On behalf of our entire team at OurChurch.Com, I am excited to announce the launch of our new WP-EZ Website Builder.
It’s WordPress made easy!
Over the last month we’ve been sharing details about WP-EZ a little bit at a time. Now, WP-EZ is available for you to use, and I want to give you…
The Top 4 Reasons You Will Love the WP-EZ Website Builder!
(Plus other details about the launch below)
1) It Uses WordPress
WordPress is the most popular website platform in the world, so you can be sure it’s powerful and versatile to meet the needs of all kinds of organizations. If you want to know more about the benefits of WordPress, check out the Why WordPress Is A Great Website Platform For You! series Mark has been publishing every Monday. He’s up to Part 9 and still going strong!
Admittedly, WordPress can be complicated and time-consuming to set-up and maintain. WP-EZ harnesses the power of WordPress, and takes care of the set-up and maintenance making it easy for anyone to create and maintain a great website!
2) Great-Looking, Mobile-Friendly Themes
There are tens of thousands of WordPress themes available online. That’s a great benefit, but it can also be very overwhelming. Who has time to search through all these themes, test them to make sure they are secure, and work well on all devices?
The WP-EZ Website Builder includes dozens of themes that look great and have been thoroughly tested for mobile-friendliness. These themes have been designed to provide a variety of styles and color palettes to give your website a modern, professional look. You can also customize all of the themes with your own logo, images and colors.
3) Powerful Website Features
There are also tens of thousands of WordPress plugins available online that provide almost every function imaginable. But many plugins have security vulnerabilities, are not well supported by their developers and have other flaws. The typical website includes 10-30 plugins. Who has time to find, install and test all these plugins and make sure they work on all devices?
The WP-EZ Website Builder includes a ton of advanced features you want on your website, including a blog, contact form, calendar, Facebook Fanbox, newsletter, PayPal shopping cart, photo gallery and more. They’ve all been thoroughly tested to make sure they are secure and mobile-friendly.
4) No Security or Update Worries
Because WordPress is so popular, it’s a favorite target of hackers. While WordPress itself rarely has security issues, vulnerabilities in plugins and themes are discovered all the time. They key is to make updates as soon as they become available. But who has time to login to their website on a daily basis to check for updates and make sure its secure?
With WP-EZ, we make daily security checks and make immediate updates when a security update is needed. This saves you time and gives you peace of mind so you can focus on other needs of your church, school, nonprofit or business.
Available for New Sites Only
Right now, WP-EZ is available for new sites only. If you order a Gold, Silver, Bronze or Free site now, you can immediately build your website with WP-EZ.
NE1 Migration Tool Coming Soon
If you currently have a website built with our NE1 Website Builder, don’t worry, we are developing and testing a migration tool that will copy your NE1 website into WP-EZ. The migration tool should be available in April. In the mean time, if you want to build a free site just to get a look under the hood of WP-EZ you are welcome to do that.
Beta Testers Wanted
We are looking for a limited number of people to put WP-EZ through the ringer and give us feedback. If you are interested in doing that, please post a comment with your name, website address and email address. Or contact us at support (at) ourchurch (dot) com
Discuss
- Which of these 4 reasons resonates with you most? Why?
Co-founder & CEO, OurChurch.Com
Paul has been the CEO of OurChurch.Com since its founding in 1996, combining his passion for faith and technology to lead the organization.
An accomplished writer, Paul has authored over 2,000 articles on faith and technology, featured on platforms like ChurchLeaders.com, The JoyFM, and his personal blog, LiveIntentionally.org.
Beyond his professional achievements, Paul serves as an elder at Journey Community Church and is deeply engaged in his community through his involvement with the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranch and the Safety Harbor Chamber of Commerce. He is a contributing author of the book Outspoken! Conversations on Church Communication.
21 Comments
The reasons for using WP-EZ website builder seem to be very interesting to me. I’m eagerly waiting to use and work with WP-EZ website builder as I’m using new sites. I believe I’ll like it. Thank you for sharing such a useful information and looking forward for you next update.
I have a couple gripes. When ourchurch registered my domain name, it did not give me the option to register “privately”. My personal information became available to anyone on the web who knows what WHOIS is. I have been getting calls, text messages, and emails from web developers all over the world. Also, it seems like there are too many underlying factors that we can’t see or control in wp-ez. I especially have trouble editing the theme for the header and navigation. Sometimes they overlap. If I add an image in a logo, the image can cover the menus and even part of the pages themselves. It shouldn’t be this hard. wp-ez is still giving us access to more than it should. Does this not work properly on Firefox? The Preview doesn’t always look the same as the page in Firefox. I am trying hard to be patient. But I’m not new to this sort of thing and didn’t expects the hassles.
Hi Jeff, thanks for letting us know about the issues you’re experiencing. I am going to create a help desk ticket for you so our support team can help you with these things.
Thank you Paul. Your support team did contact me and provided some insight into these issues. Jeff
Glad to hear that Jeff. We appreciate your feedback and participating in the discussion here. If there’s anything else we can do to help you live out your mission online, please let us know.