Using Wordpress for Church Sites
a resource in How-tos | Site Builders | Tech
The great guys over at Church Communications Pro have a great series of posts on how you can effectivly use Wordpress to run a Church site.
Although some of the information is a little out of date (due to new versions of Wordpress), it’s still well worth a read and covers most of what you’ll need to know!
They also run a sister site with many good Wordpress theme - ithemes.
http://www.churchcommunicationspro.com/using-wordpress-to-run-church-websites-tutorial-series/
Added 17th July 2008 | No Comments Yet | Permalink | Trackback
Sermon Browser
a resource in Sermons | Site Builders | Tech
Sermon Browser is a plugin for the popular blog/cms software Wordpress.
This great little plugin allows the easy addition of sermons (audio, video and text) and podcasting to your wordpress installation.
For the audio, you can either upload mp3 files via the plugin or you can link to a file/embed on another server/hosting such as Amazon S3 or Odeo.
For video you can link to a video on site such as YouTube or Google Video.
You can add the times of services and speakers, etc. to make the adding of sermons very simple. There are also customisable templates for how the sermons are displayed on the site.
http://www.4-14.org.uk/sermon-browser
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5)City Gates
a resource in Site Builders
City Gates is a ‘hosted’ Church CMS with a full range of features including blogs & podcasts, calendars and file uploads.
You can choose from an existing design or build your own (if you know css).
Added 11th July 2008 | No Comments Yet | Permalink | Trackback
Church Website Design Tool
a resource in Church Tools | Design | Site Builders | Tech
This is a free self-assessment questionnaire from the guys at Internet Evangelism Day helps you evaluate your Church site, and creates an evaluation report with advice to help you consider new ideas or aspects of the site that could be modified. It could also help in planning a new site.
Give it a go, it should only a take three minutes!
http://ied.gospelcom.net/church-site-design.php
Added 10th July 2008 | No Comments Yet | Permalink | Trackback
AdvancedMinistry
a resource in Church Tools | Site Builders
AdvancedMinistry is a Church site builder with lots of features including calendar and media handling (inc podcasting).
It’s based on different colour ’suites’ that have different features and price plans. There’s also a free site option (but it does carry ads).
http://www.advancedministry.com
Added 9th July 2008 | No Comments Yet | Permalink | Trackback
Church Cloud
a resource in Church Finders | Church Tools | Site Builders
Church Cloud is an international Church finder with added features.
As well as have a normal listing, Church can upload sermons and other media, audio and video, (so they can be downloaded or played using the Church Cloud jukebox) and have event listings.
On the Church lsiting page you can have more info that on most church finders including your address, phone number, email address, web link to your Church site, a link to your Church’s location on google maps and the main service times.
With the addition of sermons and events, you could almost make this your (small) main Church site!
ChurchCloud is made by the people who make the Ekklesia 360 Church site software and ChurchCloud is run on this software.
Added 8th July 2008 | No Comments Yet | Permalink | Trackback
SiteOrganic
a resource in Church Tools | Site Builders
SiteOrganic is a ‘premium hosted’ Church site builder. There are a number of features and includes custom design.
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)Added 7th July 2008 | No Comments Yet | Permalink | Trackback
Ekklesia 360
a resource in Church Tools | Site Builders
Ekklesia 360 is an excellent ‘all in one’ online system for Churches.
As well as being a very powerful content management system for building your Church website, it can also keep track of people/members and events. It can even do some social networking and ecommerce!
Plaid
a resource in Church Tools | Site Builders | Tech
Plaid is a web based Church Management application.
With Plaid your Church Leadership team can:
- Track and follow-up with visitors
- Organize contact lists
- Send emails to targeted contacts
- Print attendance sheets
- Share an agenda with your entire team
Plaid is currently under development but you can sign up for updates.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/PlaidBlog
Added 4th July 2008 | No Comments Yet | Permalink | Trackback
Clover.com
a resource in Church Tools | Site Builders
Clover is a really nifty site builder which produces great looking sites. There are loads of features, a very nice editor and you get 10gb of hosting.
Added 1st July 2008 | No Comments Yet | Permalink | Trackback