This month we’ll be looking at an excellent feature that comes as standard with all UK Churches websites – the News & Events Blog.

Wikipedia describes a Blog (short for Web Log) as ‘maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.’ www.wikipedia.org

The feature we’ll be highlighting this week is the Events Calendar.

Your events calendar is a very useful feature. It highlights not only what is programmed to happen today but also all the future events that you add in the Posts’ tab in your WordPress control panel. The events that are coming up the soonest are then automatically displayed on your website’s Home page so that your visitors can see exactly what is happening in the life of your Church, at a glance.

Whilst in the News & Events page your visitors can also click on any highlighted date and they will be taken to the detailed description of the event that you have input. We’ll talk more next week about what can be inserted within your Blog.