Galen Gidman

Steven Gliebe

ChurchThemes.com

<p>The Church Content WordPress plugin provides an interface for managing sermons, events, people and locations. Please be aware that a <strong>compatible theme is required</strong> for presenting content from these church-centric post types in a tightly-integrated manner.</p>
<h4>Who this is for</h4>
<p>This plugin is intended for a very specific audience. If you are <em>not</em> one of the following then this plugin will not be useful to you.</p>
<ul>
<li>Users of <a href="https://churchthemes.com" rel="nofollow ugc">official themes</a> from ChurchThemes.com</li>
<li>Users of <a href="https://churchthemes.com/third-party-themes" rel="nofollow ugc">third-party themes</a> made <em>specifically</em> for this plugin</li>
<li>Theme developers improving data portability for church sites</li>
</ul>
<h4>What it does</h4>
<p>It provides post types, taxonomies and fields for <em>sermons</em>, <em>events</em>, <em>people</em> and <em>locations</em> to be shown by a compatible church WordPress theme.</p>
<p>Experienced WordPress developers agree that functionality like this does not belong in themes since themes are intended only for controlling the appearance of a WordPress site. Content that users might expect to take with them if they switch themes should “live” in a plugin in order to <a href="https://churchthemes.com/wordpress-theme-users-avoid-lock-in-effect/" rel="nofollow ugc">avoid theme lock-in</a>. Similarly, our approach is not to present content using the plugin since themes offer more control for that purpose. This is why a <strong>compatible theme is required</strong>.</p>
<p>See the <a href="https://churchthemes.com/plugins/church-content/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Details</a> on ChurchThemes.com for a tour of features. Read the <a href="https://churchthemes.com/guides/user/plugins/church-content/" rel="nofollow ugc">User Guide</a> for instructions.</p>
<h4>Compatible Themes</h4>
<p>A compatible theme is required for presenting sermons, events, etc. added with the plugin.</p>
<ul>
<li>Official themes provided by <a href="https://churchthemes.com" rel="nofollow ugc">ChurchThemes.com</a></li>
<li>Third-party themes at <a href="https://churchthemes.com/third-party-themes" rel="nofollow ugc">churchthemes.com/third-party-themes</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Church Content Pro</h4>
<p><a href="https://churchthemes.com/plugins/church-content-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Church Content Pro</a> is an add-on that provides additional features.</p>
<ul>
<li>Sermon Podcasting (iTunes, Google Play, etc.)</li>
<li>Recurring Events (e.g. “every Monday and Thursday”)</li>
<li>Event Date Exclusions (holidays, weather closings, etc.)</li>
<li>Enhanced SEO (schema.org Structure Data using JSON-LD)</li>
<li>Location Memory (autofill and select previous event locations)</li>
<li>Wording Settings (e.g. rename “Sermons” to “Messages”)</li>
<li>Agency Mode (simplify license management for clients)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Developers</h4>
<p>Please see the <a href="https://churchthemes.com/guides/developer/church-content/" rel="nofollow ugc">Developer Guide</a> on ChurchThemes.com for notes on developing themes that use this plugin. A couple benefits are that you will save time and be helping to accomplish better data portability among church websites powered by WordPress.</p>
<p>You can follow development on <a href="https://github.com/churchthemes/church-theme-content" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<p>Several translations are available, including English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Swedish, Dutch, Norwegian, Serbian and Slovak. See the <a href="https://churchthemes.com/guides/user/plugins/church-content/#translations" rel="nofollow ugc">Translations</a> section in the plugin’s user guide for a more complete list. Also see <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/church-theme-content" rel="nofollow ugc">translate.wordpress.org</a>.</p>
<h4>Follow us</h4>
<ul>
<li>Visit <a href="https://churchthemes.com" rel="nofollow ugc">ChurchThemes.com</a> for compatible themes, add-ons and help</li>
<li>We’re on <a href="https://twitter.com/churchthemes" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/churchthemescom" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a> and have a <a href="https://churchthemes.com/newsletter" rel="nofollow ugc">Newsletter</a></li>
<li>Lead developer: <a href="http://stevengliebe.com" rel="nofollow ugc">stevengliebe.com</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> This plugin was previously named “Church Theme Content”.</p>


Church Content – Sermons, Events and More

Provides an interface for managing sermons, events, people and locations. A compatible theme is required for presenting content from these church-cent …

Justin Fletcher

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<p>Put worship into the hands of your church members.</p>
<p>Allow church groups to create and share worship song books on any device (tablets, mobile phones..) and keep the worship up to date as new songs get used in church life.</p>
<p>It also helps follow the legal requirement of showing the copyright information and church CCLI License along with the song words.</p>
<p>Note: Under the CCLI license in the UK the law stands that only paper copies or emails for the use of church members is allowed.  To close this gap, until the law changes, you can request from the CCLI administration the use of a private website for the use of electronic devices with a private members only website.<br />
Therefore, the site should made private and for members only unless the songs are all in the public domain (e.g. our example Christmas Carol songbook )</p>
<p>‘song book’ uses the excellent <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-to-posts/" rel="ugc">post-2-post</a> plugin by scribu, to create the association between songs and books..</p>
<p><a href="https://justinandco.com/demo/songbook/" rel="nofollow ugc">demo site</a></p>
<h4>Plugin site</h4>
<p><a href="https://justinandco.com/plugins/song-book/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://justinandco.com/plugins/song-book/</a></p>
<h4>GitHub – Development</h4>
<p><a href="https://github.com/justinticktock/song-book" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/justinticktock/song-book</a></p>


Church Content – Sermons, Events and More vs Song Book