Your club's website

Your club can have its own website, at no charge, built from what is already in Whole Team: your crest and colours, your teams, your fixtures, your news, how to join and where you play. Nothing is typed twice, so nobody has to keep it up to date. You run it from Club › Website, and whoever holds the club's identity permission can.

Switch it on

Choose Club in the rail, then Website.
Choose Switch it on. The club gets an address at wholeteam.co.uk/c/ followed by its own name, a preview only your club's people can see, and a Publish button.
Nothing is public until you publish.

Change the address from the Address card. It is lower-case letters, numbers and hyphens, and it has to be one nobody else has. Change it later and the old address keeps working, sending people to the new one.

The sections

Each part of the site is a switch under Sections: Teams, Fixtures, Results, News, Join, Find us, Sponsors, Documents, Contact. Turn one off and it goes from the site and from the chips at the top of it.

Teams shows each team's age group and, where you allow it, its training day, time and venue.
Results are shown for teams at Under 12s and over, and only for the teams you turn them on for. Younger age groups never show results: the governing bodies don't allow tables at those ages.
Find us lists your venues with links to Apple Maps and Google Maps.
Contact is a form that emails the address you give under About. The address itself never appears on the page.

Teams › in the toolbar is where you say, per team, whether training shows and whether results do.

About, the tagline and the cover photo

About and tagline › holds the one line that sits over the photo on your home page (up to 60 characters), up to 300 words about the club, the contact email, and links to Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Cover photo › is the picture of your ground or clubhouse that the home page puts the club's colour over. Before it uploads you tick No children in this photo. That tick is not a formality: a club's website is a public page, and the safety rules below are not ours to waive.

Publish and unpublish

Publish puts the site up. Unpublish takes it down again, at once; the address stops answering and search engines are told to forget it. Everything you wrote stays, so publishing again is one press.

While a site is not published, search engines are told to ignore it, and only your club's people see it through Preview.

News

Club › News is where posts are written, by whoever holds the club's content or identity permission.

Choose New post.
Write the title and the post. A blank line starts a paragraph; **bold** is bold; [words](https://an-address) is a link; a line starting - is a list. Nothing else - no scripts, no embeds.
Add a cover photo if you want one, with the same No children in this photo tick.
Choose Publish now, Schedule (pick the time; it goes out by itself) or Keep as a draft.

Open a post again to publish, unpublish, pin it to the top of the news page, or edit it. The author and the times are kept. The phone at the right of the page shows your news as the website shows it.

The footer credit

The footer shows "Made with Whole Team". You can turn it off under Club › Website.

What a club's website never shows

These hold whatever you switch on.

No child is ever named. No squads, no team sheets, no minutes.
No photos from Moments.
No results for teams under Under 12s, and at Under 12s and over only where you turn them on.
Adults are not named. A coach's name is not on the site.
Anything written in a post or in About is published as words: a tag typed into it is shown, never run.

Your own web address

Use your own address, like www.yourclub.co.uk.

Whichever it is today, your site keeps its wholeteam.co.uk/c/ address and links to it keep working.

Questions

Who can change the website? Whoever holds the club's identity permission - usually a club admin. News is open to them and to whoever holds the content permission.

Does it cost anything? No.

Do we have to publish it? No. A club that never publishes still has everything else; the site simply stays off.

Our fixtures changed. Do we update the website? No. It reads your events, so it changed when you did.