Plugin / BibleGateway VOTD

Dave Zaikos

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Upload the biblegateway-votd folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory. Activate the plugin in the ‘Plugins’ page in WordPress. Optionally set your defaults from the settings page. Add the Bible VOTD widget to your sidebar. Or, Type [biblevotd] in the page or post content where you want the verse to appear.
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV) 21st Century King James Version (KJ21) American Standard Version (ASV) Amplified Bible (AMP) Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV) BRG Bible (BRG) Common English Bible (CEB) Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) Contemporary English Version (CEV) Darby Translation (DARBY) Disciples’ Literal New Testament (DLNT) Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA) Easy-to-Read Version (ERV) English Standard Version (ESV) English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK) Expanded Bible (EXB) GOD’S WORD Translation (GW) Good News Translation (GNT) Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) International Children’s Bible (ICB) International Standard Version (ISV) J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS) Jubilee Bible 2000 (JUB) King James Version (KJV) Lexham English Bible (LEB) Living Bible (TLB) Modern English Version (MEV) Mounce Reverse-Interlinear New Testament (MOUNCE) Names of God Bible (NOG) New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE) New American Standard Bible (NASB) New Century Version (NCV) New English Translation (NET Bible) New International Reader’s Version (NIRV) New International Version (NIV) New International Version – UK (NIVUK) New King James Version (NKJV) New Life Version (NLV) New Living Translation (NLT) New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA) New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE) Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB) Revised Standard Version (RSV) Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE) The Message (MSG) The Voice (VOICE) World English Bible (WEB) Worldwide English (New Testament) (WE) Wycliffe Bible (WYC) Young’s Literal Translation (YLT)
BibleGateway.com has a list of available translations for their verse of the day. You can view that page to find the translation you want. Additional translations can be added from the plugin’s settings page, then used by the shortcode or widget. If BibleGateway.com makes it available, you can add it and use it!
The plugin will wrap the verse in a CSS class named biblevotd. You can use that to add CSS instructions to your theme’s style.css file to provide specific formatting. If you want to use a class name other than “biblevotd” you can simply pass class="classname" as an option when using the shortcode (for example, [biblevotd class="dailyverse"]). Widgets are automatically provided with additional CSS class names by WordPress and can be uniquely formatted using those.
Directly before printing the verse code the plugin passes the information through the pre_dz_biblegateway_verse filter. You can add code to your theme’s functions.php file to hook into this filter and update the content accordingly. Be aware that sometimes the content will be the verse (if it was cached), or JavaScript (if using jQuery).
As of version 3.0 this should no longer be an issue. This issue is common when inserting content from another site (e.g. BibleGateway.com, Twitter.com, etc.). The delay is caused when BibleGateway.com is slow to provide the verse; as a result, your page halts until BibleGateway.com either responds or times out. Since version 3.0 the plugin will by default work around this issue, so you should not experience any delays. If you are, make sure you are using the jQuery or Cache methods for inserting the verse. These methods can be selected from the Bible VOTD settings page and allow your web site page to load without being slowed down by using enhanced JavaScript loading or caching techniques.
You should use Cache; it is the default setting. The plugin is intelligent in that it will continue to fallback to the next method, in order. Selecting Cache will give your site the best opportunity to provide the verse of the day without delays in page loading. The only time you should use jQuery is if your web server is not able to fetch remote URLs. How do you know if it can? Simple: If you are able to update plugins, themes, and the WordPress core from within WordPress without issue, you can fetch remote URLs. If you cannot, you should really look into fixing that. 🙂 But also, you should select jQuery as the embed method because there’s no sense in your web server trying to cache something all the time when it is simply not able to. The Basic method should only be used if Cache and jQuery are not working. It uses the identical code provided by BibleGateway.com to insert the verse. This has limitations: It can slow page loading if BibleGateway.com is running slow. The Basic method is only provided in case BibleGateway.com significantly alters their delivery scheme and that results in the other two methods breaking. Switching to Basic should allow you to continue to use the plugin until it is updated.

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Version

3.5

First Released

23 Mar, 2012

Total Downloads

14,888

Wordpress Version

3.3 or higher

Tested up to:

4.9.12

Require PHP Version:

-

Tags

bible biblegateway gateway verse of the day votd

Contributors

This plugin has been closed.

Languages

The plugin hasn't been transalated in any language other than English.

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