Churches are the institutions of our society whose need to disseminate their message and information is extremely high. As most other modern organization, churches need a medium to distribute their voice online and nothing does the job better than good looking Church Website Templates running on WordPress.
Since each church typically have their own needs for their website, a custom made theme is always preferable, but custom made church website templates do not always come cheap. Considering that most churches work on a limited budget, they often can’t spend a sizeable amount of money to pay a professional web designer.
For this reason, I am showcasing a collection of church website templates for WordPress which are affordable, efficient, appealing, and easy to update. If I missed a theme for church websites worth showcasing in this category, or if you have any comment or suggestion, as to how to improve this list, please feel free to write them below. We will have that covered in a future post or an update.
Disclosure: Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links and I will earn a commission if you purchase through those links (at no extra cost to you). I recommend that you do your own independent research before purchasing any product or service. This article is not a guideline, a recommendation or endorsement of specific products.
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Church Website Templates For WordPress
We all want our message to get across. We all want it to be understood. Our church’s godly message also does. Perhaps more than anything else. Help your church to find a good theme in this collection of church website templates. Happy surfing!
1. Wisdom Of Life – NGO and Charity Theme – DEMO
WISDOM of Life, it’s a clean and elegant theme, developed mainly to setup NGOs, non-profit orgnizations and corporate websites. Using the color scheme of your choice by using color picker make it elegant and high visual impact experience. This theme is best suitable for a small to large NGO Organizations to setup reference website. Theme works in all the major browsers, and has massive features to use for your next projects as well.
2. Rebirth – The WordPress Theme for Churches – DEMO
Rebirth is a Church WordPress Theme aimed at making your new church website the best one on the block! Feel free to send me feature requests if you feel I’ve missed something!
3. Born – Church website templates – DEMO
On-line presences is important today. Born is a Church WordPress Theme aimed at making your new church website the best one in your area.
4. WordPress Aid – DEMO
WordPress Aid is ideal for charity organizations. It’s focused on raising funds for your charity and alerting visitors to important issues happening in the world.
5. Church website templates – Crossroads – DEMO
Crossroads is a powerful and flexible Church website template for WordPress making your customization easy. It is simple to use and has a beautiful design. Built specifically for churches as a platform, Crossroads has a considerable array of features to display upcoming services, contact info, social networks, operation times, and more. All these tools will help you bring your service and information to anyone who visits or site!
6. GC02 Religious - DEMO
Religious … The Church Theme made by KarmaThemes with a lot of useful features.
7. True North – Church website templates – DEMO
True North is a premium WordPress theme with extensive power and flexibility. It is simple to use and has a elegant design
Just like Crossroads it is built specifically for churches as a platform that allows for complete management over the website. True North is the perfect solution for small and medium sized churches who need an easy-to-use website. True North has a considerable array of custom features to display upcoming services, contact info, social networks, operation times, and more.
8. Refine – Church website templates – DEMO
Refine Church WordPress Theme has a considerable array of custom features that are managed through a custom options panel, and custom widgets. These customizations allow your church to manipulate the themes features, whether it be the logo, service times, homepage images, hours of operations, webcasts, and more. Through these features, you can bring your information swiftly to anyone who visits your site.
With the Refine Church Theme, you can manage all your events, videos, podcasts, photos, church news, ministries, and more. You also have the ability to choose from five various color styles for the theme, which include variations of blue, red, grey, green, and brown.
9. Church website templates – WordPress Church – DEMO
WordPress Church theme has social bookmarks for sharing posts and articles, featured items on the home page, and crosses in the footer and doves in the header. It is also widget ready and offers a free version upgrade if you purchase this church website theme.
Providence Church of God, NC USA
Cathedral Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem PA
10. Church website templates – WP Church – DEMO
This church theme is created on a highly intelligent framework. It has automatic scripture finders, custom built image galleries, mp3 players and calendars. You can do away with plugins with this theme. It also have configurable slideshow, Google maps with street view and directions, newsletter subscription widget, custom gallery with countdown timer, upcoming events widget, and custom built sermon gallery.
11. Church website templates – Light of Peace – DEMO
This church website template is based on the 960 grid. It has a valid XHTML 1 .0 Strict , font replacement ( cufon ), lightbox gallery, working contact form with validation, seven page template, six PSDs, a jQuery slider, pop out window to display Service Times / Direction information, drop down navigation bar, and jQuery tabs.
