Marketing

Connect Ghost to ConvertKit

A tutorial for connecting your Ghost site to ConvertKit. Uses Javascript and Cloudflare Workers. Beginner friendly and code provided.

Marketing

3 Websites To Find High-Quality Free Stock Photos (Outside of Unsplash)

Not just Unsplash. 3 high-quality free stock photo sites that you can use for your church's social media and graphic design.

Analytics

Why We Use Plausible Analytics

When most people think of web analytics, they first think of Google Analytics, and that's probably because Google Analytics can be found on over 84% of sites. There are a few reasons for that. The biggest reason likely being because it's free. Google Analytics is easy to add to a

Church Resources

The Ultimate Church Resource List

There are a ton of church media and resource companies. It seems like new ones pop up every day. Which ones are worth subscribing to and which ones should be passed up? Well, glad you asked. In this post, we have compiled the Ultimate Church Resource List including both free

Ghost

New Look, New Site

The Church Factory is going through some changes. Same owner, same writer but instead of being based on WordPress, we're moving to Ghost. Ghost is a CMS designed for sites like ours. Meaning it's primarily designed for writing and membership sites. Our goal moving forward will be to get you

Best NDI converter

What Is NDI and How Can It Help Me?

What Is NDI? NDI (Network Device Interface) was first revealed in September 2015 by NewTek, the makers of Tricasters, it has grown from being what some called a gimmick or toy to a standard recognized and used by even the largest of productions. History of NDI I first heard about

Apple

Apple's New M1 Chip: Should You Preorder?

So, what’s the catch? For months now, I’ve heard how much better the new Apple Silicon will be. While a little skeptical, I assumed it would be a significant improvement considering how much hype has been built around it. It turns out it’s not

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8 Church WordPress Plugins To Improve Your Site

So many plugins… If you’ve used WordPress for any length of time, you probably know that the most prominent feature of WordPress is its plugin library. WordPress has thousands of plugins. There’s a plugin for nearly anything you can imagine (even one that displays Good

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WordPress Page Builders: The Complete Guide 2020 Style

How To Find The Best WordPress Page Builder To the new WordPress user, it can be confusing to begin designing a website because of the limited design options in stock WordPress. It can be easy to discount WordPress as a not as good as other options going only off the

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Coronavirus: It's Okay To Not Be Perfect

The narrative in many many Facebook groups concerning streaming has been like this: “My stream might not work if you stream so you shouldn’t do it because I have a higher production quality than you do.” 🤦‍♂️ “If you can’t do it perfect

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Preparing for Coronavirus: Streaming and Your Church

Updated: April 1, 2021 Preparing for Coronavirus: Streaming and Your Church In the midst of the novel Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic, commonly called Coronavirus, many governments, churches, and individuals have decided to cancel and even ban large group meetings. Many churches are underprepared and do not

ATEM

$6000 Church Live Streaming Setup

Many people are frequently asking what gear they need to start live streaming their church services. They usually receive answers ranging from don’t stream at all to you need to spend $100k+ to start. In this gear list, we are going to cover the best live streaming setup

Christian

How To Price Your Services As A Freelancer

Design

The Difference Between WordPress.org and WordPress.com

Often times when first starting out it is difficult to tell the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com. WordPress.com vs WordPress.org One main difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org is who is hosting your website. With WordPress.org, YOU host your own blog or website

App Review

NDI App Review

NDI is one of the fastest-growing, most innovative technologies in the broadcast industry. NDI is becoming the new standard in broadcast productions, and if you have not started using it in your church, you are missing out! Read More Articles About NDI Uses For The App Have you ever wanted

Connect

Using Web Captioner With vMix

In a previous post, we talked about Web Captioner basics and gave a short description of what Web Captioner is and how to use it. You can read that post here.   So a lot of our readers have begun to look into Web Captioner since our last post and

Children

ProPresenter Nursery Number Setup 2020 Update

2020 Update: This post was written for ProPresenter 6. A ProPresenter 7 Update Is Coming Soon Does your church have a nursery or children’s department? If so you would no doubt benefit from being able to “notify” parents as needed without someone having to text

Chat

How To Add Facebook Chat To Your Church's Website

The definitive guide for adding the Facebook Messenger Chat Plugin to your church's WordPress, The Church Co, Squarespace, or Webflow website.

Chris Tomlin

Hello Good Good Father

Hello Good Good Father WordPress PluginThis is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in a few words sung most famously by Chris Tomlin.I recently made a plugin called Hello Good Good Father that is a fork from Hello Dolly

Facebook Pixel

How To Add Facebook Pixel To Your Wordpress Site

Step 1: Getting Your Pixel Ready The first step to adding a Pixel to your site is creating it in the Facebook Ads Manager. After creation your pixel you will need to install it on your site. When you click “Set up Pixel” the following view will pop

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Introduction To Web Captioner

What is Web Captioner? How can it help me? All this and more in this post entitled Introduction To Web Captioner!   Backstory According to the creator of Web Captioner “In early 2017, a deaf person started attending weekly services at my church in northern Illinois in the United

Marketing

Top 5 Reasons Churches Close In 2018

80% Of New Churches Fail 7,000 Churches Close A Year 65% Of Churches Are Not Growing That’s not good. Here are a few reasons why churches are closing and tips to recognize and avoid them…   #5 Leadership It seems that the bad people always

Future

Never Build A Stage Box Without This In 2021

We all know to put extra power outlets, plenty of XLR, and even maybe SDI but what else? Can you guess what it is? Here’s a hint: It can be used to transmit DMX, Audio, Video, Communications, and more! Yep, it’s Cat6! Be sure to put cat6 anywhere

Apps

5 Reasons Your Church Needs An App

#5 Inform MembersA major struggle in the modern day church is informing its own members as to what is going on. How many times have you been asked when is the (fill in the blank) or what is the deadline for (fill in the blank). With an app, you can

"Thou Shalt Not Steal"

"It's just a picture. It's not like I'm charing admission."An issue that many Christian leaders don’t seem to realize or care about is that by distributing copyrighted material you are breaking the law. Intellectual property theft is still theft. You are not exempt from the law because you