Living Open Source

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.

Post revisions; an improved Press-It function; support for Gears to blog at high speed; captions for your images. Check out this video showing off these great new features.

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.