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[Updated: Jan 4, 2016]

This collection of the best church WordPress themes will help your church or religious institution get a professional website online quickly.  There are many church theme options out there!  Unlike other generic lists, we only share the ones that we have first-hand experience with and wholeheartedly recommend!  You can also use our to compare the features of all of the themes on this list.

Using WordPress to build a church website is smart because WordPress is easy to use, has lots of great themes and plugins, and is free.  The church premium themes shown below are built specifically for churches.  Some of the features which can be found in the themes include the ability to post sermons and videos, podcasting, online giving, calendar and event management (upcoming events), news and announcement sections, photo galleries, staff pages, location maps, and more.

Premium (Paid) Church WordPress Themes:

Price: $99

The Marantha is the newest theme from one of our favorite church theme designers.   It has a beautiful flat design concept, with footer widest and sticky menus.   It is packed with all the great features a church needs (sermons, calendar, ministries, staff, etc.).  It is easy to use.  It is one of our favorite themes because any church can use it to create a professional looking site for their congregation.

Price: $59

Working with Eden in WordPress is exactly what you would expect when you pay for a premium theme. It is thoughtfully laid out, and the added functions are helpful for a church looking for a nice premium theme.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Includes premium plugins, including Visual Composer, Slider Revolution, and Booked.
• Includes our unique and Boxy Page Builder for display high quality page content.
• Supports Church Theme Content for creating sermons, events, and staff pages.
• Supports WooCommerce for setting up your own store.
• Supports Contact Form 7 for form building.

OTHER FEATURES:

• Totally responsive. Works on desktop, tablets and mobile phones.
• Boxy Page Builder to change the layout, hide/show items and other fun options.
• Drag & drop page building with Visual Composer.
• Change the color, font and styling in seconds.
• Custom Widgets and a big admin panel for customizations.

Price: $79

The  has a full width slider layout and a flat design concept.  We highly recommend the this theme because we think it is one of the best church WordPress themes available today.  It is packed with all the great features.  It is easy to use.  It is very flexible and customizable which means any type of church (rural and urban, traditional and contemporary churches, and everything in between) can use it to create a professional looking site to accurately portray their congregation.

Website Appearance features:

• Mobile-friendly: Responsive design makes for a great experience on phones and tablets.
• Customizer: Change the appearance of your site using the Customizer. Preview in real-time.
• Add your logo: Upload your logo image or enter text then choose a font and size.
• Color schemes: Includes dark and light color schemes.
• Custom background: Use a preset background or pick a color.
• Custom fonts: Set hand-picked Google Fonts for your menu, headings and main content.
• Customized Header section: Show the latest events, sermons, posts, tagline or custom content.
• High resolution: Exodus takes advantage of high resolution screens such as Retina®.

Church Specific Content features

• Custom homepage: Choose what shows: slides, highlights, intro and your favorite widgets.
• Sermons: Publish sermons in text, audio, video and PDF formats. Organize by topic, book, series, speaker, tag and date.
• Podcasting: Audio podcasting for sermons is built-in. Compatible with iTunes®.
• Events: Publish single or multi-day events. Make events repeat weekly, monthly or yearly. Show maps with directions.
• Locations: Show one or multiple church campuses with service times, map and directions.
• People: Publish staff and leader bios with contact info. Organize by group.
• Blog: Post church news and articles.
• Photos and videos: Add photo galleries anywhere. Upload videos or embed from sites like YouTube.
• Section banners: Show banners atop different sections (ie. one for sermons, another for events).
• Church widgets: Show sidebar widgets for sermons, events, locations, people, galleries, giving and more.
• Sitewide search: Visitors can search for sermons, events, blog posts, pages and other content.
• Sample content: Make your site look similar to the demo for an excellent starting point.
• Portable content The  plugin makes switching themes easier.

Price: $59

The is a really good WordPress full width theme designed for churches.  It is one of the most customizable themes out there today.  It also has many features that churches need to create a great website.      has a heart for churches and pastors.  Its founder, Bill Robbins, is a former full-time pastor. 