12. Church website templates – Devine Light – DEMO
DivineLight is a church website template that features a warm inviting color scheme and a clean style mixed with rich leather touches. It also comes with complete PSD set designed with Churches in mind. This entire design is grid based, utilizing the rule of thirds, based on a 16px baseline.
13. Church website templates – Authentic Church – DEMO
Authentic Church is church website design which is simple, unique, and uncluttered Premium WordPress theme which is easy to use. You can completely dictate what goes on your homepage with its one control panel page.
14. Church website templates – Hopefull – DEMO
Hopefull is a feature-rich non-profit church theme with an elegant yet powerful design mechanisms. With this WordPress theme, you can choose Blue, Brown, Red, Green, Pink as color of your church blog. It features a Paypal donation widget for easy acceptance of funds from donors. Its simple, clean and user friendly theme options panel, makes your blog up and running to make every visit to your site an enjoyable experience filled with enlightening lessons from the gospels.
15. Church website templates – Ecclesia – DEMO
This wordpress church website template, is made with church blogs or websites in view. It is flexibility and friendly user interface, can help you a lot in bringing the website of your church to a higher level. It features, easy columns shortcodes, carefully crafted typography, widget layout and color options, flexible frontpage layout, jQuery slider, theme options panel, unlimited color variations, typography shortcodes, 17 custom widgets, and multilevel drop AJAX contact forms.
16. Church website templates – Epic Church – DEMO
This church WordPress theme is designed to make the website of your church look great. It is very easy to use with smoothly functional widgets and responsive design. It features custom widgets for last podcast message, contact details, Facebook like box, featured page and video. MailChimp integration in the contact widget etc.
17. Church website templates – Charity Theme – DEMO
With Charity theme, you can customize your background images, logos, text color and of your files of your theme. It goes with a pretty powerful custom page layout add-on called Carrington Build. This enables you to make pages on the fly without altering or a line of code or a template file . It also has a customized image for your images with options for alt text, link, height and width.
18. Church website templates - Antioch – DEMO
Antioch is a design suited for any church seeking to appeal to a wide audience. The interface features light tones and textures in a clean and readable layout. Subtle shadows and rich typography make Antioch the perfect way to engage church members and future guests with your content.
19. Church website templates – Ray of Light – DEMO
This wordpress theme is perfect for churches and religious movements. It features are rich and highly customizable. It also has its own gallery and five custom widgets, that allow you do whatever you want with your sidebar.
20. Church website templates – Sea Side Church – DEMO
This church website template for WordPress has a beautiful contact page that displays a map to your ministry along with the necessary contact information or direction. It has an integrated staff page where members are listed with images and their contact information in a gorgeous and easy to use fashion. You can also select your own plugin and its ability to podcast is right there out of the box. It also has widgets for featured post, recent tweets and featured videos.
21. Church website templates – Outreach – DEMO
Outreach is a beautiful church website template with fixed width, 6 layout options, featured images, threaded comments and theme options.
One of the churches which is using this theme:
David Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, Austin Texas, USA
22. Church website templates – Simple Press – DEMO
SimplePress is a slick new page-based church website template popular among church websites because of its clean and professional look. It features a homepage with a beautiful javascript slider and clear hierarchy, fully functional Blog and Gallery sections and ePanel theme options among others.
Among the churches that adopts this cool theme is:
Victoria Hall Christian Fellowship, Camberly
23. Church website templates – bSocial – DEMO
bSocial is another church website template which is ideal for ministry oriented websites. It features multiple page templates — like Feedreader and Search, widget-ready sidebar, search engine optimized pages, automatic image resizing — for front feature boxes, easy feature image uploading — with automatic image rotating and comprehensive Theme Options page.
Churches which are using this kind of theme are:
Essential Church VirginiaBeach, VA
Lutheran Church of the Resurrection-Marion, IA
24. Church website templates – Boldy WordPress Theme (Free) – DEMO
Boldy is a free to download, great WordPress church website template which has earned its popularity among churches.
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Among its users are:
Life Pointe Church, Amory, Mississippi
Bethany Community Church, Philadelphia, PA
25. Church website templates – Grace – DEMO
Grace has an intuitive control panel which is very easy to use allowing you to configure all aspects of your website without altering its code.
26. Church website templates – Upsilon – DEMO
This very popular free WordPress church website template has 2-columns and a sidebar widget support and a totally cool SmoothGallery header. This church web design theme also supports an album.
