Rating: 5 stars
They have great support and I would also like to say that from start to finish it took me a little less than 6 hours to convert the site from the old risen theme to a new one using this plugin, thank you for making it so easy!
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I appreciate the regular theme updates, but even more so the great support. The few times we’ve run into issues, we receive prompt, helpful, and polite replies from Steven.
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I’ve been using churchthemes.com themes for a little over 4 years now. I was a novice when I started. Steven and crew are amazing about answering questions and responding to emails
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I love the variety of themes available. I use “Saved” for my churches web site. It is wonderful and easy to work with. I am NOT a coder! When I run into a wall, I know all I have to do is send an e-mail to support. I am continually blown away by the high level of personal support I receive! It is nothing short of awesome. I usually receive a response within minutes. They will stick with you until my problem is solved. Always professional. Always prompt. Thank you!
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We have been using the Exodus theme for over 3 years now. It gives an excellent simple web site for a small country church. The Church Content Pro plug-in makes maintaining the web site very easy and gives us the flexibility to change themes easily should we decide to. The custom reoccurring events feature of Church Content Pro makes handling our church calendar a breeze. Support has been excellent when needed. Thanks for all the hard work.
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We started on the Risen theme in 2014 and switched to the Saved Theme earlier this year. We are super happy with it and even happier now with the Church Content Pro plugin features added. Love how it looks and operates on mobile platforms!
When we implemented the Risen theme we did quite a few modifications to the look to match what our designer had come up with and so we had a child theme in place. This time around, we’ve been deliberately working within the theme’s options to simplify things and besides simplifying the update process, it has actually helped us define the function of some of our website features.
Support has been helpful and reliable.
Rating: 5 stars
I have been using products from churchthemes since 2015, but needed support for the first time recently. Not only was my question addressed quickly and thoroughly, they went above and beyond to make it super easy for me! Highly recommended.
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No matter how big or small my issue or question, Church themes support is unmatched in attention to detail and depth of knowledge. After 2 complete website builds and many questions, the support has been such a vital resource. I never feel like I am bothersome and always get a solution in a timely matter! Without hesitation I 100% recommend churchthemes.com! Thanks for everything!
Matthew in PA
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This is one of the best themes I have have ever worked with. It is fully featured and really well supported.
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We moved our church’s website to WordPress and churchthemes.com Exodus theme in 2015 and got some professional help to automate the transfer of our existing sermon records from our old (drupal) site into the new site, and since then it has been smooth sailing. This past year churchthemes.com came out with the new Saved theme, so when our license for Exodus expired, we switched to Saved. It was super-easy to make the switch and since the sermons plugin is separate from the theme, nothing needed to be done to them. It’s funny how quickly themes “age”, so I’m glad that churchthemes.com keeps it fresh! And since the sermons are just a custom post type (and it bears repeating that the sermons plugin is separate from the theme), we could even switch to a non-churchthemes.com theme without losing any data. I expect that churchthemes.com will continue to provide great themes at good prices though, so I’m hoping that will not be a concern for a long, long, long time.
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Adds sermon, people, locations and events post types, which are all very useful for a church. Has worked flawlessly for me so far.
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Great plugin – has everything you need for your church site and integrates seamlessly with themes from ChurchThemes.com (which is the main point of course).
The fact that this plugin allows you to move your content from one theme to another without losing any of it, just makes so much sense. Very well executed.
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The code is well thought out and extremely easy to work with. If you are building a church website or creating a church WordPress theme, this plugin is simply indispensable. Easy to integrate and powerful content tools make it a perfect foundation for any church website.
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This is the best plugin I’ve ever used and implemented to a church theme. As a developer of church WordPress theme (one of my initial theme is Wise Church WordPress theme), I find it very useful and speeds up the development time instead of creating a new plugin.
Thank you Steven for providing a lot of effort with this plugin, and I am willing to contribute with this theme in some other ways.
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I’ve been using the Exodus church theme for some time now and love it. It ticks all the boxes for what I want when it comes to managing content for a church website. Great work guys!
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We have just completed building out a new site at allsaintsepping.org with Church Theme’s Maranatha and the Church Theme Content plugin. This was the most complex site I had ever built and Steven was fantastic where I would email him one day (from Sydney) and he would always reply over night – even when it was dubious if it was something concerning his stuff. The site now looks fantastic and I think gives us a platform for growth for the next few years. Well done Steven and thank you!
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I’ve used this plugin in a bunch of websites…works great! That is, it works great for sites that it is designed for. The theme you use must be compatible with this plugin, which is unfortunately a shorter list that I would like to see.
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I have built-out multiple church sites using this plug-in and was able to get them up and running in no time. It is easy to learn/use and if you have any issues the documentation is thorough and great. You can also email the developer, Steven, and he will respond to you with a solution asap.
