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10 Reasons to build your church website with WordPress

10 Reasons to host your church website with WordPress

Most churches today have a website. But the majority of church websites are never updated with current church news.

WordPress is the most flexible content management system for keeping your church website useful and easy to update. WordPress is easy to learn and use, which means you’re more likely to use it to keep your church website current.

Anyone thinking of visiting your church will likely look for your website before their first visit. Even if it’s only to check the service times. I heard of a church recently that had a family choose to visit their church over all the other churches in the community because their website was the only one with easy-to-find service times. [Read more…]

Books to Help You Learn WordPress Quickly

There’s a ton of WordPress how-to information available on the internet for anyone who’s willing to dig through the bad and the good. Sometimes it helps to just immerse yourself in a topic with a few good books.

These are the four a suggest to anyone who wants to go deeper into WordPress.

WordPress for Dummies
WordPress For Dummies


WordPress for Beginners 2021
WordPress for Beginners 2021


WordPress The Missing Manual
WordPress: The Missing Manual: The Book That Should Have Been in the Box 3rd Edition


WordPress To Go
WordPress To Go: How To Build A WordPress Website On Your Own Domain, From Scratch, Even If You Are A Complete Beginner

7 Powerful Information Management Tools

7 Powerful Information Management Tools

I used to be a saver, meaning, I saved everything. It finally hit me the last time we moved, over 9 years ago thankfully, that I was having a hard time letting go of stuff. As I was loading the truck I realized we were moving boxes that had remained unopened since our last move over 3 years earlier.

That kind of “save everything” thinking has also shown up in how I do my work. Piles of paper, boxes, and shelves full of books, notes stuck all over, all this could easily overtake my workspace if it weren’t for the help I get from a bit of technology. [Read more…]

Free Web Hosting for Your Sermons – Your Sermons in the Cloud

Free Web Hosting for Your Sermons Your Sermons in the Cloud

I have three great, free options for you if you’re looking for a free way to host your podcast. The first is a podcasting service called Anchor.fm, the second is a podcasting service called Sounder, and third, there’s an option of uploading and hosting your files from Archive.org.

Several years ago I recommended here hosting sermon audio in the cloud for free at SermonCloud.com. They no longer offer from sermon audio hosting but there are other options now.

Two services I recommend these days are Achor.fm and Archive.org.

As a web developer especially interested in helping churches for many years now I’m often asked “how do I add audio to our church website?” [Read more…]

How to Get Notification of WordPress and Plugin Updates

How to Get Notification of WordPress and Plugin Updates

Have you ever wanted a way to be notified when there’s a WordPress update available or there’s a plugin on your WordPress powered website that’s in need of updating?

With WordPress in use on an estimated 60% of all websites worldwide, it is a prime target for attack. There will always be bad actors trying to find and exploit any weakness they can use to their advantage.

Whether there’s a weakness in the WordPress code or a flaw in one of the many plugins for WordPress there will always be risks. But the risks can be minimized. [Read more…]

How to Restore Data from iCloud

If you’re an iCloud user this helpful article will be worth your time.

iCloud, however, much like real clouds, is notoriously opaque. It’s hard to see just what you have stored in it. Nonetheless, Apple has made it easy, at least, to fix some truth-related issues in iCloud, and you can do it with a readily accessible tool: a Web browser on any Mac or PC.

Check it out if for no other reason than to give you a little peace-of-mind that you’ll be able to get your data if you need it.

How To Edit Jetpack infinite scroll footer text on Genesis Themes

How To Edit Jetpack infinite scroll footer text on Genesis Themes


Infinite scroll on websites is becoming more common and is a clever and effective method for retaining site visitors. With infinite scroll there’s no longer a need to click the previous or next archive pagination links.

With the Jetpack plugin thankfully there’s a one-click method of activating infinite scroll on your self hosted WordPress powered site. But if you’re using the Genesis Theme Framework, as I am these days on all the sites I develop, when you try to activate infinite scroll you may receive a polite message which states that your theme isn’t compatible with the infinite scroll feature. Our you may not receive an error message but infinite scroll just won’t work.

By the way, if you aren’t using Genesis Theme Framework and a Genesis Theme, you should be, get the framework and a theme here.

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How To Add A Read More Link to Genesis Child Theme Excerpts

How To Add A Read More Link to Genesis Child Theme ExcerptsUsing the Genesis Theme Framework is a huge help when setting up, customizing and maintaining a WordPress powered website. But sometimes the default settings won’t quite meet your requirements.

Recently while customizing a Genesis Child Theme for a client’s website, in the theme settings I had set the Content Archives to Display post excerpts. But when viewing the post archives the excerpts did not have a “Read More” link like the client wanted. [Read more…]