Building Your Website
The UUA WordPress Theme for Congregations help display effective content on your congregation’s site using widgets and plugins that keep the homepage up to date, organize your staff listings, and display lists of future and past worship services.
But what about the actual content of the pages? You can download sample text for specific pages, available with the download from the demo site.
Whether you start with the content of your existing website or the sample content, you need to build and maintain your pages:
- Consider adding content from the UUA WordPress theme demo site
- Design the menus for your site, based on the recommended menu structure
- Follow this specific page-by-page guidance for each section of the site
How to Add Specific Kinds of Content
- Add news posts by clicking Posts > Add New in your Dashboard
- Add event pages by clicking Events > Add Event in your Dashboard
- Add Sunday service information for past and future Sundays by creating services pages, following these directions for the UUA Services plugin
- Add ministers and staff by creating a staff page for each one by clicking Staff > Add New in your Dashboard
- Add testimonials (member stories about what your congregation means to them) by clicking Testimonials > Add New from the Dashboard.
In This Section
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Recommended Menu Structure and Pages for Congregational WebsitesFrom Unbranded
Along with the UUA WordPress Theme, the UUA Outreach Team developed a recommended structure for the site’s content, its “information architecture.” Through a series of user tests with Optimal Workshop’s Treejack tool, we organized the content of the site into sections and subsections that…
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Suggested Image List for Congregational WebsitesFrom Unbranded
Here is a list of images we recommend you gather to upload to your congregational site.
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Adapting the Downloaded Website Content for Your CongregationFrom Unbranded
If you plan to use the theme’s sample content, your site will be more findable in Google searches if you personalize it.
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Making Website Content AccessibleFrom Unbranded
The UUA Theme for Congregations is built with a high degree of accessibility in mind. However, an accessible site depends on maintaining accessible practices for all of the content you add.
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Search Engine Optimization for Your Website: a Brief GuideFrom LeaderLab
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is about making sure your pages are well-formed: for the search engines like Googleemploying devious techniques will hurt you in the long run. Review “10 Google Dont’s” for some sure-fired ways to hurt your search ranking….
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Writing Strong Content for Your Congregational WebsiteFrom Unbranded
How do we write in ways that best represent the bold, compassionate, reverent, and inclusive faith we share? Whether creating a website, brochure, or newsletter, the words we choose send a signal about who we are, what we do, and why it matters. Words have the power to turn website visitors into…
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Using Images Well on Your Congregational WebsiteFrom Unbranded
Here is advice about displaying your congregational logo and photos on your website. Your Logo The UUA WordPress Theme is set up to accommodate your own congregation’s logo or the UUA logo, which congregations are free to use….
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Sources for Unitarian Universalist Images
Pictures of people really make your congregational site come alive — ideally, members of your own congregation. Your Own Congregation When taking photos, make sure to get the formal permission of all human subjects, especially if they are minors. Our release form is designed for congregations to…
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Displaying a Banner at the Top of Every Page on Your Congregation's WebsiteFrom Unbranded
In an emergency, you may want to display a message at the top of every page on your site. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic many congregations need to notify congregants of breaking news. …
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