In the last post I featured the inFocus theme available at ThemeForest.net as a great theme for churches. The Rock Church of Northeast Arkansas uses that theme on their site and the results are stunning. I like the changes they made to the navigation along with the addition of the service times and social icons in the top right corner. The used the Grunge skin of the inFocus theme and it seems to be a great fit.
Life is a Premium WordPress Theme available from ThemeForest.net that can work well for a church or ministry website. This is not the same as the Life Site Template mentioned on last week’s post. The advantages it has for a church website include the large slider on the home page and up to 6 boxes to highlight specific events, ministries or resources. The home page has 3 different designs that can be used if desired. The them also comes with detailed documentation to help when installing and customizing the theme. Like many of the themes available at ThemeForest, it can be had for just $35.
Genesis Church in Spokane, WA used WordPress in the design of their new church website. They used the Life Site Template (not a WordPress theme) from ThemeForest.net. Pastor Josh indicated that the footer was customized and the site template has not easily worked with some plugins but clearly it has made for an excellent look.
Parkside Baptist Church in Mesquite, TX uses WordPress. They used the Resolution Theme featured on this site a couple days ago. Resolution can be purchased for $35 from ThemeForest.net. A home page builder comes with the Resolution theme and Parkside made good use of the jQuery slider and the six content boxes for their home page.
Resolution is a WordPress theme from THB Themes that works well for churches. It’s clean, simple, has unlimited sidebars and colors, uses Google fonts, custom widgets, custom post types and 2 jQuery slideshows. It’s available for $35 at ThemeForest.net. On Thursday we’ll feature a church that used this theme for their site for an excellent look and feel.
Real Life Christian Church in Chesapeake, VA uses WordPress for their recently re-designed website. They used the Studeo WordPress Theme available from ThemeForest. I really like the look of that theme and it works great for churches or ministries. The site is currently under construction as they are still in the process of fine tuning it.
Studeo is a WordPress theme by PremiumPixels that is available through ThemeForest. It is designed to appeal to creative agencies and makes heavy use of images throughout the design. It comes with 4 custom widgets, a filterable portfolio and an easy color picker. A church not to far from where I call home used this theme in redesigning their church website. Thursday I’ll feature that site and you can see it used in a church context.
WP-Church Theme is a theme from Netstudio. It’s a simple layout with the main focus on the home page ad rotator. The countdown timer, event and news integration and message section are a nice touch. It’s a great deal at just $35. I can’t get over how the images on the home page lead you to believe that church is set on a farm. It’s available on ThemeForest.net.
Trinity Grace Church’s website runs on WordPress. Thanks to Brandon Cox for the heads up on this one. It looks like they’re using the Andromeda WordPress Theme from ThemeForest.net.