Some of its users are:
Iglesia Bautista Misionera Shalom Una Iglesia, Mexico
Northwest Baptist Church, Wauwatosa WI
27. Church website templates – Mu – DEMO
Although Mu is designed for church websites, this church website template also appeals to other websites aside from churches and religious organizations. It goes with a myriad of features which can be easily configured to suit the particular mood of the site. It has sidebars which are fully widgetized and home page content areas. It also has an amazing carousel effect to display images or any other content. Because Mu is built primarily for church purposes, it is the most popular WordPress theme around.
It has a lot of followers like:
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Hollywood CA
City North Church, Brisbane Australia
28. Church website templates – Trinity – DEMO
Trinity is a squeaky clean design aimed at helping churches deliver their content in modern style. The interface features light tones and textures in a clean and readable layout. Clean lines and prominent typography make Trinity the perfect way to engage church members and future guests with your content.
29. Church website templates – Trinity Community Church – DEMO
This clean and impressive design for a WordPress church theme features an easily editable homepage graphic buttons, fully editable multi-level, CSS drop-down menu and easily editable, multi-image javascript homepage slideshow. It has three distinct layouts for its pages (two column interior layouts, single column interior, and a homepage with slideshow and graphic buttons).
30. Church website templates – Moses – DEMO
This WordPress photo theme for churches is specifically designed to meet the need of a ministry and other religious organizations. This awesome theme has the ability to post events and sermons on its pages. It also has a highly customizable featured image slider on its homepage and a custom widget containing the latest sermons allowing visitors to download a video or audio in MP3 format of the sermons.
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These guys always produce the creativity, not the typical religious themes, Personally i like Faith Community church website. some of other good religious designs can be seen from http://www.templatesrule.com/web-templates/template-category-religion.html
Yeah.Thanks for the link on templatesrule here.I’ve checked it out and they’re impressive. Your themes are both very beautiful and affordable. I’ll see if I can make a rundown on some of your themes.Keep it up!
Thanks Sonny for liking our templates. You can contact me any time if you need any type of ready to use website design. just drop me an email at info@templatesrule.com
Nice collection! Thanks for share…
You’re welcome Endyst!
I created the website for http://www.stmagnus.org.uk using Drupal, modifying the theme from scratch. There are some fantastic Drupal themes out there, not necessarily for churches specifically, but a knowledgeable webmaster could tweak any of them.
My own personal spin on the theme was the code that determines where we are in the Episcopal year and alters the colour scheme appropriately.
Thanks for sharing John. I’ve checked St. Magnus’ website and it’s pretty good. Drupal is really one of the good blogging platforms out there.
In addition to the above comment I would like to highlight that 24. Church website templates – Boldy WordPress Theme (Free)
Is now also available for Drupal at: http://drupal.org/project/boldy
With some basic instructions on how to set up the demo site using drupal and its contributed modules.
You’re right there John.I’ve checked St. Magnus’ site and found them to be good. Drupal is really one of the good blogging platforms.Thanks for sharing!
Simple Press is a product of elegantthemes.com. Our church almost went with that theme, however opted for another product they offered called Deepfocus. It’s very similar to Simple Press, however we liked the slider better as it gave us a more prominent image in the slider and more options for us as well. Check it out – http://www.calvarybaptistpa.org
Hi Thanks for sharing. You’ve done a great job
Jonathan, great work on that site! Love the big slider.
//Frankie
Nice collection, thanks for sharing!
We’d love to get on this list too
http://churchthemes.net
//Frankie
This post should be updated there are a ton of better looking Church WordPress Themes, Check out > http://www.churchthemer.com for example
Hi Adam
Thanks for being honest – I can see you suggest your own themes though – but I will look into your request
Andy, We just release another church WordPress theme over on http://www.churchthemer.com it would be great if you could update this list with our themes and also sign up as an affiliate of our so you can earn affiliate income
Checkout http://www.churchthemer.com/themes/malachi/ its the first dark church theme i’ve seen that supports video and images in the slider.
Hi Adam
Thanks for the tip. I will look into you request a.s.a.p.
Kind regards.
Andy
Wow, alot of great themes here! How did you compile this listing?
Great Site! Nice to see it all available in one; keep it u
Also check out http://wordpresschurch.org/ and the gallery of churches using WordPress.
I found the U-Design template very helpful in developing our web site. There were many custom features and the design is very easy to change.
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