Living Open Source

I thought it was time for another series on using WordPress to run your church web site. One important addition to “out-of the box” WordPress is a way of managing and displaying some kind of events calendar.

I got a bit bored with that last theme, and so have tried to make something a bit more eye catching, reflecting the largely visual emphasis of many of the posts here, as well as making the text more readable. A number of folk have e-mailed to say they would like me to share the [...]

Using WordPress to open the window into your church’s life is a recurring theme of my blog and one of the ways I’ve been able to share some of my skills with others. A number of my own WordPress themes were designed for churches in mind, and I was surprised to discover someone had reckoned [...]

Time to mark the 200th plus entry into the directory of churches using WordPress to run their web site. Here are five more churches telling their story on-line with the world’s most popular blogging/CMS platform.

A bit of doodling and out pops another WordPress theme! This one has a grid feel, with 4 widgetized sidebars. It has the feel of a news or magazine style blog with its serif font type, though the layout may well fit well for a church application. You can test drive and download the theme [...]