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[Updated: 7 February, 2013]

WordPress is a great solution to easily build a church website. This collection of church WordPress themes showcases some of the best church themes available for WordPress. These premium WordPress church themes will transform a standard WordPress blog into an easy to manage church website. While these themes are specifically designed for church websites, there are also lots of business & CMS style WordPress themes here that could also easily be used for church sites.

Risen
Risen is a responsive WordPress theme for churches. The premium theme includes all the features required in a church website including sermon archive, photo and video gallery, church events calendar, support for multiple locations, staff profiles and church news. Risen has powerful customization options to customise the theme and has a mobile friendly responsive design so it can be accessed on tablets and phones.

Price: $45
Demo & Release Page | Download

Epic Church Theme
A premium WordPress church theme from Organized Themes designed specifically for the needs of churches. Features include a touch based slideshow on the homepage (optional), built in podcasting, 3 homepage options, light or dark colour styles, staff section, and theme options panel. The theme also has a responsive design meaning it displays great on everything from desktops, to tablets to smartphones.

Features

• Responsive design–works great on everything from desktops, to tablets to smartphones
• Optional touch based slideshow on home page and touch image galleries
• Slides can be images or videos
• Built-in podcasting
• Easy to use theme options
• Custom widgets for last podcast message, contact details, Facebook like box, featured page and video
• MailChimp integration in the contact widget
• Links to many social media networks as part of contact widget
• Three home page options
• Staff section to easily add and list your staff members
• Two colour style options: light and dark
• Custom background (10 included) or use your own background image and colour
• Use your own logo
• Two logo locations: inside navigation bar or above it
• Choose your own link colours and accent colour
• Localized for translation (PO file included)

Prices Individual Theme: $45
Demo & Release Page | Download

Moses Theme
A clean and professional church WordPress theme that includes 5 different colour schemes, the ability to post sermon MP3 files, events, and news articles, theme options panel and more.

Price: $79
Demo & Release Page | Download

City Church
A child theme for the Builder Theme Framework from iThemes that allows you to easily build a church website with WordPress. The theme lets you upload and display sermon and staff information content, including featured images and audio files, without needing to style or organize the page.

The Builder Theme Framework
Builder is a powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use WordPress theme that allows you to quickly build websites and blogs with WordPress. Builder includes an innovative layout engine allowing you to build almost any layout you like and easy manage the theme graphics and styling. The iThemes Builder package includes 40+ child themes, which span a wide range of looks and styles for different niches, with more child theme being added all the time. Builder also comes with 9 powerful plugins for increased functionality.

Builder Features

• Build almost any kind of new layout or page template you want (without knowing code)
• Infinite Widget Areas
• Simple Layout Control
• Use one theme to build a website with multiple layouts and individual looks for each (each layout can have its own CSS)
• Assign specific layouts to certain WP Views (specific layouts for blogs, pages, posts, and categories)
• Create new widgets areas layouts or sidecars on the fly
• Custom Landing Pages – squeeze pages, email opt in pages, feed pages, portfolio pages etc
• WordPress 3.0+ Custom Menu integration
• Style Manager – easily tweak the CSS
• Advanced SEO options panel
• BuddyPress integration
• Billboard & Rotating Images plugins
• 40+ Child Themes

Price:
City Church Theme: Free, iThemes Builder: $97
Demo & Release Page | Download

Micah Church
Micah is a premium WordPress church theme from Mint Themes. The theme is designed distinctively for churches and includes features crafted specifically for churches. The theme allows you to easy-to-post sermons, news, events, photos and more. There is also an option to include online donations through your website.

Features

• 6 Page Templates (Events, Full Width, General Posts, News, Photo Albums, Sermons)
• 4 Custom Widgets
• 4 Custom Post Types (News, Sermons, & Photo Albums)
• Extensive Theme Options Panel
• 2 Tier Drop Down Menus
• Podcast Friendly
• Post Sermon MP3s
• Upload Custom Logo
• Google Maps
• Homepage Slider Managed By Theme Options Panel
• Fully iPhone and iPad compatible
• Layered Photoshop Files for easy customization
• Documentation With Video Tutorials & How-To’s

Price: $79
Demo & Release Page | Download

Sea Side Church Theme
A premium WordPress theme from Organized Themes designed for church, organisation or business websites. The theme includes a custom staff page template, slideshow or featured video on the homepage, fancy box image galleries, sliding messages section and more.

