A new theme company launched the other day, named “ChurchThemes.com” it provides ( you guessed it! ) WordPress themes for churches. It was founded by Steven Gliebe who blogged a bit about his new business here. What I like about ChurchThemes.com is the free plugin you can download from the repository to create your own church websites. He isnt tying his customers in with lots of custom shortcodes etc that will be lost if you change themes, I recommend you check them out and download the free plugin.
In this post I will be taking a look at the plugin and looking at what other options there are for building a church website with WordPress.
Church Theme Content – Free Plugin
Essentially what the Church Content plugin does is register a few custom post types and taxonomies which are tailored towards running a Church website. It will add functionality to your WordPress theme for :
- Sermons
- Events
- People
- Locations
Once you have activated this plugin you can begin adding content but to display it you will need a theme compatible with it, which means either creating your own ( developer docs here ) or purchasing a compatible theme from ChurchThemes.com
Church WordPress Themes
Resurrect
Resurrect is a mobile-friendly church theme that’s easy to customize (see demo). Make your website match your church by choosing the dark or light color scheme, setting a custom background and choosing your favorite fonts. Upload your logo or enter your church’s name as text.
- Full Details | Price: $50
Grace
Grace is an elegant, premium WordPress theme built for churches and religious communities. With its rich features and flexible options, Grace is a theme designed with your spiritual needs in mind.
- Full Details | Price: $55
Mission
Mission is a church theme offering everything that a church would ever need, from podcasting to calendars to commerce and funding, mission aims to provide an advanced one stop solution for your church.
- Full Details | Price: $60
Real Church
Real Church is the most powerful church WordPress theme. It has full functional that church theme must have. Sermon post type which supports video, audio, attachment and also PDF. Event post type which you can put the start date/time, end date/time and you can also put google map in the post.
- Full Details | Price: $50
The Church
The Church is the high quality web-masterpiece. The main destination of this theme is to serve religion and charity organizations, churches etc.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Glory
Glory is a WordPress theme aimed at making your new church or other non-profit website the best one on the block! Feel free to send me feature requests if you feel I’ve missed something! It’s not just for churches and non-profits! If you’re looking for a media-centric and/or event-based theme, this might be the one for you too!
- Full Details | Price: $45
Rebirth
Rebirth is a Church WordPress Theme aimed at making your new church website the best one on the block! Feel free to send me feature requests if you feel I’ve missed something!
- Full Details | Price: $45
Born
Born is a Church WordPress Theme aimed at making your new church website the best one on the block! Feel free to send me feature requests if you feel I’ve missed something!
- Full Details | Price: $45
WP-Church
WP-Church is a Premium ChurchTheme built on a highly intelligent framework.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Belief
Belief is a powerful drag-and-drop layout builder theme intended to power non-profit, religious communities, church or charity sites.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Blessing
Blessing Responsive WP Theme is the high quality web-masterpiece. The main destination of this theme is to serve religion and charity organizations, churches, parishes, etc.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Reverence
Reverence is a Responsive WordPress HTML 5 template for for religious origanizations, churches, or charities. It uses a Responsive Framework so it’s compatible with all mobile devices.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Incarnation
Incarnation is a responsive WordPress Church Theme (try resizing your browser), suited for any kind of Church Website that wants to provide a community site to its visitors.
- Full Details | Price: $50
The Good News
The Good News is a premium WordPress theme designed mainly for churches and religious website. It can also be used for any other type of website, especially for environmental, spa, charity etc.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Genesis Church
Genesis Church is specifically written with religious organizations in mind. We spent a great deal of time making sure that not only is it fully equipped for this purpose, but also for the buyer looking for a very extensive, solid and customizable theme.
- Full Details | Price: $45
ChurchHope
Control every pixel of this theme – You can set your colors, background patterns, change fonts, change layouts for different pages.
- Full Details | Price: $50
5 Comments
Thank you for sharing about what we’re doing with churchthemes.com. We’re hoping other church theme developers will take advantage of our plugin so users can switch themes with minimal trouble. For now Resurrect is the first and only theme that uses it but we’re at this full-time so will be releasing more compatible themes over the next few months.
Just a note that we do business as “churchthemes.com”. There’s another church theme shop at churchthemes.net with the name of “ChurchThemes” and we don’t want there to be confusion between the brands.
Good job Steven, wish you luck with it :)
I’ve changed the links over to ChurchThemes.com
All of them are very beautiful and peaceful. Nice collection :)
Nice collection of church themes Oli, really beautiful themes.
Very nice church themes. I used some generic templates to build a church theme from themecomet.com