Living Open Source

Ever wanted to know where your nearest Baptist Church was? Or how big it was? Somebody at Baptist House has plugged the big Google machine into their database and come up with a map.

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 [...]

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.

Our local group of churches have used various means to publicise jointly the fact that Christmas is a time to go to chruch. This year we managed to get nearly half a page in the local paper for a bargain price and so here are three ideas for an ad. You can vote on which [...]

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.

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.