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Page 1: Give Your Church, Synagogue or Mosque Website a Divine Makeover With Wordpress

Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With Wordpress Presented by Rosemary Jean-Louis

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Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With Wordpress

Introductions: Who Are You?

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Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With Wordpress

Introductions Who Am I?

Digital and Community Manager for Georgia Public Broadcasting by day.

Content Manger for Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church by free time. *Paid as contractor to do this!

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Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With Wordpress

About Lourdes:

Historically African American Catholic Church

Known for Social Justice mission

Famous for upbeat liturgy with gospel, contemporary, tradition

professional sounding music

Pastor and Pastoral Associate members of Dominican Order of Preachers

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Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With Wordpress

Challenge in Updating Site Over the Years

Reflect historical values

Serve “homecrowd”

Welcome visitors and newbies (Catholics and Non-Catholic Christians, Non Christians, Non-Religious alike)

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Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With Wordpress

Challenge in Updating Site Over the Years

Getting help from congregation to give content to update pages!

Everyone has an opinion (usually wrong!)

Bad photos or lack of them.

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Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With Wordpress

What do religious websites look typically like anyway?

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Greenforest Baptist Church in Decatur, Gahttp://www.greenforest.org

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Local headquarters of Nation of Islam site - Muhammad Mosque Atlanta http://noiatlanta.org/

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Congregation Or VeShalomhttps://orveshalom.org/

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Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With Wordpress

Why do they look like that?

Don’t have the money to invest in a professional site

So -so web designer

Using web host template

Website creation and maintenance assigned to secretary or team of volunteers with no experience

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Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With Wordpress

How do you get the clean, non-cluttered design you want?

Invest in right team - committed person or people to do the work (as volunteer or paid personnel). Maybe you?

Get Rabbi, Iman and Pastor support (also church council or governing body council)

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Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With Wordpress

How do you get the clean, non-cluttered design you want?

Employ typical web building principles from “secular world”

Identify main audience: homecrowd, visitors, converts?

Determine what do you want site to say and do?

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Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With Wordpress:

What’s Common Content On Religious Sites? What’s Common Content On Religious Sites?

Service times

Address phone numbers

Bulletins

Meeting times

Events

Sermons or messages

Livestreaming

How to become a member/convert

How to give

Photos *typically bad!

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Old Template 2012-2015

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Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With

Wordpress:Decided to go with pre-fab theme. Not a lot of options out there but found these:

On Wordpress.org: Church by Hans:

https://wordpress.org/themes/church/preview/

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Evangelist Theme by Theme Fusehttp://themefuse.com/wp-themes-shop/church-wordpress-theme/

Cost: $55; try before you buy test labCost: $55; try before you buy test labCost: $55; try before you buy test lab

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Settled on Exodus Theme Church Themes:http://churchthemes.com/themes/exodus/

Pricier: $78Pricier: $78Pricier: $78

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Our version:lourdesatlanta.orglourdesatlanta.org

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Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With Wordpress

Where to get stock photography?

Exodus lists stock photo options both paid and free on their site:

churchthemes.com/guides/user/specific-themes/exodus/

Pro-Blogger.net Blog Post on where to find images:

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2015/03/20/where-to-find-free-images-online/

Creative Commons:

http://search.creativecommons.org/

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Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With Wordpress

Other Resources - from Melanie Adcock: www.mgacreativedesigns.com

Podcasting Plugin: Blubrry PowerPress:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/powerpress/

Sermon Browser (uploads sermons to site where they can be searched, listened to and downloaded):

https://wordpress.org/plugins/sermon-browser/

Audio & Video Podcasting Plugin:

http://seriesengine.com/

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Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With Wordpress

Other Resources - from Melanie Adcock: www.mgacreativedesigns.com

Events Calendar Plugins:

All In One Events Calendar:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar

The Events Calendar:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/

Events Sign Up Manager Plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/

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Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With Wordpress

Other Resources - from Melanie Adcock: www.mgacreativedesigns.com

Prayer Request Management

Prayer Engine: http://www.theprayerengine.com/

Praybox: http://groupsengine.com

Group Management:

Groups Engine: http://groupsengine.com/

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Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With Wordpress

Other Resources - from Melanie Adcock: www.mgacreativedesigns.com

Fonts:

Better Font Awesome: https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-font-awesome/

Shortcode:

Shortcodes Ultimate: https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/

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Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With Wordpress

Other Resources - from Rosemary Jean-Louis

Themes For Purchase:

WP for Church: https://www.wpforchurch.com/

31 Best Church Wordpress Themes:

http://athemes.com/collections/best-church-wordpress-themes/

Real Church Theme:

http://themeforest.net/item/real-church-responsive-retina-ready-theme/4455828?ref=athemez

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Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With WordpressOther Resources - from Rosemary Jean-Louis

For Beginner’s - How To Get Started:

Smashing Magazine: Design, Code, Wordpress Magazine

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

Coding For Beginner’s: http://www.w3schools.com/

Associated Press Style Guide:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/735/02/

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Give Your Church, Synagogue Or Mosque Site A Divine Makeover With Wordpress

Questions?

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www.rosemaryjean-louis.com

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