Are you interested in leveling up your WordPress development skills?
Maybe you’ve been interested in getting into more WordPress customization? Have a theme idea? A plugin?
Then you need to Start Here!
The #1 Resource for Church Technology Creativity & New Thinking
by Eric Dye
Are you interested in leveling up your WordPress development skills?
Maybe you’ve been interested in getting into more WordPress customization? Have a theme idea? A plugin?
Then you need to Start Here!
by Eric Dye
How fast is your church website? Does it load well?
Unfortunately, website loading speed is usually overlooked.
Far too many churches do one of the following – or even worse – all of them:
[Read more…] about The Effects of a Slow Church Website [Infographic]
by Chris Wilson
Every now and again a coding horror story pops up on the web. One where someone has one character wrong and so it ends up deleting everything on the system, or takes a whole site down and so on.
It seems so silly until it happens to you one day.
That’s why a local development environment is so important. You don’t want to make a huge mistake and lose everything.
[Read more…] about A Church Website Case Study: Your Local Development Environment [Series]
by Chris Wilson
There are a lot of different options out there to power your church website.
Wix, Squarespace, Jekyll, Drupal and more can all be used as the service to run your churches website but in my (admittedly very biased) opinion, you should choose WordPress.
Here’s why:
[Read more…] about Church Website Case Study: Why Use WordPress?
by Chris Wilson
If you are helping out with your church website, it can be exciting to begin coding and designing. However, there is something very important you need to do before you start implementing your incredible vision for the church website. It’s not as attractive as getting your hands dirty in code and Photoshop, but it is far more important and it will save you time and hassle latter on.
You need to sit down and chat with all the stake holders.
You’ll be amazed at how many people are (or consider themselves to be) a stakeholder in your church website. In a large church, this may include people who are responsible for different ministries within the church, but it also includes people who have strong opinions about how the church site should look. This second group can be large within small churches as well as larger ones, in fact it may even be bigger in a small church.
[Read more…] about A Church Website Case Study: Before You Start Coding [Series]
by Eric Dye
Get ready for the “largest ever faith-inspired global collaboration event for technology!”
Have you ever heard of Code for the Kingdom’s hackathon?
It’s super awesome.
Here’s what it’s all about:
[Read more…] about First Global Code for the Kingdom Hackathon