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Stay up to date with the latest happenings at churchthemes.com. This is where we post announcements relating to our business, products and website.

See Our New Theme, Saved — Get 25% Off

There’s nothing more exciting for us than to launch a new WordPress theme for churches. We quietly released Saved last week and are making the big announcement today. This is hands-down our most sophisticated WordPress theme — yet it’s as easy to use as our existing line of themes. To make things even sweeter, we’re also offering a 25% discount to the first users.

Resurrect Update Improves Background Image Controls

The Resurrect theme has been updated to version 2.2 (see changelog). This update resolves an issue with the Background Image in the Customizer. WordPress 4.7 included changes that the theme was not prepared for. Additionally, some users on newer versions of PHP were seeing a warning in the Customizer. This release resolves these issues.

Cyber Monday: 30% to 65% Discount

November 21, 2016
Steven Gliebe
News, Promotions
4 Comments

Reminder: This deal continues through Wednesday, November 30 — two days after Cyber Monday.

This year we’re offering a Cyber Monday discount. You probably know that this is the day that online stores offer deep discounts. We’re offering discounts on everything from 30% – 65% off. This discount will be automatically applied at checkout (no coupon needed). Our deal runs from November 28 – 30 (Monday to Wednesday, Central Time). Here’s a breakdown of the discount you’ll receive.

Video Background Added to Maranatha

A video background has been the single most requested feature for our Maranatha church WordPress theme. I’m happy to tell you that this feature is finished and ready for you to add to your church website.

New Features for All Themes

A series of new features and improvements to all of our church WordPress themes has been completed. We spent the last few weeks focusing on theme updates after finishing a set of map improvements to our plugin. The new features include sermon index and child page templates for Exodus and Resurrect (from Maranatha) and an event registration button for all themes. We also updated our sample content to give you a better starting point for your church website.

Here’s a quick rundown of what’s new with the themes.

Making Maps Easier

We’ve been spending the last few weeks making it easier for you to add maps to your events and locations.

Church Web Hosting Survey

July 20, 2016
Steven Gliebe
News
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Update: The survey ended and we published Church Web Hosting Rated and Ranked

We need your help. Please take our quick survey on your experience with web hosting for your church website. It will only take about 8 minutes.

Updates for Google Maps

We have released updates to all themes and the Church Theme Content plugin which all of our themes rely on. The main purpose of these updates is to make it possible for you to enter your Google Maps API Key. This will resolve an issue new users were seeing with Google Maps not displaying.

Easier Maps and Event Registration URL

Two new features have been added to the Church Theme Content plugin with the release of version 1.6. One makes maps easier to generate and the other helps you link our to a third-party event registration service. Here’s a quick summary of each feature.

Maintenance Releases — Going 100% SSL

All of our themes and plugins have been updated. The changes include minor improvements and bug fixes. Go to Dashboard > Updates to update. We recommend always running the latest version of your theme, plugins and WordPress for a more stable and secure website. If you haven’t updated to WordPress 4.5 yet, this is a good time (our themes and plugins are compatible).

The primary reason for these maintenance releases relates to our switching to 100% SSL here on churchthemes.com. Now all pages use the https protocol instead of http. This means all data transferred between your browser and our website is encrypted. We formerly used SSL only on sensitive pages like your account area, payment screen and contact form. Now the entire site is covered and we’re one of only 6.5% of sites that score an A+ on SSL security.