Set Up Your Post Hub

While each collection and Post you create will have its own unique url you can share with people, what happens when people don't have access to those direct urls? Your church deserves a centralized station where all your public Posts and collections exist, allowing for quick and easy access to all of your church's communication, from bulletins, to announcements, to event information, to pastoral letters (i.e. blog posts).

The Post Hub is that centralized location. It's also already mostly set up in a specific way to help ensure the best navigation experience for each visitor, but there are still aspects that you can (and should!) adjust to best suit your particular church's context.

Ready to dive in? To get started, click on Post Hub in Nucleus Posts. Click here for a quick link.

In this guide, we'll cover the following topics. Click on any one to jump ahead.

Note: This will be a general guide to get your Post Hub up and running. For in-depth guides on managing your Post Hub, click here.

Similarities With The Sermon Hub

The Post Hub is very similar to the Sermon Hub: it's the center to house all of your collections and the gateway to allow easy access to all your church's most important communications to your congregation. In fact, you can think of the Post Hub as the front door for all your church communication, the starting place you can point everyone to in order to keep informed of the latest announcements, updates, and ongoings at your church.

Just like the Sermon Hub showcases different sections (most recent sermons, playlists, speakers, etc.), the Post Hub showcases sections in the same way (most recent Posts, collections, authors, etc.)

To learn how to manage the sections on your Post Hub, click here.

Linked Color & Font Settings With Nucleus Web

While Nucleus Posts is managed as its own product within the Dashboard, Posts is deeply connected with Nucleus Web. For instance, all of your fonts in Posts are controlled within Nucleus Web here. And any fine-tuned color options (like editing the entire color palette of your Post Hub) is controlled here in Nucleus Web, as the color palette affects both products.

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While you can't edit any font details of your Post Hub directly in Posts, you do have a bit of control over certain color choices in your Post Hub based on the color options chosen in Nucleus Web.

For instance, just like you can choose between 4 different color palette versions while editing a section on a page in Nucleus Web, you can do the same thing for each section on your Post Hub homepage (along with a few other areas too).

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In other words, while Nucleus Sermons is managed as its own separate product outside of Nucleus Web, it's intended that the Sermon Hub exists as part of your website, and thus some style settings extend to both products, namely your fonts and colors.

Manage The Sections On Your Post Hub Homepage

The Post Hub homepage is the main landing page where people can access all of your main categories (i.e. sections) of how you want to display your Posts.

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Think of the Post Hub just like another page on your Nucleus Website, with very specific sections you can add:

  • Featured Post
  • Recent Posts
  • Collections
  • Authors
  • Topics

By default, the Featured Post, Recent Sermons, and Collections sections will already be added, but you can show all 5 sections (or any combination of those) in any order you'd like. Let's explore how to do that below.

To get started, click on Post Hub in Nucleus Posts. Click here to head right there. This will take you to the main Create tab at the top menu of your Post Hub, and on the Hub Homepage in the left sidebar.

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Here, you choose which sections you want to add to your homepage by clicking, well, the Add button 😁

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To reorder the sections, click the two lines on a section and drag it up/down to your desired position.

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By clicking the down arrow, you can select one of two options:

  • Rename
  • Remove

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Once you have the sections added and in the order you want, you can edit the way each section appears on your Post Hub homepage. To do this, simply click on a section you want to customize.

Here, you can select different color palette variation or adjust the background of the section.

And if at any point in time you're unhappy with any changes you've made, you can always click the Reset to Defaults button.

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If you're feeling spicy today, you can even add custom CSS code to enhance/change the way the section looks. Simply click to edit the color/background options, and you'll see the tab for Custom Code. (Note: This is an advanced feature and shouldn't be used unless you understand what you are inputting.)

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All of the changes you make here are autosaved, so you can close that page and click Back to All or Next depending on if you want to continue editing your other sections or not.

When you want to preview your changes, you can always click the Preview button which will open a new tab to your Post Hub homepage.

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After previewing your changes, you can also click Reset all to Defaults which will change your edits to all of your sections rather than just the one section you're working on.

Edit The Subscribe Form (Appears On Hub Homepage, In Collections & On Individual Posts)

While Collections are nice to peruse, not everyone in your church is going to continually check to see if there are new Posts added to a Collection that they're interested in.

To make sure people don't miss the latest Posts, every Collection has a field you can enter your email address and subscribe for email updates every time a new Post is published to that particular Collection.

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To adjust placeholder text, any legal text, and other messaging surrounding subscribing to a Collection across the board, click Subscribe in the left sidebar of your Post Hub settings. Click here for a quick link. (Make sure to scroll down to review all text fields.)

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At the very bottom, you can - and need to - set your primary Collection. This is because at the top of your Post Hub homepage, there is a subscribe field. Whenever someone enters an email address there, they will be subscribing to whatever you set as the primary/default Collection here in your Post Hub settings.

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Once you choose a Collection, we highly recommend setting it and never changing it. Otherwise, your audience will be very confused why they are all of a sudden receiving notifications for a Collection they never intended to sign up for.

While you can choose any Collection in your account, Nucleus recommends choosing something like a Weekly Bulletin or Announcements Collection, something that the general population in your congregation would benefit from subscribing to receive notifications whenever a new Post is published in that Collection.

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Alternatively, if your church has a consistent blog or thoughts from your pastor, a Collection revolving around those Posts would also be a great choice.

Whatever you choose, just make sure it's not a Collection that's for a very niche subset of people in your congregation. The Collection should be applicable to a large majority of your church.

Customize The Language Used Throughout The Post Hub

By default, the Post Hub uses particular verbiage for certain items, things like Collections and Authors. If you have other verbiage that will better suit your church context, you can update these terms wherever they're utilized in the Post Hub.

To edit this type of verbiage throughout your Post Hub, click Settings in the top menu while managing your Post Hub. Then select Language (Terms) in the left sidebar. Click here for a quick link.

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Then click the Edit button for whichever term you'd like to update. Certain terms allow you to change the singular and plural version of the word.

Once you're happy with your edits, click Save Changes.

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Now, in this particular example, anywhere that Author would normally be referenced throughout the Post Hub, it will show as Contributor instead.

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Preview, Save & Publish Your Post Hub

At anytime during the process of building out your Post Hub, you can preview the changes you've made by clicking the Preview button in the top right hand corner. This will open a new tab in your browser where you can view the frontend of your Post Hub. What you see there will be what someone else will see and experience when they visit your Post Hub - once the sermon is published, that is.

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If you're ready to set your Post Hub live, click Publish.

You can choose to publish your sermon right now by clicking Yes! Publish Now.

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But if you'd like to schedule for when you want to publish changes to your Post Hub, click Choose Date & Time.

Here, you can add a specific date and time for this.

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You can also click the option to add an Unpublish date & time, just like you can with any publishable content on your website. (Though we highly doubt you'll use this option specifically for your Post Hub 😁)

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For both of these options, once you're happy with your dates and times, click Save & Schedule.

Back to editing your Post Hub, at any point in time, you can choose to Exit. This will give you two options:

  • Save & Close - This allows you to save your progress and come back to exactly where you left off.
  • Discard Changes - This allows you to go back to your Posts Panel without saving any of the changes you made since you last chose to hard save your work.

Both options will take you back to your Posts Panel.

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What Next?

Once you've set up and customized your Post Hub, it's time to share it on your website (and in The Launcher too!). Click below to learn more:

  • Share Your Post Hub To Your Website & The Launcher

From there, you can tackle any of the following guides as you continue to explore Nucleus Posts:

  • Invite Other Admins To Help (Manage Posts)
  • Create A Post
  • Adjust A Post's Advanced Options
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