Features:

• Responsive design that looks good on desktops, tablets and smartphones.
• Parallax Scrolling: One of the few church themes that use this design feature.
• Hero Image System: Easily add images to your page with a title and caption.
• Robust built-in and easy-to-use video and audio podcasting system (each sermon has its own unique download page).
• Unlimited color for total customization: Headers, background, links, etc.
• Custom church-related widgets: Facebook, featured video, featured page, featured posts, latest podcast, podcast series, and contact.
• Easy to create links to  social media networks with included contact widget.
• Multiple home page widget options (maps, sermons, highlighted images).
• Easy to create staff page and profiles.
• Custom background options (images and colors).
• Custom Logo: Easily insert your own image in two logo locations (inside navigation bar or above it)

Price: $79

The   is a great theme.  It is one of our favorite themes out there designed specifically for churches.  It is easy to set up and very customizable.  You are able to add a unique background image, which creates a very fitting web presence for all styles of churches (traditional and contemporary churches, rural and urban and everything in between).  It also looks great on all mobile devices (tablets, phones, etc).  !

Church-specific Content features

Price: $50

The  by Boxy Studio is a great large full-slider theme for churches. It offers modern features like, which would make it a great choice for contemporary churches.  It has a professional look that would be appropriate for any type of church. Justin has integrated third-party plugins into this theme so that it includes everything a church would need () to create a new website.  !

Website Appearance features

• Mobile-friendly: Responsive design makes for a great experience on phones and tablets
• Custom fonts: Set hand-picked Google Fonts for your menu, headings, and main content
• Multiple Header Options: Choose two different layouts
• High resolution: Forgiven takes advantage of high resolution screens such as Retina®

• Events: Fully integrated with the  Plugin
• Maps: Integrate map plugin
• People: Publish staff and leader bios with contact info. Organize by group
• Photos and videos: Add photo galleries anywhere. Upload videos or embed from sites like YouTube
• Church widgets: Show sidebar widgets for sermons, events, locations, people, galleries, giving, and more
• Sitewide search: Visitors can search for sermons, events, blog posts, pages, and other content
• Portable content: The  plugin makes switching themes easier

The is a great theme.  Its sleek style makes it a great option for contemporary churches.   Genesis themes are super fast to load, and their responsive design looks great on all types of devices.   !

Features

• Mobile-friendly: Responsive design makes for a great experience on phones and tablets
• Automatic updates: Easy upgrade similar to the way that WordPress itself (and plugins) are handled
• 6 layout options for pages/posts
• 5 color customization:  You can choose from 5 different color options
• Search engine optimized with many different SEO options (entire site and individual page/post controls)
• Integrated blog

Price: $125

The has a beautifully home page design with a full width slider. It is based on Churchthemes.com framework and uses different plugins to populate the your church’s information (sermons, events, staff, etc.).  This theme is very customizable, so it would be a good design choice for any church.

Website features:

• Responsive design looks great on phones and tablets.
• Custom Colors and logo
• Custom homepage: Choose what shows: slides, highlights, intro and your favorite widgets.
• Sermons: Publish sermons in via text document, audio, video and PDF formats. Organize by topic, book, series, speaker, tag and date.
• Podcasting: Audio podcasting for sermons is built-in. Compatible with iTunes®.
• Modern Tribe Calendar: Robust calendar features
• Locations: Show church campuses with service times, map and directions.
• People: Publish staff bios with contact info.
• Blog: Share you wisdom with a blog.  You can also post church news and articles.
• Photos and videos: Add photo galleries anywhere. Upload videos or embed from sites like YouTube.
• Church widgets: Show sidebar widgets for sermons, events, locations, people, galleries, giving and more.
• Sample content package: Download to make your site look similar to the demo.
• Portable content The  plugin makes switching themes easier.