One note is to be careful of poor quality themes, like the Jesus theme, that wrongfully built-in this plug-in’s features into their theme. ONLY USE THEMES THAT USE THIS PLUG-IN AND NOT COPY ITS FUNCTIONALITY. I would recommend any of the churchthemes.com themes to avoid this issue and get high quality themes and support.
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I love this plugin you can purchase it and a theme for it at [Link redacted].
If you do use it, you won’t regret it. If you need help they have excellent support and even the raw code is very nicely commented if you want to change anything.
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This plugin is really a great idea. By providing the framework for sermons, events,etc. that any theme can use, now you don’t have to worry about finding yourself locked into one theme. The trend today is for premium themes to include functionality that is better left to plugins. That works fine until you change themes and have to start over.
I’ve used this with the Resurrect theme and with the new Marantha theme (which is awesome) and it has worked flawlessly. The development guide is thorough, and has enough information for theme developers to incorporate this into their work.
Great job! I hope this continues to catch on with more church theme developers.
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This plugin is a really smart way for church theme creators to put the interests of churches first. This plugin stays minimal rather than bloating up. It provides only what you need to make Sermons portable from theme to theme and allows other themes/plugins to handle how those sermons are displayed. This allows for great variation in functionality while providing complete portability of sermons from theme-to-theme.
No theme will be used forever – and building sermon functionality (or ANY functionality that users will want to keep when they move) into a theme traps Churches who want to update their look and feel. This plugin does the opposite and sets them free to do what they need with their site with minimal frustration – creating a great group of themes that a user could easily migrate to.
With the plugin Post-Type and Meta variables built into a plugin, it makes it much simpler for churches to move to a new theme – and also speeds up the production of new Church Themes – which is good for everyone.
The documentation is also very good for this plugin and made it very easy to implement – although I did struggle with the built-in Event management. Regardless, there are many other great Event management plugins out there so it wasn’t a requirement – as other plugins allow for portability as well.
This is another major advantage this plugin has: the choice to disable parts you don’t need. I used the Sermon Functionality only and used other plugins to handle events. This flexibility is a big plus.
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Steve has put a lot of work into building a helpful plugin that offers a tremendous framework –to borrow the term– for launching a church website.
His custom post types just work, and because they are built the WordPress way they’re extensible!
I’m working with his Exodus theme on my first project.
As I implement things I realize Steve has already built a template for it.
Already he has implemented features –as he’s constantly developing his products– that I’m wanting.
This can be used by a novice, but saves a developer a ton of time building custom post types and templates!
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We just released a new theme based on this fantastic plugin
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The plugin is brilliant in every way. Everything you could possibly want on your church site. Steve has seriously thought of it all. It was easy to use and develop for and the support was always right there if we needed it.
I just wanted to leave this review to thank you Steve, for bringing this to the public and for free as well, you really can’t do better then this plugin.
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I’ve been using this plugin the last 11 months while building my church theme shop. I’ve tried a lot of plugins since I started building WordPress websites during version 2.7 and believe me when I say this is as good as they come. It’s easy to integrate, easy to customize and very well-written. Just browsing the source has taught me a lot.
Best of all, it really helps churches avoid the theme lock-in effect. I know that if I build themes that use this plugin, they can switch to a theme from [Link redacted], [Link redacted], [Link redacted] (my own shop), or most any church theme on ThemeForest and their content will port over seamlessly.
Well done Steven. We need more plugins like this.
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Before this plug-in came around I used to hardcode all this functionality into my themes. Now I skip all that just activate the church content plug-in and I’m good to go with a whole bunch of functionality. The plugin works really well and the developer is super responsive. Top marks
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It shouldn’t be in the wordpress repository because it doesn’t offer any feature at all for free. Instead it forces people to buy their themes.
You should develop the plugin so that is compatible with all common wordpress themes and then offer some functionality as basic and more as premium.
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So good to see a plugin that focuses on handling data and leaving the display to the theme. Improves data portability for church related content and prevents theme lock-in. I wish more plugins and themes took such a great approach!
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The Church Theme Content Plugin is very useful for churches. It includes a people directory, sermons, events, etc. These are core functions for churches. We use it at our church [Link redacted]
It has to be used with specific themes so make sure you have one of those first.
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This plugin is wonderful. It’s primary purpose it to standardize the content and custom post types for content that is typical of churches and ministries to avoid lock-in, which happens when every developer tries to do things their own way. The team at [Link redacted] took the theme market a big step forward with the creation of this plugin and correlating framework. Thanks!
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We used this with the Exodus theme from [Link redacted], and found the plugin easy to use. It’d be nice if event recurrence was more flexible; we wanted to set recurrence to day of week or month. For example, an event the first Sunday of each month. Support told us that “There is currently no support in CTC for anything but weekly, monthly and annual recurrence.” Still, this is a very useful plugin overall.
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