Empower Your Church
Your church was just given a data projector and you want to use it to display the lyrics of songs. You were thinking of using PowerPoint, but after a test found it very unwieldy. Then someone suggested that you look at certain commercial lyrics projection, but when you looked at the price tag, you knew your church could not afford that kind of money. You begin to wonder if you should just go back to hymn books and just leave projection of song words to bigger churches who can afford to do it.
Allow us to present the solution to the problem: openlp.org
Unlimited Freedom
openlp.org is free. And it's not just a below-standard freebie thing, it's a powerful, elegant open source application. What does that mean? It means that the code that the developers write is available to you. But more than that, it means that openlp.org is, and always will be, free. Free to download, free to use, free to give to all your friends. Unlimited freedom, like the freedom we find in Christ.
Find Out More
Want to learn more about openlp.org? Have a look at the documentation, which contains everything from getting started, to submitting bug reports. Discuss problems and issues with other users of openlp.org in the forums, and read up on what the developers are doing via the developer blogs. See what other people are saying. If you wanna take a sneak peek at openlp.org before downloading it, have a look at the screenshots. Lastly, download and install openlp.org.
Latest Position for Version 2
Let's start with a screen shot

The Service Manager is nearing completion and it is now possible to save are restore orders of services.
The screen shot also shows that individual verses are visible within songs. These can be selected as the starting place for the times when the worship leader decides to start in a different place to normal.
- TRB143's blog
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Version 2.0: Help Wanted
Hi folks,
Yes, it's that age-old call for help that you can hear reverberating through the openlp.org hills again...
We have reached the stage in the development of version 2.0 where we need to start testing. We have a lead tester, but we need some extra folks to help with the testing.
Another version 2 update...
...with the obligatory screenshot too.
In the screenshot above, you can see how we've started working on Themes, Previews, and the Slide Controllers. I searched for Genesis 1:1 in the Bible Verse plugin, and then sent it to the preview controller.
Version 1.0.3 Released
Hi folks,
Good news for those experiencing the latest two bugs, I've fixed them and I'm releasing openlp.org 1.0.3.
This release fixes a problem some folks were having where openlp.org would forget which monitor had been setup for the projector, and in some cases would throw a "List index out of bounds" error. It also fixes a bug where some folks would see a number of "openlp.org" folders in the recycle bin.
You can get all the 1.0.3-goodness from the download page.
- raoul's blog
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Version 2 Theme Manager
The new Theme Manager is now taking shape and I have been able to generate some sample layouts.
There are a number of changes being introduced in the new versions. The most significant is that themes will need to be exported from version 1 and imported into version 2 due to internal changes in the storage mechanism. The import will correct the structure and add defaults where appropriate.
Other changes include:
Platforms, Plugins and Progress
One of the questions we get every now and then is "When is openlp.org 2 going to be released?"
To be honest, we have no idea. We're working on it whenever we get a chance, and I must say that the pace that we're getting things working is actually quite amazing. Many thanks go out to Scott Guerrieri, Martin Thompson and Tim Bentley who have done most of the work so far.
But, before I go on, let me show you a few screenshots on Mac OS X:
Version 1.0 in Maintenance Mode
Hi folks,
For those who haven't realised it yet, version 1.0 is in maintenance mode. This means that we are no longer working on it, apart from fixing the occasional bug. This also means that we are no longer supporting anyone else trying to compile or further develop 1.0 because it has reached it's end of life.
- raoul's blog
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OpenLP 2.0 development - Image plugin
I've been hacking on the Image plugin for a while and finally figured out enough about Qt and it's Model View architecture to get the Media Manager to display the images as previews. My hope is I can reuse a lot of the code to display the preview and live panes... but that's for another day :)
- martin_thompson's blog
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Openlp version 2 - Bible Plugin.
The developement of the Bible plugin is nearing completion and we have mananaged to add some new features, as well as port the current functionality.
Bible Imports
Two new import methods have been added.

