ELCA Web and Multimedia Development Blog
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ELCA WordPress Users Support
I am starting a new category of posts that I hope will help our growing number of Bloggers. In case you did not know, the ELCA has a new platform for our blogs. WordPress is very versatile and has already proven to be an upgrade from our previous solution.
We are also rolling out a custom ELCA theme for congregations and synods to create small- to medium-sized Web sites with the church’s branding and useful features. WordPress is not only a great blog platform but an excellent Content Management System.
This category of posts will automatically update into the Dashboard of our in-house blogs, and primarily be geared towards helping our churchwide office users and admins use and maintain their new blogs. But it is also my hope that these posts help those outside of the churchwide offices to gain a better understanding of how to use and implement WordPress in their setting as well.
If you haven’t subscribed to this blog yet, please take the time to do so. And please tell others who are interested in Web Development to sign up also, won’t you?
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on October 17th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
One request: wptouch plugin!!
You might also consider finding some other ways to integrate with Twitter. TweetMeme for easy RTs of
posts, Disqus or IntenseDebate for comments. Great job so far!
on April 6th, 2010 at 12:07 am
What is the status of the WordPress theme for congregations?
on April 6th, 2010 at 9:13 am
Thanks for checking in. We are very close. The project is now being finalized with suggested plugins and a quick start manual is being completed.
on June 19th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Really looking forward to seeing this!
on August 20th, 2010 at 8:47 am
Anxiously awaiting the finalized project. Our church is “this close” to starting its first website (finally). As technical expertise at many small town churches like ours is limited, these templates will be welcome. Additionally, we would find it helpful to hear recommendations for web hosts (so many choices) and even for good domain names. I personally like “ourchurch.oursynod.ecla.org” but where would we even begin to register this and is it even possible?
on November 1st, 2010 at 10:43 am
Hello Steve, I like the idea of doing a post on hosts. Stay tuned.