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Another Theme for Churches

May 24th, 2006 by Tim 29

Just finished PSI, another WordPress theme designed with churches in mind. Well, it may interest others too, who are after a more CMS type theme.

Smaller churches don’t have enough going on to post continually, so the emphasis with this theme is more towards static pages. Even so all the latest posts still appear down the bottom somewhere!

This theme uses content from your about page as static content for the home page and the RSS Event plugin to show upcoming events.

PSI

So what are you waiting for? Download it now and let me know where you are using it.

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1 On May 31st, 2006 at 8:39 pm Warren Watson said:

I like the layout of LivingOS Psi, I just don’t know how to use the RSS Event Plug-in box for Upcoming Events.

Insturctions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Warren
2 On June 5th, 2006 at 8:33 am tim said:

1. Install the RS Event Plugin.
2. Write a post and add the Rs Event date/time to the post. See RS Event documentation.
3. Upcoming events will show up on front page. You may want to tweak function params depending how far you want to look ahead and how many to view at a time. (Again, see RS Event docs).
3 On June 5th, 2006 at 4:16 pm Jonathan said:

I’d like to see some examples of PSI being used. ALPHA had some great ones.
4 On June 16th, 2006 at 5:01 pm April said:

What a kewl theme. I’m trying to convince my pastor to go the Wordpress route. This theme would be perfect!
5 On June 22nd, 2006 at 9:42 pm Grant said:

Love the theme but would like to use a random image as the header. I’m having issues with it - any ideas?
6 On June 23rd, 2006 at 8:14 am tim said:

Please explain the issues and I might be able to help, but displaying random images needs some extra PHP in the theme and some source of images.
7 On June 24th, 2006 at 1:16 pm Ralph said:

Hi,
brand new to wordpress. Wanted to try it out for a Church website and came across this excellent theme. I’m using it at the moment at http://www.carrigalinebaptist.org/wordpress/ One problem I have is with the navigation bar for the pages around the header. On internet explorer it looks fine when it goes to a second row of links. However in Firefox the proper background is missing opn the second row of links. I’ve placed the navigation links above and below the header image on the above test site to see if it makes a difference (which is doesn’t). Any ideas? I’m not up to speed on CSS (which is where I assume the issue probably is).
8 On June 24th, 2006 at 8:28 pm Grant said:

I think you are right - I can’t figure it out. I’m trying to use the Random Header plugin (http://www.martinet.nl/wp-site/random-header-plugin)

feel free to drop me an email when/if you can.

Thanks a ton!
9 On June 26th, 2006 at 2:36 pm Grant said:

okay - I reloaded everything and started from scratch.

Changed the name of the pics I wanted to use to “header1″, “header2″, etc. Went to manage in admin, loaded it up with random headers interface, and now it works.

So, for those who use this them AND want to use random header with it…make sure that all the pics you want to use have “header” as the beginning of the filename.

Hope that helps.
10 On August 11th, 2006 at 7:23 am Grant said:

Great theme, finally got it all tweaked out the way we like…

Here it is = http://www.gracelr.com
11 On September 27th, 2006 at 1:39 am Christopher said:

I am using PSI for a classroom website. I frequently use unordered lists. The UL appear correctly with the nifty triangle image for the bullet however on the front page it does not use the triangle and isn’t aligned correctly. Any suggestions to change that?

Thanks in advance for the wonderful template.
12 On November 15th, 2006 at 4:34 am the life of justin moore » Church + Mindstorm + WordPress said:

[...] It’s completely powered by WordPress, except for the photo gallery which uses Plogger. I chose a really neat theme from LivingOS called Psi in conjunction with the RS-Events plugin to power a “Coming Events” section. The theme was “Widget Ready” as well, so I threw in a RSS widget and added the Stamey’s Russia Blog headlines to the homepage as well. [...]
13 On January 3rd, 2007 at 3:33 am Wade Rockett said:

I migrated our church Web site to WordPress using this template, and it’s GREAT.