The  is a really good WordPress theme that is specifically designed for churches.  It has a lot of great features built into it (staff, sermon podcasting, etc.).  This makes it very easy to set up a church WordPress site with it, and it’s highly customizable.  You can change the background image, fonts, and website color scheme.  This means that you can use the to create a fitting web presence for all types of churches. !

Features:

• Responsive design that looks good on anything from desktops to tablets to smartphones
• Optional touch-based slideshow on home page and touch image galleries
• Built-in slider that can incorporate images or videos
• Built-in and easy-to-use podcasting system (each sermon has its own unique download page)
• Unlimited colors: Headers, background, links, etc
• 9 custom church-related widgets: Facebook, featured video, featured page, featured posts, latest podcast, podcast series, and contact
• Easy to create links to  social media networks with included contact widget
• Multiple home page options (slider, static images, etc)
• Easy to create staff page
• Custom background options (images and colors)
• Custom Logo: Easily insert your own image in two logo locations (inside navigation bar or above it)

Price: $45

The Risen Theme is a great theme designed specifically for churches.  Risen is is easy to set up and very customizable.  Custom backgrounds and color options help create a web presence fitting for all styles of churches (traditional and contemporary churches, rural and urban and everything in between).  !

Complete Feature List

• Responsive design using HTML5 and CSS3 styling
• The design is Retina-ready for super sharp appearance on high resolution displays
• Theme options powered by options framework
• Custom colors (light or dark appearance, main, link and background color)
• Custom background (full background image or pattern — 19 included or upload your own)
• 200+ Google web fonts
• Logo upload (with optional Retina logo)
• Homepage has responsive slider (supports video), intro message, featured boxes, and widget areas
• Sermon archive with embedded video (YouTube or Vimeo), audio player, MP3 download, online sermon reading, PDF download, and archives by date, category, speaker, and tag
• Sermon podcasting support is built-in (documentation included for iTunes setup)
• Gallery with photos, videos, categories and responsive lightbox
• Church events with optional recurrence by week, month, and year
• Support for multiple locations with map and directions
• Staff profiles with e-mail buttons
• Church news (blog)
• Search results for posts, pages, sermons, photos, videos, events, locations, and staff
• Contact form with multiple recipients and reCAPTCHA anti-spam support
• Custom page templates for sermons/multimedia, events (upcoming, past), gallery (categories, all items, images only, videos only), locations, staff, blog, and contact
• Custom widgets for Enhanced Categories, Enhanced Recent Posts, Sermon Archives (by month), Recent Sermons, Recent Gallery Items, Events, Locations, Staff, Donations
• Widget sidebars for regular pages, blog, sermons, gallery, events, staff, locations, and contact
• Responsive shortcodes for buttons, tabs, accordion, columns, boxes, quotes, maps, and contact form
• WordPress Embeds extended for responsive videos
• Custom menu support for header (with dropdowns) and footer
• Customizable footer (menu, address, phone, copyright)
• Individual page and post options for header image and sidebar
• Breadcrumb path
• Social media icons for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, Flickr, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Skype, Dribbble, Forrst, SoundCloud, Picasa, Foursquare, “Any Website,” podcasting, and RSS
• Google Maps integration
• Google Analytics support
• Favicon upload support
• Automatic image resizing using native WordPress functionality
• Fully localized and translation ready (PO file included)
• Compatible with WordPress Multisite network
• Required WordPress styles implemented (.alignright, .wp-caption, etc)
• Includes Example Child Theme for optional style and feature customization
• Comes with layered PSD Photoshop files

Price: $79

from is a delightful theme for churches because it’s designed to answer most of the questions a visitor may ask, either right there on the front page or within one click.  

Features:

• 5 different color styles to choose from
• Built in home slider
• Built in podcast functionality
• Built in event management
• Good social media integration
• Custom logo options

Price: $59

The  by is a really good WordPress theme that is specifically designed for churches.  One unique thing about this theme is its large text size (menus and home page).  This makes it very easy to read on a variety of devices.  It has a lot of great church features built into it (staff, sermon podcasting, etc).  This theme is highly customizable.  You can change the background image, fonts, and website color scheme.  This makes  a fitting web presence for all types of churches.

