante Benachrichtigungen erhalten, die Benachrichtigungen f\u00fcr die ganze ChurchTools-App deaktivieren. Dadurch w\u00fcrden sie auch nicht mehr \u00fcber andere wichtige Meldungen (z. B. Dienstanfragen) benachrichtigt werden. Verwende diese Option daher nur, wenn es notwendig ist.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Short invitation to share<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want your group members to use posts more, you can change the setting to <em><strong>Short prompt<\/strong><\/em> setting, which will be displayed to your group members when they click on the <em>Posts<\/em> tab in the group. You can edit your text at any time using the <em>pencil<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-99.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-99.png 940w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-99-300x51.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-99-768x131.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-99-360x61.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-103.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-103.png 940w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-103-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-103-768x273.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-103-360x128.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Subscriptions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>With this function, you give people from other churches or Christian organizations who use ChurchTools the opportunity to subscribe to your group&#8217;s posts.<br>This allows your posts to be displayed in the feed of users in other ChurchTools installations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prerequisite for this is that your <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/help\/churchtools-modules\/grundlagen-gruppen\/37-was-sind-die-gruppensichtbarkeiten-und-was-bewirken-sie\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7207\">group is publicly visible<\/a>. When creating a post in your group, you still have the option of choosing whether this post should only be visible to group members or publicly. Only if you select the latter option will the post also be displayed to users of other ChurchTools installations who have subscribed to your public group.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find out how to subscribe to a group <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/use-posts\/how-do-i-subscribe-to-posts\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"15854\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gruppen_Einstellungen_Beitraege_Abos.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gruppen_Einstellungen_Beitraege_Abos-1024x275.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gruppen_Einstellungen_Beitraege_Abos-1024x275.png 1024w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gruppen_Einstellungen_Beitraege_Abos-300x80.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gruppen_Einstellungen_Beitraege_Abos-768x206.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gruppen_Einstellungen_Beitraege_Abos-1536x412.png 1536w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gruppen_Einstellungen_Beitraege_Abos-360x97.png 360w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gruppen_Einstellungen_Beitraege_Abos.png 1656w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the post function for your group is generally enabled by the administrator of your ChurchTools instance, you as the group leader can edit the settings for posts that are created in your group. You can completely (de)activate and define who in your group create posts in your group. You can also define standards for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[429],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[224],"class_list":["post-9505","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-administration-posts","knowledge_base-churchtools-modules"],"acf":[],"year_month":"2026-05","word_count":572,"total_views":"756","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"Jasper Stehmeier","author_nicename":"jstehmeier","author_url":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/author\/jstehmeier\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Administration","term_url":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/administration-posts\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[{"term_name":"Modules","term_url":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/","term_slug":"churchtools-modules"}],"knowledge_base_slug":["churchtools-modules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/9505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9505"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/9505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34825,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/9505\/revisions\/34825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=9505"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=9505"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=9505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}