Responsive WordPress Theme for Churches
This church theme for WordPress has the features a church website needs
— a mobile-friendly responsive design, sermon archive, photo and video gallery, church events calendar, support for multiple locations, staff profiles and church news.
The sermon archive is complete with the ability for visitors to search for audio, video and text sermons by category, tag, date and speaker.
Risen has powerful customization options that make it easy to change the theme’s colors, fonts and background.
Risen is also useful for non-church websites that need rich multimedia publishing capabilities for audio, video and photos and that want to promote events.
The sermon archive can be fully renamed using the theme options,
making this a WordPress theme not only for churches but also parachurch ministries, nonprofits and charities, conference websites and multimedia presentation archives.
This theme is well-documented with over 30 pages of organized, easy to follow instructions explaining how to use its features.
Additionally, support is provided by its developer.
Mobile-friendly Responsive Design
The Risen church theme was designed to be responsive. In other words, it is mobile-friendly and will adapt itself to fit comfortably on devices with small screens such as phones and tablets.
Scan the QR code below with your mobile device for a live demonstration.
Highly Customizable Colors, Fonts and Background
Risen was made to be easy to customize to match your church branding from within the WordPress admin area.
You can choose between a Light or Dark appearance, set a Main Color, link color, change fonts (200+ Google Web Fonts preloaded) and choose from 19 Preset Backgrounds, some of which can be colored (or provide your own).
It is also easy to Upload Your Logo.
None of this requires editing code.
Sermon Archive for Audio, Video and Text
Put your pastor’s sermons online in audio (listen online or download MP3 ), video (YouTube or Vimeo), online text or downloadable PDF format.
This theme provides a robust multimedia archive in which sermons can be organized and browsed by category, tag, speaker, month, day and year.
Photo & Video Gallery
Share your church photos and videos using the theme’s gallery features.
Create multiple “albums” by organizing your photos and videos into categories.
Events — Church Calendar
Keep your congregation and community in the know about what will be happening by posting events to the church calendar.
Events can include dates, times, address, Google Map and other information.
More Church Website Features
In addition to sermon multimedia, photos and events, Risen has features for posting Church News (blog), Staff Profiles, support for multiple Locations, and a Contact Form that can be configured with multiple recipients for the visitor to choose from (e.g. Church Office, Senior Pastor, Youth Pastor, etc.).
Complete Feature List
- Responsive design using Valid HTML5 with CSS3 styling
- Theme Options powered by Options Framework
- Custom Colors (light or dark appearance, main, link and background color)
- Custom Background (full background image or pattern — 19 included or upload your own)
- 200+ Google Web Fonts
- Logo Upload
- Homepage has Responsive Slider (supports video), intro message, featured boxes and widget areas
- Sermon Archive with embedded video (YouTube or Vimeo), Audio Player, MP3 download, online sermon reading, PDF download and archives by date, category, speaker and tag.
- Gallery with photos, videos, categories and Responsive Lightbox.
- Church Calendar (Events)
- Support for Multiple Locations with map and directions
- Staff Profiles with e-mail buttons
- Church News (Blog)
- Contact Form with multiple recipients and reCAPTCHA support.
- Custom Post Types for sermons/multimedia, gallery, events, staff and locations
- Custom Page Templates for sermons/multimedia, events, gallery (categories, all items, images only, videos only), locations, staff, blog and contact.
- Custom Widgets for Enhanced Categories, Enhanced Recent Posts, Sermon Archives (by month), Recent Sermons, Recent Gallery Items, Upcoming Events, Locations, Staff, Donations
- Widget Sidebars for regular pages, blog, sermons, gallery, events, staff, locations and contact
- Custom Menu support for header (with dropdowns) and footer
- Customizable Footer (menu, address, phone, copyright)
- Individual page and post options for header image and sidebar
- Breadcrumb Path
- Social Media Icons for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Skype, Dribbble, Forrst and RSS
- Google Maps integration
- Google Analytics support
- Favicon upload support
- Automatic image resizing using native WordPress functionality
- Fully localized and Translation Ready (PO file included)
- Compatible with WordPress Multisite network
- Required WordPress styles implemented (.alignright, .wp-caption, etc.)
