56% of you pastors out there haven’t started blogging yet, according to a super scientific poll done by the Church Marketing Sucks Polling & Research Department. Now, a lot of you might be interested, but you have no idea where to start.
Scott Magdalein has something interesting to offer you. Here’s what he has to say:
God impressed on me something much more simple and less spiritual than I expected that I should do for church leaders around the globe.
It’s simple really. I know how to install WordPress. Most church leaders don’t know how to install WordPress and don’t have the time to learn or the money to hire someone to do it for them. Everyone knows that a hosted WordPress blog is more powerful, flexible, and freeing than any free blogging account (WordPress.com, Blogger, even Typepad though it’s not free). So, here it is.
I’m offering to do free WordPress installs for church leaders that want to use blogging as a tool in their ministry.
Remember, just because it’s free doesn’t mean it’s effective. If it’s something you really feel you need to do, you can check out his original post for some more details. And once he sets you up with WordPress, why don’t you head back here and catch up on all we’ve been saying about blogging:
- The Power of the Blog
- Blog Book Review
- Blogging Can Burn Pastors
- The Blogging Church: Sharing the Story of Your Church Through Blogs
- Naked Conversations: How Blogs Are Changing the Way Businesses Talk to Customers
- Jump Into Blogging
- The Beginner’s Guide to Church Blogging
- Church Blogging
- How Blogging Can Help the Church
- Cory Miller’s I Help Pastors Blog series
DChapman
April 8, 2008
Sounds like a great idea… I’m stuck with a free WordPress account and would love to move it to my own server. How do we do this?
Darren
April 9, 2008
Onya Scott! Well done for taking a very practical approach to using your skills to assist those with the gift of preaching to help get the word out!
ECC
April 9, 2008
Great idea Scott. However, I would rather you teach me how to fish than to fish for me. Do you happen to have instructions you could share with me? I am willing to learn…
robert
April 9, 2008
i’ve already installed my own but i have to say this is a great idea.
Nick
April 10, 2008
Awesome concept! I use WordPress all of the time (for my freelance business) and just got back from a youth missions trip (I’m the youth missions pastor) and blogged with my iphone to Facebook. For my next two trips this summer I hope to blog to a dedicated WordPress account just for trips.
Great idea and it’s much needed!
Icelander
April 11, 2008
It will be quite interesting when pastors start getting pornographic comment spam.
Be sure to install filters and a CAPTCHA!
Brad
April 11, 2008
Scott,
Great idea. I should have thought of this sooner … nice that you beat me to the chase.
Anyways, I would like to help out and if anyone has requests that Scott cannot fill, contact me via my site. Also, if you are interested in what hosting options are out there – I will do like Scott and give you some recommendations – and not just myself .. Afterall, this is for ministry and not business.
Blessings,
Brad
Heath
April 22, 2008
Scott,
I would like for you to help me set this up if possible. Can you email me at trailerclub@msn.com so we can begin?
Heath
Jonathan Woodard
May 12, 2008
SiteGround.com GIVES FREE WORDPRESS INSTALLS.
It also gives 24/7 online service, and gives a better price on server space ($6/mo for 75GB instead of the 1 GB that Scott offers*) It also lets you host up to 6 websites on that plentiful server space, and gives you a free domain name if you didn’t have one.
With siteground, it took less than an hour.
Scott was good to bring WordPress to the forefront. He told me he was not aware that Siteground installs WordPress.
*Scott’s service would be helpful for the church who wants to install a WP account on a cheaper host than siteground, such as those listed at http://www.100best-free-web-space.com/
Jonathan Woodard
May 12, 2008
http://www.siteground.com offers free WordPress installs if you buy server space from them.
Scott’s service would be helpful for the church who wants to install a WP account on a cheaper host than siteground, such as those listed at http://www.100best-free-web-space.com/
Matt Larson
June 2, 2008
Thanks for serving Scott – if you upload (or turn them on to the) automatic wordpress update plugin, they can zip through the frequent updates the community cranks out.
Matt Larson
June 2, 2008
@ECC – google “5 minute wordpress install” for directions.
THE MOLITOR
May 1, 2009
Great post! I recently designed a WordPress Church Theme. You can check it out on Theme Forest
free church website templates
August 17, 2009
I think churches could always use free things! I tip my hat to you sir!
Rocco Sifredi
September 5, 2009
if you look for another good webhosting that you can host you’r blog, you can write me an e-mail and i will give you a very fast and reliable webhosting package… have you any newsletter that i can get?
thanks for an answer
rocco
church website design
November 20, 2009
Church blogs can be great for people who want to know what is on the mind of the pastor. He may have so much more to post there than he said in his sermon.
Alec Tate
July 9, 2012
Are you still doing this? It has been four years since you postd this and I never knew. Can you still help me build a blog site for my pastor?