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Your synagogue’s website changes constantly.
There’s always another event to add, service time to update, program to promote, photo to change, announcement to post, or page that needs attention. Your staff shouldn’t have to call a web developer every time something changes.
That’s one of the reasons we build our synagogue websites with WordPress.
WordPress gives us the flexibility to create sophisticated, completely custom websites while giving your staff straightforward tools for managing the content they work with every day.
Synagogue websites contain a lot of information – and much of it changes frequently.
Services. Holidays. Programs. Religious school. Adult learning. Youth activities. Social action. Clergy. Lifecycle events. Membership. News. Calendars. Registration. Donations.
We structure WordPress around the way your synagogue actually manages that information.
Rather than simply giving you a collection of pages and a generic WordPress dashboard, we can create dedicated tools and editing experiences for the content your staff works with most often.
The technology adapts to your synagogue – not the other way around.
You shouldn’t need to know HTML, CSS, or anything else about web development to make routine changes to your website.
We customize the WordPress editing experience so your staff can confidently handle everyday tasks such as:
And before your new website launches, we’ll make sure your team knows how to use the tools they’ll need.
Synagogue websites are rarely managed by just one person.
Your executive director may need broad access while your communications staff manages news and events. A religious school administrator may need to update education content, while another staff member is responsible for clergy or worship information.
WordPress allows us to create user accounts with different roles and permissions, helping give people access to the areas they need without necessarily giving everyone control over the entire website.
And when staff members change, accounts can be added, updated, or removed without sharing a single website login throughout the office.
Using WordPress doesn’t mean your website has to look like a “WordPress website.”
WordPress is the system working behind the scenes. The website your visitors see can be designed specifically for your congregation.
We have complete freedom to create navigation, layouts, content structures, calls to action, visual storytelling, and functionality around your synagogue’s needs rather than fitting your content into a predetermined template.
The result is a website that looks and feels like your community, while WordPress quietly makes everything manageable behind the scenes.
Your synagogue won’t be exactly the same five years from now, and your website shouldn’t lock you into the decisions you make today.
New programs begin. Staff responsibilities change. Technology evolves. Communication priorities shift. You may need functionality several years from now that you haven’t even considered today.
WordPress gives us a flexible foundation that can evolve along with your organization.
New sections, functionality, integrations, and content types can be added as your needs change without necessarily requiring you to start over with an entirely new website.
Your website doesn’t operate in isolation.
Your synagogue may already use ShulCloud, an email marketing platform, livestreaming services, online forms, calendars, donation systems, video platforms, social media, or other third-party tools.
WordPress gives us considerable flexibility in determining how those systems should work with your website.
Sometimes that means a direct integration. Sometimes content can be embedded. And sometimes the best experience is simply creating a thoughtful connection between two different platforms.
We’ll help determine the approach that makes the most sense for your staff and your visitors.
You don’t have to choose between WordPress and ShulCloud.
Many of the synagogues we work with use WordPress for their public-facing website while continuing to rely on ShulCloud for member accounts, registrations, donations, payments, and other database-driven functionality.
That allows WordPress to provide the flexible, custom-designed public website while ShulCloud continues doing the administrative work your synagogue depends on.
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Installing WordPress is easy. Creating a WordPress website that works exceptionally well for a synagogue is something different.
We bring together decades of web development experience with our specialization in synagogue websites to configure WordPress around the particular needs of your organization.
That includes thinking carefully about how content is structured, how staff members will manage it, how different parts of the site relate to one another, which functionality should be built into WordPress, and which external systems should be integrated.
Our goal isn’t simply to build you a website on WordPress.
It’s to build a WordPress website that feels like it was made for the way your synagogue works.
There are plenty of ways to build a website. We continue to use WordPress because it gives our synagogue clients a combination that’s difficult to beat:
Creative freedom for us. Flexibility for your organization. Simplicity for your staff.
It allows us to build websites that are custom-designed, powerful, expandable, and easy to manage – without locking your synagogue into a proprietary website platform.
And because WordPress is the foundation rather than the finished product, we can shape it around each congregation instead of expecting every congregation to work the same way.
Whether your current website is difficult to manage, limited by its platform, or simply no longer meeting your needs, we’d love to hear what you want to improve.
Tell us how your synagogue works, how your staff manages the website today, and what you wish were easier.
We’ll show you what’s possible.
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