Churches - Web Design
A custom WordPress website built for the specific demands of faith communities: online giving, an organized sermon library, a clear newcomer pathway, accessible design, and an events calendar that stays current. We build it around how your community actually uses it, not a generic church template.
Overview
Seven things every church site needs. We build all of them in from day one.
Service times, location, parking, and what to expect, all accessible within seconds of arriving on your homepage. A dedicated "I'm New" or "Plan a Visit" page removes the friction that turns curious visitors into no-shows.
Donors should be able to give directly on your site without being redirected to a third-party page. Embedded giving forms from Tithe.ly, Pushpay, or Subsplash keep the donor in your environment and reduce drop-off on giving pages.
Sermon content is often the first thing new visitors consume to understand your community. A well-structured archive, filterable by series, speaker, topic, or date, makes it easy to engage and easy for search engines to surface.
More than 63% of church website traffic comes from mobile devices, including congregation members checking the giving form or event schedule during services. Every element of the site has to work on a phone, not just render responsively.
An events page that syncs with Planning Center means your team doesn't maintain two systems. Events stay current without manual double-entry, and your community can register directly from the website.
Pastoral inquiry, prayer requests, and volunteer interest forms need to be simple, private, and reliably routed to the right staff member. We use Gravity Forms to build forms that are accessible and functional, not generic contact widgets.
Alt text, keyboard navigation, sufficient color contrast, and captions on sermon video embeds. Accessibility is built into every site we launch, not added as a patch after the fact.
Process
Six stages from kickoff to launch. Every one built around how faith communities actually use their site.
We start by understanding your community: the traditions you observe, the audiences you serve (longtime members, newcomers, online viewers), the giving platforms and management tools already in use, and your goals for the website. This conversation drives every decision that follows.
Before any design work begins, we map the site structure: the newcomer pathway, sermon archive hierarchy, campus pages for multi-campus organizations, giving flow, and ministry pages. We get alignment on structure before investing in visual design.
We design a site that reflects your community's identity, not a generic church template. Typography, color, imagery, and layout all reflect who you are, and every design is built for mobile performance from the start, not adapted from a desktop layout.
We build the site in WordPress and connect the integrations your community depends on: your giving platform, Planning Center or Breeze, sermon video embeds, podcast feeds, Mailchimp, and Gravity Forms. We test every integration before the site touches your congregation.
Before launch, every site runs through our 75+ step quality audit. This includes an accessibility review for WCAG 2.1 compliance: alt text, keyboard navigation, color contrast, form labeling, and video caption requirements.
We launch the site and walk your team through managing content: sermon uploads, event edits, ministry page updates. We don't disappear at launch. Our maintenance plans keep the same team engaged after the site goes live.
The platforms your community actually runs on. We connect every site we build to the tools your team already uses.
Online giving
We embed giving forms directly in your site, supporting one-time gifts, recurring giving, fund designation, and text-to-give. Donors stay on your site throughout the entire process.
Church management
We connect events, groups, giving, and check-in data to your WordPress site so your team manages one system instead of two. Event calendars pull live from Planning Center.
Live streaming
We configure live stream embeds that load fast, display consistently on mobile, and don't degrade the rest of the page's performance during a service.
Sermon publishing
Seriously Simple Podcasting and PowerPress distribute sermon audio to Spotify and Apple Podcasts directly from your site. Easy Digital Downloads handles sermon recordings and study guide sales.
Forms & email
Prayer requests, visitor connection cards, and volunteer interest forms with complex routing and conditional logic that generic contact widgets can't match.
Events
For churches running larger community events or ticketed outreach programs, we embed event listings and registration flows directly in your WordPress events pages.
Pricing
Every project's scoped after a free strategy call. These are real ranges from the church websites we've built, not minimums designed to get you in the door.
Core church website
$2,000-$5,000
One-time build
Full-featured build
$5,000-$8,000
One-time build
Multi-campus / complex
$8,000-$12,000
Scoped individually
Most church websites we build land in the $2,000-$12,000 range. Where a project lands depends on your newcomer pathway complexity, giving and ChMS integrations, sermon archive size, and whether you're a single campus or multiple locations.
Send us your project and we'll scope it straight -- no pushy sales.
Client work
See more of our work on the church industry overview or browse the full portfolio.
Deeper reads pulled from our blog, all written with churches in mind.
Good to know
Most church websites run $2,000 to $12,000. That covers a custom WordPress design with a newcomer pathway, embedded online giving, sermon archive, events calendar, and accessible forms. Multi-campus builds or sites with deep ChMS integrations are scoped individually and typically start above $15,000. We give you a clear, itemized estimate after our initial strategy call, no surprises.
Yes. We handle migrations from proprietary church website builders, older WordPress installs, and other CMS platforms. We bring over your content, maintain your URL structure where possible, and rebuild integrations like giving forms and sermon archives correctly in the new environment. Migrations are scoped individually based on the size and complexity of your existing site.
Most church website builds run 6 to 10 weeks from kickoff to launch. The main variable is content readiness: sermon library organization, photography, ministry page copy, and giving platform credentials. We'll walk through a realistic timeline in the strategy call and set milestones that work for your team's capacity.
Yes. Our $5,000 starting range is designed for smaller congregations that need a real website, not a template with a giving button dropped in. We scope projects to what you actually need. If a simpler build gets you there, we'll tell you that. We'd rather build something you can use and maintain than oversell a complex project to a small team.
Yes. WordPress is built for non-developers to manage. We walk your team through adding sermon content, editing event pages, updating ministry information, and managing giving page content, and we provide documentation specific to your site. If you'd rather not manage updates yourself, our maintenance plans include content update support so you can send us changes and we'll handle them. Learn more about WordPress maintenance for churches.
Still have questions? We're happy to answer them, let's connect.
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