Deborah – Inclusive Church WordPress Theme Description

Hello there

Thank you for your interest in Deborah accessibility ready WordPress theme.

Are you looking for a theme to build a church, chapel, mosque, synagogue, temple, abbey, cathedral, mission, or any religion or worship community related purpose website? Do you need to share your information with the widest audience possible? And you also want to make online world a better place by making your website accessible to anyone, despite their conditions, disabilities or barriers?

Congratulation, you’ve just found your solution!

Your content is the most important asset of your website and it deserves honest, accessible and attractive display. Deborah makes your website shine while keeping your content more readable. The theme looks stunning out of the box on any device.

With built in support for Church Content plugin you can manage and display sermons, events, staff and locations effectively and easily.

Seamless and thorough integration with WordPress native drag; drop block editor (Gutenberg) makes it easier than ever to create eyecatching performant websites for your visitors.

Thank you for choosing Deborah theme by WebMan Design! Why “Deborah” name?

Deborah name is derived from a Hebrew word D’vorah meaning “bee”. Deborah was a heroine and prophetess of the God in the Old Testament Book of Judges. She was the only female judge mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.

Features

Deborah theme provides the best experience for your website visitors,users and editors love how easy it is to work with, administrators and developers value its flexibility,
…and here is why:

Accessibility and inclusivity

• Fully accessibility ready WordPress theme, passes WCAG 2.1 level AA accessibility requirements;
• Disabilities friendly, barrier-less;
• Keyboard and screen reader friendly;
• With proper headings structure and color contrast;
• Optimized for readability;
• Responsive, adapts to any device;
• Localization ready, multilingual, with right-to-left (RTL) languages support;
• User friendly.

Content and layout

• Mobile-first approach;
• Full WordPress block editor (Gutenberg) compatibility – no need for page builders;
• Simple megamenu functionality;
• No more confusing post formats;
• One click demo content installation (demo content website was built using WordPressnative block editor, and some pages were built using Beaver Builder page builder for preview of how the theme handles page builders);
• Useful page and post templates;
• Compatible with Church Content plugin for managing sermons, events, staff and locations.

Customization

• Fast real-time preview of theme options in customizer when changing colors, layout, typography and others;
• Use any Google Fonts font;
• Integrated directly into WordPress customizer with option pointers and partial refresh for easier and faster use.

Plugins

• Compatible with Church Content plugin for managing sermons, events, staff and locations;
• Beaver Builder, Elementor page builder compatible – actually, compatible with any page builder plugin! (Theme demo content was built using WordPress native block editor, Gutenberg, and some pages were built using Beaver Builder to preview page builder compatibility in the theme.);
• Compatible with form plugins, such as Gravity Forms, WPForms, Ninja Forms,…;
• Theme builder plugins compatible (with help of additional free Integration for Beaver Themer or Integration for Elementor Theme Builder);
• Works with Polylang, WPML and other multilingual plugins, Loco Translate plugin compatible;
• Integration with Jetpack plugin;
• Full WooCommerce e-commerce plugin integration with help of free WooCommerce Theme Integration plugin;
• Plugin-friendly code ensures the widest compatibility with any plugin.

Others

• Bloat-free WordPress theme with no lock-in effect!;
• Easy to use;
• Coded according to WordPress coding standards and requirements;
• Search engine optimized (SEO), speed optimized;
• Secure, semantic, flexible, extensible developer-friendly code;
• Child theme ready (child theme included in the download ZIP package);
• 100% GPL licensed.

Requirements

Please make sure your hosting/server environment meets these theme requirements:

• WordPress 5.2+;
• PHP 7.0+.

Support

In case you can’t find the answer in theme documentation, feel free to ask and search at the dedicated support center.

Tip: Check out Appearance → Welcome page for info, instructions, tips and resources.