Themes and Templates
Make the site look like your congregation without touching code.
WordPress users utilize its built-in themes and templates




Choose a template, then make it yours.
Congregate ships with a set of multiple website themes, color schemes, and templates. Switching between them changes your site’s entire appearance.
You’re in complete control. Upload your main logo and a favicon for the browser tab. The members app has its own logo and dashboard image, so the mobile app your congregation uses looks like your congregation too.
For anyone who wants to go further, custom CSS is available, applied on top of whatever template you have chosen. That gives a designer room to work without taking the rest of the site away from the people who maintain it. Custom page layouts allow you override a theme and build the exact page(s) you want.
See it before anyone else does.
The part that removes the risk is the live preview. Changes to your styling and your template can be previewed against your real site, with your real content, before anything is saved. You are not guessing at what a color change will look like on a page you have not thought about, and you are not publishing an experiment to find out.
If your site runs on WordPress, themes and templates are supported there as well; simply choose a pre-build WordPress theme, design one yourself, or have our team build one for you.
Highlights
- Multiple site templates, switchable without touching code
- Color schemes applied across the whole site
- Custom logo and dashboard image for the members app
- Independent desktop and mobile page layouts
- Custom CSS support
- Live preview against your real site before saving
- Support for custom and WordPress templates












Who This Feature Helps
Leaders
A visual refresh is an afternoon and a preview, not a redesign project and an invoice. Nothing you have published is at risk when you change how it looks.
Visitors
A site that looks current and reads clearly, which is most of what a first impression is made of.