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<\/a>Yesterday I talked about the need for structure and the difference between dynamic and static pages.\u00a0 Static are the ones that don’t change and dynamic are the ones that do.\u00a0 Today I’m going to focus a bit on dynamic pages since this is generally what interests church website visitors.<\/p>\nThe easiest way of building dynamic pages is to include a blog (like this one) into your website.\u00a0 Blogs allow you to write on any topic easily and quickly.\u00a0 They can be long pages 1000+ words or short “thought for the day” 200 word pages.\u00a0 What’s even better is that they can be both.\u00a0 You can publish a short post one day and a long the next.\u00a0 Or a short post in the morning and then a longer post later in the day.\u00a0 Both are good and both keep content flowing to your visitors.<\/p>\n
I do have a few thoughts for you about blogs.\u00a0 Firstly you should use WordPress. It is the major blogging platform.\u00a0 It has everything you’ll ever need for a church website and you’ll be in good company.\u00a0 The top blogs in the world generally use WordPress, in fact the last time I looked it was over 50% of them!\u00a0 That’s a lot of good company.\u00a0 That said don’t think WordPress can run your entire site.\u00a0 Although you might read articles that suggest this is the way to go – it isn’t.\u00a0 You need to mix WordPress into your website making it part of the natural flow.\u00a0 There are all sort of reasons for this which I’ll be happy to tell you if you drop me a line or ask in the comments section but I don’t want to go to far off topic here \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
After you’ve got the right blogging platform you need to think about who will write the blog, when they will write it and how often they’ll add a new post.\u00a0 Often in churches the minister or church leader writes a weekly blog which is a great start.\u00a0 However there are plenty of other things that you can write a blog on.\u00a0 A good example is to have a blog on events.\u00a0 This might not be updated as often but nevertheless will be really interesting to visitors.\u00a0 Imagine if you have an outreach event, perhaps a bouncy castle, some face painting, a few stalls and so on.\u00a0 Let’s assume you’ve taken a few photos.\u00a0 Why not write a short article about how great the day was and post it with a few photos to the blog?\u00a0 You can tell the people who come to the event that you’ll be featuring it on your website if they’d like to have a look.<\/p>\n
My point about the blog is simple, have a few authors and have them write about different things.\u00a0 By doing this you’ll generate diverse and interesting content that’ll engage your visitors and hopefully encourage them to come back and read some more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Visitors like dynamic content.\u00a0 They want stuff that changes, photos, text, video.\u00a0 They want surveys, polls, free giveaways and more.\u00a0 Visitors are demanding and if you don’t satisfy their appetite for content they’ll drop you and look else where.\u00a0 Running a website can be brutal! Yesterday I talked about the need for structure and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,22],"tags":[27,13,26,14,28,11,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}