I have seen many different people wonder what to use for a church’s website and there are a ton of options out there, including E-zekiel that has a great product for you to go from nothing to something great, quickly and easily. My own push for some time was for churches to have blogs on their site and of course the default blogging Content Management System out there is WordPress.
The unfortunate part is that I gave them a great idea, but the solution of installing and maintaing it was on someone else.
WordPress Driven Church
WordPress Driven Church may be the greatest thing for a someone who wants to recommend a church using WordPress without actually doing it themselves. Not only do they provide a detailed and simple step-by-step guide that starts with picking a theme to adding content, but they have great examples of well done WordPress church websites in their gallery and a blog with plugins that may be very relevant for your church. Their tagline is:
Your guide to sharing your church’s story with WordPress, the world’s Number One web publishing tool.
While I would not necessarily push everyone to use WordPress, especially churches without a goal of blogging consistently or a church without someone that will maintain the website, WordPress can be a great, cost-effective solution for any church.
What other tools and resources have you found that are great for churches who want to use WordPress?
[HT Frank Gil]
ThatGuyKC says
Very cool. Thanks for sharing. Will have to check out this resource.
Frank Gil says
Thanks for mentioning me. It has helped me a lot with many sites I have made.
Paul says
I’m pretty sure that Automattic does not approve the use of the full “WordPress” word in the domain 🙂
Tim says
Well ok then I’ll change it to Joomlachurch or Drupal maybe? 🙂
Jonathan Ober says
I think the only thing I disagree with in this write up is the sentence part “especially with churches that aren’t blogging consistently”. While WordPress did start out as a blogging platform and does have all of that built in for blogging, that is short sighted in my opinion as WordPress is more than just a blogging tool. I use WordPress to power all of my websites these days whether a client is blogging or not. It’s really a powerful CMS with blogging as one of the many features.
Steven Gliebe says
Thats right, I see hundreds of churches using WordPress with blogging being a very minor or non-existent part of their setup. They use it as more of a CMS with a post type for sermons, throwing in an events plugin, etc. That’s what’s great about WordPress after 10 years. It’s just plain powerful and suitable for almost any need given the right theme and plugins.
Jonathan Ober says
I have a few clients in my list that use WordPress but don’t have blogging at all a part of their site now. They use WP for the powerful CMS, the plugin libraries. The nice thing is that a few of them after one or two years started asking me how hard it was to blog on their site…like 15-20 minutes later they are up and running. 🙂
Steven Gliebe says
Hah, no kidding. I sell church themes and I market the sermon, events, staff and locations features first. The blog is almost an afterthought. It’s like, “oh, by the way, if you do want to blog, the best blogging system *just happens* to be WordPress.”
Eric Dye says
LOL!
Grant Price says
Thank you for this article. There are some churches that really do need this type of help in getting setup with wordpress.