We’ve been hard at work on our next church theme and are close enough to finishing it to give you a taste. Here are a few screenshots to give you a feel for its design. Notable features are a long homepage with a custom background for each section and a “sticky” menu that stays in view as the visitor scrolls. Circular buttons give this theme its special character.
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Both the Exodus and Resurrect themes have been updated with various improvements including considerations for the Customizer in the WordPress 4.3 release. Both of our themes are compatible but to get the most out of WordPress 4.3 and to take advantage of the other improvements to the themes, we recommend updating to the latest version right now.
We’re happy to announce that the Exodus theme now includes French and Portuguese translations. The theme has been updated to version 1.4.3. You can follow these steps to use one of the new translations.
Every church needs a mobile-friendly website. That means having a responsive design and a menu that is easy to use on phones.
Our Resurrect WordPress theme was launched with a very simplistic mobile menu that has been replaced with a new, more modern mobile menu which you can see in the photo above. We released Resurrect version 1.8 yesterday to make this improvement available to you.
We are very excited to announce that two of the most requested features are now available and ready for you to use. These features are a monthly events calendar and event categories. Let’s take a look at them.
A Dutch translation is now included with the Resurrect church WordPress theme. This translation was contributed by Het Kruispunt, a church in Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands. We are very grateful to them for sharing their translation.
We’re excited to announce that the Custom Recurring Events plugin is now available. This is our first add-on for the Church Theme Content plugin.
What exists right now without this add-on are basic recurrence options for weekly, monthly and yearly. We’ve had many requests for “every X weeks” (bi-weekly, in particular) and the ability to make events recur on a particular week of the month, like “every second Wednesday”. The purpose of this add-on is to meet needs like these in order to save you time (ie. not having to manually move dates forward).
Version 1.2 of the Church Theme Content plugin has been released. It adds new time fields for both users and theme developers. These features improve the order in which same-day events are shown. The plugin has also been made ready for add-ons (we’ll be releasing the first add-on shortly). This information is intended for both regular users and theme developers.
The pricing adjustments we announced last month are now in effect. This will help us continue to improve our offerings and provide a high level of support to each customer while we grow. A brief summary of the adjustments follows.
December, 2014 Happiness Report
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