Django Church is an open source content management system, designed with small Church websites in mind…
If you have an "IT guy" at your Church, you can download and use Django Church for free!
There are über-powerful systems out there, but they cost too much, and do more than you need. Django Church does all the things a small Church website requires, without bells and whistles you'll never use.
Django Church gives you some great tools to manage your site simply, easily and without hassle. By the way, it's mobile too!
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Manage pages and content effortlessly. Create the structure that fits your congregation and updated it week-by-week or minute-by-minute if you really want to!
Django Church's easy events tool lets you structure regular events, along-side one-offs. It's like your news letter, online!
So, why should I use Django Church?
We all know that design is important. You may not be selling things online, but your website still needs to present an image to the world that reflects your Church's values and aspirations. Django Church comes a number of professionally designed and built templates for you to choose from - each with a character of its own and a colour palette to match. And because Django Church is open source, with the right tools and skills, you could build your own template.
We can't all be Hillsongs, HTB or St Paul's - and we wouldn't want to be. They are much bigger Churches than most, and their needs are quite different. Most Churches don't need ticket purchasing systems, ecommerce, membership areas, polling and rota management tools. But when you buy into many other Church-focused website systems, there they all are; complicating things and getting in the way. And you'll always have that sneaking suspicion you're paying for something you're not using.
Direct experience has taught us that most small Church websites only need a handful of key features. But if you need a little more, Django Church is designed to make bolting in new features and apps super-easy. What's more, because it's open source, a new feature developed by one Church can be shared with the whole community and added to another's site with little effort.
Being able to control and manage the content presented through your website is incredibly importent. Django Church's suite of powerful tools put you in the driving-seat. There's no charges for changes, because you can make the changes yourself without need for a developer to do them for you.
The current feature-list includes...
Whether you have a site that needs to be updated once a quarter or once an hour, Django Church enables you.
Django Church is non-denominational, and has been developed in association with and funded by The Church of England - Birmingham to enable the future development of small Church websites in a more cost-effective and collaberative way. But, because of its open source nature, anyone from any Church, anywhere in the world can download and use the Django Church code, free of charge.
No hosting solution of your own? Django Church can be deployed to Heroku quickly and easily.
Our developer community is your one-stop shop for information on setting up and maintaining your site.
Django Church is an open-source framework
in association with The Church of England - Birmingham
