We’ve shared some awesome WordPress themes for church that you might want to consider using for your church’s WordPress theme, before; but it’s been a while, so we wanted to give you a few more themes that you might want to consider when you’re building a new site or updating your current church WordPress website:
Morgan Theme
This theme is sporting a responsive theme, meaning it automatically formats itself for different mediums like the small Nexus 4 device or the bit larger iPad device. It is also optimized for several different colors depending upon what you want to choose.
Risen Theme
by ThemeForest
This might be the most church-y designed site and it is beautiful. At the same time, it is responsive to all different browsers and screen sizes. Even better, if your church archives your sermons through video or audio files, it has intentional formatting just for you.
Moses Theme
This theme has a running homepage slider that is great for frequently updated websites or ministries with blogs. It is formatted for churches that would like to feature podcasts, audio sermons, and service times with maps. This is a great option for any church.
Antioch Theme
by ChurchThemes
This website design may be the most beautifully created design and unlike the others, it has a free option if you do not need responsive designs (though we recommend the paid option). It has premade giving and social media widgets, a sermon media manager for administrators, and a specific podcast design.
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Steven Gliebe says
Hey Jeremy,
Thanks for sharing my Risen theme in your post. Have a look at my latest theme too, Resurrect: http://churchthemes.com/themes/resurrect/. This just came out a couple weeks ago with the launch of http://churchthemes.com. It’d be great to see it in your post with the others.
It’s a good time for churches to be making the move to WordPress now that there are some 50 WordPress themes made specifically for churches.
Jeremy Smith says
Thanks for sharing. It is always important to have resources to share!
Eric J says
This is super weird! I bought the moses theme for our church website http://graceinauburn.com and it ended up not working for us so we pivoted and switched to the Risen theme. Since the launch i have been working on our child theme changing a few things such as increasing the font size and using font awesome icons so that the social media icons are Retina and uploading a retina size church logo.
If you have any questions about Risen i can answer them :p.
Jeremy Smith says
Would you say it was worth it?
Eric J says
What do you mean worth it? It was definitely worth the price we paid, Steven’s programming is excellent and his support is great. I know that he wishes he had included more of the functionality in a plugin instead of in the theme but it has worked out well for us.
Jeremy Smith says
That’s what I was looking for. Thanks for sharing.
Steven Gliebe says
Hey Eric, thanks for sharing your experience with Risen.
Like you said, it’s good to have functionality in a plugin. With Resurrect and future themes we’re using our Church Theme Content plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/church-theme-content/. We’re thrilled to have gotten a 5-star rating from Justin Tadlock on wordpress.org — the man who so strongly advocates this separation of data and presentation.
Resurrect is also Retina-ready. An update will be made to Risen soon and I’m going to see about making it Retina-ready too.
Eric J says
Feel free to look at what i have done, the only thing i don’t like is how i just included a large church logo and scaled it down with html. IE really doesn’t like that.
Steven Gliebe says
Your site is a great example of Risen in action. I’ll be sharing it with others.
One thought for the logo is to try a plugin like WP Retina 2x that provides different methods for swapping in @2x Retina graphics only on Retina devices. That way you can use the actual size logo and IE users won’t have scaling ugliness. It’ll also produce @2x versions for image uploads to make them sharper on Retina.
That could be overkill just for the logo though so since you’re using a child theme you could use CSS media queries and/or some JS to swap only that @2x image in on Retina devices. I came up with a really lightweight method of doing this and I have it in the back of my mind to something about it up on http://stevengliebe.com.
Eric J says
I ended up using http://retinajs.com/ based on your comment I look forward to your blog post.