Blogging Ministry

I found this link @ Church Communications Pro. They have provided a number of free video tutorials for those starting out and/or using the WordPress blogging platform. They offer a ton of valuable and essential information:

1. The Basics in Using WordPress

2. How to install WordPress

3. How to customize a theme

4. 7 Steps to Optimizing WordPress

5. ….and much more…

They also offer a number WordPress themes, some are free, along with a number of impressive offerings at a minimal cost.          *Top

By Lisa Sabin-Wilson (Hoboken,NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2008, 384 pages)

Brand new for 2008, an essential book for those using WordPress in publishing a blog. The writer introduces one to the basic WordPress blogging program. Then follows with three major sections, first covering the Wordpress hosted service, next how to set up a ’self-hosted’ blog with the WordPress.org program, and finally, a section covering the WordPress MU program used in setting up and hosting entire blogging communities.

This is a great book for all those starting out with WordPress and explains in  detail everything one needs to know to properly administer and publish on a blog using the program. For those who have been around a while, it outlines procedures for adding plugins and widgets to a WordPress site.

Then, for the more advanced blogger, the book gives tips and procedures for making a blog unique and shows how to design your own Template. In easy to understand fashion, the writer presents all the basic code needed to make changes in your present template and the necessary info. and know how needed in setting up a new one.

Wordpress For Dummies joins WordPress Complete as the most up to date quintessential works for those using WordPress blogging programs.            *Top

"A comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to set up, customize, and market your blog using WordPress"

By Hasin Hayder (Birmingham, UK: Packt Pub. Ltd., 2006, 289 pages)

This really is the most ‘complete’ book on the WordPress blogging platform. It has chapters on all the elementary stuff for beginners, how to get started and how to use all the basic aspects of the program. It also offers plenty to keep those that have been around a while busy.

<–Read the Rest @ my BOOK Review Blog–> *Top

by Maria Langer and Miraz Jordan, (Berkeley: Peachpit Press, 2006, 294 pgs)

A great book for Wordpress users. The best current resource out there for everything WordPress.  See the review at my WordPress.com site.            *Top

Found on the eMinistryNotes blog maintained by “maintained by a few full-time staff members of Campus Crusade for Christ, International.” The video is a teaching by Rob Williams: “a tutorial for how to setup and use WordPress.com in the context of having a ministry website as part of an overall communication plan.”             *Top

Wow! Another great post by Rob, three in a row. A comparison of Blogger and WordPress.com. I found this link embedded in the last teaching by Rob Williams. A lot better than I could have done. Also see my Blogger site and my WordPress.com blog for visual comparison.  Then read my evaluations of each, posted as the first article on each blog.                *Top

by Brad Hill (Indianapolis, Indiana: Wiley Publishing. Inc., 2006, 368 pgs.) Chapter 10: pg. 189-224.

See my review of chapter 10 which helps you get started with a WordPress blogging program.  It is posted at my WordPress.com site.               *Top

I took a look at WordPress.com as a potential host and platform for starting a blogging ministry. In order to understand how it works, I set up a new website. It took me only 1hr 20 minutes to set it up as it now is. Actually I could have done it faster since all of my blogs use WordPress and I am familiar with the program.
Then I posted an article on the new site, an evaluation of Wordpress.com as a blogging host. Take a look, it looks pretty sharp for a ‘free’ site.               *Top