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WordPress Has Roots In Ministry

Posted by John Saddington on Feb 17, 2009

wordpressDid you know that?

I’ve heard this rumor before among a number of different bloggers, but this interview is proof-positive that WordPress started because of a Ministry need:

You mentioned that part of WordPress began as a project you were involved in with a church. Could you explain that a bit?

Sure, the site is still up: http://www.unityhouston.org/

You can notice some WordPressy touches there, especially in the URLs. It used some code from what I was calling ContentPress at the time, but it became obvious that I was duplicating a lot of WP functionality and could implement it more elegantly within WP and it influenced Pages feature.

Isn’t that cool?

I’m telling you, WordPress is perfect for much of your ministry needs, not just blogging. Word up!

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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11 Responses to “WordPress Has Roots In Ministry”

  1. Nathan
    Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 3:17 am

    Do you know of several church sites using WordPress that I could use as an example to convince the "old dudes"?

    Reply
  2. Daniel Pedersen
    Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 4:59 am

    We're using WordPress: http://www.wolcf.org/

    Reply
  3. Phillip Gibb
    Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 6:17 am

    very cool fact

    Reply
  4. human3rror
    Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 11:03 am

    i thought so…~!

    Reply
  5. human3rror
    Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 11:03 am

    AWESOME~! thanks for sharing~!

    Reply
  6. Ryan Imel
    Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    Thanks for linking over to my site! I thought that piece was particularly interesting too, glad you picked up on it.

    Reply
  7. human3rror
    Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    Cool ryan! thanks so much!

    Reply
  8. jutta
    Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 5:10 am

    Cool!

    Reply

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