=== Church WDA ===

Contributors: wpdevart
Tags: translation-ready, e-commerce, blog, entertainment, one-column, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, custom-logo, custom-menu, custom-colors, editor-style, featured-images, footer-widgets, full-width-template, theme-options, two-columns, threaded-comments, grid-layout, block-styles, block-patterns
Requires at least: 5.1
Requires PHP: 5.6
Tested up to: 6.8.2
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

WordPress Church WDA is a responsive, multipurpose, and SEO optimized theme that comes with many great features. In our digital age, your church website does more than just inform - it inspires, connects, and invites. The WordPress Church theme gives your site a sleek, polished design that balances professionalism with warmth, letting your message shine through clearly.

== Description ==

WordPress Church WDA is a responsive, multipurpose, and SEO optimized theme that comes with many great features. In our digital age, your church website does more than just inform - it inspires, connects, and invites. The WordPress Church theme gives your site a sleek, polished design that balances professionalism with warmth, letting your message shine through clearly.

Let's explore some of our theme's features. The theme includes a full‑width homepage banner with a striking headline and introductory text, a background image, and bold call-to-action buttons like "Join Us," "Donate," and more. This banner sets the tone from the moment someone lands on your church website. The WordPress Church theme is built to adapt beautifully to phones, tablets, and desktops. Optimized performance so pages load quickly.

Another great feature of our theme is that it provides different layouts for posts, pages, blog page, search page, and shop pages. You can choose to show or hide the sidebar on these pages individually. The premium version of our theme includes a layout sizing feature. This means you can choose to display different parts of your website (top bar, header, main content, footer) at different widths (standard, wide, and full width).

The WordPress Church theme comes with a powerful and beautifully designed homepage out of the box. It consists of different sections. You can show or hide these sections, and change their order. All of these sections are customizable, so you can make any changes you want. The free version consists of three sections, and the premium version consists of fourteen. Available sections: Banner, Benefits, Team Members, Partners, Testimonials, Achievements, Advantages, etc.

The WordPress Church theme is ideal for churches that want a site which looks professional and trustworthy, without being too corporate, ministries aiming to reach beyond their local congregation through online sermons, events, outreach, growing communities needing flexibility in how they present information - ministries, leadership, schedules - without needing advanced technical skills, sites where conversion matters - inviting people to church, sign up for events, donate, or watch sermons online.

The WordPress Church WDA theme is more than just a beautiful design - it’s a practical, purpose-driven tool to help your church grow, engage, and inspire. Whether you're launching a new site or refreshing an old one, this theme offers the perfect foundation to connect with your community - both online and in person.

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.0 =

* Initial version.

== Copyright ==

Church WDA WordPress Theme, (C) 2025 WpDevArt.com
Church WDA is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

This program is a free software developed by WpDevArt and has a premium version...

== Credits ==

Image used in theme screenshot and custom homepage, Credit Mauricio Artieda
License: CC0 License
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/architecture-building-SZ0GJXDE71

Image used in theme screenshot and custom homepage, Credit Joshua Davis
License: CC0 License
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/architecture-building-B2IEY5FUIB

Image used in theme screenshot and custom homepage, Credit Josh Applegate
License: CC0 License
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/church-chapel-5Q0IQEVLFP

Image used in theme screenshot and custom homepage, Credit PxHere
License: CC0 License
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1031152

Image used in custom homepage, Credit WpDevArt
License: CC0 License
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Source: https://wpdevart.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/new-banner-homepage-image-4.png

Image used in the Call To Action section of the theme, Credit PxHere
License: CC0 License
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/607081

Image used on the 404 error page, Credit WpDevArt
License: CC0 License
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Source: https://wpdevart.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/wpdevart-default-404.png

* Font-Awesome https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome
FontAwesome 5.0 Copyright 2012 Dave Gandy
Font License: SIL OFL 1.1
Code License: MIT License http://fontawesome.io/license/
* Facebook, Twitter, and other logos are properties of their respective owners !

The WordPress Church WDA theme uses some of the styles and functionality developed by Anthony Hortin (for the customizer controls)
* @author Anthony Hortin <http://maddisondesigns.com>
* @license http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
* @link https://github.com/maddisondesigns

* Alegreya font
License: SIL Open Font License, 1.1, https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/
Source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Alegreya