I need to announce a fairly major change in direction for CofCPages.org and the new software, CongregationCMS.
Since I was given the source code to what has become CongregationCMS by Tim Biddle, I have been busily working in adding features that would make it possible to add pages, organize content, and in general maintain a public website for a congregation. The members only portion of the software was almost perfect, so very little effort has been put into it. However, the time spent on the public portion was starting to become too much for me to handle on my own.
Because of this, I am going to temporarily suspend work on the public portion of CongregationCMS, and am instead going to move in the direction of Wordpress hosting. Some of you may recall that I was exploring this option a few months ago, but the ‘multi-user’ (read: multiple congregation) version was a litle out of date. Since then, a new multi-user version has come out, and is actually what is powering this very blog. It is extremely easy to set up a small site, post some files, upload pictures, etc… using WordPress. I still plan on offering the members-only version of CongregationCMS to all congregations, though I need to make some changes to it to temporarily disable all of the ‘public’ features.
So, in the meantime, I am going to start moving some congregations over to Wordpress. In particular, congregations that have not edited their sites in a long time and have little content will be moved first. The rest of you will be informed before the move happens.