Churches
Welcome to the drupal churches group. This is a group centered around building church websites with drupal and a point for members of the church to go out into the drupal community. In this group we discuss how to use drupal, modules to use, integrating other services with drupal, and the ins and outs of building church websites.
The drupal church community extends beyond this group. You can find more information and help in the IRC channel #drupal-churches on irc.freenode.org and on the Geeks and God podcast website.
Anyone use Messaging and Notifications successfully?
So, I've given myself (and spared you) three days to try and get this to work. Didn't happen.
I created a Custom Subscription (Node Type: Announcement) and cannot get it to send email OR queue. I can subscribe to content types, like Page, Story, etc. I have a custom content type, Announcement, that I want people to be able to subscribe to. Any ideas of why this isn't working or what I can do to troubleshoot?
Like I said, I've spent three days reading threads, tinkering, checking this and unchecking that, nada. Oh, and this framework doesn't provide much in the way of log entries :\
prayer requests
I been working on a faith site and prayer requests is a big issue.
So, I thought to share and ask for some feedback or suggestions.
I've created a content type = prayer request
It is just a basic story content type using CCK field types
I've changed the titles of course to help users know what to do.
CCK module is needed to build other fields for personal information.
This is not on a production site yet.
Notifications / Newsletter / Non-users
I can't seem to think this thru all the way, so I'm looking for some input from the community.
Our church currently uses a raw email list to send emails (ranging from daily announcements, which i find very annoying, to monthly newsletter). How can I incorporate these emails, subscribe them to newsletters, announcements, etc, without them being active users? Many of them will never access the website.
The most dirty solution is to import the emails, create users, subscribe them en masse.
Something I learned today
While theming and developing today I switched from Firefox to Internet Explorer and found that my site had no styles! Ahhh! To save you from possible headaches, here's my finding: IE limits Drupal to 31 stylesheets total. The work-around for the bug is to enable CSS aggregation.
Many modules have their own stylesheets, so when you get to a certain number of modules, plus have your own custom theme, you reach a point like I did today where you pass the threshold. Hope this helps someone!!
RealName and Church Websites
As some of you have already gathered, I'm developing a Drupal distribution for church websites.
One of the early decisions I would like to make is whether to require users of church websites to use their real name. I feel usernames give a false sense of being anonymous and have a tendency to encourages internet flame wars or otherwise cause people to act less composed then when they use their real names. In addition, church websites should be extensions of their physical communities and real names help easily associate virtual users with their physical counterpart.
Which features should be first in Drupal for Churches?
Need to Vent
Instead of actually accomplishing things the past week I've been trying to debug... Drupal, my install, MySQL. I literally spend ALL day working (not for pay) on this.
Cron will not run. It fails indefinitely.
I finally got one install (I duplicated my site on another server, with the same error) to work by uninstalling getID module. So I go to the other install and do the same thing, nothing.
Hosting Providers or Recommendations?
I did a search but if I missed a post, list, or such, a link is appreciated...
I gained Drupal experience on sites for my professional association (www.nena.org and www.al911.org) and I want to move our Church site to Drupal. I'm struggling to find a host in our price range as we are a very small church and money is tight. We use Slicehost for NENA but $20 a month is not in our price range. I may make hosting part of my financial support of the church and just go that route but I prefer something with Cpanel so it would be easier for someone else to take over if needed.
How should I handle church ministry listings
How should I handle church ministry listings? I'm thinking taxonomies, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it. I would like to end up with something like this:
Ministries
|_Youth
| |_ Ministy #1
| |_ Ministy #2
|_Childern
| |_ Ministy #3
| |_ Ministy #4
|_Seniors
| |_ Ministy #5
| |_ Ministy #6
|_Etc.
Web Developer/Designer for Small Non-Profit Organization | Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding
Overview
The Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding is a small non-profit organization seeking to enhance its online presence.
At present, we are seeking a web design and development consultant/firm to create a new website that aligns with current organizational branding guidelines, allows simple updating through an easy to use CMS/WYSIWYG, has some built in social media/networking functions (e.g., a blog and forums), includes several password-protected sections and will scale with the organization through the next 3-5 years.
Drupaler Needed for Church Website
My church pastor recently approached me about the need to expand the church ministry through the Internet. He wants to reach out to people through the internet (streaming online sermon, podcast, etc...). He wants a dynamic multimedia church website. He has asked me to come up with a price quote and also he needs it ASAP. I know very well that Drupal will be the best choice for such project considering the requirements listed below. I'm a newbabe when it comes to Drupal. Here is the Deal!
NETBibleTagger now has a Drupal module
Bible.org has made a module to easily add the NETBibleTagger (http://labs.bible.org/NETBibleTagger) javascript to the footer of each page on a drupal site. And, it allows you to customize the popup behaviour from the Site Config menu. It is currently being used on bible.org and numerous other ministry sites.
You can find the page on the module here: http://labs.bible.org/blog/netbibletagger_drupal_module
Letter writing from website printed out and sent by regular mail (not email) seeking a module
Currently working on a christian site.
Not sure if there is a module or workaround for this.
A module that will allow users to work with the database of specified users (roles,groups,etc) and create printable formatted letters on the website.
Once the letters are printed the user hand addresses envelopes and mails, via snailmail letters to the recipent/s of the letter.
Drupal Distribution for Churches
A Drupal Distribution for Churches has been a long time coming. There has been plenty of discussion threads and podcasts regarding this topic.
This page exists for planning purposes. You can add feature suggestions, tutorial links, module suggestions by editing this page directly. From this information a Installation Profile will begin to emerge with the most basic features first and more advance features in the future.
Features should be listed by priority. The most important features should be a the top and the less important features (things most churches could survive without) should be at the bottom.
New Here - Found Survey on CMS
Hi all, new here, although I've managed and modified a drupal site in the past (no longer active,) this is the first time I've thought of joining any group project here. I've got 23 years development experience for various business applications, with quality assurance, and project management thrown in. I'm our churches Vision Planning Team, which is what actually led me her.
I found a book at Barnes & Noble on church development, so I bought it. The gal at the checkout counter suggested I take a look at geeks and god. And they have their webcast about the drupal church distribution.
Twitter?
Just posted the same thing in my local area group(NC), but thought I'd ask here also. How many of you are on twitter. I imagine a good bit of you are. I know I am following some of you already, but this would be a good place to post your twitter and get some twommunity going. I'll go first:
Let the following of tweets begin!
On what kind of server do you run your site run?
How to convert posts from Blog Module to "Blog" Custom Content Type?
I've heard on several occasions, including responses to my last post on How to Segment Blog Personas, the recommendation to NOT use the core blog module, but instead to use CCK and Views to replicate the blog module functionality. This makes perfect sense, and I'm doing that going forward.
But what about a site that already has a bunch of blog posts using the core blog module? Has anyone successfully converted a bunch of existing blog posts from the Blog module to custom content types? Can anyone share step-by-step instructions?
Ecumenical Missionaries
I helped the Ecumenical Missionaries to upgrade their site from static HTML to Drupal 6.
No custom code, theme based on Marinelli.
OG for Interactive Church Ministries Brainstorm Meetup
This is the official first step to a future get together where we'll discuss how to more effectively use Organic Groups for interactive ministry groups on a church website.