Features

• Custom Staff page template
• Contact Us widget with map support
• Featured video widget
• Featured posts category widget
• Fancy box powered image galleries
• Built in support for podcasting
• Choose slideshow or featured video on homepage
• Sliding message or widget area on homepage
• Customizable buttons and links
• WordPress custom backgrounds and navigation menu
• Featured images for posts
• Support for WP-Pagenavi, just install and activate
• Choose tagline, custom button or empty space for header
• Built in blogging
• Cross browser developed
• Created for WordPress 3.0+
• Valid XHTML code and CSS3

Price: $30
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Malachi
A premium WordPress church theme from Mint Themes specifically designed for churches that need a website rich in video and media content. The theme has a large featured slider on the homepage for videos and photos, streaming sermons, photo galleries, and podcasting built-in. Other features include 4 colour styles, 7 page templates, 5 custom post types, extensive theme options panel and more.

Features

• 4 Colour Styles
• Large Homepage Slider – cycle through featured videos and photos
• 7 Page Templates (Events, Full Width, General Posts, News, Photo Albums, Videos, Sermons)
• 4 Custom Widgets
• 5 Custom Post Types (Videos, News, Sermons, & Photo Albums)
• Extensive Theme Options Panel
• 2 Tier Drop Down Menus
• Podcast Friendly
• Post Sermon MP3s
• Upload Custom Logo
• Homepage Slider Managed By Theme Options Panel
• Fully iPhone and iPad compatible
• Layered Photoshop Files for easy customization
• WordPress 3.2+ Tested and Ready
• Documentation with Video Tutorials & How-To’s

Price: $79
Demo & Release Page | Download

Grace
A premium WordPress theme designed specifically for Church websites but could also work well for other community or business CMS websites. The church WordPress theme from Templatic includes the most important elements for a church community website including a section for Upcoming Events that auto expire once the date has passed, service timing section, and church location with Google maps. Other features include a control panel to set up and manage the theme without needing to touch the code, homepage featured content slider, video section and 3 colour scheme options.

3 Colour Schemes

Features

• 3 colour scheme options
• Fully customisable front page
• Home page slider
• Advanced control panel – lets you configure theme settings so you don’t have to touch the code
• Drop Down & Breadcrumb Navigation
• Widget Ready with custom widgets
• Gravatar Support & Threaded Comments
• Upcoming Events in the theme auto expire once the date has passed
• Location with Google maps
• Automatic image thumbnail resizer
• Featured video section
• Search Engine Optimized
• Valid, Cross browser Compatible
• Localization Support
• Theme Guide, Tutorials and Support
• PSD File Included

Price Single: $59, Multi Use: $159
Demo & Release Page | Download

Foundation Church
A premium WordPress theme for churches, ministries organisations etc. The Foundation Church theme is a child theme (skin) for the Builder Framework from iThemes. Builder is a powerful, flexible, easy-to-use WordPress theme designed to allow you to quickly build websites with WordPress.

Builder Framework Features

• Build almost any kind of new layout or page template you want (without knowing code)
• Use one theme to build a website with multiple layouts and individual looks for each (each layout can have its own CSS)
• Assign specific layouts to certain WP Views (specific layouts for blogs, pages, posts, and categories)
• Create new widgets areas layouts or sidecars on the fly
• Custom Landing Pages – squeeze pages, email opt in pages, feed pages, portfolio pages etc
• WordPress 3.0+ Custom Menu integration
• Style Manager – easily tweak the CSS
• Advanced SEO options panel
• BuddyPress integration
• Billboard & Rotating Images plugins

Price:
Free with iThemes Builder Bundle
iThemes Builder: $127
Demo & Release Page | Download

Live
A versatile premium WordPress theme from Organized Themes that could be used for church websites and also for business, organisation, photography, or portfolio sites. The theme features a front page slideshow, custom widgets and page templates, drop down menus, theme options page and much more.

Features

• Custom menus, backgrounds and styles
• Complete theme options page
• Front page slideshow with custom effects and optional captions
• Custom Widgets: Featured Post, Flickr, Twitter, and Improved Recent Comments
• Three widget areas on homepage
• Customizable “Call to Action Bar” on homepage
• Javascript powered drop down menus
• Built in social media share buttons for posts (no plugins required)
• Built in styling for Gravity Forms with Gravity Forms widget support
• Built in page navigation and styling
• Theme updates without requiring a subscription
• Fancy Box gallery with valid XHTML code (replaces default WordPress gallery feature
• Custom page templates – full-width page, archive page, site map, plus search and 404 templates to help your visitors
• Built in support for Google analytics or other tracking tools
• Twitter link icon included in navigation
• Fully integrated blog
• Threaded comments with custom comment layout
• SEO optimized code
• Cross browser tested
• Created for WordPress 3.0 and up
• Valid XHTML and CSS3 code

Price: $30
Demo & Release Page | Download

Outreach
Outreach is a responsive child theme for the Genesis Framework from StudioPress ideal for church, organization, non profit or small business websites. Outreach version 2.0 is an update of the original Outreach theme and includes major code and design updates as well as being updated for mobile responsive design. The theme features include 6 layout options, custom background, custom header, theme options, featured images and all the other great Genesis Framework features.

