New Theme Preview: Edwards Church WordPress Theme
Here’s a quick preview of our next theme: Edwards. It features a full-width slider on the home page. Edwards is a responsive WordPress theme for churches. It will resize nicely to any fit device (iPad, iPhone, Android, Kindle Fire, etc). As with all of our themes, the colors may be easily changed within the theme options ...
Church Planting and a New Theme: Goforth
Things have been kinda quiet around here for the last couple of weeks & for good reason. I’ve just entered into one of the busiest times of my life! As of October 1st, I’ve been on the road raising prayer and financial support to plant a church in Los Angeles County, California. So far we’ve ...
Using Google Chrome to Edit a WordPress Theme
I just came across an excellent video created by Devin Price. It walks you through learning how to make simple CSS changes to your theme. All WP for Church themes have a theme options panel built in to do many changes without needing to know CSS. However, learning to use Chrome or Firebug for Firefox can ...
New Theme & Price Changes
WP for Church now provides 4 themes in addition to premium plugins and support. The annual cost will be going up effective next week. The current price is $30 and the new price effective next Monday will be $49. There will be no change for existing customers. If you subscribe before the change, your current membership will ...
Sermon Manager 1.5 RC2 Now Available!
After several rounds of testing the beta version, we’re now ready for a release candidate! The goal is to be able to publish this version to the WordPress repository next week. What’s New? Podcasting Support – Just go to Sermons → Settings to setup your feed. Enhanced image support for Preachers, Sermon Series, and Sermon ...
Beta Release of Sermon Manager with Podcasting Support
I’m happy to announce a beta release of the much anticipated update to Sermon Manager. Why “Beta”? This update has significant changes & I want to give the opportunity for testing and refining before it’s added to the repository. There’s still several things on my to do list, but most users should have no issues ...
WordPress Events Management for Churches
First, here’s a few things you should NOT do: Don’t add an events plugin if no one will update it! It’s a big turn off to see the special Sunday from two years ago still posted prominently on your home page. Don’t feel like you must have a calendar online. No event listing at all ...
Sermon Manager Sneak Peek
Here’s two quick screenshots of the revamped add new sermon page: And the sermon files section: If you have been using Sermon Manager, then you’ll notice a few slight differences. First of all, hopefully the layout is a little more pleasing to the eye. In the sermon files section, there are a few significant changes. ...
Win a One Year Membership to WP for Church!
To celebrate our recent releases, I’ve decided to give an annual membership away to my blog readers! The giveaway will end on July 14th, and you can earn entries in a variety of ways. After you enter, come back each day to earn more entries. Over the next few weeks, the Sermon Manager plugin is ...
How to Turn Off Comments
Comments are enabled on WordPress by default. You can change this default for new posts or pages you’ll publish in the future, as well as change it for posts or pages you already published. To change the defaults for new posts or pages, go to Settings → Discussion. To disable comments on an existing post/page/sermon, ...
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