Rockin’ Cool Church Website Using WordPress

Micah sent me this link to Grace Evangelical Free Church, located in Lynchburg, Virginia.

It’s not only a Rockin’ Cool Church Website, but they are using WordPress to run it!

This site is an excellent example of how WordPress can be used as a content management system and a live illustration of the Using WordPress to Run Church Websites series. If you didn’t open the hood of the site (look at the source code), you probably wouldn’t guess it’s a WordPress site.

The one thing I’d suggest to them is using a different permalink structure. Right now, it’s the default, which I always change. I’ve read, been told and found that this helps with search engine findings. I’ll expand on this in a later post when I talk about the tweaks I usually do after installing it.

(If you just can’t wait, check out these sites I’ve helped with and look at their post URLs: Jeff’s Image Forth, Dr. Mark DeVine’s Theology Prof, and the Christian Book Lounge.)

For now, go check out this rockin’ site.

February 3, 2007 · Filed Under Rockin' Web Sites, WordPress

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3 Responses to “Rockin’ Cool Church Website Using WordPress”

  1. Rich Schmidt on February 3rd, 2007 8:51 pm

    Strange… When I checked out the site earlier today, it wasn’t using the default permalink structure. It had named categories, etc, in the URLs. Now, it’s using the ?page_id= stuff. Strange. Maybe they’re testing…?

  2. Douglas T on February 5th, 2007 6:37 am

    I dislike the default link structure too. I like something that makes sense when you look at it. Something with archive and a number, or a category name. The default setting looks like some artificially generated spam link.

  3. Dan on February 8th, 2007 3:09 pm

    Gents.. Thanks so much for the commenting and for the post. We are testing and tweaking.. The site currently has a few hundred visitors daily and we’re looking to integrate a full intranet. Thanks again - the permalinks stuff is in flux but I couldn’t agree with you more on switching from the default setting

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