We worked to include the features that you expect out of a great church website–podcasting, staff section, live video, service times and map widget plus a Facebook page template to bring your website into your Facebook page. For your messages we’ve added the ability to group them by series since many churches often use message series. You can also add speakers so that each speaker has an archive of their messages.

Take a look around at the Authentic demo and when you’re ready, you can learn more and purchase it on the theme page.

Your portfolio is displayed in a unique parallax slider that will catch potential client’s attention. It is easily organized and updated using a portfolio section created using WordPress’s custom post type feature.

There is a “rave” section where you can share testimonials from your customers including pictures of them. Also included are custom widgets, six built in styles and a style editor so you can easily tailor the appearance of the site to suite your needs.

I so fond of this theme, I’m even using it on my own portfolio site now. I believe it will work well you for you too. So what are you waiting for? Check out the full release details, the demo and buy Curator today!

1. Visit Cool Handle and sign up for hosting
2. Select the hosting plan that fits your needs
3. Use code organizedthemes when you make your purchase
4. Send a copy of your confirmation email to hosting@organizedthemes.com
5. Indicate in your email what theme you’d like
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There are a couple of conditions on this deal: it is only valid for new Cool Handle customers and you must use the “organizedthemes” code when you sign up.

Act quickly as this deal expires on December 21, 2011!

Foundation Theme | An Excellent Theme For Your Non-Profit

Key Features

• Fund raising tools including a home page donation bar with customizable progress bar and a donation widget
• MailChimp integration featuring a widget and optional home page sign up bar
• Staff section to easily introduce your staff via your website
• Built-in press release template
• Easy to use SEO baked in
• Custom widgets for Facebook, featured video, donations, and newsletter
• Slideshow gallery post type
• Lots more!

You can see the full release details here and check out the demo. When you’re ready you can buy the Foundation theme for $45.

Newsletter Bar

Donation Bar

Ventana Theme

Here’s a bit of what you’ll get with Ventana:

• Home page slideshow with option to use a featured video
• Sidebar image feature with matching widget. Have a different image from your collection display on every page refresh with optional links. It’s great for keeping your pages fresh without changing your content.
• Optional Facebook integration. Use Facebook comments and include a like box widget
• There are four sidebars and a total of six custom widgets for you to use

To learn more about Ventana, visit the theme release page, check out the demo and purchase Ventana today for $30.

<?php if (is_home()) { ?>
     <h1></h1>
<?php }  else { ?>
     <p></p>
<?php } ?>

It’s that easy and will help better organize your content so search engines will best know what’s important in your site. Do you have any SEO coding tips you like to use with WordPress? Share them with us in the comments.

The home page comes with a large image slide show, plus a features row where you can show off any specials you’re running or the best of your menu. Below that, there is plenty of room for widgets so you can use your homepage any way you’d like to. To help set things up, I’ve included a nice contact widget that has room for your hours of operation, address, phone/email address as well as a map.

Bottega Theme - Restaurant WordPress Theme

There is a easy to use menu page template where you can easily display your menu items with optional thumbnails and prices. You can even define the categories so your not stuck with how I think your menu should be set up. There’s even space to introduce your menu and provide a large header image to support it all.

To help you in the social media realm, I’ve included Facebook integration by the way of a like box and comments. Your customers can see which of their Facebook friends “like” you as well as post comments to your site and their profiles at the same time.

Bottega is cross-browser tested, includes six built in styles, is designed for WordPress 3.0 and includes support straight from the theme author. It’s available now for only $30. Check out the demo and when you’re ready, you can buy it here.

The large header can be great for sites that want to use powerful imagery, but in this case, I didn’t want people to be stuck with only one image to use across the site. I added the ability to have a slideshow as well as use featured images in the header on pages or posts. That way you can easily make the pages on your site unique and further communicate your message.

I also created a donation bar which allows you to easily set a fund-raising goal, show your progress toward that goal and also take up donations via PayPal. It’s completely optional so you can use it all the time, some of the time or never. The choice is yours and all of the details are easily taken care of in the theme options page.

The homepage is fully widgetized allowing you to place any content you’d like to right on the front page. I’ve included several custom widgets for featured posts, video, newsletter sign up and twitter to help you make your site.

Agency is cross-browser tested, includes six built in styles, is designed for WordPress 3.0 and includes support straight from the theme author. It’s available now for only $30. Check out the demo and when you’re ready, you can buy it here.

First we need to set up our button with PayPal. You can do this by going to your PayPal account and selecting merchant services as in the picture above or you can use the code below as a template for your button. This code is set to work around your PayPal email address which can have its advantages if you are unable to use the protected version for some reason or another. I’m including this code in a fund-raising section of a new theme I’m developing for non-profits called Agency.

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">

	<input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_xclick" />
	<input name="business" type="hidden" value="me@myemail.com" />
	<input name="return" type="hidden" value="n=http://www.yoursite.com/registration-paid" />
	<input name="item_name" type="hidden" value="Registration Fee" />
	<input name="amount" type="hidden" value="20" /> 

	<a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=me@myemail.com&currency_code=USD&amount=20&return=http://www.yoursite.com/registration-paid&item_name=Registration+Fee" target="paypal">Pay and register here.

</form>

Here’s a quick run down of what to change in the code. In the second input line, use your email address that is registered with PayPal. The third input line has a very important field, the return URL after someone has completed payment. This is where we will place our registration form. The Fourth input has the name of the item that will be displayed at PayPal.com when someone is paying. The last one is the amount that they will be charged. The last bit of the form is a link that also contains copies of these elements that we’re sending to PayPal.

Once you have your button created, then you will need to insert it into the page or post where you want people to start the registration process. Since all they will see is a text link, you can place this just about anywhere. You could easily include it into a text widget so it could be on every page or post in your site with minimal effort.

Now that your payment link is set, you need to create the page or post where the registration form will go. First we create a new form in Gravity Forms using their visual editor to quickly add the fields we need like name, address, phone number, email address plus anything we need for the registration like a spot for special requests or comments. Once we have the form set up, we go to the page or post where we’d like to use this form and insert it there. Once thing we will want to take care of is to make the URL is not easily guessed. We don’t want people accessing this page or post without first going through PayPal. You can change the “slug” or the end of the URL by clicking just below the title of any WordPress page or post and entering pretty much anything you want. You can shoot for a series of letters and numbers to make it difficult to randomly guess. Just make sure you place this URL into your purchase button and you’ll be set.

So now we have a purchase link that when clicked, takes someone registering to PayPal to pay for the event, and upon successfully paying, they are returned to our registration form where we can collect their information. It’s that easy. I would suggest checking the registrations against the collected payments just to make sure no one slipped through without paying, but you should be pretty secure.

If you’ve found any helpful methods to use your contact form, share them with us in the comments.

All you have to do is submit your site here by July 30 to be considered for the Theme Package.

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