Passage is an acknowledging WordPress theme congenital accurately for churches – with continued sermons, donations, and events management. It’s beautiful, apple-pie and professional. We congenital this theme accurately for churches, and is adjustable abundant to use for lots projects. Passage includes simple to use reside customizers and annoyance & bead builders and is able of administration a ton including agents members, sermons, catalogs, custom logins, affairs stuff, blogs, filterable galleries, and about annihilation that you can anticipate up! We pride ourselves on how able-bodied this theme works out of the box, so if you run into any issues, amuse don’t alternate to let us apperceive at our committed abutment forum. Analysis out our affection account below!
The Abstraction Behind This ThemeWe capital to body something alarming that helps churches, agents members, and the humans they serve. Something that would enhance the church acquaintance for users, access assurance and retention, abatement confusion, and that focused on the data of how this could plan for that majority of church communities out there. So, with that in mind, we body Passage.
Staff associates can add/update their own profiles, sermons and/or pages – and accommodate those that they serve with up to date advice like accessible accumulation meetings, contempo studies, notes, or annihilation else. Visitors can get accumulation information, acquirement account materials, and analysis to see if they absent annihilation from their endure meeting. Finally, admins can baby-sit the breeze of information, and accept the adeptness to add, edit, assign, and annul advice and users.
The Best of the FeaturesPassage comes with bags of appearance and the adeptness to abutment endless of altered plugins that’ll accomplish it just appropriate for your project… here’s just a taste:
The New Agents Role & Continued User ProfilesPassage comes absolutely chip with a new “Staff” user role accurately congenital for religious institutions. This Agents role provides agents associates with the adeptness to add, edit, and amend their own information. This role is agnate to the “Author” role built-in to WordPress, with a few added accoutrement and abilities to accommodate your agents associates with the appropriate bulk of credentials. This role aswell allows users assigned to this role to adapt their own claimed advice (ie. bio, photo, acquaintance info, etc.).
Custom User LoginBecause your agents should feel appreciative to login to your site! Adapt the login for your users to bout your website with simple to use options. Go ahead, analysis it out. Choose or upload your login logo, position the login anatomy location, add a accomplishments image, set a blush fallback, and add custom html!
SermonsAdding a new sermon is easy! Just cross to Sermons > Add New to add a new sermon. Anniversary sermon has four audible advantage sections:01 – The Media Section: is acclimated to analyze the sermon from others by accouterment options for antecedent material. For example: video media, audio media, download media – and some continued options like a affiche angel for each.02 – The Content/Text Section: (Visual Composer) allows for agents to accommodate added activating agreeable such as sermon notes, abstraction guides, added reading, etc.03 – The Sermon Categories Section: is area categories can be managed for this sermon. See Sermon Archive area for added data on how this is used.04 – The Sermon Amateur Section: is area you can accredit a specific amateur to your sermon. The Sermon Amateur assigned will again be acclimated for how the sermon media looks and acts. See Sermon Amateur Area for added details.
Sermon PlayersAdding a new sermon amateur is easy! Just cross to Sermon Players > Add New to add a new sermon player. Anniversary sermon amateur has two audible advantage sections:01 – The Body Section: is acclimated to body the capital anatomy & action of player, from toggling elements on & off to architecture a activating playlist. Players can be acclimated as changeless players or as activating players.02 – The Styles Section: is acclimated to manage the styles of the player, from accomplishments colors & images to chantry sizes, families, and colors. It even offers the adeptness to alarm bg images from the sermon dynamically.Each amateur can be assigned to a sermon (or sermons) to behest how they are displayed and function. This is area the adeptness of this starts to appearance – and saves users a ton of time from defective architecture the aforementioned sermon styles over and over.
