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April 8, 2008
Free Wordpress Blog Installs for Church Leaders
(Filed under: Web Sites)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
Posted by Joshua Cody at April 8, 2008 7:21 AM
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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?
Posted by: DChapman at April 8, 2008 3:42 PM
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!
Posted by: Darren at April 9, 2008 7:21 AM
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...
Posted by: ECC at April 9, 2008 11:35 AM
i've already installed my own but i have to say this is a great idea.
Posted by: robert at April 9, 2008 5:17 PM
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!
Posted by: Nick at April 10, 2008 12:05 PM
It will be quite interesting when pastors start getting pornographic comment spam.
Be sure to install filters and a CAPTCHA!
Posted by: Icelander at April 11, 2008 6:50 AM
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
Posted by: Brad at April 11, 2008 8:03 AM
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
Posted by: Heath at April 22, 2008 11:54 AM
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/
Posted by: Jonathan Woodard at May 12, 2008 4:21 PM
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/
Posted by: Jonathan Woodard at May 12, 2008 4:24 PM
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.
Posted by: Matt Larson at June 2, 2008 12:29 PM
@ECC - google "5 minute wordpress install" for directions.
Posted by: Matt Larson at June 2, 2008 12:44 PM
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