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Choosing A Wordpress Theme For Your Church

WordPress is a great platform to create a website for you church. As it comes it includes an easy to use admin interface and everything you need to blog and create pages all for free. The one thing you will need is a theme that brings extra features that benefit your Church.

Here's my advice on some of the key features you'll want to look for when looking for a WordPress church theme.

Event Management

At church you've probably got lots of things going on. Quite a few church WordPress themes come with built-in, integrated event features. Some include event count downs and widgets making it easy to display when you next sermon or choir practice is.

Photo Gallery

Depending on your style of church you may have photographs that you want to display on your website. By having a built in photo gallery you can show off these photo in a clear and easy way.

Does this theme have any other church specific features?

Some church themes include very specific features that may be useful to you. For example if you plan on publishing your sermons then a "sermon gallery" which comes with the "WP Church" theme could be useful. Or maybe you wish to include video in which case you should chose a theme with built-in video features.

is it easy to work on?

Your going to be spending quite a bit of time working on your website so you'll want it to be easy. Make sure that the theme you choose has a custom backend admin options panel that allows to change as many aspects as you can without any coding. If it doesn't be prepared to get stuck in to the code or hire someone who can help you.

Look for things like WordPress menu system support and the use of widgets.

What's the support like?

Even the most experienced theme installers need a bit of help now and again. Before you buy your theme be sure to check out the support being offered. On sites like themeforest it's easy to see how other customers have got on and gauge the level of support. With some other smaller developers it might not be show straightforward.

In Summary

Think carefully about what your church website needs. Write down some bullet points with the features you need before you go looking for themes. This will make it much easier to chose one.

By: James A Cooper

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Once you've decided what you're looking for take a look at my favourite Wordpress Church Themes at www.101BestWordPressThemes.com

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