How much information should we make available on our website?

Answer: All of it.

Does that help?

Matt Perman writes at DesiringGod.org with a challenge to ministries to put all the sermons and articles and content they have on their website, make it easy to get to and give it away.

Make it Free: Improving Online Effectiveness by Removing All Barriers to Accessing and Sharing Content.

If you are a Christian media ministry, I commend the following vision for maximizing your effectiveness online: Post all of your content online, for free, without requiring registration, in a maximally usable interface.

This basis for doing this follows from the purpose of ministry and the purpose of a ministry website. The purpose of any ministry is, at root, to spread the message of the good news of God’s grace. And the purpose of a ministry website is thus to serve as an avenue for spreading that message.

I suggest you go read the whole thing now as you consider what you should be making available on your ministry website.

How do I capture sermon audio for our website?

While not specific to WordPress I get this question often because this topic is new for many small churches. But not totally new since most churches have sound systems that have been set up for capturing sermon audio to tape. Though when you start talking about MP3′s and sermon podcasting and the like, it gets confusing. Read More »

Sermon Cloud

How do I add audio to my site? It’s a common question for churches and pastors but the answer isn’t always so easy. Now some of the hurdles may have been lowered just a bit. Read More »

How do I add posts to my site?

The WordPress Codex has a detailed piece on adding content or “posts” to your website.

There’s a lot of helpful information there about adding content even if you have already figured out how to create a new post.

You can learn something about WordPress Pages too: What can WordPress Pages do for my site?

I’m looking for a WordPress FAQ

Want to see some answers to common WordPress questions? Just the “new to WordPress” FAQ mam.