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WordPress 2.8 – Widgets!

Last Updated June 12, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

Sorry for the nerdy post today. We’ll get back to youth ministry next week. WordPress 2.8 released yesterday, and this upgrade addresses one of the biggest shortfalls in WordPress: the widget interface. It used to be possible to see all of your sidebars and widgets at once and drag and drop your widgets straight from […]

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How I Built a Church Website for Free: Conclusion

Last Updated April 23, 2009 by Matt 1 Comment

[box type=”info”]Use the Coupon Code “ChurchWebsite” when you sign up for website hosting through HostGator and you will get a 25% discount from HostGator. That also makes sure I get credited for referring you. Thanks! Find out more about HostGator.[/box] Hopefully people will find my series on building a church website for free (or pretty […]

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Church WordPress Plugins

Last Updated March 23, 2009 by Matt 10 Comments

In order to make the most out of your church website using WordPress, you are going to need to install a few plugins. Plugins are ways to extend the functionality of the core funtcions of WordPress and make your website do exactly what you want it to do. Installing plugins is now extremely easy. In […]

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Best Church WordPress Themes

Last Updated January 2, 2016 by Matt 17 Comments

You’re looking for a free WordPress theme for your church, right? I know, I’ve been there. I’ve used WordPress since 2006 and use it to manage my church’s website. After doing this for all these years, I’ve learned one thing: paying for themes is usually worth it. Here’s why: It will save you hours upon […]

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How I Built a Church Website for Free: WordPress Tutorials

Last Updated March 14, 2009 by Matt 1 Comment

[box type=”info”]Use the Coupon Code “ChurchWebsite” when you sign up for website hosting through HostGator and you will get a 25% discount from HostGator. That also makes sure I get credited for referring you. Thanks! Find out more about HostGator.[/box] I was planning on taking a break from this series until Monday, but I figured […]

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How I Built a Church Website for Free: WordPress

Last Updated March 13, 2009 by Matt 17 Comments

[box type=”info”]Use the Coupon Code “ChurchWebsite” when you sign up for website hosting through HostGator and you will get a 25% discount from HostGator. That also makes sure I get credited for referring you. Thanks! Find out more about HostGator.[/box] WordPress Overview [NOTE: If you are absolutely a complete novice to websites or self-hosted platforms, […]

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Church WordPress Websites: SiteGround Hosting

Last Updated August 20, 2015 by Matt 13 Comments

“Managed” WordPress hosting is becoming a big deal these days, and what it usually means are things like: Servers optimized specifically for WordPress Enhanced WordPress security Automatic WordPress backups and updates Server-level WordPress caching Other WordPress-specific options This post contains affiliate links, meaning if you click a link and sign up for SiteGround hosting, I […]

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How I Built a Church Website for Free: Introduction

Last Updated March 10, 2009 by Matt 1 Comment

Below is our old church website, which was built and hosted by one of those church-specific website companies. They were nice people and all, but their websites were simply lacking in cost-effectiveness, functionality, and aesthetics. The worst part is we were paying $200 a year for that website. When I learned that our account was […]

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Best Youth Ministry Books

These are the books that will completely change the way you think about youth ministry, for the better. Links are to my reviews of each book.

Teen 2.0 by Robert Epstein

A psychologist makes you question every assumption you have about adolescence.

Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry by Andrew Root

Why build relationships? Root’s answer will surprise you.

Best Youth Ministry Books: Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Ostreicher

Yesterday I finally read Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Ostreicher, and since I’m one of the latecomers to the conversation I won’t summarize the book too much. Marko has linked to tons of reviews on his blog if you are interested in more in-depth summaries. If you are fairly in-tune with a lot of the […]

Best Youth Ministry Books: Postmodern Youth Ministry

Postmodern Youth Ministry by Tony Jones is the book I would recommend to youth ministers if they could just read one youth ministry book. I first read the book in my Foundations and Practices of Youth Ministry class at John Brown University. After the preface to the book there is a page titled, “The Day […]

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