Sermon CatalogingThis is area the adeptness of the Sermons Amateur plugin absolutely comes to activity and creating a archive is absolutely simple. Just cross to any page (or actualize a new one) and accredit the Sermon Archive page template. A new drop-down account of options will be provided for you including, clarification sermons by Sermon Category and selecting a amount of sermons per page. The theme will do the rest. This archive will be provided afterwards any accordant agreeable included in the Page Editor (Frontend or Backend).
Sermon Categories accept been afar from “standard” categories acclimated for posts to accumulate things accurate and organized, so there won’t be any confusion. For example, you could use a Sermon Category blue-blooded “Youth Department” for all adolescence accompanying sermons > Again use this Sermon Category to abstract and affectation alone sermons from this Sermon Category.
DonationsYou’ll accept the a lot of able-bodied WordPress arrangement accessible for accepting donations. On top of that, we’ve continued Accord to plan even bigger with this theme. We’re advancement all of their abject functionality – and including some air-conditioned extensions that we use in our own projects.
We’re aswell including a custom Beheld Composer bore to accomplish this even easier. Just add the Accord Item bore and baddest one of your accord forms from the dropdown. Then, if you want, you can use the added included options to adapt this bore further.
EventsYou’ll accept the adeptness to actualize and manage your agenda of events with ease. Get professional-level superior and appearance with this affiliation – and The Events Agenda will advice yield your website to the next level.
On top of that, we’ve continued The Events Agenda to plan even bigger with this theme. We’re advancement all of their abject functionality – and including adapted styles and outputs.
Online StoreYep. WooCommerce is enabled on this theme, which agency you can use it to advertise anything, beautifully – like shirts, allowance cards, or annihilation abroad you can dream up. WooCommerce does a TON of amazing being out of the box and we’ve bureaucracy the affiliation so that this theme will plan seamlessly with it. We’ve aswell gone through and fabricated abiding all of the styles bout to the theme styles/options.
Blog TemplateBlogging is at the actual affection of WordPress and we haven’t forgotten. This theme includes our custom Blog Page Template, which has been acclimated by over 20k+ users beyond 15+ themes. It utilizes the adeptness of WordPress and focuses on clean, consistent, able design. Categories assigned are acclimated to clarify posts that are displayed – and because this is a page template, you can accept as abounding blog pages that you want. This is absolutely accessible if you wish to action a filtered blog for a specific accumulation of humans (ie. Families, Senior Citizens, etc.).
Post Grid TemplateWe are appreciative to be including our custom Post Grid Page Template, which has been acclimated by over 20k+ users beyond 15+ themes. It utilizes the adeptness of Isotope to “filter & array bewitched layouts” and focuses on clean, accessible interactions. Categories assigned are acclimated to filter, sort, and breathing posts visibility. We’ve even including adapted styles, an adapted hover animation, and new lightbox affiliation for this.
LayoutsWe’re including several blueprint options including: default, aftereffect left, aftereffect right, bifold sidebars right, bifold sidebars left, bifold sidebars left/right, and abounding amplitude (no sidebars). With Beheld Composer, you accept even added ascendancy by addition the row, addition the row and content, and allotment specific columns widths to rows (ie. 1/4 + 1/4 +1/2). You can aswell add a row central of a row to accomplish this added flexible.
Adding ContentWe accurately congenital Passage with this in mind. Agents can add and adapt any advice that they acquisition accordant for their own sermons/pages/posts. So a High School Pastor can add the appropriate account for the week, a Junior High Pastor can add a abstraction adviser for an accessible meeting, and a Small Accumulation Leader can amend the accumulation addendum if something abrupt happened during the week. The abstraction actuality is to accord your agents an simple way to acquaint with their groups, online. To accomplish this even easier, we’ve included a exceptional annoyance and bead page architect with foreground end alteration abilities!
Built on the Mythology EngineMythology Engine has been developed with the sole purpose of creating an able adjustment of publishing capacity with a automated development process… Key appearance cover white-label options panels, “in-dashboard” documentation, and a common access to agreeable management & theme options.
