Building an Online Ministry – Part 2
We are going through the process of setting up a complete web ministry here on Church Growth Consulting. In today’s article we will continue with the foundational steps. Today we are going to install a new theme and add some plugins. We are going to start with a theme called ‘Dateless Sniper”. This is a good theme to start with because it is easy to use and it is set up to help the search engines find the site (the sniper refers to keywords). We are also going to add some plugins. Plugins allow us to customize the site to do some very helpful things. We will install the following plugins:
- All in One SEO (makes your posts more search engine friendly)
- Akismet (a spam blocker provided by WordPress)
- Verse of the Day (puts a new verse of the day on your site)
- Statcounter (allows you to see how many people are coming to the site)
- WordPress Backup (automatically backs up your site every day)
- WordPress Update (automatically updates new releases of WordPress)
- Video Plugin (runs Video clips from You-Tube, Veoh TV, God-Tube etc)
- Contact Form 7 (works great for prayer requests)
- PayPal Donation (there are a lot of great plugins for this)
- Feedburner (allows people to sign up for RSS or email subscription)
Each one of those plugins and thousands of others are available for free at the WordPress Plugin Site at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ so that you can download them. To read about how to upload and install themes and plugins check out a couple of articles on My Newbie Blog;
- 50 Things to Do to Start a Blog From Scratch – Part 2
- 50 Things to Do to Start a Blog From Scratch – Part 3
My Newbie Blog has a lot of useful information about how to create a blog. You will find it a very useful resource.
By installing the theme and plugins on the Web Ministry Online site they will be easy to copy to all the sub-domain sites. Here is what the Dateless Sniper Theme looks like installed:
In our next article we will activate some of the plugins and add some pages and a post to the site.
Category: Web Ministry
