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Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Frankie Jarrett — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:01:06 -0000

Really great interview. You and Scott really got to the core of things and why WordPress and church websites go hand-in-hand really well. I recently started developing themes for churches full time and the Scott is right, it's not for everyone but it is without a doubt very powerful and very economical. Go WordPress! :)

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Ryan Crozier — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 04:34:03 -0000

I'm working on a new site featuring wordpress themes for church websites. I think it can be a very effective tool for churches. I love that it doesn't have to break the bank and take a ton of time to set up. In other words... there's no need for a committee meeting just to build a website! haha

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

MarketingTwins-Randy-TX — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:58:25 -0000

Really late on this comment, but thought I'd showcase another WP Church site - they love the CMS functionality it gave them (their old site was hard to update and could have easily won the Ugliest Website award by their own admission).

Here's the WP version:
http://www.greenlandhills.org/

Based originally on the Titanium 1.2.1 theme by iThemes

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Tim Bednar — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:50:56 -0000

You can download this FREE WordPress Theme to build your church web site. It was developed to make customizing, building and growing web sites as easy as possible. Feel free to email me with questions.

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Brandon Cox — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:43:49 -0000

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.

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Brandon A. Cox — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:43:49 -0000

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Bill Robbins — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:10:19 -0000

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

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Bill Robbins — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:10:19 -0000

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

HealthGirl — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:24:56 -0000

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.

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

HealthGirl — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:24:56 -0000

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Courtney Roes — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:54:48 -0000

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.

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Courtney Roes — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:54:48 -0000

Hey Tony,

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

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Mark Barnes — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:55:35 -0000

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.

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Mark Barnes — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:55:35 -0000

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Chris Denham — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:16:39 -0000

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!

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Chris Denham — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:16:39 -0000

Hey Tony

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!

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Fred McKinnon — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:35:24 -0000

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)

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Chris Moncus — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:46:44 -0000

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.

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Fred McKinnon — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:53:12 -0000

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

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Fred McKinnon — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:35:24 -0000

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)

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Chris Moncus — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:46:44 -0000

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.

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Fred McKinnon — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:53:12 -0000

For the Kingdom,
Fred

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Jonathan Hopson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:24:26 -0000

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

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Jonathan Hopson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:24:26 -0000

Re: Using WordPress for Church Websites

Lee Coate — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:56:40 -0000

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!