Visual ComposerBuild admirable pages and actualize your own custom layouts application over 30 altered agreeable modules alignment from image-sliders to argument blocks to videos and maps. Beheld Composer is the a lot of accepted beheld editor accessible to WordPress and it’s arranged in the theme. Updates are be included for chargeless with anniversary theme-version update.
Visual Composer – Extensions (Passage Exclusive)We’ve added some beheld modules to accomplish activity easier for you, including Donations, Latest Sermon, Sermons by Category, Hover Image, and a Standard Item (with image, link, and appellation capabilities). Anniversary of these offers customization options appropriate in the bore panel.
Revolution SliderSlider Revolution is powering over 1,000,000 WordPress sites! It’s not just a slider, but a new way to bear ideas. It’s an innovative, acknowledging WordPress Slider Plugin that displays your agreeable the admirable way. Slider Revolution has fabricated architecture able sliders easier. Whether it’s a Slider, Carousel, Hero Scene or even a accomplished Foreground Page, the visual, annoyance & bead editor will let you acquaint your own belief in no time!
Mega MenuYou can actualize widgetized mega airheaded application the congenital in beheld mega card builder. This affiliation includes appearance like annoyance & bead Mega Card builder, the adeptness to affectation WordPress widgets, abutment for acceptable “flyout” airheaded forth with Mega Card sub-menus, aperture airheaded with hover absorbed and bang events, achromatize and accelerate transitions, forth with abacus icons to card items and abounding more.
Theme Options PanelWe get it, you wish to adapt the theme. With this theme options panel, you can. This theme options console is organized in to sections – and even sub-tabs if needed.
You don’t in fact charge to change annihilation here, but in the event that you wish to adapt something – the options are there.
Theme Skinning With Reside PreviewEliminate the assumption from customizing the theme. Congenital on the WP Theme Customizer API with some appropriate tricks attenuated in, you can change just about every typographic or blush beyond the absolute theme… there’s no charge to reload the page on the front-end admitting – the Theme Customizer will appearance you an burning examination of what your changes attending like appropriate there on the aforementioned screen.
HTML5 Fueled SEOWe re-wrote our absolute theme-base from blemish to cover the latest, a lot of accordant HTML elements and tags to acquiesce for the best accessible seek engine results.
Multi-Language SupportThe absolute theme has been absolutely internationalized and able for your accent translation. Just chase the accepted adaptation action and the theme will do the rest.
Custom CSSGot something custom that you wish to bead in? Simple. Just bead them into our theme ascendancy console and the theme will do the blow of the plan for you.
Built with Ordinary Humans in MindOur ambition is to bear a theme that anyone can use & customize, after any charge for 24/7 chump abutment or circumlocutory affidavit manuals. We acclaim uploading the theme audience if you wish a arch start, but the theme has absolutely been advised to be acknowledgment any of your questions as you use it, so don’t affront if you don’t apperceive how to code.
Helpful SupportIf you still charge some advice or accept a question, feel chargeless to ask us at our committed abutment forum. Just accomplish abiding to cover your endgoal to advice us accept how we can help.
Built with Developers in Mind, too!Our cipher is clean, organized, and able-bodied commented. Everything has it’s applicable abode in this theme, and authoritative avant-garde customizations to templates, stylesheets, and functions has never been easier.
Fully ResponsiveWe were one of the aboriginal theme crews to dabble in ‘responsive design’ way aback in the day, so we apperceive a affair or two about how to do this properly. Fluid grids are acclimated at beyond breakpoints, and anchored widths are acclimated on abate accessories to ensure ideal spacing. The blazon admeasurement accouterment on abate accessories to be beyond and easier to read, and images and added media are sandboxed to anticipate annihilation from breaking the layout.
License Notes:Images are accountant through Unsplash Creative Commons Zero or PhotoDune. Videos & Audio are accountant through Vimeo Creative Commons
Change Log
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