- Includes Child Theme for optional style and feature customization
- Comes with layered PSD Photoshop files
Support & Documentation
Risen comes with documentation explaining how to install and use the theme’s different features.
- Support is Provided by the developer
- Complete Documentation (30+ pages) covering installation, usage and customization
- Sample Content (XML) similar to live preview included — just import it
- Sample Widgets can be imported as well (instructions included)
- Well-commented HTML , CSS, JavaScript and PHP code
If you have a question that is not answered in the documentation or if you discover a problem,
you can submit a support request via the form on my Profile Page (must be logged in to see it).
My goal is to answer questions within 24 hours on weekdays (excluding US holidays and the rare period of travel).
Please Note:
Support is provided for theme features and problems.
Customizations not included.
Changelog
The current version is 1.0.2 (July 9, 2012). View the Changelog in the online documentation.
Sources & Credits
Much appreciation is given to the people behind these helpful projects and resources used in making the theme and live preview.
- Options Framework Plugin (GPL) by Devin Price
- locate_template_uri() from WordPress Trac by John Blackbourn
- Get YouTube Video ID from URL (CC BY-SA 3.0) by jeffreypriebe, Lasnv, WebDev and Chris Nolet
- reCAPTCHA PHP Library (free to distribute) by Mike Crawford and Ben Maurer
- Codestyling Localization (GPL) by Heiko Rabe
- Widget Settings Importer/Exporter (GPL) by Kevin Langley and smccafferty
- jQuery (MIT, GPL )
- Modernizr (MIT, BSD ) by Faruk Ates, Paul Irish and Alex Sexton
- css3-mediaqueries.js (MIT) by Wouter van der Graaf
- HTML5 Doctor Reset (public domain) by Richard Clark
- Superfish and Supersubs (MIT or GPL ) by Joel Birch
- hoverIntent (MIT or GPL ) by Brian Cherne
- SelectNav.js (MIT) by Lukasz
- FlexSlider (MIT) by WooThemes and Tyler Smith
- Backstretch (MIT) by Scott Robbin
- MediaElements.js (GPL, MIT ) by John Dyer
-
prettyPhoto ( CC BY 2 .5) by Stephane Caron
- Hash Fix by Eddie Monge
- Improved _fitToViewport() by Vladimir
- jQuery Validation (MIT) by Jörn Zaefferer
- jQuery doTimeout (GPL, MIT ) by Ben Alman
- ColorPicker (MIT, GPL ) by Stefan Petre
- URL Rewriting: Custom Post Types Date Archive by MillaN
- Custom Post Type Taxonomy Pagination by Justin Carroll
- jQuery Smooth Scroll (MIT, GPL ) by Karl Swedberg
- jQuery Easing (BSD) by George McGinley Smith
- jQuery Cookie Plugin (MIT or GPL ) by Klaus Hartl
- jQuery.browser.mobile (public domain) by Chad Smith
- CFInstall (BSD-style license) by The Chromium Authors
- getParameterByName (with permission) by James Padolsey
- Google Maps API
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Google Web Fonts
- Open Sans (Apache License) by Steve Matteson
- Shadows Into Light Two (SIL Open Font License) by Kimberly Geswein
- Sun Background (PhotoDune Extended License) by Serg64
- Wheat Field Background (PhotoDune Extended License) by jeka2011
- Premium Pixels (Orman Clark) Backgrounds (license allows use in ThemeForest themes)
- Elemis Backgrounds (license allows use in ThemeForest themes)
- John Piper and Desiring God Foundation for sermon content for preview
- On The Third Day Slide by Luis Rivera (used in preview only)
- The Parables by Megan Watson (used in preview only)
- Reflection Icons by Webdesigner Depot (used by preview’s customizer slide out)
- Various images from iStockPhoto and PhotoDune
Note: With the exception of background images, the photos and illustrations seen in the live preview are not included with the theme.