In the process of doing research for a write-up on how to use Wordpress as a platform for a church website, I discovered that the good folks over at Church Communications Pro have already done yoeman’s work on the topic.

Check out their instructions here

There’s also some good material over on Living OS including an article on Getting Started blogging your church with Wordpress

And if you’re looking for examples of what your church website can look like, there are dozens of church sites that use Wordpress listed here for your perusal.

I’ve posted a guide to embedding slideshows on your church website over at freechurchwebsite.wordpress.com. I’ll try to put up a workaround guide to using Picasa soon, since wordpress.com doesn’t officially support it currently.

Hopefully that answers the first part of Steve’s questions.