churchthemes.com is a brand new niche theme shop specialising in WordPress themes for churches. They’ve launched with one theme – a great looking, urban inspired church theme called Resurrect. More themes will be released soon.
churchthemes.com is founded by Steven Gliebe, author of the popular Risen church WordPress theme in the ThemeForest marketplace. Steven has decided to move away from ThemeForest and sell from his own website in order to build up a brand, have greater control of his business, and distance himself from the historically poor reputation and code quality of themes on ThemeForest. It’s a smart move which I think other good theme developers selling on ThemeForest should strongly consider also. You can read more about the reasons Steven moved away from ThemeForest and the whole churchthemes.com story in a detailed blog post on his personal blog.
Solid and Feature Rich Church WordPress Themes
The themes at churchthemes.com will have all the features and functionality a church needs in a website. The themes are mobile friendly with a responsive design, and include: sermon publishing and organisation options (text, audio, video formats), events management, photo and video gallery, staff profiles section, location information and maps, donations, social media, and easy customisation options.
What I really like about churchthemes.com is their design philosophy of placing functionality in a plugin instead of the theme. “All themes sold at churchthemes.com will use the new Church Theme Content plugin. What this plugin does is provide post types, taxonomies and custom fields for sermons, events, staff and locations. This means users can switch between any theme that supports this plugin without their content disappearing.”
Pricing
Themes are priced at $79 which gives you one theme and updates and support for one website for one year. Updates and support can be renewed at $39.50 / year. In other words, every church pays $79 once then $39.50 per year.
For more information about churchthemes.com and their church WordPress themes go to churchthemes.com
