Living Open Source

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 [...]

Thanks to Rick Parsons we now have an updated and improved version of the RS Event plugin. It is clear that this plugin is still one of the best ways to manage events in WordPress, so you can download this latest version here.

The steady flow of e-mails highlighting churches using WordPress to share their story on-line continues. I don’t always get round to adding them to the directory, but I try. Here are five more new and updated examples of what you can do with this great tool.

Many churches now broadcast their services and sermons through the medium of moving pictures, rather than those dull old sermon tapes they have at the back of churches. Here is how it might be done with WordPress.

Time for another trawl through the latest crop of WordPress driven churches. It is still the easiest way, by far, to share your church’s story online. There are some interesting WordPress themes in this selection.