Engaging Design

• Optional mega-menu uses widgets in your header
• Retina display-ready
• Optional header text/link for phone number, location, time,s or anything else
• Animated page loading and background
• Responsive and mobile-ready
• Built-in Slider: Touch-enabled slideshow supports images and video
• Robust podcasting
• Message series template with series artwork
• Audio and video feeds for iTunes and RSS subscriptions
• Downloadable audio and message notes
• Widgets for latest message and message series list
• Speaker archives so all messages by each speaker are available

Easy To Customize

• Uses theme customizer so you can make live changes to your colors/style
• Unlimited color options for everything (background, header, fonts, etc)
• Google Web fonts built-in
• Use your own logo and branding
• Useful tools

Automatic Theme Updates

• 10 custom widgets: Facebook, featured video, featured page, latest post, latest podcast, podcast series, contact, social links
• Staff section to easily create lists of your staff/volunteers
• Mailchimp newsletter widget
• Donate buttons via shortcodes
• Support for the event calendar
• Lightbox image gallery with 10 available skins

Price: $45

The  is one of the most popular church themes sold on .  One quick look at the features (mp3 and video for sermons, people, events, contact, etc.)  and you can tell it is designed with churches in mind.  It is highly customizable.  You are able to add a unique header background image and have unlimited color options.  You can create a web presence that fits your church.  It is also mobile ready for your tablets and photos.

Key Features:

• One-click Auto-Install sample data
• Responsive
• Flexible home page with lots of possible layouts
• Unlimited colors
• Unlimited sidebars
• Unlimited galleries
• Unlimited slideshows
• Header background image
• WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin support
• Portfolio pages with sidebars
• Animated sortable portfolio
• Built-in slider that can be used on multiple pages
• 11 custom church widgets
• Multi format ready: Images, Flash, Quicktime, Youtube,Vimeo, FLV , MP4 Lightbox
• Shortcodes integrated in default editor
• Integrated google fonts, 400+
• Text or image logo
• Lots of useful elements: Toggles, Tabs, Call-to-action Buttons, etc
• Contacts form manager
• Events system
• Testimonials

Price: $29

The  has a simple design that makes it appropriate for any kind of church!  It has full slider and footer widgets.

Key Features:

• Fully responsive design
• Full slider
• Footer widgets
• Unlimited colors
• Theme options panel
• Cross-browser compatible
• Connect to social media easily

Church Pack Pro Plugin (Free with theme purchase) Includes:

• Events
• People
• Groups
• Photo Albums
• Widget Content
• Content Shortcodes

Price: $29   

The has a clean design.   It has full slider and footer widgets. This themes is simple to set up and would be appropriate for any style of church!

Key Features:

• Fully responsive design
• Full slider
• Footer widgets
• Unlimited colors
• Theme options panel
• Cross-browser compatible
• Connect to social media easily
• A full width page template without the sidebar
• A custom home page template without a sidebar
• A contact page with built-in Google map
• Multiple sermon page templates that display all series and all speakers

Church Pack Pro Plugin (Free with theme purchase if you use coupon code BONUS) Includes:

• Events
• People
• Groups
• Photo Albums
• Widget Content
• Content Shortcodes

Price: $29

The has a simple design that is easy to set up and would be appropriate for any style of church!  It has full slider and footer widgets.

Key Features:

• Fully responsive design
• Full slider
• Footer widgets
• Unlimited colors
• Theme options panel
• Cross-browser compatible
• Connect to social media easily
• A full width page template without the sidebar
• A custom home page template without a sidebar
• A contact page with built-in Google map
• Multiple sermon page templates that display all series and all speakers

Church Pack Pro Plugin (Free with theme purchase if you use coupon code BONUS) Includes:

• Events
• People
• Groups
• Photo Albums
• Widget Content
• Content Shortcodes

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