DISQUS

Dan · 1 year ago

this was a great interview. we use wordpress. this site led me to check out scotts AWESOME CMS. i recommend wordpress as a great first stop for anyones website.

Jesse · 1 year ago

I'm having my wordpress theme created by http://dallaspetersdesign.com/ guy is really good and really economical

Vince · 1 year ago

at Simple Drive we have been setting churches up on Joomla for a few years. Lately we have been pushing more and more churches toward WP. Especially if they aren't in need of a whole lot of functionality.

Chad Dvoracek · 1 year ago

Wordpress is great. I just upgraded my blog to Wordpress Mu. This allows for multiple blogs on one site. Mu will give a lot more functional ability to churches. Including multiple blogging pages for different departments, podcasts, staff etc. as well as even being able to create a church pool of bloggers. Church members can come and create their own blog and it stays under the main website. If you want to see it working in a small way you can check out my personal blog under my name. I set up a front page blog and then a secondary blog for a study that people can log it and follow along.

Any church thinking of setting up a site should really look into Mu and think long term about what you would like the site to be. Converting from Wordpress to Mu after the fact took a lot of effort and those not familiar with tweeking wordpress would certainly need to hire out the conversion.

Lee Coate · 1 year ago

tony - just two months ago we launched an interactive wordpress blog to replace our Sunday bulletin. We have eliminated our weekly handout and merely drive people to our blog. We still have a "regular" website, but have found it to be stale and very difficult to maintain without a large budget. The advantage of the blog is instant updates, user friendliness (all our admins, pastors, etc. can write their blogs) and 24 hr. access for our peeps at The Crossing. We have saved tremendous amounts of paper and man hours producing a bulletin that people glance at and then discard. So far we are happy with it. Go Wordpress!

Jonathan Hopson · 1 year ago

Thanks Tony for posting this. I created our church's site last year using wordpress and it works great. There are some tweaks to do in order for things to show up in the right spot (image instead of blog excerpt), but overall it is a huge advantage. Check it out: www.MyElevationChurch.com

Fred McKinnon · 1 year ago

Tony,
I'm a bit late chiming in on this as I've been out of town, but checkout our church's site at www.sscommunitychurch.com ... it's 100% driven by WordPress, and I don't think it looks like a "blog" at all. Kudos to our Associate Tech Director, Chris Moncus (chrismoncus.com) for his design/wordpress/coding expertise.

For the Kingdom,
Fred

Chris Moncus · 1 year ago

Wow, Scott. How'd you hear about SSCC? Thanks for mentioning it BTW. I just wanna know how it came to be "one example off the top of my head". It's an honor to be featured here.

Fred McKinnon · 1 year ago

Tony ... well, it would've HELPED if I would've actually CLICKED THE LINK in the article to the church site that Scott mentions .. IT's OUR CHURCH! That's what I get for reading and commenting via GoogleReader, man!

Chris Moncus is excited, he just IM'd me and showed me the stats on the clickthrus ... that's super cool.

To Scott ... thanks for putting sscommunitychurch on the radar.

For the Kingdom,
Fred McKinnon (Worship Dir. St. Simons Community Church)

Chris Denham · 1 year ago

Hey Tony

Thanks for this article - really got me thinking - and as a result I picked up a Wordpress magazine theme and built a new site for my Senior Pastors blog / network website. So easy to do as well thanks to the way wordpress works. I ended up paying a few pounds for an excellent theme at found at www.wp-magazine.com which seems to be super popular - but their support has been excellent!

For anyone interested the site I've been working on is still partially under construction at http://staging2.davegilpin.com but should be live in the next week at www.davegilpin.com

Thanks for helping make a huge difference!

Mark Barnes · 1 year ago

Those who are using Wordpress as a CMS for their church (as I am) might like to know about my Sermon Browser plugin which allows churches to simply upload sermons to their Wordpress website, where they can be searched, listened to, and downloaded. Full podcasting support is also included.

Courtney Roes · 1 year ago

Hey Tony,

We've been using Wordpress for several years as our CMS on a site that you may not even recognize as a WordPress site - http://www.LakeForest.org . I just drew up a custom theme which WordPress makes easy. For us back in 2005, it was the easiest way for us to do Podcasting easily. Now that I'm doing missions in Europe, we're using Wordpress as our CMS on almost all of our new sites. We're even using WordPressMU (a multiple blog version of Wordpress) to manage our short term teams that come over.

To Mark Barnes, thanks for the Sermn Browser plugin. Looks great - I'll have to use it in our church website.

HealthGirl · 1 year ago

This is a terrific interview! I had NO idea that one could use WordPress for a website, and that churches were doing so. I am involved with a ministry and they sure could use a way to have a website that didn't cost an arm and a leg, using resources needed elsewhere. I'm going to share this with them.

Bill Robbins · 1 year ago

I just discovered Wordpress this year and have been quite impressed with using it as a CMS. My family and I are helping a church plant by leading the children's ministry, so I made a church site out of Brian Gardner's Revolution theme for the Tuscaloosa Vineyard Church www.tuscaloosavineyard.com. I enjoyed the experience so much that I've begun making Wordpress themes just for churches. You can find them at www.organizedthemes.com.
Thanks for pointing people to WordPress to help with their church CMS needs

brandonacox · 1 year ago

I'm giving away a nice wordpress theme for churches at Ministry Theme. Nothing is for sale and I don't do ads, so this is not spam. Just take and share. Build on it - enjoy it. It's open source and free, GPL.