Modern Catholic Plugin Suite

Part of Modern Catholic — modular WordPress tools for Catholic parish websites.

Modern Catholic – Parish Alerts

Scheduled parish alerts with an always-available alert center, priority acknowledgments, and optional self-hosted Web Push notifications.

Features

• Standardized mc_alert custom post type with automatic migration from parish_alert
• Optional start and end times for scheduled notices, closures, cancellations, and emergencies
• Persistent alert-center button with unread counts stored per browser
• Accessible acknowledgment modal for unseen Important and Emergency alerts
• Individual and bulk “Mark as read” controls
• Explicit browser opt-in for self-hosted Web Push on secure sites
• WordPress cron delivery, bounded retries, expired-subscription cleanup, and administrator diagnostics

Privacy and notifications

Web Push is optional and requires HTTPS. When a visitor opts in, the plugin stores an anonymous browser endpoint and public encryption keys. It does not store a name, email address, raw IP address, or notification history.

Notice alerts never send push notifications. Important and Emergency alerts may notify subscribers immediately or when their scheduled start time arrives.

Installation

1. Upload or clone modern-catholic-plugin-parish-alerts into wp-content/plugins/.
2. Activate Modern Catholic – Parish Alerts.
3. Create and publish alerts from Alerts in the WordPress dashboard.
4. For Web Push, serve the production site over HTTPS and review Alerts → Notifications.

Changelog

1.0.3

• Adopt the Modern Catholic semantic color contract for actions, surfaces, text, borders, focus, and alert status roles.
• Preserve WordPress preset and literal fallbacks when the Modern Catholic theme is unavailable.

1.0.2

• Standardize the GitHub README with Modern Catholic branding, compatibility badges, installation guidance, and GPL-3.0-only licensing.

1.0.1

• Standardize the post type key as mc_alert and migrate existing Alert posts.

1.0.0

• Promote the tested alert center, acknowledgments, priority modal, scheduling, and opt-in Web Push delivery as the first stable release.

License

Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.0 only (GPL-3.0-only). Third-party dependencies retain their original licenses; see THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md.