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
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
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
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
updatedUpdated demo's blog posts
newAdded Post Carousel to footer using SiteOrigin's widget
May 18, 2017 - version 1.2
newpage-builder.php —- added compatibility for SiteOrigin Page Builder 2.5+
1.0.7 ( 16 November 2016 )
updatedstyle.css -- fixed text logo font size so it will customize correctly
updated/js/smoothStateInit.js -- took out last function for compatibility
new/includes/body-tag.php -- added support for choosing layout on the posts page
1.0.6 ( 19 August 2016 )
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
new/includes/custom-styles.php -- added default values to get_theme_mod calls where appropriate
newadded registering and enqueuing of smoothStateInit.js
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 )
updatedpodcast-feed-page.php -- fixed reference to podcast image
newadded default 30 minute time to podcasts so feeds validate even if time hasn't been entered.
newfunctions.php -- added organizedthemes_rss_date function
1.0.2 ( 11 April 2016 )
updated/includes/page-builder.php -- updated code from site origin's page builder to render the rows to fix undefined index
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)
1.0.1 ( 1 April 2016 )
updated/includes/widget-video.php -- fixed scalar value error message
newsingle-podcast.php -- changed loading of series image
1.0.0 ( 31 March 2016 )
newFirst Release
