Living Open Source

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.

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.

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.

I gave up trying to retain any control of my WordPress themes a while back. They are now distributed under a GPL license. The reason ? – other Christians thought they could use them without credit, even sell them in a couple of cases and pass them off as their own designs! But check this [...]

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.

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 [...]