Overview
This church theme for WordPress has the features a church website needs — a mobile-friendly responsive design, sermon archive, photo and video gallery, church events (recurring), support for multiple locations, staff profiles and church news. The sermon archive is complete with the ability for visitors to search for audio, video and text sermons by category, tag, date and speaker. Sermon podcasting is built-in. Risen has a Retina-ready design and powerful customization options that make it easy to change the theme’s colors, fonts and background.
Risen is also useful for non-church websites that need rich multimedia publishing capabilities for audio, video and photos and that want to promote events. The sermon archive can be fully renamed using the theme options, making this a WordPress theme not only for churches but also parachurch ministries, nonprofits and charities, conference websites and multimedia presentation archives.
This theme is well-documented with about 50 pages of organized, easy to follow instructions explaining how to use its features. Additionally, a series of video guides is included.
Put your pastor’s sermons online in audio (listen online or download MP3), video (YouTube or Vimeo), online text or downloadable PDF format. This theme provides a robust multimedia archive in which sermons can be organized and browsed by category, tag, speaker, month, day and year. Support for sermon podcasting was added in version 2.0. You can podcast your sermons on iTunes.
What's included
- The full themeEvery file from the developer's release, in one zip.
- Unlimited sitesInstall it on your own and your clients' sites.
- GPL licensedFree to use, study and modify.
- No paymentFree to download, no card needed.
How to install
- 1Download the zip file from this page.
- 2In WordPress, go to Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme.
- 3Choose the zip, click Install Now, then Activate.
Questions
Is this the developer's own release?
Yes. It is the release published by the original developer, redistributed under the GNU General Public License. The GPL allows anyone to share and resell the code.
Do I get a license key or automatic updates?
No. License keys, one-click updates and support come from the developer's own paid plans. To update, download the newer version here when it is listed and install it over the old one.
Can I use it on more than one site?
Yes. The GPL puts no limit on the number of sites, including client sites.
Why is it free?
During our launch every download that is available on GPL Store is free. Nothing is charged and no card is asked for.
