Obituary Assistant by FHW Solutions is an obituary plugin that allows you to create and manage obituaries and fully integrate them into your existing WordPress website in minutes.
Obituary Assistant is fully free to funeral homes in the United States and Canada that generate flower sales and we pay you a 15% commission on flower sales.
Obituary Assistant can also be used by pet cremation facilities, newspapers and international funeral homes. All users get 5 free obituaries to try out the plugin. After that, pet crematoriums, newspapers and international funeral homes are required to pay a fee to continue to use Obituary Assistant.
Obituary Assistant is trusted by over 200 funeral homes in the United States and Canada.
Features
- Easy to use online obituary management system lets you add and edit your obituaries
- No need to login to WordPress to add obituaries, obituaries added immediately appear on your website
- Obituary Assistant fit seamlessly into the look and feel of your website
- Mobile optimized and mobile friendly
- Easy sharing of obituaries via Facebook, Twitter, email and text
- Modern and smooth interface to upload and manage photos and videos
- Fully optimized for search engines – SEO built into each obituary means they will be found in Google
- Approve condolences manually or set condolences on auto-approve
- Choose to receive email and text notifications when condolences or photos are added by visitors
- Your visitors can also subscribe to receive notifications each time a new obituary is added on your website
- Supports multiple funeral home locations
- QR codes on obituaries can be used in printed materials at your services
- No desktop software to install, add the Obituary Assistant Plugin and access online from anywhere
- Built in search features lets you easily search obituaries
- Display obituary snippets on your homepage
- Daily backups of all your data means it won’t be lost
- Fully free to funeral homes in the United States and Canada, we pay you a 15% commission on flower sales
- All other users get 5 free obituaries to test the system
- Pricing plans available for pet cremation facilities, newspapers and international funeral homes, please contact us for details
- We migrate your existing obituaries into Obituary Assistant if you’re a funeral home in the United States and Canada generating flower sales
- Funeral homes can choose the local florist delivering flowers
- Stability and support you can rely on: our parent company has been in business for over 20 years, our plugin is more than 4 years old with many feature updates and releases
- Obituary Assistant lets your community stay connected to your funeral home, it raises customer awareness and builds your funeral home’s brand name
- More on Obituary Assistant
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.