Living Open Source

If only I could just… well you can with WordPress thanks to the huge number of plugins available. But if you are new to WordPress, how do you know what is possible, and how do you find great plugins. Well here is my list of five really very useful plugins.

One of the most anticipated releases of WordPress delivers a host of new features, most notably the long awaited menu builder. The new KAPPA WordPress theme brings support for the new features.

It is just so simple – WordPress rules! There are geeks out there trying to shoe horn their church into Drupal or Joomla, but for for the church without such a purest technical junky in the congregation, WordPress wins hands down.

I have been developing WordPress themes and helping churches harness the potential of this great tool for over five years now. I felt it was time for a fresh approach for the themes site and to create a site more focussed on creativity and user support. And so the Theme Loom.

To break my blogging silence, here are five more sites I’ve noticed recently using WordPress to run their church web site. This crop of churches shows that to have easy free content management, you don’t have to sacrifice design.

From the many e-mails I get about Wordpress-Driven Churches, I have noticed that church planters are frequent users of my WordPress themes. Steve Swisher over at Churches Planting Churches has also noted the tool’s usefulness to those seeking to push boundaries of church that bit further.

After weeks of tinkering, my all new Mu WordPress theme is born. This is a cutting edge theme with a host of features, and in growing numbers of flavours. It is easily configured through its dedicated theme options page; thumbnails abound and on the fly, menus drop down gracefully and it all hangs together even [...]