The one problem I’m having is related to RS Event: the “Upcoming Events” box on the front page automatically assigns the day of the week to each event, and it’s always the previous day. (For example, it now says that our Women’s Retreat starts on THURSDAY, January 19th instead of Friday.) Has anyone else run into this problem, and if so, what’s the fix? Thanks!
14 On January 3rd, 2007 at 10:06 am tim said:

Best asking the question on the plugin home page.
15 On January 3rd, 2007 at 2:23 pm Wade Rockett said:

Thanks, Tim. In my newbieness, I wasn’t sure if the issue was with the plugin, or how the template makes use of the plugin. I’ll hie myself over to the RS Events page.
16 On January 20th, 2007 at 4:28 am Mike Capern said:

Tim, I can’t thank you enough for your ministry online here. The easy front-page approach of LivingOS-PSI theme was just what I was looking for, while WordPress generally makes it so much easier to spread the Word online, from our little corner of the world. Blessings,
Mike
17 On February 2nd, 2007 at 6:34 pm ara said:

hi, i’m spanish, i like your theme but i have a problem, with the sidebar in the single page, i change the widecolumn for the narrow column and i put the code php for calling the sidebar but the sidebar dont apears next to the post but apears down
please tell me what i’ve got to do for that.
thank you
pd. im sorry but my english isn’t very well
18 On February 4th, 2007 at 8:50 am tim said:

The theme is designed to have no sidebar on the singe page view. To put in the right place you need to change the css. Or use a theme with a sidebar.
19 On February 23rd, 2007 at 5:51 am Armen said:

Hi

Why is the event plugin displaying the wrong day? I put in the 25th of Feb and it says Saturday beside it when it should be Sunday??

Excellent theme by the way. I’ve just taken over this site and decided to go for Wordpress. You theme is spot on for a church.
20 On February 23rd, 2007 at 8:21 am tim said:

That is a little strange. It is more likely to be something to do with your server than the plug-in which just uses regular PHP functions. On my test blog 25th is definitely a Sunday!
21 On February 23rd, 2007 at 1:45 pm Armen said:

What do you suggest I do?
22 On August 8th, 2007 at 6:18 am Simple church website? - Page 2 - The Church Media Community said:

[...] how to get events to show up in the upcoming events has been difficult. I see you’re using the LivingOS Psi theme - have you installed the RS Event plugin and added the date/time to the relevant posts? Best [...]
23 On August 28th, 2007 at 2:27 am Jonathan said:

Tim, thanks for everything you do and for taking the time to answer as many questions as you do. I have a question about one of the aspects of your them in the admin post page. When I write a post I notice a field for an optional excerpt. I tried to figure out what this does, but I haven’t had any luck yet. If you could give me understanding that would be great.
24 On September 1st, 2007 at 3:49 pm Tim said:

Some themes showjust an excerpt from each post on the index page rather than the whole post. This is automatically the first 200 characters ( I think!) or you can manually create an excerpt using this field.
25 On December 23rd, 2007 at 7:36 pm Jonathan said:

Tim,

I’m having an issue with your PSI theme. A plugin I need for the site, just updated to be used with WP2.3, so I thought it was time to upgrade the version of WP that I was using. However, upon upgrading I get the following error in the Upcoming events sections:

WordPress database error: [Table 'fbcdublin_wp.wp_post2cat' doesn't exist]
SELECT DISTINCT meta.meta_value as `date`, post.post_title as `title`, post.post_content as `fulltext`, post.ID as id, post.post_excerpt as `excerpt` FROM wp_postmeta as meta, wp_posts as post, wp_post2cat as cats WHERE meta.post_id = post.ID AND post.ID = cats.post_id AND meta.meta_key = ‘rs_event’ AND post.post_date = 1198438104 AND meta.meta_value <= 2725908838104 AND post.post_status = ‘publish’ ORDER BY meta.meta_value ASC LIMIT 5

If you know why this happened, how to fix it or if the theme is incompatible with WP2.3 that would help a ton.
26 On December 24th, 2007 at 9:39 am Tim said:

Well, it isn’t really to do with the theme. It is the rs-event plugin that is incompatible with 2.3.1.

Someone else did post me a link to a German site where someone had fixed the plugin to work with 2.3. Try here.
27 On December 24th, 2007 at 7:48 pm Jonathan said:

Tim,

Thanks again for being such a great resource for churches.
28 On July 11th, 2008 at 11:01 am Graham Doel said:

Tim, the link you posted to Rss event plugin is dead. Do you have a copy somewhere?

Thanks G
29 On July 11th, 2008 at 11:58 am Tim said:

I have it on my WordPress page, here.