Bhinneka is a WordPress theme (found on ThemeForest.net) that can work well for churches. In fact, I’ll feature a Church website in a couple days that’s using Bhinneka. It’s $45 and comes with a lot of great features. The Profiles page template is great for a staff page. It’s a responsive theme and the slider responds to touch gestures. The home page can be built with drag and drop usage. It has 3 built-in color schemes with unlimited background and color variations. It supports post types and Google fonts, as well as a number of other features.

Check back in a couple days to see a church website featuring Bhinneka.

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CHURCHOPE is a WordPress Theme for churches that can be found on ThemeForest.net. The theme is just $45, and it’s a great-looking theme with a lot of options. It features a large home page slider that adjusts to different heights depending on the content. Other features include:

• Responsive design
• Unlimited colors, sidebars, galleries and slideshows
• Different home page layouts
• Custom widgets and shortcodes
• Events system
• …and more

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Pendulum Theme is a WordPress theme from Rascals Labs. The theme isn’t designed for churches, but instead for the music industry. However, I think it works well for church websites too. I love the look and feel, the menu action, the social links, the separate home page background and more. Here are some features in Pendulum:

• Shortcodes manager
• Slider with ability to play video build-in
• Multilanguage support
• Cufon fonts
• Unlimited colors
• Background generator
• Porfolio, Slider & Event custom post types
• Video tutorials
• ..and more

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Minimal Church Theme is a WordPress theme for churches from WPforChurch. WPforChurch offers a yearly subscription price of $49, which gets you access to all of their themes, plugins, and over 30 training videos while you’re a member. Minimal is one of their themes that comes with that yearly subscription.

Minimal is a responsive theme with the ability to change colors, heading, the main text and other options customized in the WordPress 3.4 Theme Customizer. 

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Risen is a new WordPress theme for churches designed by Steven Gliebe. It’s a responsive theme and it looks great on my phone and tablet. Steven included all the features you would want in a theme designed for churches, including:

• Custom colors & fonts
• Sermon management
• Photo/Video Gallery
• Event calendar
• Staff profiles
• Contact form
• Multisite support
• Custom widgets
• Social media

Here’s a screen shot of the theme:

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When I hear ColdStone, I think of awesome ice cream, but this ColdStone is a WordPress theme from Elegant Themes that can work well for churches and ministries. What I love most about Elegant Themes is that you get access to all of their themes, currently 78, for just $39. That’s hard to beat. In using some of their themes on client sites I have also found that I like the features (shortcodes, templates, etc.) that come with their themes as well. 

Here’s a look at ColdStone. Later this week I’ll feature a church that used ColdStone for their WordPress church website. 

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Basic Church is a new WordPress theme from wpforchurch.com. Basic includes the following features:

• Responsive design
• Font chooser
• Shortcodes for columns, maps and buttons
• Multiple page templates
• Multiple widget areas
• …and more

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Organized Themes has released a new WordPress theme called Epic. Epic is “designed from the ground up with the needs of churches in mind.” Epic is responsive theme that includes some great features, including:

• Built in podcasting
• Mailchimp integration (we love MailChimp)
• Three home page options
• Custom widgets for common church website needs
• ..and much more

Check Out Epic