We’re celebrating our sixth birthday this month. ChurchThemes.com launched as an independent theme shop in September of 2013. We’ve been committed to creating a continually smooth experience for you over these six years. In fact, we’ve released 190 updates to our themes and plugin during this time. We have more updates for you today and I also want to share with you about our new theme and work on a sermons plugin.
WordPress 5.2 was released a few days ago and includes several new blocks for use in the Gutenberg editor. Some of the existing blocks were tweaked. All of our themes have been updated to account for these changes. We recommend updating to WordPress 5.2 and updating your theme to the latest version for the best experience.
It’s starting to feel like Spring down here in Texas. How fitting it is then that we just finished our “spring cleaning” with regard to our themes and plugins. Various bug fixes, improvements and compatibility changes have been made to keep your website running smoothly.
Very recently we released updates to make our themes ready for WordPress 5.0‘s Gutenberg block editor. WordPress has released two updates to improve the block editing experience since that time. We have also been working to polish support in our themes for blocks in the new editor. Mainly this has meant adding additional styling for blocks in consideration of their various options.
Church Content Pro version 1.0.4 was released today.
Now when the Start Date for an event is excluded, the Start Date is automatically moved forward. This not happening automatically before was causing issues with the event still showing to visitors on the website.
WordPress 5.0 was released just over a month ago and includes the new Gutenberg editor. We’re happy to report that our themes and plugins are all compatible. We’ve also updated our guides and videos to match the new interface. Here’s what you need to know about using this powerful new feature.
Version 2.1 of our Church Content plugin has been released. The main purpose of this update is to provide a tool to assist users of our discontinued Risen theme migrate to one of our newer, more modern themes. This update contains a couple bug fixes as well. As usual, all users should update (even if not migrating from Risen).
Updates have been made to most of our themes and plugins to address minor issues discovered after our recent major releases (see Church Content Pro Released, New Packages Available). All in all, the major releases went really smooth. These updates will polish things off. Please refer to the changelogs linked below for what has been fixed.
We are pleased to announce that both our Church Content Pro add-on and new “All in One” Packages are ready for you to use — and we are offering a 20% discount to kick things off. Additionally, our website has been improved throughout and every theme and plugin that we provide has been updated.
Update: Our themes and plugins are now compatible with WordPress 5.0 and the new Gutenberg editor.
Gutenberg is the new “page building” editor that will be included with WordPress 5.0 a few months from now. WordPress 4.9.8 was recently released. It asks you if you want to test the beta version of Gutenberg or if you want to stick with the “Classic” editor (what we all use now). We’re wrapping up Gutenberg support for our themes and intend to have the updates available by the time WordPress 5.0 is released. Until then, we recommend using the classic editor for your live site.