Genesis Framework Features

• Automatic Updates – easy upgrade similar to the way that WordPress itself (and plugins) are handled
• 6 Layout Options – selectable site wide or for individual post/page
• Theme Setting Panels – many settings that let you fine-tune the way your site looks
• Custom Hooks (40+) – a hook is a piece of code written into the theme that allows you to attach additional content to the theme itself
• Custom Widgets (MyTweets, User Profile, eNews & Updates, Featured Posts, Featured Pages)
• Import / Export Settings – the Genesis Theme and SEO settings are completely portable, so you can back up, restore, and transfer settings from one install to another
• User Control System – allows admin to turn on/off theme settings, layouts and SEO option availability for users on a per user basis
• Author Box – display per page option
• Register / Unregister Layouts
• Dynamic Text / Image Logo option
• Navigation menu controls
• Drop down navigation menu
• Post Thumbnails
• Custom Widgets
• Search Engine Optimised
• SEO Options (site wide and individual page/post controls)
• Post and Page Tracking/Conversion Code box
• Widget-Ready
• Breadcrumb navigation
• Integrated Blog
• BuddyPress Compatibility
• Developed for Localization

Prices:
Outreach + Genesis Theme Package: $79.95
Demo & Release Page | Download

Agency
A premium WordPress theme from Organized Themes designed for non profit organizations, but could also be used for church, business, or organisation websites. The theme features a prominent donation progress bar with PayPal donation button built in, header slideshow, 6 pre-built style options, theme options panel, custom staff page template and more.

Features

• Header Slideshow
• Fund-Raising / Donation Bar – with PayPal donate button built in (optional)
• Fully Widgetized Homepage
• 6 Built in Styles
• Staff Page Template – using custom post types
• Custom Widgets – for video, Twitter, featured posts, and newsletter
• Easy to use Theme Options Page
• Enhanced Gallery Feature using the fancy box light box
• WordPress 3.0+ Features
• Cross Browser Tested

Price: $30
Demo & Release Page | Download

Calvary
A premium church WordPress theme from Church Themes. The theme has dark earth tones and textures in a clean and readable layout. Features include a sermon media manager, easy online giving widget, people directories, a location and church services manager and more.

Features

• Sermon Media Manager – a fully searchable library, support for video, audio, study guides and podcasting built-in
• Podcast Publishing Settings
• Online Giving Widgets – giving widgets allow you to start accepting payments through PayPal or EasyTithe in seconds with very little configuration
• People Directories – Churches are people. Categorize, tag and group the different people in your church to create a custom directory of pastors, staff, small group leaders or even your entire church
• Locations and Services Manager – if your church expanding into multiple locations, the Location Manager allows you to show where your various services and events are being held while still presenting yourself as “One Church”
• Automatic Updates
• Twitter Feed

Prices Standard Package: from $29, Developer Package: from $49
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bSocial Church Theme
bSocial is a premium WordPress church theme from designed for large and small churches, or church leaders who desire their own ministry website. The theme includes a range of features that will help your church communicate efficiently including social media icons, blogging, and audio or video plug-ins.

Features

• Highlight Your Content: With the front three feature boxes, you can highlight any content you want on your home page, including older content that gets buried
• 6 Colour Scheme Options
• Social Networking: At the bottom area of bChurch you can link to all your social networking content easily
• Custom image uploader feature allows you to personalize your site with your own logo or graphic!
• Drop Down Navigation Menu
• Professional support
• Search engine optimized
• Multiple page templates — like Feedreader and Search
• Widget-ready sidebar
• Comprehensive Theme Options page
• Automatic image resizing — for front feature boxes
• Easy feature image uploading — with automatic image rotating

Price:
Single Use Package: $79.95
Multi Use Package: $149.95
Demo & Release Page | Download

Life
The Life Theme Series is a premium WordPress CMS theme designed specifically for businesses, churches and others wanting a sleek, updated look.

Church Life

Features

• Get Your Website Up Fast – With WordPress and Life Theme, you can get a website up and starting informing your fans, clients and others of what you are doing
• Upload Your Logo – image uploader feature allows you to personalize your site with your own logo
• Showcase Photos Easily – each theme comes with a random image script that allows you to display multiple photos on your home page
• Theme Options that allow you to easily paste tracking code and enable features
• Threaded Comments have been put in place for full WP 2.7 functionality
• Drop down navigation menu
• WordPress 2.7 ready

Price: $79.95
Demo & Release Page | Download

Authentic Church
A premium WordPress theme from Organized Themes designed for both small and large church websites. The theme includes all the features you would expect from a church websites including: built in podcasting, staff section, live video, service times and a map widget. Other features include custom widgets for Facebook, photos etc, built in SEO, and easy to use theme options panel.

