Church Builder is packed with useful features. You can view our live demo to see how it looks.
Here’s what you can expect:
- Easy To Customize
- Use your own logo and colors.
- See your styling changes live as you make them in the customizer.
- Choose from over 600 Google Fonts to match your style.
- Page Builder
- Create any layout you want with drag and drop ease.
- Uses familiar WordPress widgets that you already know how to use.
- Create unlimited menu pages, landing pages and more.
- Use only when you want to.
- * This theme uses the excellent and free Page Builder by SiteOrigin. Even the layout on the homepage is made with it.
- Robust Podcasting
- Support for audio and video podcasting.
- Integrated series for your messages.
- Lots of internal message links to keep your visitors on your site.
- Host your own videos or use a service like YouTube or Vimeo.
- Made For Mobile
- Fully responsive design so your site will look great on all screen sizes.
- Mobile navigation menu to make getting around your site simple on a phone or tablet.
- Support for HTML5 audio and video so mobile visitors can listen to/watch your messages.
- Smooth page transitions to give an app like feeling.
- Staff Section
- Create a staff directory easily.
- Each staff member can have an image, bio as well as contact information.
- Create multiple staff groups to organize your staff and key leaders.
- Wait, There’s More!
- Timely and helpful support straight from the developer.
- Includes 10 image lightbox styles.
- Built in MailChimp newsletter widget.
- Automatic theme updates.
- Translation ready.
Church Builder will give your church a website you can be proud of for years to come.
September 30, 2022 - version 1.2.9
updated* UPDATE: The Events Calendar compatibility update. - functions.php, style.css * UPDATE: Text updates. * FIX: Block-based widgets caused widgets section not to work properly. - functions.php * FIX: Mailchimp widget critical error.
August 19, 2021 - version 1.2.8
updated* Compatibility update for WordPress 5.7. * Compatibility update for PHP 8. - Fixing images media library buttons - church-builder/js/welcome-admin.js - Argument order - church-builder/includes/meta-boxes/includes/CMB2_Types.php - Widget: Announcements - tab fix church-builder/includes/widgets/widget-announcement.php
July 24, 2019 - version 1.2.7
updatedDesign and demo improvements. Also added arrows for menus with dropdown menus. style.css, customizer-options.php
March 26, 2018 - version 1.2.6
newImages and image galleries now pop up in a nice lightbox. It was just opening a new tab/window with the image prior to this improvement
updatedDownloading podcast audio and notes wasn't working properly (it used to, before all these WordPress updates). Now it does.
updatedBlog posts have now a large width (it was so narrow before)
updatedstyle.css – increased post width as it was too narrow
updatedsingle-podcast.php – fixed download notes and audio bug
updatedlayouts/podcast-item.php - fixed download notes and audio bug
February 5, 2018 - version 1.2.5
updatedDisabled and removed the code for Page Transition Animations as it was preventing some elements from loading properly when switching pages: header.php - deleted code for page transition animations includes\scripts.php - deleted code for page transition animations includes\customizer-options.php - deleted code for page transition animations
January 16, 2018 - version 1.2.1
newAdded Post Carousel to footer using SiteOrigin's widget
updatedUpdated demo's blog posts
May 18, 2017 - version 1.2
newpage-builder.php —- added compatibility for SiteOrigin Page Builder 2.5+
1.0.7 ( 16 November 2016 )
new/includes/body-tag.php -- added support for choosing layout on the posts page
updatedstyle.css -- fixed text logo font size so it will customize correctly
updated/js/smoothStateInit.js -- took out last function for compatibility
1.0.6 ( 19 August 2016 )
new/includes/custom-styles.php -- added default values to get_theme_mod calls where appropriate
newadded registering and enqueuing of smoothStateInit.js
updatedstyles-animate.css -- fixed disappearing text on mobile with "slide" animations
updated/includes/scripts.php -- moved smoothState loading to separate file
updatedstyle.css -- altered #wrap loading animation just a bit
1.0.5 ( 20 July 2016 )
newpodcast-feed-page.php -- added keyword tag to podcast episodes
1.0.4 ( 7 June 2016 )
new/includes/scripts.php -- changed smooth scrolling for jQuery update
1.0.3 ( 6 June 2016 )
newadded default 30 minute time to podcasts so feeds validate even if time hasn't been entered.
newfunctions.php -- added organizedthemes_rss_date function
updatedpodcast-feed-page.php -- fixed reference to podcast image
1.0.2 ( 11 April 2016 )
new/includes/post-types/podcast.php -- changed $post->id to $post_id (props Aaron Van Ruler)
new/includes/post-types/staff.php -- changed $post->id to $post_id (props Aaron Van Ruler)
updated/includes/page-builder.php -- updated code from site origin's page builder to render the rows to fix undefined index
1.0.1 ( 1 April 2016 )
newsingle-podcast.php -- changed loading of series image
updated/includes/widget-video.php -- fixed scalar value error message
1.0.0 ( 31 March 2016 )
newFirst Release