Features

• Built in podcasting with support for message series, notes, and speaker archives
• Video or slideshow on home page
• Staff section to let your visitors meet your staff members
• Custom widgets: Facebook like box, featured video, Flickr photos, contact box, and recent messages
• Easily add your own background, logo, link colours and more with our theme options page.
• Great built in SEO
• Easy to use theme options page
• Facebook page template (add your website to your Facebook page)
• Contact page template
• Live video page template
• Original PSD File included

Price Authentic Church Theme: $45
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Ezekiel
A premium WordPress church theme from Mint Themes. The stylish and professional theme is ideal for churches or organizations looking to have an interactive website powered by WordPress. Features include many church-specific functions including sermon podcasts, news, photo galleries, and events.

Features

• 6 Page Templates (Events, Full Width, General Posts, News, Photo Albums, Sermons)
• 4 Custom Widgets
• 4 Custom Post Types (News, Sermons, & Photo Albums)
• Extensive Theme Options Panel
• 2 Tier Drop Down Menus
• Podcast Friendly
• Post Sermon MP3s
• Upload Custom Logo
• Homepage Slider Managed By Theme Options Panel
• Fully iPhone and iPad compatible
• Links to Facebook and Twitter
• Layered Photoshop Files for easy customization
• Documentation With Video Tutorials & How-To’s

Price: $79
Demo & Release Page | Download

Antioch

Unique Features

• Sermon Media Publishing – a fully searchable library, support for video, audio, study guides and podcasting built-in
• Online Giving – giving widgets allow you to start accepting payments through PayPal or EasyTithe in seconds with very little configuration
• People Directories – Churches are people. Categorize, tag and group the different people in your church to create a custom directory of pastors, staff, small group leaders or even your entire church
• Locations and Services Manager – if your church expanding into multiple locations, the Location Manager allows you to show where your various services and events are being held while still presenting yourself as “One Church”

Prices Standard: $79, Developer: $99
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Trinity

Unique Features

• Sermon Media Publishing – a fully searchable library, support for video, audio, study guides and podcasting built-in
• Online Giving – giving widgets allow you to start accepting payments through PayPal or EasyTithe in seconds with very little configuration
• People Directories – Churches are people. Categorize, tag and group the different people in your church to create a custom directory of pastors, staff, small group leaders or even your entire church
• Locations and Services Manager – if your church expanding into multiple locations, the Location Manager allows you to show where your various services and events are being held while still presenting yourself as “One Church”

Prices Standard: $79, Developer: $99
Demo & Release Page | Download

Urban City

Unique Features

• Sermon Media Publishing – a fully searchable library, support for video, audio, study guides and podcasting built-in
• Online Giving – giving widgets allow you to start accepting payments through PayPal or EasyTithe in seconds with very little configuration
• People Directories – Churches are people. Categorize, tag and group the different people in your church to create a custom directory of pastors, staff, small group leaders or even your entire church
• Locations and Services Manager – if your church expanding into multiple locations, the Location Manager allows you to show where your various services and events are being held while still presenting yourself as “One Church”

Prices Standard: $79, Developer: $99
Demo & Release Page | Download

Basic Church WordPress Theme
Basic Church is a flexible, easy to configure church WordPress Theme from WP for Church. The premium theme has a mobile responsive design so website will work on all screen sizes and devices whether from a desktop, laptop, smartphone, or tablet. Features include built in styling for sermons, unlimited colour options, unlimited layouts, sliders, theme options page and more.

Price: $30
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Heavens Corner Church Theme
A clean and elegant WordPress design for church websites. Features include sermons management, prayer management, event management with countdown, video and photo gallery, colour scheme picker, unlimited sidebars, extensive theme options panel and more.

Price: $45
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Gospel Life Church
A clean yet warm WordPress theme created for churches and religious institutions. The Gospel theme has a HTML5 responsive design and is customisable and featured packed. It has a full event scheduler with google map api, image based galleries and details that automatically appear or drop off your event calendar schedule which is automatically displayed on the home page and it’s own exclusive full page along with dates, times and location etc. Other features include touch enabled slider, 2 homepage layouts, post formats for galleries, videos and audio files and much more.

Price: $45
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Glory Church Theme
The Glory theme is aimed to make your church website stand out. It features news and events sections, video and audio playback, media rich homepage slider, photo galleries, customisable homepage and more.

Price: $45
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For more church WordPress themes see our post on 30 Best Church WordPress Themes